A whole lota 2013
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It's been a long time since I've written a newsletter. Blame it on
facebook, where it's easy to dribble news to people. Or not. But
here's the things the happened, not in any particular order.
Guns: I'm going to do stuff a bit out of
sequence here, because the shotgun came a lot later. But, a lot of new
weapons... and I'm not counting the most expensive, a JP rifle upper for
the .223 AR15... because it replaces something I already have.
I've had a couple of questions about why... why so many guns? And
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The Savage BA110 Winchester 300 Mag sniper rifle, beside the
much smaller S&W M&P 15/22 "Hello Kitty" tactical .22 Long
Rifle.
Below, Sang OK finds the .308 FAL a shoulder bruiser |
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Mickey, the classic 1911 .45 ACP pistol. Right top,
the FAL .308 Battle rifle, and on the bottom, the UTS-15 tactical
shotgun with it's 14 round magazine.
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Brie with "Hello Kitty," the .22 LR tac
rifle. And cool shades.
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Diana loves Mickey
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Above, smoking gun. Below, Will with the sniper rifle, me with
Mickey. |
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| Tennis. I went to see the kids play a fair number of
times, including one colder than hell visit to RPI, one long ride to
Vassar, and one trip to RPI for "Senior Day," Brie's last home tennis match of
her RPI career. The Student Union was looking cool with the cherry
trees in full blossom. |
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| Visits. Anne came out and visited for a week.
Brie's boyfriend from RPI, Chris, was up at the same time. Notice
who got all dressed up to sit on the back deck for dinner? |
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| Activities. I finally made it to one of Jeff's
Memorial Day gaming sessions, which was immersive. Below, a couple
of shots from hiking back behind Jeff's house in the Angeles Crest
Forest, Barry and Alex at a gaming table, Jeff, Ben (who was a surprise
as I didn't know he'd flown out from SC to visit Jeff), and Eric, with
Jeff Goldsmith busy in the background. |
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| Flew down to New Bedford with Michael Howard to eat at the airport
restaurant there in his Cessna, flying over the Fidelity facility in
Merrimack where I work. We had a chance to take a tour of the
private jet of the CEO of Qualcomm, who gives out scholarships in New
Bedford every year. They had just finished gassing up... $15,000
worth of aviation fuel. |
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| Did a cool thing with Eric and Cathy Haines, the Somerville "Open
Studio" weekend, where all the local artists and studios open up their
workshops and homes; there's something like 100 places to visit, and we
made 6 in four hours. Some cools stuff, like the Serenity spaceship
made of duct tape (where I made a joke about the front buffer panel
breaking off in the movie because it was duck taped, and the artist
showed me that the duct tape model has a removable facsimile of the
panel). |
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| The annual Bob Willis memorial get-to-gether at RPI in June, with
Eric, Alice, Mark, Rick, John, Sherilee, Chris, and their daughter |
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| Eric and Cathy's vow renewal, with Marty Connell in
attendance: |
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| Visiting the DeCordova Museum with Anne and Brie, where we
experienced modern art, like a wall displaying the inside label from a
CrackerJack box. Everything is art. |
Time portal, or art? Art, of course. Everything is
art.
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High five, or art? Art, of course, everything is art.
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Ya, sorry, just can't go there. |
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| A visit from Shirley, her husband, Ethan and Dana |
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| A trip to CA to visit Jeff Stern, attend Nick's birthday party,
spray Gino the dog with a hose, see
Lisa and Bruce's house (and hike up the hills over Hollywood and see the
Hollywood Resevior), visit Janet and Bill, and eat at Paco's Tacos |
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| Dinner at the Herb Lyceum with Brie for her birthday |
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| And, finally, the second half of Brie's birthday, jumping out of a
perfectly good airplane with her friends Diana Du and Laura Donovan
(both ex-tennis-doubles partners from Acton Boxbourgh Regional High
School days) |
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