Just random little updates

Well, I figure I should talk about the random little things that are going on in my life right now, so let's seeeeee....

Everyday is Christmas: Seriously, everytime the mail man comes, or UPS or Fedex or whatever postal delivery system, my roommate Dave and I flip out 'cos it means some cool and awesome thing we've ordered has come. With Dave struggling with depression and our huge Lion Claws Mil Sim coming up, we've been buying a lot of gear and materials.

One of them being a sewing machine. I'm so excited about this. I basically told the guys I've got the skills to make custom tactical gear for everyone, so everyone chipped in and we bought this beautiful beast off of ebay (I know, that's risky...). Here it is, a Singer 66 from the 1920's with a nice little moter on the back:

Like my ghetto stand for it? Hah. The only problem is, the little cog that engages the flywheel is coming undone now, even with light fabrics - so I'm spinning the wheel and the needle isn't going anywhere. It's gotten worse too, I finally had to shut down last night in the middle of a drop leg rig and call it quits. I'm taking it to be serviced today, and NOT looking forward to the bill!

But as you can see, I managed to get a prototype chest rig completed, and a couple of double mag pouches for my G36 - it's exasperating how there are no G36 compatible equipment out on the market today! The pouches are a little ghetto close up, you can definately see differences in execution between the first pouch and the second, but that's why I'm not selling anything yet ;-) Hell, at least it works!

We made sure it worked, and our other gear as well, by field testing it with a CQB game down at an old military base on the coast in Monteray: Fort Ord. The games themselves were nothing real special, and attendence was low (only about 150 people), but our gear held up and our squad tactics keep improving. So I think we're ready for Lion Claws this weekend

Just yesterday our team patches arrived - we are quite excited. With everyone graduating and moving on this year or next year, we wanted something for everyone (not just the roommates) to keep as a token of good times had. We ordered about 200 bucks worth of 'em and gave 'em to our close comrades. The lettering around the top says brothers and sisters eternally in Latin. Pretty cool. And of course down at the bottom is our house number, 1087, where most of the good times have been had.

Other than that, I've got the Lion Claws event this weekend (look it up on the 'net!), and with sewing like a fiend I've slacked off on classes. Not good considering I've only three weeks left before graduation (eeeeek!), and there's this one class I've got to pass which I'm not doing well in... gads... so we'll see.... gads....

Oh yeah, immediately following Fort Ord (as in, the next day) I went to a shoddy little reenactment with the fife and drum band. It was bloody hot, and not well attended by reenactors. One bizzare thing was the accident in the last battle where some lame-sauce cornfed cav guy got his equipment tangled up in a battle with a yanky cav guy, freaked out his horse which proceded to loose it's rider and go dancing around in the crowd. No one hurt, but man how I hate mounted cav in all of their safety issues not to mention sheer farbiness... *sigh*

Ok, my roommates are up, time for us to go running. Byes.