Emergency Preparedness

We are prepared. bullets are so expensive these days! A box of 50 9mm american eagle was 15 Bucks! PMC .38s were $18 for 50! Well thanks to the government rewarding us for having a baby, I was able to go stock up for a while. It cost a few hundred bucks but we now have 200 rounds for kristen and 500 rounds for my gun. When I was at the gun store, there was a woman and her friends there looking for a gun to buy. At one point, the salesman was showing her a beretta 92 that had a laser grip on it. He was talking about how the action was so smooth and the bigger grip would make it comfortable to shoot, and Look! it has a laser! But as I watched, it was apparent that it was too big for her. So in this case the larger grip would actually make it difficult to shoot because the recoil would make her wrist twist, instead of going straight back into the web of her hand and through her bones. That's the way a gun should fit in your hand and it allows your whole body weight to absorb the recoil, instead of just your wrist. Then, later he was showing her a walther .22 and saying "This .22 is powerful enough" (I'm assuming to stop an attacker) While I agree that the best way for a new shooter to learn is with a .22, because they are cheap and easy, the only attacker you would stop with one is the Killer Rabbit from Monty Python.
It just seemed a little condescending that, since she couldn't rack the slide on the 92, and the guy wasn't giving her the right technique to do it, then she must be weak so he will now try to convince her that a .22 is powerful enough for her. Or in other words, she can't handle anything more than a .22. Boo on ignorant gunshop clerks.

Glamour

Dad went to Puerto Vallarta to learn how to pose people and take professional looking portrait shots. He had a little studio set up in his living room with some light coming in through the window. He was practicing on Kris and when he took a break he gave me the camera, so I took some pictures. I married a beautiful woman.

GUNS!

Are great! Our ward sponsored a shotgun shoot yesterday, and it was really fun. I discovered that the mini glock is a good fit for kristen's hand. One of the counselors in our bishopric has a glock 27, which is a .40 caliber. Those little glocks are the only ones that feel good in my hand, as well. I thought since it is a double stack magazine, that kris would be unable to reach the trigger, but she really liked the way it fit, and with the heavier .40 cal bullet she said it felt the same as my too-big-for kristen sig 9mm. We also shot our elder's quorum president's F2000, which looks like a squirt gun, this photo is of me commenting on how weird that gun was. If you needed a gun to be really small, then this would work just fine, plus it uses AR15 magazines, so its mags and bullets are compatible with other rifles and bullets that are common in america. Dan had an EOTac sight on it that was sighted in just perfectly. Still, a weird looking gun. Must be a pain to take apart. I keep saying that if i'm ever going to spend that much money on a fighting rifle, I'd like to go for the sig 556, but I'm not going to be making that much money for a while, so I really should not think about it too much until I'm in a position to do something about it. Maybe I should get a job at a PR firm like Dan so I can support my family and pay my debts first. I shot dan's new xcr, and it was pretty sweet, and its a salt lake company, robinson arms. The only guns in our future are ones that kristen will like to shoot, so we can go shooting together and both enjoy ourselves. Like a revolver and a shotgun. I also got to shoot an HK USP compact .40, i didn't like it. The glock was more comfortable, even though its tiny. The HK just wanted to fly back and hit me in the face. My sig was the most comfortable for me. (Duh, thats why I bought it) Shotguns are really versatile and fun, because you can do skeet shooting. The first one i shot was a really lightweight, expensive feeling beretta semi auto. It kicks, not the hardest, pretty kind of hard, it would take some getting used to. Then I shot an old Browning Over and Under that was purchased by the owner's granddad when he was a young go-getter. It was kept in really good shape. Alex calls it the "Peacemaker". It was a little heavier than the beretta, and was much more comfortable to shoot. Until I accidentally shot both barrels at the same time, that was a little bit of a surprise. Billy in the red sweatshirt is holding the peacemaker, and kristen is in the background trying to unjam the beretta.

temple fun

Last friday, my beautiful bride and I went to the draper temple open house with friends of mine from work, Nick and Danny. It was really fun, but crowded. Just a constant procession through it, no tour guide. They asked people to whisper to maintain a reverent atmosphere. As we went through, I explained different things to my friends to help maximize their experience. it was really fun. Kristen, despite losing her voice, talked to them about their religious backgrounds and the meaning of life and I was proud of her for sparking such a religiously focused conversation. She sometimes feels left out that she didn't go on a mission, but what she was doing was what missionaries do, and she is good at it. Nick liked the temple, but wasn't super impressed. He was looking for symbols and I realized that most of the symbology in a temple comes from the endowment and other ordinances, and not from the building itself. Danny, who had been raised in the church, was really impressed, especially the celestial room. When we got there, he said "I could stay here all day" Missionary work is fun and easy when you have a temple open house. If you miss the draper temple, then the daybreak temple will be open pretty soon.

Cute Baby Video

Kay has discovered the internet. Well, the modem to be specific.

Little Boys are wired to destroy.

explanation of the pictures

The picture of the lincoln memeorial was as close as i could get to it. there was a concert going on. Then the next picture was just of the people on the mall for the concert at the Lincoln Memorial. The next picture was taken by a military guy who had been in the warming tent since 7 in the morning. we showed up at around 330 in the afternoon. Lynn just happened to be standing next to me when the guy took the picture. The next one is of the Virginia Military Institute. They brought all the students in the school, I think. The blurry picture is the last turn in the parade before we passed President Obama.

some photos