One Too Many

I came to the realization yesterday that I have too many projects. I found myself acting like a labrador in a meat market. If I could focus on any one thing, some level of satisfaction could be achieved. Here's how the list looks right now:

- Reload ammo for - 300 Whisper Super and Sub sonic, 223 for varmints and the on going 44 mag.

- Repair free high quality lawn mower to replace 15 year old one that I keep tacked together.

- Diagnose and repair "new" 1940's model roto tiller.

- Complete wiring in the shop.

- Build reloading room in the shop.

- Clean all of the non-shop items out of the shop.

- Move all my stuff from the garage to the shop.

- Build 300+ feet of fence along the west side of the property to keep the neighbor from having goat barbeque.

- Mount antlers for youngest from last season and for Mrs. from season 10 years ago.

- Complete running water and power to the barn that was started 3 years ago.

- Finish getting rid of scrap from job cranes that sat next to the driveway for 2 years.

- Complete inspection signoff on the shop project.

- Do tree removal jobs for 3 different people not counting my brother.

- Be a good dad and husband.

There are more, I know there is but I'm to distracted to remember.

An interesting letter in the Australian Shooter Magazine this week, which I quote:

"If you consider that there has been an average of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theater of operations during the past 22 months, and a total of 2112 deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers.

The firearm death rate in Washington,DC is 80.6 per 100,000 for the same period.

That means you are about 25 percent more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. capital, which has some of the strictest gun control laws in the U.S., than you are in Iraq."

Conclusion: The U.S.should pull out of Washington.

(Borrowed from http://hollys-hystrionics.blogspot.com/)

The Realities of CTR

Did you ever notice that clean living doesn't allow one to reap all of the perks at work. Coffee and tea are provided by the company for everyone. Those that don't drink those beverages loose out on probably 200 dollars a year worht of benefit. The other thing we lose out on is the great breath that coffee drinker have.

Smokers are the ones that really get-my-goat. With all of the legislation in recent years they have to smoke outside and sometimes a certain distance from the buildings, once an hour or ever hour-and-a-half the smoker gets to take a 10 minute break. Smoke break that is. This doesn't factor in the legally mandated two 15 minute breaks or the 1/2 hour lunch. So where does that leave the rest of the workforce? A lot more productive! Why would someone knowingly hire a smoker? Oh, but you cannot disgriminate. No way. No how.

Due to the toll smoking takes on a human's health, this person probably is less productive when they are working. Go figure.

Okay, I got that out. I feel so much better. DMP