Raider Nation Fisher

ROFLMFAO!!!!!!!!! You may be the only person I know who has been bitten by a lady bug! How on earth did you manage that!?!

Yep. Had a bunch of em. Worst was on my inner thigh. Little buggers head broke off. Tried using a hypodermic needle to get it out. It was either that or a knife. It was not my most brilliant idea. Hurt like all hell. Ended up using a knife after digging for thirty minutes with that stupid needle. Still have the scar from cutting it out. To clarify. The needle was from one of my wife's unopened allergy syringes. At the time all I could find was that and a fixed blade knife.

Ok then. Wait a few months for the prices to bottom back out and then buy away. Only ones I've ever owned are DPMS. I personally prefer AKs. The DPMS down here usually go for between 500 to 600 and go up from there. I would advise buying a base model flat top. You can add whatever you want to it later. Or get the whole thing tricked out when you purchase it. With the unlimited options for customization I see no need to pay for a name. I owned three different barrel configurations for mine. As well as lots of other accessories. Why pay for a name stamped on a receiver. I would wait a few months though. If you buy one now, the odds of recouping your investment later are going to be very difficult.

I vaguely remember that story.

Nope. I made that choice. Can't and would not change it. To much regimen and discipline required in college ball. I generally do poorly with authority. I sometimes wonder how different life would be if I did. However, I'm happy with how everything worked out. Even in hindsight I feel I made the right choice. I just went a round about way of getting there, in my above post. Sorry about that.

Aye, I would not do it if the opportunity presented itself. I turned my back on the opportunity to have a shot at possibly going into The League. I was EXTREMELY gifted at football, at least as far as defense goes. I was also EXTREMELY gifted at coasting through my school work. There are perks to being one of the beat Defensive Tackles to ever go through a high school. Heck there are perks to being a great football player at most high schools and universities. For the most part I could do bare minimum class work and still pass. Don't get me wrong I still did my studies and what have you. I just did not do it to the full or even half extent of my abilities. School was boring to me. With the exception of writing papers and history. Never made below an A in either of those. The rest yhough? Bah. You can keep it. Anyway. When late senior year came along my grades were not really up to snuff combined with my height(6ft2in). So instead of getting offers from better known colleges. I was hearing from smaller division 2 and 3 schools. Instead of taking the school I was interested in up on their offer. I turned them down because I would have rather been a punk, and spent my time drinking, fighting, and chasing women. Needless to say I was booted out of college. There is more to than that however I'm not in the mood to type it all out right now. So yeah I gave up on that chance. If it was offered to me today would I take it? No. The game has changed to much since I played. A lot of what I did is considered illegal now. So no I would not play pro ball for any amount of money they offer. The fun is gone from it for me. As for rugby. I hope to be able to join the team in early June. Its a challenge for me. You understand. Plus the rules are different and the hitting is different.

With any luck prices will drop as will demand. At least if the previous cycles are an indication. I have been wrong before though. You very well may be correct. Staying as non political as I can. I doubt another play for our firearms and magazines. However, there is still that nagging in the back of my mind that this may not have played out all the way yet. My greatest source of being worry free is that we are in Alabama. I sincerely believe this state would leave the union again if any laws were passed like the assault weapons ban. Especially in todays age and time. Our red necks, country folk, and ghetto dwellers LOVE their firearms. I love that our ghetto dwellers are more hospitable then in other states. Southerners are the greatest regardless of race. Others play the stock market. I play the firearms market. Not as much since my son was born. I still try to when money permits.

Now that the assault weapons ban and its other parts have been shot down (pun intended). Ammo and firearms cost should return to normal. Now don't all y'all feel silly that went and paid thousands for these firearms and ammo feel silly? This has been going on for years now. Nothing ever comes from it. Other than panic buying.

Oh my god. I just wet my pants and choked on my Gatorade when I read that last part! I'm kind of shocked the prices have increased that much. Generally they don't jump up when issues with other firearms are being discussed. That's news to me. Kind of wish I had held on to some of mine now.

4 Flintstone vitamins and a bottle of Tums. Come on now. You know good and dang well I can't answer that question on here. The mods would have my head on a stake if I told you that.

There's still AK47s and what not. M16s are expensive. Always have been. Let's not forget the little mp5 either. I believe they are closer to 8 thousand though. I know the last class III AK I bought was for 2 grand. This was a little over five years ago though.

Wait a bit longer. Those rifles are not going anywhere anytime soon. There is too much money involved in the industry for that to happen. Plus at the current cost. You can buy a class 3 automatic for the same price. Why buy semi when you can buy full on auto?

