A good day.

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It seems it was a bit of a push.  Tired, moving slow, out late, but I did get there and done.  Lunch, then shooting.  My friend was in a shooting mood.  Lots and lots of shooting.  All good.  It was a perfect day for it.  Not too hot, a little wind, not too cool, not wet, not even too dry somehow.  I wasn't able to get my ak assembled fully in time.  One part of it is quite tricky.  I tried to do it as I always have.  Perhaps the time pressure, or just because, I simply struggled.  I knew what to do, but knowing and doing don't always mean the same thing.  In the end, and late, I finally had to abandon the project.  Next time.  I also made it to the store.  Dead tired, but I didn't want to waste the trip.  And I needed fresh olive oil to make bathing salts for gifts.  I'll use old olive oil for myself, and I think it smells fine.  But I won't risk offending, especially women folk who seem to have much better olfactory sensitivities... at least than me, almost across the board.

I let him know that next week, sometime, it would be good to have a cookout, and perhaps bonfire, here.  I asked him to ask our mutual friend.  To save them the trouble, I may just pick them both up.  One is in a wheelchair, the other has a really bad ticker.  If there is one or two more who wish to come, it's all good by me.  Well, a shoot and eat, I should say.  To the range first, then back for a meal and talk.  Dang kids shouldn't be stuck in the house all of the time, they... we... need to get out.

Oh, I have been mentioning that I can take eggs out of boiling water.  I thought that was... more common than it seems to be.  I have been all but called a liar.  Wait, no, I have been called a liar.  I could use my smartphone, or my new fancy camera... both take hd movies.  The trick will be to upload it so that it doesn't become a virus.  I am not interested in fame, not for such a silly thing.  I think, the days my friends are here, I may do that.  A few witnesses, generally, to go with the video.  Trust me, I wouldn't do it if I hadn't done it many times before.  I can't remember how I figured it out.  Probably just a thoughtless grab at something.  And then I found that boiling water isn't all that?  In any case, I do it fairly often.  Oh, sure, yeah, it stings.  But it doesn't burn.  Being at 4k altitude, I think water is hotter when it boils, too.  Anyway... might get that going as a little project.  Does anyone know how you can put video online and keep it from being taken?  Wait... doesn't Youtube have something like that?  Where you can't link it...  I'll look into that.  It seems it must be a rare thing, to cause that much incredulity?  Whatever.  I'll just show ya.

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Oh, but for some reason I am very prone to sunburn.  I have to, slowly, work up a resistance to the sun.  At the last Saguaro Man event, my friend was absolute amazed at how quickly I burned.  He had never seen such.  His wife is very fair skinned, and delicate.  We sat in the sun, playing cards.  In just a few hours I had cooked and she wasn't even red.  Different... sources...  Now, I can work up to being able to handle the sun fairly well.  Still burn, a bit, even so.  But the burn simply heals quicker... if appearances hold.  Though too, just naturally, there are times when I am more prone to burning and times I am not.  I can't really explain it.
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Tired, but I need to practice braiding my hair, then maybe some reading.  That book on monsters is taking forever.  I'll... make it, eventually.  Good night.