Almost Perfect Weather

Low 70's, low humidity, with a 'hint' of pollen, can't ask for a much nicer day than this! Leaving school I decided to put the windows down and go for a drive. Found a really nice area by the house where they started to build a mini subdivision, one with 6 acre lots - so nice! Well all they achieved was zoning the lots and putting in the main blacktop street - I guess they went bankrupt after that as it's all for sale by owner now. Either way it made for some decent pictures with the stream, mini lake, and nice wooded area. It's to bad the houses are listed as starting in the low one millions......

Time to finish a paper and read about a thousand pages. After tomorrow there is only one week left of actual classes followed by a few days of finals! Then one month off before summer classes start. Oh yeah, today I also registered for my five fall classes along with finally making changing Majors - Finance here I come! Gonna be a rough one, but fun!

-Matt

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Tinker Time

No matter what I do I have to tinker! I picked up a Springfield Armory 1911 Mil-Spec back in January and have been working on it for the past few months. A full build thread / post / blog will be up once the pistol is finished. I love working on this thing, it has been a great learning experience but I already am looking forward to my next build. Looks like if I'm not building a car I might be building a gun! Just working on more blending and dehorning today. Only a few parts left to fit and the rest of the work will be focused on making it look 'purdy'.

Hopefully once every few months I'll be able to take some training courses, everything from basic pistol to tactical carbine classes - bring it on! The AR is pretty fun to but the parts just drop in on that one, no custom fitting is needed. I can't wait to hit up a class with that one, kinda boring to just plink around at the range now days.

If your a gun person - or just someone that likes to make sure we get our rights as U.S. citizens - make sure and keep up with the SB308 bill. The hearing for it was today. SB 308 - Firearms; carrying and possession; change provisions; definitions. This is the bill that will clear up what "carrying in a public gathering" means.

The gym has also been kickin my tail! Kind of hard to type this after doing a lot of upper body today but you know what they say 'No pain no gain!' Up lots of muscle and down 20lb since November.

That's it for today hopefully I make it through the rest of the day with all this pollen! Someone send a few hours of rain our way...please!

**One of these days I'll do what I REALLY want and order a light setup. Or at least some CyberSync goodies to mess around with my 430ex ii! **

-Matt

Pollen 1 Matt 0

Well it's been 8 days since I cut the grass so I figured it was time - what a horrible idea! Pollen.com has a scale of how bad the pollen is (9.7-12 is the highest) and today it was rated at an 11.1! I really didn't even notice it until I started sneezing and the sinus pressure started to build - about half way through the back yard. Once I was done I think I blew more pollen off of the driveway than grass clippings. It looked like someone dumped yellow flower all over the driveway

Oh well. Today you win pollen. Unfortunately it doesn't look like we'll be getting any rain until the middle of next week to wash this yellow haze from Atlanta.

Had a nice lunch with K-Swizzleyzzzlzz at good old T-Mac. Keep coming up with ideas you might be on to something. One day it will make you a millionaire and when it does please hire someone to come cut my grass.