{"id":56,"date":"2009-03-13T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jim-n-mandie.com\/blog\/?p=56"},"modified":"2009-03-13T22:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T05:06:00","slug":"chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.galaxieman.com\/?p=56","title":{"rendered":"Chaos…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The movers have come and gone. The doggies were pretty good out back, but a bit whiny once we kenneled them up in the laundry room while the movers were here. Kaiser is starting to not<\/span> bark at all the neighboring dogs, and joggers, and cars going by, and well… everything. Finally caught him just sitting down earlier:
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We had the internet hooked up, and we’ve got SPEED!!!!<\/span> I’m still stuck on Iraqi satellite speed in my head, so this stuff is blowing my mind.
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As a comparison, the best I ever saw in country was 1024Kbps download and 96Kbps upload… and that was at 4am when no-one else was on our system at O’Ryan. Average was more like 256Kb down\/64Kb up. When we moved south and we switched to Sniperhill net I didn’t even bother testing. It was better than dialup, but my wireless hookup through my t-mobile phone before deploying was faster. Of course the house is still in boxes, which means I’m posting from here in my de-facto office on the kitchen counter. Hopefully we can make a good sized dent tomorrow and Sunday.
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In completely disparate news, I managed to score my post-deployment ‘self-reward gun’ today. I had my name down on the list at the local eeevil<\/span> gunshop (Trail Boss Outfitters, the staff of which I cannot speak highly enough of) for whichever came in first, a Ruger LCP or a Kel-Tec P3AT, (the design Ruger copied to create the LCP). I wanted the Ruger more, but given the scarcity of both types, I figured I would settle for whichever came in first. I expected it to be a couple of weeks until I could get my hands on either, which turned out to be a bad assumption. A little under a week after putting my name on the list, I got a call that there was one of each available, to which I responded, “I’ll be there in a couple of minutes”. We were already out in town, so next stop became the gun shop. About 10 minutes later I walked out with my new deep-conceal gun, an extra mag, and the belt-clip ‘holster’ installed on the right side of the frame. Having an AZ concealed carry permit does help speed things along, since it counts for my background check here, as I had to take a class, submit fingerprints, and pass a more thorough background check to get it than the ‘4478 phone-call’ check anyway. So without further ado, here she is, sitting on top of a 3 1\/2″ floppy for perspective
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