IT SNOWED!!! IT SNOWED!!!

Oh my god it actually snowed here yesterday and last night.  I live in Arkansas right outside Memphis TN.  We never get snow.  We got 3 inches.  Now i know for those of you who live in the north that is nothing.  SUCK IT.   I love snow but we never get any.   When i was a kid we would get snow 2-3times a year only and inch or two at a time.  But in the last sixteen years we have not got any snow to amount to more than flurries.  Once again i realize 3 inches is flurries to you yankees.  And once again SUCK IT.  I am very jealous.  But we also get 100-110 degrees with 95% humidity here during the summer, which now that I am no longer going to be a farmer I will ove even more.  I love the heat.  It does not affect me at all.  Anything below 70 is parka weather for me.  That being said I hope to move to a nicer,cleaner, more friendly, north, part of the US in the next 5 years where i can enjoy the seasons actually change.  Thats all for today, later!

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MY NEW GUN!

Here are pics of my new gun i just built. I took a Ruger 10/22 and converted it over to a .17HM2.
























The stock is a laminate and the scope is a redhead 6x18x50mm. I will change the scope later. My wife picked out the stock because this will be her gun to shoot snakes with, this spring and summer.

We live in Arkansas and we have a lot of poisonous snakes. Cotton Mouths are the ones we go after. We have a lot of rice fields and that means water in the hot of the year. This attracts lots of snakes. We shoot the snakes every year. I know some of you maybe thinking this mean or you are an animal rights person. To bad these things stink and are dangerous. We also have problems with rats and pigeons around our grain bins. The pigeons poo and really make a mess. The rats well you do the math on those. We also shoot these. mostly though we shoot a lot of targets. This is the second gun I have built. I built a .22lr a couple of years ago and i shot this rifle so much that I wore the parts of the rifle out. I shoot thousands of rounds a year. I bought a 17HMR, the bigger shell in the above pics. I bought a savage rifle with a bull barrel. This is an extremely accurate rifle. However the trigger sucked. I took the trigger apart, polished, and shimmed it. It is now pulling around 2 pounds of very crisp breaking pull. The synthetic stainless steel rifle in the above pic.

I am hoping to build me another rifle this summer that is kinda like the 17hm2 above, but a 22lr. 17hm2 are about $8 for 50 rounds and .22 are much cheaper. After I build this rifle I am going to build another but make it for close quarters shooting at targets with a red dot or eotech sites. Then on to .223 AR 15. I also am wanting to get into shooting with a pistol in some kind of competition. I am a great shot with a rifle or shotgun. I have won many competitions with a shotgun shooting trap for money. I have never competed with a rifle. However I am a horrible shot with a pistol. I am wanting to get much better and to compete.

Well I hope ya'll enjoyed this blog. I was going to try to blog every day, but my life is boring. Until next time.

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Cleavage or NO Cleavage?

Well went to my interview today and no cleavage.  (see last blog)   But did get a shocker.  So these head hunters told me that they would take me on as a client.  I asked how they got paid.  They said it started with a $4250 retainer and $1500 after they found me an executive position.   Needless to say I will not be paying their fee.  I think they are scam artists and i refuse to pay up front for a service.  I told them to find me a position and if I liked it and got the job I would right them a check the same day.  They said it didnt work like that.  I asked them, "do you pay for services up front or after the service as been performed?"  They said their industry doesn't work like that.  I told them that I was not interested.  If they changed their mind they knew where to reach me.   FUN FUN

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Either I am bored or there are no "GREAT" games

I am a big FPS fan.  I really enjoy these types of games.  I have tried other types but the only thing that comes close is racing games.  I used to like to play burnout 3 but then I switched consoles.  Well I have been playing a lot of COD4 lately.  Apparently too much, because I am bored out of my mind with it.  So yesterday I went out and bought Burnout: paradise city.   I was hoping to get my game fix from this game until RB6v2 came out.  BOPC has its good points but for the most part, it seems very confusing and not well thought out to me.  It is hard for me to figure out what the hell is going on.   I tried to play online and never could figure out where to start or even what was really going on.  I am really disappointed in this game.  I also bought a used copy of GOW.  I traded mine a long time ago, but thought I would give it another try to see if I could bring back the fun.  Nope didn’t happen.  I am basically stuck.  I guess I will just have to wait till rb6v2 comes out in March.  By then I will either be busy on the farm, or scuba diving, or hopefully a new job if I can find one by then. 

By the way here is a little tid bit of info for all yall.  Did you know that if you take a Bachelors degree in Agricultural Business and $5 that you can get half a cup of coffee at starbucks?  Apparently I picked a fairly useless degree.   I guess you'll have that. 

