Hunting & Guns

Went deer hunting this past weekend for the first time in a few years. Even though I didn't see anything, it was fairly enjoyable. Dad went with and shot a nice size doe. I took my muzzleloader, but still haven't killed anything with it yet. I've got a Knight, American Knight inline with a BSA Optics Scope on it. I like the gun and scope, but the plunger can be a bitch to pull back with that scope in the way, even with the raised "shoot through" style scope rings that allow you to use the iron sights if you want. It would be nice if there was some sort of modification to put a bolt action style lever on the end of the plunger, but I haven't been able to find anything like that online.

Anyway, i may start getting back into hunting a bit more, much to my wife's chagrin. I'm not going to go nutso like my dad and a lot of my buddies, but I enjoy going out behind the house (doesn't require a tag on my own land), and I enjoy deer meat from time to time, especially when it's cooked in stuff, not so much a fan of a deer hamburger or steak though...

An open letter to nose-pickers everywhere

To the guy that's wiping his boogers on the wall above the urinal: You are a disgusting fuck! Grow up and use a damn kleenex.

Thanks
The Mgmt

Living in the meth belt

Reading Caleb's Blog reminded me of some meth related stories, so I thought I'd share.

BIL used to work for a farm for a short time. Like most farms, they had anhydrous ammonia, which is used as fertilizer, in large tanks. It's also a key ingredient to meth, along with other wonderful household chemicals. Meth heads often would come to the farm at night and drill holes in the tanks to drain some ammonia out into a bucket and take home for meth production. This is nasty business. The stuff is poisonous and kept under pressure to keep it in a liquid state, so when it starts to drain out, the tank gets very cold. I've heard about guys having their hands on the tank when they drain it, so the skin gets frozen to the tank like a tongue to a flagpole. The guy was easy enough to catch. They went to the local hospital and looked for the guy with the effed up hands.

After they get all the ammonia they want, there's no way to shut off the flow, so it would typically just drain onto the ground. The farmer would then have to get the tank repaired and insurance would cover the damage and loss of property. After a while of this, the owner decided to weld a bung and valve in place of the hole. That way, when the meth heads got as much as they wanted, they could just shut the valve off, so it wouldn't waste all of it. They still left it wide open to drain.

One time, he put a bucket with a sign for donations. One morning, he came in and both the bucket and tank were empty.

There have been several meth heads get busted around here for stealing ammonia. One guy had a chase through town with the cops, and he was on flat tires due to spike strips. They're some nasty looking people too. A guy I went to high school with and live down the road with is all jacked up, missing most of his teeth, scars on his face from who knows what and he looks like a skeleton.

where do i sign up?

damn stank furnace

so we've been noticing some stankness coming through our vents since we moved in. At first, we thought it might just be some sort of "new house smell". it wasn't something brutal, just not a good smell, maybe musty.

Anyway, it didn't get better, and at times has been pretty effing bad. I could never figure out a reason for it until i went to put something in the basement the other day. it was really bad down there, coming in from outside. Then, I got closer to the furnace and figured it out...

We had a bathroom roughed in the basement, but the damn plumber never capped off the pipes (one 3" for a toilet, one 2" for a sink drain and another 2" horizontal with a big hole in the concrete around it for a shower drain). The first 2 stick up out of the concrete about 8". The AC condensation runs into the first 2", but is not a closed drain, just a 3/4" pipe with a 45 degree elbow hanging on the 2" pipe. That was the source for the stankness, sewer gas coming back up through one or all of those pipes.

Since I don't figure they put a trap in any of those pipes, i went to Menard's and got some PVC pipe and fittings. $15 and 45 minutes of work later, I got the 2 unused pipes capped off and the third pipe has a 2" to 3/4" reducer going to the AC condensation pipe. Only concern now is if the condensation pipe evaporates empty there's a vent near the furnace for that, but that'll be a simple fix of pouring some water in there in the winter when the AC isn't used.