Moving, ammo, Meghan's visit
News, Guns ·Saturday September 19, 2009 @ 22:48 EDT (link)
From 1000-1500 we helped Amani (PM at work) and her husband Thomas move from Redmond to their first house, in Bothell, repaying the toh (obligation—sorry, Wheel of Time in-joke) owed from them helping us a month ago. Jodie and her husband Nick, and Angus and Kate (fellow Waterloo graduates) were also there helping.
We got there at 1005, and started loading a (16'?) U-Haul truck; we were worried about getting everything on, but we also loaded up several cars too and managed to get it all in one trip. The house is at the end of a cul-de-sac much like ours, but without the short road going off to the side. They got pizza afterward from Canadian-American pizza; the tandoori pizza was quite good although very hot. We got back to our place at 1500.
I went to the Monroe WAC gun show later on (1600-1700) and bought a box (440 rounds) of Russian 7.62x54R and 500 rounds of .22 (the size difference of the boxes is humorous). I looked at scopes, but the selection was poor and they all looked like scary off-brand knockoffs and with my limited experience I can't tell what's good, so I'll wait for another sale at a local place and most likely get a Bushell Banner 3-9x40.
I took apart my Mosin Nagant bolt; the Cosmoline gets everywhere and has to be cleaned out completely. I took the firing pin out via the method of using the connector bar as wrench as shown in these instructions.
Meghan got here at 1800 and we got KFC (instead of pizza as originally planned); she insisted on paying since we had last time. She was here until 2245 and then had to go to work (testing cell phone sites). We played some Guitar Hero, watched the last episode of House from last season, talked a lot (well, Honey and Meghan did most of the talking).
Books finished: The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution.
