Thursday, February 21, 2008

Decisions, decisions


There comes a time when a man needs to make important decisions. What kind of car/truck do I want to buy; what should I eat tonight; which girl should I date this week; which beer should I buy; what gun should I get?? As you can guess from the picture, you can take a stab at what my big decision is currently (even though everything else mentioned doesn't really apply to me anyhow...I'm married for Christ sake, give me a break!!). Anyhow, I've been doing a lot of "shopping around" looking for the best bang for the buck...no pun intended. I think I've finally made my mind up after hours of research on the computer, and maybe conversations with friends and my brother. My brother pretty much sold me on the Glock. He swears by them. And after browsing around on the Glock website, I finally decided on the gun I want. Introducing the Glock 32C (the "C" stands for compensator). It seems to fit all my requirements (needs and wants) for purchasing a handgun. This will be my first handgun, and second ever gun. I've shot many kinds, just never really had a reason to buy one. Well, even though I really don't have a high demanding reason to still buy one, I felt it was just finally that time in my life that I wanted to purchase a handgun. The only flaw (personally) I find with this gun (Glocks in general) is how their safety is in the trigger assembly. This won't be a gun that I'll be keeping the magazine full, and in the gun...especially with kids around. Instead, this will be a keep it locked up with the ammo separate kinda gun! Now, down the road I intend to properly educate my children to fully understand any gun, mostly including that they have respect for guns. Never to be treated as a toy or mishandled in any way, shape or form. Getting back to the gun, it was a close call. The other handguns I was looking at was the Kimber PRO TLE/RL II, Sig Arms 220 (or the .357 SIG), or the Springfield Mil-Spec 1911. All were tempting, and I'm sure if I won the lottery, I would own them all...amongst many, many other weapons!! Reasons that I have decided Glock, is the durability of it, and how it can be dropped into sand, mud, water...whatever, and still shoot straight as an arrow. Also, from whatr I understand, a Glock was frozen solid in a block of ice, and then the ice was melted and it fired with no problem. My brother said it could fire any, ANY type of ammo. Crappy ammo, unjacketed ammo and all the way to top of the line ammo. Through thick and through thin...it still fires straight. And since I like to stress test everything I own, the decision was easier than I thought it would be!

Sunday, February 10, 2008

The price for getting older!


So recently, my kids wanted to throw me a birthday party. And for some odd reason, they decided to have a Yo Gabba Gabba themed party for me. Every once in a while, I'll watch this show with my kids. The show is so generic and cheesy, but my kids are facinated with it. My wife made me cupcakes that had all the characters faces on it, and put up streamers, and small pictures on the wall. I wasn't to look in the direction of our dining room, since they were preparing everything. Needless to say, I laughed like hell when I saw all the decorations. It was too funny. I bet all you guys wish you were as lucky as me! God help me!