DocWard

I just saw this. I will keep him and your family in my thoughts and meditations.

So you define "affair" as requiring a sexual component? I tend to disagree, since I consider any type of romantic and emotional attachment with another person apart from and in place of one's spouse to be an affair. Take it a step further, I will guarantee you if I told, and even somehow convinced, AB that I had just been at a concert with another woman, cuddling her in my arms and kissing her romantically, it would not matter one wit. Life as I know it would be over. As I mentioned earlier, though, I'm open for other reasonable explanations for their actions.

Nope, I don't know either one. I'm also far from perfect. What I do know: I do know he's married, and not to her. Are they having an affair? No, I can't say for sure, but given their actions and reactions, it's a safe bet there is something untoward happening. Put another way, I cannot imagine attending a concert, with a woman not my wife, and holding her in my arms the way they were. If you can come up with a logical, rational explanation for all of that, feel free to enlighten us. I'm all ears.

My Mother-in-Law and Father-in-Law both treated me like a son from day one. I can't say enough good about them both. I was incredibly close to both of them and I miss them both every day. A picture of me and my Mother-in-Law on my wedding day. Our smiles belie the insanity of the day. As some know, I had found out that morning my Army Reserve unit was activated for Desert Shield. She was the first person I let know, and she managed to keep everything moving forward and made sure AB and I enjoyed our day, as well as have a very abbreviated honeymoon.

Seems the CEO is learning just that.

I didn't disassemble / reassemble the Ma Deuce or the Mk. 19 except in training a couple of times leading up to my last deployment. I was thankful there was someone around who knew what they were doing. I did enjoy shooting them though!

I learned it from a scale modeling magazine long ago.

Back in my Army Reserve days, I was training on the disassembly and reassembly of the 1911. We still had them until the mid-nineties. At any rate, I'm explaining that the recoil spring can go flying if one is not careful. About that time, it went flying. After the laughter died down, I just continued as I walked and picked it up, "As I was saying..." I'm pretty sure my face was bright red.

Are you sure? They could be on their way home!

I just saw on Facebook that @Paladin Gun For Hire passed away on Saturday, July 12. I didn't know him well personally, but we had communicated some, and when I thought I was going to need to get out of the sport due to financial issues, he offered me a couple of revolvers at a price I could afford. I used them for quite awhile and still have them. I will appreciate them more now. I am sure that those who knew him will miss him. My condolences go out to his friends and family.

It scared the daylights out of me, and I had never swam in the ocean. As an aside, I will argue that the USS Indianapolis scene is the single best piece of acting ever caught on film. It seemed Shaw stopped acting, and Dreyfuss and Scheider were mesmerized.

Hell, any Marine would tell you that.

You know you're having a bad day when your phone rings and you look at the Caller ID and see: Yes, that's my phone. I had forgotten I had taken a picture of it. A veteran had it set as her ID and forgotten about it, until I mentioned it!

I typically go with "not the brightest bowling ball in the knife drawer." It's usually good for a few blinks of confusion.

It sounds like she suffers from pica (not the font), a mental health disorder in which people eat things not usually considered food. On occasion they will eat hazardous things. As I recall from my days doing child abuse cases, it can be caused by traumatic events, particularly in childhood such as abuse and neglect.

I'm glad you put the word magnet in quotation marks.

AB would just look at me, ask me how stupid I am, and explain that brass is non-ferrous and that I need to get a life. All that if I was lucky and she didn't get angry.

Maybe...

Nah, just go with 100. That way I don't have a box of 45 .22LR cartridges laying around.

It’s only a matter of time though.

Just sitting here watching and listening to music videos on YouTube (Yes, I do miss the MTV of old!), and came across this. What amazing talent.

But a 4x4 can be either.

Terriers recharging their batteries.