ROFLMFAO! That about sums it up. I Like the title above my avatar to. I decided I would adopt it as my own, after some old timer dubbed me as that. I think it is fitting.

Yeah it is. Strangely enough he has avoided me like I have the plague, all week this week.

Now that is cool. Its always nice to find people that understand this type of work. I wish I could make the road trip this year. I'm so bogged down though I don't see it happening. Next year though I should be more financially sound, and be able to get some time off.

We got family in "pahdimisk""padimish" or something along those lines. Its where my great grand mum was born. My great grandpop was born in the foot hills of the Caspian mountains. And I know we had family that was living in Chernobyl way back when and in Kiev. If I ever get time I want to go see them some day.

That's awesome. I love watching that show. Where is she from in the Ukraine? I got family over there still.

I feel your pain. I go absolutely nuts when I'm cooped up all day. I go to the gym, fish, run suicides, run agility drills, or play soccer or rugby with my son. As far as the kids go. Enjoy it while you can. It won't last forever. Plus I'm envious as hell of you right now. I would kill to see my son for just ten minutes each day. Let alone all day every day. Be grateful your getting to spend time with them. Even if they are driving you insane. As for the girlfriend tell her to straighten up or sniff off. PS. I know you are grateful to be spending time with your boys. Especially after having been deployed. I'm just missing my boy right now.

Easy now. Everyone likes a little arse. No one likes a smart arse.

That's the same thing I was always told. It took a few years to get it down. However now I feel the same way, and tell my helpers the same thing.

Very little. I've always been told its a weed. However people seem to like it. If it cuts good and looks good, I say go for it. Worse comes to worse hose it down with herbicide and start over.

The old men will work their butts off if you let them. Half the time you have to either get them out of the way or take it from them if you want to do something. I finally understand what they were always saying about it being painfully slow to train a helper on stuff. It takes them forever, but the younger inexperienced guys have to learn somehow. They can't learn unless they physically do it. Heck even being a journeyman the old men can work circles around me and two other journeymen. They know tricks to doing it that we don't. Plus after so many years it has become second nature to them. The old fella I'm working with now and I have got a system worked out between us. He studies the prints and I do the terminating. Or he bends the pipe and I install it. It keeps him from being on a lift all day. Which is honestly exhausting. And I get to continue to refine my installing. Pipe bending I have down to a science. It is one of the things I'm best at. I'm one of the fastest ones in the company at it. Plus I put up some of the prettiest pipe runs you will ever see. I have made it into a art. Still though we work faster with him bending it and me running it.

I wouldn't trade it for any thing. We are a dying breed. Its fun working with the older guys and hearing their stories. Plus they are a wealth of knowledge if you ask and listen to them.

So we did our first of four shutdowns at the plant we are working at last week. All went well up until the very end. We were running the SCADA system and the iron workers temp panel off our generator while we had the power off to the plant. We finished our shutdown and let the UPS system run SCADA while we hooked it back up to permanent power which took all of three minutes. We killed the generator and started wiring the Iron workers power back up. Over a five minute period I had four knuckle draggers ask when they would have power back on. I told them it would be around ten minutes, and to sniff off until I was done. Well they got me in a mood by pestering me. I was about to land the last wire when someone came in and asked again. I told him,"it depends how many more times I get asked.". Well apparently it was the GC on our job. Who BTW is also the head knuckle dragger out there. He was none to happy and started popping off at the mouth. My foreman laid into him and when he went to respond I called him a rat for hiring foreign workers as opposed to union. The man exploded over this. He informed me there was no union on this job and asked to see my card since I was claiming he should be hiring them. My foreman threw him out of the electrical room before I could drop my pants to show him my "card". We had a laugh over that for a good ten minutes. My foreman called our boss to tell him what was going on and he laughed his butt off about it. Said to keep on keeping on and pay the GC no attention because we are not working under them. We were hired on by the city not the GC. Its times like these that I love my job more than anything else.

Well it took longer than usual, but we are finally back into our travel routine. It really sucks until we get this down. No tears when leaving anymore. No late night "I can't sleep" phone calls. This is quite good now. We get along much better when I am in town too. As for the travel part. I'm finally enjoying myself. I could deal without having a room mate, but it could be worse. He goes to his old man bars and the driving range. I go fish and go to the gym. Its pretty nice. Plus I get to go buy stuff without being fussed at. I've made friends with some locals at the gym as well as a ton of the other contractors at the hotel. We have cook outs every Tuesday night in the parking lot. And the Mexicans will cook for you every night if you ask them too. Its pretty cool how all the contractors join together at nights. We are all working on different jobs down here, but get to share stories every night. Lots of good natured ribbing between the trades. It really is like having a second and third family.