Made it to the range after work last night. This is with the High Standard Compact Crusader at the 7-yard line:
Not bad at all, and not a single FTF, FTE, or FTRB in about 100 rounds on the HS. The RIA Tactical, on the other hand, had 1 FTF and 3 or 4 FTRBs, each […]
Tags: Guns
Buying gas from a place that I regularly purchase gas from = Suspicious Transactions.
Buying gas from the gas station up the street as the first purchase on a new card = Suspicious Tranactions.
Spending ~$1,000 on two gun purchases, maybe 30 minutes apart, on a brand new credit card that was activated about 2 hours earlier […]
Tags: Annoyances, Bank, Credit
The Fort Lauderdale gun show is this weekend, and for once I actually made it there. After much consideration I decided that I wanted to buy a High Standard Compact Crusader 1911 for car / carry duty and a Rock Island Armory Tactical full-sized model to replace the ultra-cheap 1911 that I purchased a couple […]
Tags: Guns
First and foremost, none of the credit monitoring services give you a genuine FICO score. myFico.com is the only place to get the real deal and the regular price is a whopping $15 per report, per credit reporting agency.
The “FAKO” scores from the various monitoring services are wildly divergent. I’ve been using TrueCredit from TransUnion […]
Tags: Credit
If your prank were actually funny you wouldn’t need to do it on April 1.
See also: Your April Fool’s Day Joke Continues to Suck.
Episode #983: Never give a Windows PC to someone who isn’t an expert.
Not so long ago I had a friend in need of a computer. What I should have done was snag an early x86 Mac Mini off a fleabay and scrounge the rest of the need parts from my collection of old crap. What […]
Tags: Annoyances