Let me share a funny story with you.  The other day a head hunter firm called me.  They were passed my resume through a friend.  They wanted to meet with me to take my on as a client.  They are an executive placement firm.  They only deal with clients who are "formally educated" meaning having a degree and at least 15 years in an executive position, so here the story of how the meeting went.  You will laugh at this when I am done.  I go the office to meet with these people, I walk in and tell the receptionist who I am and who I am there to meet.  I have a 1pm appt. it is 12:50 and they are not back from lunch yet.  Ok no prob. understandable, well while I am waiting for my appt.  I am talking to the receptionist and she keeps apologizing for being dressed casual and not in a suit.  She says she is going to a funeral but had to come in for a little while, and that this is not her normal job.  Instantly I realize this woman is 1-crazy as a shit house rat 2-very self conscience about being thought of as a lowly receptionist.  My appt. arrives and BAM the first thing that catches my eye are BOOBS.  This is an office where everyone is dressed in business suits.  This lady is V.P. of marketing and is wearing a suit, but she is showing some serious cleavage.  I am a boob guy.  My wife is very well endowed and she knows I look and even points some out to me sometime, but I am mature about it also.  I don’t stare when it is not appropriate.  Basically I didn’t stare at her HUGE TITS during the whole meeting.  I think she strips on the side. After the meeting I called my wife and asked her about dress attire for an office. I have never worked in an office before.  OK back to the meeting.  So this lady is asking me about my background and experience and so forth.  Then she asked me about my wife and personal life.  I tell her that my wife just graduated with her MBA with top honors and that she has 10 years experience with a fortune 500 company.  At this point the lady quits writing on my page and writes something on a tablet.  The meeting goes on for another 10 minutes and we start to walk out of the office.  When we get to the waiting room, the lady says that she will call once they determine IF they want to take me on as a client.  She says they will set up another meeting and normally they like to meet the spouses during this meeting.  I tell her that my wife is uber busy and will not be able to make any meetings.  She says that we will have to arrange it so that my wife can come or they are not going to be able to go forward with me as a client.  Anybody see what is happening yet?  I tell this lady that I see what she is doing and that my wife is not interested in finding a new job and that she does not need a recruiter.  I tell her to call me if she wants ME as a client not my wife. 

 

I found my first experience with a recruiter to not be what I was expecting.  However I did enjoy watching her TITs bounce every time she moved.  I have another meeting with her tomorrow, she actually called, but I had to have the “My wife is not interested” conversation again with her.  MY wife and I have a bet going on CLEAVAGE or  NO CLEAVAGE tomorrow.  They were huge and very pretty.  I will let you know how is goes, and if I can I will take a pic with my phone to post, but don’t get your hopes up on that one.  Also on my blog tomorrow I will tell a really funny story about the college parking patrol and the old alumni.  Guess who wins the battle of the parking spaces?

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2 Mondays in the Week

    Well it looks like this week is going to have 2 Mondays.  I know everyone of you have had a week like this before.  Hell I have had an entire week of Mondays, but that is a whole nother story.  So as I have said in my first blog I am a farmer.  I farm with my dad.  I also have said never go into business with family.  Does anyone see where i am going with this yet!!!   I have decided to quit farming and get a normal job.  My dad pissed me off yesterday for the last time.  I am letting him have the farm and he can do with it as he sees fit.  One old saying will cover the on going battle between my dad and myself.  "you can't teach an old dog new tricks"  we that applies here, just add a whole lot of money and the possible out come of going broke again.  So I have decided to move on with my life and let my dad figure his out for himself.

Monday #2=   In doing all the bookkeeping for the farm and my dad.  I am having to take care of his finances.    All he knows how to do is write checks.  He has an account with regions bank,  regions bought out Amsouth bank.  In doing so they completely screwed up all the regions internet banking customers.  I have not received a statement in 4 months nor can i log onto the website.  So i called the help line,  So far i have yet to talk to anyone or get any help.  My total hold time to date (thank god for speaker phone) is 3 hours.  At the 1 hour mark the phone auto disconnects.  At this point my head has exploded.  So I went down to my local branch and tried to get some help.  No such luck, "Sir our customer service reps must help you with that, we cannot do anything for you at a local branch."   So in the nicest, non yelling voice i can muster, I politely ask " well lets see if you can close my account and give my all my money in cash"   Of course they say yes sir and give me all my money.  I go down to Bank of America open and account, go home log right onto my account on the internet and start paying bills online.  The moral of this story is  HOW DO MORE PEOPLE NOT GO POSTAL.  If i were on a jury it would be hard not to feel for these people.    Well that is the end of my 2 Monday story.

I cant wait until the end of march gets here and I can hopefully go scuba diving again.  I have a trip kinda planned to north Florida to Vortex and Morrison springs planned.  If you have never done it Scuba Diving is addicting as video games or crack.  Well ya'll have a good day now, ya hear.

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