Wisdom from a cookie.

 Some men dream of fortunes. Others dream of cookies.

Hoplophobes

 Auntie gets a community newspaper put out by the large remaining purveyor of birdcage liner AKA THE Plain Dealer. To my joy this edition contained this months flyer for a local chain of sporting goods stores. On the front page one of the items is a picture of a Mandlorian blaster by SIG!. The description sounds like it's an AR-15 of some type. Looking at the rest it looks like they had to replace every AR15 and AR10 with Mandalorian blasters. The store's website has a PDF copy of the add and no such obfuscation is present.

Also in this ad a M1A and a pellet MP5. I guess the microbrains at the PD are only afraid of Stoner inspired styling.

Personal commentary - Pie

 A piece of pie dropped. Made a bit of a mess. Had to stop myself because I was seriously considering eating that slice. 

Had - to - stop - myself.

Told myself I am an adult. I can get ANOTHER slice of pie. It's MY pie and I don't have to share it.

AND today I had pie for breakfast. 

Because sometimes "Because I can" is a valid answer.

Wisdom from a cookie.

 You should always be doing that which you cannot do, in order to learn how to do it. 

I changed it around a bit. The engrish was making my eyes twitch. 

Your lucky numbers are 24 17 19 47 48 8

Comoddity investment- An experiment.

There is something to be said by buying durable goods now before the value of your currency is inflated away. Ponder:

There is a bunch of surplus revolvers getting imported. Online store had LLAMA Martial .38spl for around $300. These are a Spanish licensed copy of the S&W Military and Police revolvers. They are similar to the model 15.

Revolver                          $300

100rds .38                         $50

Basic holster and

two HKS speedloaders     $50

So for around $400 you could assemble a solid basic self defense kit. You could easily make other choices to better fit your wants and budget. 

Ruger Security9 9mm with two magazines  $300

100 rds 9mm                                                       $35

Basic holster                                                    $20-35

Additional 15rd magazine                                $30

OR

Mossberg Maverick 88 12ga  Two barrel kit     $260

100rd 12ga #7 shot                $30

25rd OObuckshot                   $30

Sling and swivels                    $20

Do I expect to make money? Outside of mad max/zombies! no. 

Would I expect to loose money? If I bought new guns and am now selling what is now "used" that's possible. I have seen PANIC! pricing on the Ruger handguns from a local dealer at $450-500.

 

 

How Democracy dies.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/live-news/canadian-truckers-ottawa-police-arresting-demonstrators-clearing-out-streets-live-updates

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Primo water, A review.

 TLDR-Primo water from WalMart FAIL !

It being winter I run ultrasonic humidifiers. As such they require distilled or similar water or else bad things happen.

I regularly fill 5gal jugs from a drugstore chain. Some of them have soda vending machine sized things that you can get purified water from at about .25/gal. The one I freqent was down for maintnence. So I was going to WalMart anyway so decided to try their PRIMO filtered water machine at .42/gal. Figured it would be good if I had another source.

I got three gallons. 

Me being diligent and curious I tested it with a  TDS (total dissolved solids)  meter I got with a zero water filter. 135! For drinking water that's fine. For what was supposed to be reverse osmosis and UV treated water it is not. Kirkland brand purified water "with minerals added for taste" rates 15. My tap water rated 132. We have really good municipal water. 

It is probably the machine's filters need changing. I doubt it's container contamination.

If I'm feeling it I'll get some from another Walmart to eliminate single source bias. Also this will confirm that the filters needed changed or other reasons.

 FCC note:Was purchased by me and not sponsored or otherwise compensated. I cordially invite you to enjoy consuming a large container of Richards.