GrumpySmurf

When I hit someone, I use the biggest weapon I can find - the Earth.

Like HELLO!? Pictures?

Then I'd go from being involved and owning a long razor blade, to simply owning a long razor blade This beauty is destined for tameshigiri (thus why no bo-hi 'groove' along the blade) - unfortunately they don't allow the testing of the blades on the bodies of executed criminals anymore

My Tao acknowledges that I am who I am, by trying to change who I am, I cause discord in my own life. By accepting who I am, I can instead focus my attention on refining that which defines me. In plain English this means two things - you can tell me to change all you want, I ain't moving an inch and I prescribe to 'situational ethics' - the uniqueness of the situation defines my beliefs - that fluidity leaves no reason for guilt

After a rather long wait, my 'baby' showed up today - mounted in a shirasaya (storage scabbard) with a rudimentary polish. Sadly my digicam doesn't have the zoom needed to display the temper line (hamon) nor the grain pattern of the folded steel (hada). On the downside, some of the fittings that were supposed to on thier way from Japan were sent to the wrong country (???) and sadly, the craftsman who made them, passed away earlier this month.

"I'm not saying it's BAD, I just don't think it's GOOD" And she got a disease - so if ya do date 'er - don't share needles with her ;) The most attractive woman in the world ->one that doesn't require therapy.

What we need to do convince Iran and Iraq to start that whole 'It's an 'N'' vs. 'It's a 'Q'' thing - and let them fight it out again - seems to keep 'em busy enough they forget about the Western World

Yep - it's a guy thing - if I were you, I'd worry if he wasn't talking about them (since he might be checking out guys..or worse..sheep) ;) They had that Taco Bell commercial with the guy with the fajitas walking down the street and the girl leans out the window and says, "Ouuuhhhh, fajitas!" - her well-endowed chest was about to explode out of her rather tight top. I look over at the g/f on the couch and go, "Ouuu! Tetas!" She almost died laughing - regardless who I talk about or flirt with - she knows at the end of the day - I'm going home with her.

It appears it was a live fire exercise for the PPLI - at fictious enemy targets. Appearantly all pilots in theatre were notified of areas where friendlies were engaging in exercises (pulled from an Associated Press article carried by CNN): " Col. Lawrence Stutzriem said that air combat orders U.S. pilots were required to read included information that coalition ground forces would intermittently use live ammunition in the area where Air Force Maj. Harry Schmidt's bomb killed four Canadians on April 17. . . . At the time of the bombing, Stutzriem was with the agency responsible for all coalition air operations. He said it was "very clear" to pilots that allies could be performing live-fire maneuvers on a firing range called Tarnak Farm. " A summary of the sequence of events (I am guessing the flashes he saw were C-7/M-16 and C-9/M-249 rifle fire and the artillery might have been thier APC): "In the recording, taken from Schmidt's F-16, Schmidt spots flashes on the ground and requests permission to fire his cannon. He is told by superiors to wait. Umbach says: "Let's just make sure that, uh, that it's not friendlies, that's all." A short time later, Schmidt is heard saying: "OK, I've got ... some men on a road and it looks like a piece of artillery firing at us. I am rolling in, in self-defense." That meant he was rolling in to drop the bomb. The video shows a large explosion. " It appears from the summary of the tape they requested permission to engage, permission was denied, so they (erroneously) decided to go in for a closer look (???) and then decided to engage. My question is, why didn't they just request permission to high tail it out of the area when they thought they saw hostiles with possible AA cannons and were told to hold off engaging - rather then decending and closing on what could be a hostile, thus increasing the risk to themselves? Even with 'it's war - blue on blue happens' - they disobeyed an order, which is not acceptable behavior for an Officer - to me that's the heart of it - regardless who got hurt or killed.

For renewals there is a cap that brings the cost down each year till the vehicle is 10 years old - then it's like $60 - otherwise it is 1.5% of the Blue Book Value of the Vehicle or the cap value for that age of vehcile - whichever is smaller. In ym case, that's $600 - I'm looking into registering it at a friends address in Madison to save the money and not have my license say 'forgiener - arrest after date X' Would have wished Jesse would have choosen to stick around for another term and some more of the stupid laws and tax rates they have managed to come up with in this state.

Oh don't get me started - $600 this year to register the car in Minn. (based on car value - I much prefer the $80/year flat rate in Wi.) We ain't gonna discuss insurance.

Well, then, I guess I can't go - I said I wanted it to be warm, I didn't say I wanted it to be boring.

Or his cue'ing the next point with a hand signal that looks remarkably like - "break off and track THAT way" Or "You're falling too fast - wear more weight!" Ahh, how I miss the 'good ol' days'. Looks like I may be kickin' around yer neck o' da woods come the end of Feb with the Coaches Course and Winter Expo in the same week. Hopefully it will be a wee bit warmed this time around - tenting it for the Expo was rather 'entertaining' last year.

"Greatest American Hero" "Believe it or not, I'm walking on air... I never thought I could feel so fr-e-e. Flyin' away on a wing and a prayer. Who could it be? Believe it or not, it's just me." Now I'm not gonna be able to get that out of my head for the rest of the day.

Ahh, oh, different Sky - for a second, I figured the SDC Sky turned 200 - which wouldn't surprise me in the least - I'm sure he was skydiving back before they invented parachutes.

"back home visiting friends and family I find myself defending the USA. " I figure since the Yanks got guns, they can stick up for themselves.

"Kind of like why Japanese workers get the window office with a view right before they get FIRED!" Yeah it facilitates the modern-day sudden decceleration variant of seppuku, doesn't require a 'second', and makes a mess of the sidewalk rather than a family heirloom wakizashi

Red meat, raw red meat -> If cooked -> rare to medium rare is prefered :) In words of Denis Leary, "Bring me the cow, I'll carve off what I want and ride the rest home!"

Yeah, that's cuz they're called 'Ontario-ans' now, by' - with the mass exodus of everyone t' Toront-ah and all - lookin' fer work an' wha-not.

Ain't no Canuck - I'm a Newf Set loose in this gawddamn icebox they call Minnesota. As Gerry Boyle of the Nfld Liberation Party would say, "If you can mark an 'X', you're my kind of people!"

In Costa Rica, it doesn't even take $20 - more like $13

Royal Blue (Diamond Back Parapack) with Ash Silver (Condura). The next one will have the colours and fabrics flipped. "There can be only one....odds are, you're not it."

"but is i really a sport??? i call it 3 people cleaning ice with brooms......now if the weight "puck thingy"" It becomes a sport when the participants are 20 some-thing's and all rather drunk - last place you want to be is in the shoes of the skip on the ice when someone wings the 3rd stone down the ice and sends all the stones in the house ricocheting off the boards - especially if you've already had a quarter of a two four in ya. A 20 pound piece of rock taking ya out at the ankles is not pleasnt to feel, but bloody hilarious to watch

But free-climbing is ok, eh? I guess after the first 20 feet, any fall is gonna be fatal anyways - at which point it leaves the domain of health insurance and enters the domain of life insurance?

I've had good luck with Conti as well - just brought along a print out of thier policy from the webpage - showed it to the CSR, who would then double check on thier ticketing system - and life was good.