Lately Lost

We as a society need help.
Our leaders insure they get paid while creating a government wide shutdown.
When the economy collapses because we default on the debt.
They think they will be safe.
Everyone else can get screwed. 
Since we as a culture seem to accept the stupidity 
we get the leadership we deserve. 
They should remember that:
Nothing so focuses a man's mind as the possibility
of being hung.

We are lead by shitheads

Updates:

Several of my new or replacement Every Day Carry items are in.
All working well--which in itself is rather unusual.
Things have a tendency to work out at the 80% level but
this time it all worked.
My new cell phone case and holster pictured above works
much, much better than expected. 

My Cohiba black pequenos are excellent,
I am attempting to maintain my afternoon
cigar break at work as best I can. 
I will definitely continue to order this small cigar.

I continue to work on my lock picking--with
zero success so far.
I intend to keep at it. 

Season 2 on DVD

" I don't want to be alone,

I want to be left alone."

Audrey Hepburn

You're awesome

I am, right at the moment, watching World War Z for the second time tonight.

It is one of the best movies i have seen in a long long time.

A victim of character assassination on the web, this is an excellent film

from all angles. Plot, Special effects, action, all of it.

It's been a long time since i enjoyed a movie as much as i enjoy

my first viewing of World War Z.

Opinions on the the web, including mine, often suck.

My Next projects currently in route:

A Scud B mobile launcher and a BTR-60PU support
communications vehicle. 

My intent is to create a Middle Eastern desert diorama involving these
two vehicles and multiple figures-- construction photo's to follow.

The films and Series we view are only on DVD and streaming.
This of course allows us to pause the show for important things like
bathroom and smoking, lots of smoking.
This also permits one to see the backgrounds, towns and cities in
American television for what they are----Canadian. 

Every beautiful little town displayed on American TV shows,
those locations you see that make you you think 
"where is that, I need to move there, it's beautiful".
Are Canadian.
We have destroyed our infrastructure to the point that we can 
no longer even film our middle class fantasy's in this 3rd world country of ours.

Canada,
It's the place Americans use to visually fool themselves.

doomed middle class

I've received my tools and references and have
begun my journey into lock picking.
I'm carrying around a couple of padlocks in my bug out pack
and am practicing at work when time permits...
As with anything, it is not as easy as we may have been led to believe. 
There will be great personal celebration when i actually
manage to pick a lock---it's truly very, very difficult.

Read this and realize

religious and stupid just go together

But on the other side of this stupid issue there's the new Pope
who seems actual pretty human on issues....and who now even has his own
personal ride.  The new Pope says he is going to drive this
donated 88 Citroen around the Vatican....checking up on shit.
They'll probably poison him.

It appears to be true that as a society falls apart
people search for a strong leader. It is dangerous.
My personal admiration level for
 Vladmir Putin rises. 
 The man has got style, that's for sure.

For me to admire someone
like Putin---it shows how really far we have fallen.

"Failure is not fatal,
but failure to change might be."
John Wooden

Temporal Divide

I had a weird thought this week:

We should create our own Foreign Legion to fight the stupid wars
our leaders want to fight out of fear of having a small dick.

We can do what the French originally did----

Sentence Psycho criminals to it , school shooters, Wall street bankers,  gang bangers .... 
if you actually  join there's no PTSD claims,
no complaining, no getting out.
Cause you know what you are getting into before hand.

Then for these elite leadership dick fights like what they want to do in Syria, 
we could just send in the Legion. 

There shouldn't be a problem getting people into it 
200,000 people just signed up for a one way trip to Mars. 
This concept would also shorten these conflicts. 
If the world knew we were sending  Brigades of proven
Psycho killers into their problem---they would probably get their shit straight
very, very quickly.....

Just ordered:

Lock picking has been something i always wanted to know.
I've ordered the above book and later today will be ordering 
a lock pick tool kit........

This is the type of skill that you never know when it will come in handy.
I am intending on practicing on the locks at work.
Something to keep the little gray cells active.

We received our year's worth of rain in one week here in the desert
of New Mexico this week.
Some say almost 6 inches in two days.
Our roof leaked into the kitchen. Every one's roof leaks in the desert.
Rain is such an abnormality, the roof bakes in the sun for 5-6 years,
then suddenly and all at once comes heavy, heavy rain.
A leaking roof here is just standard procedure.

The MM194 I ordered from Military Time came in this week.
A great watch, keeping excellent time. 
There is no way I could have built this 3 complication watch 
for the price i paid for it...
Unfortunately the cheesy Chinese strap is secured to the watch casing
by pins and the dial moves about inside the casing when the stem is
pulled out. 
I have an excellent leather strap i wish to mount to this watch....
but at the moment i can't figure out how to remove these pins?
I guess i will have to wait until the newness wears off this watch
and work on it till the pins are out and i can replace the strap?
The shifting dial i can fix easily i think once i feel OK with cracking open
the case.....
Always something....isn't it?

Our BB

As promised, the above photo is of my completed Chieftain and Scorpion 1980's 

British armored vehicles.

Plastic modeling is therapy for me--working on small complex items relaxes me.

I am currently researching and will probably order this weekend a huge kit, of a 
Soviet, Scud missile launcher.  Dependent on what happens I'll mention it
next week.

"Alas, after a certain age

every man is responsible for his face."

Albert Camus