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Greetings and Salutations!
Waiting for the meat to come out of the oven…

Tonight’s dish is Iraqi-Style Kofta again, BUT
With a baked twist so to speak.

The last time I cooked up a selection of Hajji-Meetz, I did it traditionally on an open flame on a skewer. Tonight? Well I got a inspiration off of Twatter of all places…

I mixed up the ded anin-i-mal flesh with the ‘proper’ seasoning(s) I -usually- use, and then instead of using skewers, I put the meetz on parchment paper and rolled that shit thin AF. Like LITERALLY used my OMG awesome rolling pin to roll it out to between 1-2mm thick…. The meat was SAMMICHED between two pieces of the parchment paper when I rolled it flat BTW, which prevented meetz contamination of what would usually be a baking-only rolling pin…

Once I had a LARGE Enough ‘sheet-of-meetz’ I then rolled it up on itself… Pics here after the fact as I was really too busy to track this meal tonight.

In about 5 minutes I have to bail to pull the meetz out, throw it in a bowl, and bake it just a tiny bit more to get the crisp edges I like…

OK
I’m back
The cold meds I took last night wiped me out when I got a belly full of this:

OMFG
GREAT CHOW
Even with the realization I fucked up the recibee.
The Unforgivable:
I. Forgot. The. Garlic.

However sinful that was, it STILL was an unreal dinner, as well as lunch today. The next time I make it, I’ll make sure to do MOAR photos and add the garlic.

I still can’t believe I forgot that…
Galic is like… the lifeblood of my cooking…
TOTAL Brainium Fart on that one…

So… to continue
Been raising a ruckus on Twitter today as I worked as hey, why the Hell not? Reconnected with Battle Dwarf Gimli from Gab who migrated like Lovely Miss from Gab since Turd-do make GAB an uninhabitable wasteland… I mean for real Torba? WTF!?!

Other things…
Well LITERALLY too much to cover.
Silver, despite the attempts closed out at $117.78 and my call is over $120 per ounce tomorrow. Which in itself has it’s challenges, as the Operations Commissar reached out to me today at work (a fellow silver stacker) who told me that locally ALL of the silver dealers/stealers are shorting the payouts to extreme levels.

Seems he has about 50-60oz of bullion.

ALL of the local buyers/sellers are offering him $77 an ounce!

Outright thievery and larceny most foul…
To a point.

WHat the problem is IRL is systemic

FAR too many dealers have sold OUT their stockpiles of silver due to EVERYONE and their brother trying to home in on the “Gain Train” thinking that “What I buy now will double in price shortly!!!” which it very well might.

HOWEVER

Those self-same dealers?
The majority of silver they BOUGHT and subsequently SOLD was done on CREDIT. So ALL of those purchases are going towards paying back said credit. Granted with the market blowing ups so quickly and panically, they can’t afford to take in NEW silver bullion AT ALL as they can’t front the $$$.

The smelters/refiners are under the same guns so to speak

It’s a ‘silver credit crunch’
And it’ll be going on until some semblance of normalcy in the market is regained. I mean and forgot to mention… the silver rounds I bought at $77 a throw?

They did show up

Valued at $94 a throw at the time of delivery.
Now they’re $117.78
A nice profit IF I can sell when the time is right.
I want a belt-fed dammit.

So yepper…
As far as the MARKET today, I took a bath, as did everyone that I can tell. I’m down $25 fiatbux on a $150 investment. I mean I’m long AF so I’m not overly worried, and $150 fiastbux, at the time that I decided to play “Bright Lights/Big City” games, I could afford it.

BTW
The penultimate Gen X movie…
The lies and the expectations we had, and were given…
It always stuck with me.
Also a great Mike Fox Flick, pre Diet-Pepsi-Parkinson’s.
FWIW

Otherwise… lets see…

Too much coming out about Nurse Pretti showing him as a psychopathic asshole with a death wish, assaulting and spitting on the feds a week before… the fact that they (the Feds) didn’t arrest him and ‘cuff and stuff’ him right then and there exactly what’s going on…

If –I– were to spit on a cop?
Or a Fed?

Oh Holy Fuck MNan
I’d be Freeze Dried and buried UNDER the prison.
Makes you wonder AND think…

WAS this fucker actually killed?
Meh
EVERYTHING is soooo fake and ghey now…
One of the commenters made a point of saying ‘Adios’ ‘cos I “went with my presupposed biases” or some such… dude… EVERYONE has their biases… if you don’t well, hey, good on ya… me? I’ll assume the worst of these neo-commie fucks ‘cos it’s the smart thing to do.

