Mar 22 2006
Well it’s back to work…
Well my days off are finished. Tonight I will once again don my polyester crime fighting outfit and roam the city streets in a striped car.
My blog updates continue to be infrequent, and this is merely a reflection of my online time. Right now Lisa and I continue to work opposite rotations at work, which means that between us we are working every day of the week (I work half, she works half) on twelve hour night shifts. Daycare for Jilly has been coming together, but this has offered us little more than a respite from sleep deprivation on our “change-over” days.
Things are improving, and a routine of sorts seems to be imposing itself of the chaos.
Zombie Movies:
I’ve got a growing stack of 20+ zombie films with reviews pending, I hope to get a chance to tuck into them shortly. There are a few gems in there that deserve some attention, along with a few stinkers that deserve ridicule.
Firearms:
Some new developments here as well, with the possible trade of the CZ52 for a Norc 1911 (Can you say PROJECT GUN!, I knew ya could), and the further possibility of a trade/acquisition of an AR180B. Some other juggling may be in the works, we’ll have to wait and see.
With the acquisition of a new laptop there is the chance of taking my old P233 out to the range and seeing what error message shows up (if any) when exposed to 5.56×45mm or 7.62×39mm fire.
Wait–you’re a cop?
Hmmmm … no, you cannot make a P233 run faster by adding lead to the motherboard
Mahg: Sure am…as long as you add “Rent-a-” in front of cop.
-GRIN-
Dad: Are you SURE?
Place the word “clown” between striped and car to prevent the above assumption. Works for me. Re: the P233, after the hit, should the screen read ” re boot this” or should a display begin a count down from 60, RUN! happened to me once..
Hope your cars brakes got good and healed up on your days off. Have you started the slow progression that mobile guys always go along with? You know, the “How little of the issued uniform can I show up with?” game?
Before anybody things that us mobile guys are closet nudists, security companies issue cheap, silly looking, useless uniforms. My personal favorite “I tell while it on the rack you don’t have any in my size” is a tie between the “airline pilot” black epaulettes on white shirts and the famed grey “Shiny, Happy People Pants”. As time goes on, mobile drivers add non-issue kit to delete some of the more painful issued stuff. The first one is almost always the black commando sweater with company flashes on the arms. They are stock and make you less of a numpty-looking mofo. This also eliminates both horror of the uniform shirt, it also gets rid of the need to wear the uniform jacket. These jackets range from the merely unobtrusive(Props to the original Mighty P patrol bombers. Good, warm, functional and rated to stop and retain exactly 10 liters of rainfall, then dump that water onto the wearer)to the painful(The first time I was on the 6 o’clock news, I looked like a giant traffic cone).
Then the uniform pants are replaced with a more comfort fitted cargo pant variant, often with the explanation that “Boss, I’m in and out of the patrol car, running, moving around more than the guys who watch a desk, I need a looser fit with larger pockets. You were out in the field too*, you know how it is*.”. The fact that since Tim Hortons has drive thrus, you don’t get in or out of that car, nor would you run if you did, is irrelevant.
Issued hats, which never look good, are simply dispensed with, by force if required. If headgear is required, plain, unadorned black balaclavas rolled up are for the winter and plain, unadorned black ball caps for all other purposes.
*As Erik will provide an affidavit on, all managers should use me using this phrase as a warning sign. Me acknowledging and even obliquely respecting that the boss has any kind of useful perspective is usally a good indication that I’m neck deep into my latest efforts at a coup d’etat. Well, that’s not true either: None of my coup attempts are bloodless.
I hate you Canadians and your Norc 1911s… **shakes fist**
I’m thinking about picking up a Springfield GI 1911A1 in the near future, although i want a 1911 with a little more bling.