One more thing with the rifle.

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While tinkering with various things, I noticed that the rear sight flat spring plate seemed to have a bit of rust.  Because of the way it was sitting under the front sight, I could not tell if it was severely rusted or just had a touch.  I noticed this some time ago, but... well... it wasn't the top of the list, just a little nag in the back of my mind.  I happened to be reviewing various sight options, specifically peep sites, when I found a video about removing the front sight!  Of course, that would be optimal for checking the rust, and dealing with it.  Blah.

After reviewing the video, I was able to easily pop the sight off and look at the spring.  Thankfully, the rust was very minor and very much just on the very top of the top layer of the surface metal.  I simply cleaned it with the dremel.  Easily removing the tiny spot, then removing paint further around to make sure it was as isolated as it seemed.  Bare metal isn't optimal, but it beats letting rust set in.  Further, I will be painting soon enough, with a rust preventing primer and then layers of rust resisting paint.  That should fix that quite well.

As far as the game goes, I had really thought I would just stop.  If I couldn't get a specific trophy to pop, I wasn't going to mess too much further.  As it turns out, the trophy popped.  Which means I can, possibly, go on to get the platinum trophy.  The thing is, there is a set of challenges that have to be completed for the platinum.  They are a beast.  I have decided to run the game on the hardest difficulty, attempting to use methods required, or advised, for the challenges.  It's a pain, but it also opens some other things in the game.  New outfits or such, and perhaps a few other things. 

I haven't been tinkering with the HP-48g lately.  Only so much can be done.  The next step with it is to figure out how to use the graphing capabilities, just simple graphs to begin with, and figure out how to find specific parts of the graphs, like intercepts and such.  I truly hate HP for making such a lousy manual.  It seems no one has chosen to write a decent manual for it.  I have looked at others, but most that I have found seem to have been written by goobers like the original authors.  They all seem to have some stick stuck somewhere it shouldn't, and choose not to deign to speak to people who don't use only higher level math parlance.  And while I am good at math, or have been, I'm not an idocrat mathnerd.  Grh!

Tomorrow?  Hmm...  Probably to town.  I need to buy a couple of cards, get a gift certificate, and check on my friend.  Oh, and buy heat resistant spray paint.  Always something else, innit?  But... I sort of like that.  Good night.