OK…
So he didn’t have the weapon in his hand.
Fine

Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea MAXIMUM fuckin’ Culpa.

Still… the video footage that’s NOW come out shows him STILL to be a retarded agitator of the Reddest kind. I hope he rots.

Fuck that guy ‘cos reasons and communism.

You still want to go meet up with three niggers in an alleyway to buy a dog?
I thought fucking not.

So… it is what it is…
Me?
I’m starting to keep a heavy load w/me at all ties outside the house.
I’ve also started doing meet and greets face-to-face with the neighbors, reinforcing the fact that IF shit gets real, we’re going to be in it together and that like it or not, it’s a good idea to be on ‘the right side of things’ IF shit goes sideways…

Not for nothing but start getting “politically retarded” in the neighborhood earns you a quick and efficient exile. Or worse.

It’s a simple rule really…
No Poly-Ticks in the A.O.

Not unless you’re willing to die for them.

That’s the “BCE Good Neighbor Plan”
Keep your politics INSIDE your crib…

You want to “get funky” inside my fucking A.O.?

Then you reap the consequences of your stupidity.

A burned out lot doesn’t affect my real estate values once it’s been bulldozed clear (along with you and your families corpses)

“Like a Good Neighbor, .45-70 is There.”

(and a Flammenwerfer if needed)

Simple Enough Aye?
Your thoughts?
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
An interesting vid:

This guy does a Pretti Good (see what I did there?) breakdown of the asshole-who-earned-an-extra-asshole (or 10 according to last count) getting shot all to Hell.

What I find interesting is according to some sources, Nurse Petti took 10 gunshot wounds to the upper torso.

According to shot count (audio) ELEVEN shots were fired.

Hmmn…
And the weapon Petti was sporting that day?
The good ole Sig POS320.

LOTS of questions
I’m very curious if the footage will ever see the light of day… I’ve noticed a distinct silence that have come out of the FedGov on this one… to the point that they may engage in a cover-up for the fact that THE largest small-arms suppliers for the US DotMil may have inadvertently been responsible for you know… starting the Second Civil War?

I mean they can’t risk those shareholders $$$ amiright?

It’s like the MP who got charged with murder after ‘supposedly’ shooting his buddy… Notice that after a week or two, they -suddenly- discovered that it was not an accidental discharge of a P320 but murder most foul?

It wouldn’t be the first time they hang some lower-enlisted out to dry to cover up something… especially when lobbyists and cash is involved. The reason I say this is immediately how many Fed Agencies to include the Air Force itself put a ‘safety freeze’ on the use of ALL P320s in inventory, to include the Federal Marshalls office, who to my intel is still not allowing their people to carry or use that deathtrap weapon.

I’ll be curious to see how it plays out
I DO KNOW all the talk of “Well, he shouldn’t be armed!” Uh no… that’s wrong… what you should be saying is “Well, he shouldn’t be getting in a physical scrum with FedGov Authorities while armed.” I’ll defend a retard’s right to carry under the 2nd Amendment, even defend his 1st Amendment right to call the cops cocksuckers… all while being armed.

But getting physical with a cop while armed?

FA-FO
Earned himself some ‘bonus assholes’ trying to white knight a worthless purple haired land whale… sheeesh how pathetic.

Otherwise, got an upcoming appointment this coming week with the dental assholes to get some yankage on. Can’t do anything til then ‘cos the bank account is bare currently, and I need a paycheck and my VA bux to proceed.

That being said however, I am pleased with the silver rush so to speak:

Quite the rebound from the $103 they crushed it down to.

Going to keep watching… some articles from very well known folks have said that low end will be $200 by end of March, possibly $500-600 by November.

Either way, I’m cool with it.

So that’s it for tonight
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
OK First off: A short blegg tonight. My toofuses HURT to the point of distraction. Being out of my oxy and not being able to get quality dental care due to the substandard “Dental Insurance” that the People’s Glorious Tractor Factory provides is a capper.

To the point I might just go down to Mexico.

Seems there’s some dental clinics that don’t try to analy rape you in getting your grill adjusted. Specifically American Biodental in of all places, Tijuana. The reports online say it’s legit upfront and cost effective. This is not a backing nor promotion. Just a place I found during my research on cost-effective fang-treatment, as MINE are seriously fucked up.

