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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: les snyder on December 15, 2022, 09:56:08 PM
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cold front came through this morning, and I was extremely cautious going out for breakfast during the storm... seems like I've been snake bit...
last week I sent a slide off to be machined for a Holosun 507... got a phone call from Thomas at Battle Werx and said he had some bad news... the USPS small shipping box arrived, but was open and no slide..he sent pictures and made a complaint with the mailman... a supervisor at my local PO ran the tracking number, and had pictures here, Atlanta, and Connecticut all of intact package....PIA to file a claim over the computer, think I'll just bundle everything and send it by mail... hopefully it will get delivered :)
this morning I had a recording on my answering machine from my credit union fraud division... the opposite of good news... someone had used my card for fraudulent purchases and they were cancelling and issuing a new card...
waiting for the 3rd shoe...
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Sounds like a good time to just sit by the fire and read a good book. Use your Kindle, so you don't get a paper cut!
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Waiting for the other shoe to drop, eh? Maybe you'll escape that bad things happen in 3's because of the Christmas season and motor right on through it.
And....I hope you insured the slide for what it really cost you. I add my time, shipping (container, packing and "postage"), transportation, etc. into my insurance numbers.
As for card fraud...man I used to have to replace those things every 4-6 months. Then I stopped using them at restaurants 5+ years ago and I haven't had a card canceled for fraud since. If you ever lose sight of your card there's a good chance you're about to get hammered.
For the cold...HA. Cry me a river. We have single digits forecasted for next week with no chance of getting near freezing for a high. Right during Christmas activities we have dangerous cold. I'm making sure sleeping bags, etc. are in the trucks today.
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Rastus... yep.. I bought some gift cards at a local Carrabbas a week or so ago, and the clerk took the card to the rear to process
and of course I did not add extra insurance... I grew up in a Post Office family... Dad worked his way up from substitute carrier to Assistant Postmaster before he took the Rural Route opening after being offered the Postmaster job.. he used to hand carry boxes of money to the local bank sent from the Federal Reserve... bunches of money... how hard is it to ship a piece of metal from Florida to Connecticut without losing it or having it pilfered...
I stuck the HS507 on the slide cut for the Trijicon RMR (same cut but needed shorter mounting screws).. as the dot on the Holosun is brighter... going to give Carry Optics a try at next week's practice session Have a Happy Holiday Season.. Les
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Sounds like a good time to just sit by the fire and read a good book. Use your Kindle, so you don't get a paper cut!
Just be careful and don't drop the Kindle on your bunion. ;D
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I actually spend a lot of time sitting in the Sunshine and reading...Tom Clancy (and others under his label), WEB Griffin, Lee Child... there seems to be a trend in the authors I like... regards
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I actually spend a lot of time sitting in the Sunshine and reading...Tom Clancy (and others under his label), WEB Griffin, Lee Child... there seems to be a trend in the authors I like... regards
At -2 this morning... I will skip the sunshine ( not any today anyways)
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At -2 this morning... I will skip the sunshine ( not any today anyways)
Yeah, it's you guys who are shipping the cold down to us. So Friday we are looking at -4 degrees. That's down 8-10 degrees from the older forecasts. I am looking forward to the other side of the cold front.
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Saturday 11pm 64F... 8)
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Saturday 11pm 64F... 8)
OK. Where is that Dislike button? There's gotta be one around here somewhere.....
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Saturday 11pm 64F... 8)
6:41 am. 7 degrees
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6:41 am. 7 degrees
Looks like turnabout to me.
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Here in Western North Carolina, in the warmth of southern hospitality, I woke up to 27 degrees this morning. By Wednesday, the weatherperson says we will have a windchill factor around -12 F.
Only part that really upsets me is the driving on ice part. Dangerous past all understanding. You can't even see the black ice on the road and before you know it, you're in a ditch or rolling down the mountain. Cell phone service is spotty around here so being in a ditch can be a fatal happening.
My daughter and grand kids are supposed to come up from Georgia on the 23rd and I am giving some thought to waving them off. The freeways should be fine, but we live off a winding mountain road that is way down the list for salt or sand. Daughter has lived in Hawaii for the last 10 years and has no experience driving on snow and ice.
All I can say to the rest of you out there is Merry Christmas and stay warm.
Crusader Rabbit
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Looks like turnabout to me.
8 am, still 7
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Ice on the road is a bad thing. We were 70% chance of snow on Thursday and a -2 low but I guess it's associated with Gulf of Mexico air so now they are calling it rain. I'd rather have the cold snow than the rain warm and drop from 40 to -2 degrees. There's too much chance for frozen rain and iced up roads. I would much rather the snow. Where we are in the woods there will never be anything here to address the roads...and that's OK I like being remote. Friday it's supposed to be a low of -4 now and a high of 14. As far as the wind chill I've no idea we're always 8-15 MPH up here on winds during cold events.
And Tab, even if you switched places with those numbers it would not help!!!
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Here in Western North Carolina, in the warmth of southern hospitality, I woke up to 27 degrees this morning. By Wednesday, the weatherperson says we will have a windchill factor around -12 F.
Only part that really upsets me is the driving on ice part. Dangerous past all understanding. You can't even see the black ice on the road and before you know it, you're in a ditch or rolling down the mountain. Cell phone service is spotty around here so being in a ditch can be a fatal happening.
My daughter and grand kids are supposed to come up from Georgia on the 23rd and I am giving some thought to waving them off. The freeways should be fine, but we live off a winding mountain road that is way down the list for salt or sand. Daughter has lived in Hawaii for the last 10 years and has no experience driving on snow and ice.
All I can say to the rest of you out there is Merry Christmas and stay warm.
Crusader Rabbit
I like that. Also, I don't think I could be paid enough to live off, or on, ;) a winding mountain road. My mailman was wearing shorts today. Either; a) He's walking fast enough to feel the burn, b) His leg hair is warmer than it looks, or c) He's nuckin' futs. It's cold out there!