Murphy’s Law

This past weekend was quite productive. I didn’t get BlenderGood.com fully up and running Friday as I wanted to, but it’s close. I’m waiting on GoDaddy to restore my shopping cart right now; it’s really a pain being held up by someone else, especially since I have quite a bit of money tied up in this thing now.

Saturday was pretty lax. I did some research on rifles and was going to head to the gun show, but ended up going over to Jake’s place. He was building a bar in the loft of his house where there is currently a pool table. I helped him put the top on and lay down black granite tile. We also figured out some slick rope light mounting that should illuminate the lower bar without seeing the rope light itself. I snapped some pictures, but haven’t uploaded them yet.

A couple of my cousins got into town this weekend for spring break so I got to hang out with them for a little bit. I’m starting to fill the week nights again so I don’t know how much I will see them the rest of the week. The place they are staying in is huge, which is good since they have 10 people staying there for the week!

Sunday I was going to get up early and go help set up at Shoreline, but my phone didn’t switch time and woke me up an hour late. I got there just about the time they had finished setting up, so I just sat and watched. They were struggling to get set up and sound checked since they had 10 musicians this week, and ended up only having time to run through 2 songs before the service. As good as they had done in practice, they really struggled the whole first service. Then they tanked the last song horribly. It was “Basic Instructions” and had a pause in the intro that they all messed up so bad that they had to start over- I’ve never seen a band start a song over. Even at Crosspoint when we screwed up really bad someone always kept it going and pulled it back together. It was kind of funny seeing the reality check after being intimidated by how good they were at practice.

After the first service I met Jake at the gun show. I ended up shopping around and buying a Marlin 822. It’s a .22 Magnum, which is a caliber that is relatively new, but picking up popularity. Casey has the same gun but he has a trigger kit on his that brings the pull from a herculean 8 lbs to a  super-light .5 lbs. I’d like to get mine down to 1-1.5 lbs if I can. (Pull is how hard you have to squeeze the trigger to fire the gun. The harder you have to squeeze the more you shake and mess up your aim.) We’ll probably hit the range this weekend and see how different they shoot.