To the point of not being able to enjoy my chow man…

And y’all know what a chow-daddy I am.
This’s worse than a pussy-drought.
Lackonookie I can deal with
Not eating great or even good food?
Oh fuck that sideways!!!

I’ve got two shattered and broken toofuses, and one that I think has an old filling that’s worked loose. I’ve got a LOT of dental pain… shit that cannot be let go. Maaaaaaan I took such good care of my grill, only for things to be derailed by a corrupt Dentist who fucked me over faaaaar before I could know what this fucker had done.

I wish I knew where he was buried
I’d drop a HUGE LOAF on his grave.
Well deserved… the fucker…

For those of you new here, my ‘pediatric dentist’ shortly AFTER All my ‘adult toofuses’ grew in told MomUnit and DeadDad that I had a total of 12 cavities. Three on each side, uniform. Left and right upper, three each.

Far be it from MomUnit and DeadDad to question the dentist… I took a LOT of shit about NOT brushing and how each filling was $50 each (around 1978 $$$) which meant real money.

So I went thru the torture…

Seems it came out after his arrest that he wasn’t even using novocaine… just distilled water… this guy was Mengele Junior apparently….that ALL of us were being essentially tortured via toofus shit during allllllll them fucking 12 fillings.

ALL the fillings were mercury amalgam (which would account for me being certifiably insane) and it turns out I didn’t have cavities… this fucker got caught, got indicted, and suicided while out on bail

Yes
Yes I DO need to desecrate his grave in the future
As my current mouth issues are ALL due to his bullshit.
I’d even dig him up IF I thought I could to burn his corpse
AND Piss on the bones.
FUCK THAT GUY FOREVER
So that’s my mindset tonight.
Lots of personal pain.
Dealing with it, and rolling
So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
So the latest is that dumb motherfucker in Minneapolis who got turned from a ‘bad protester’ into ‘good dead meat/organ donor’ with one simple trick. That being pulling a gun out in the middle of a contentious arrest with already nervous FedGov Agents.

I have a vid that shows clearly when the dumb sonofabitch pulled out his weapon. The full vid courtesy of Lord Bebo shows the whole thing:

https://twitter.com/MyLordBebo/status/2015186282498916745

Dammit, it won’t let me embed.
Anyways
The key pics are here at about 17 seconds in. Female (who’s ‘obstructing’) gets physically pushed out of the way… like HARD. White Knightman, soon to be known as “Sir DeadMeat” goes in to interfere with the cuffing and stuffing of said female… at 17+ seconds after being pepper sprayed, “Sir DeadMeat” takes something out of his pocket, and from my highly trained Mark One Mod One Eyeball, it’s a handgun:

Yeah…
That’s a piece IMO.
MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION MIND YOU
Home boy got pepper sprayed, and skinned his smoke-wagon.

Well… you just don’t do that in a ‘scrum’ with nervous federales that You AND Your bois have been screaming about shooting in the face… they scrum a bit, and ‘suddenly’ once the boys in blue realize that there’s guns in play, well they do what they do, which is fall back and mag dump.

By my count, at least 11 rounds fired
ALL off them IMO legit.

See… you cannot go to these “protests” armed and do something stupid like pull out a gun, and not expect to become a perforated piece of dead animal flesh. I mean FFS… are you kidding me???

MY reaction is that homie pulled out his gat without rationally realizing that he was surrounded by nervous as fuck Fedbois…

Me?
If… and only IF I was dumb enought o be in such a situation, I’d be like very loudly “CAN I DROP MY FIREAM AND PLEASE DON’T SHOOT ME!?!”

But this asshole?
Notsomucho
And got made into an organ donor because of it.

Via Con Dios Asshole.
You earned those bonus points.

Now how they (the Pantifags and Retards) ‘amp this’ will be interesting. The point being is that -so far- those who’ve been legit shot (California in LA and this asshole) were fucking armed, which negates any argument after the fact… The clown who got shot using a vehicle?

Dumb slut got what she deserved.
I mean I’m done with excuses.
The FedGov needs to declare a state of insurrection and allow people like you and me to go out and ‘clean house’ overall

It’d be done within 48 hours

Any bets?
So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Well, THAT escalated quickly:

Now we’re into the nitty-gritty of currency

Me? I sold off 3 individual grams of gold yesterday when silver was under $99 and reinvested it to oz coins.

Not a bad play IMO.
I got $157 per gram (individual) and ended up with 4oz of Silver Rounds

Which today already in many respects paid off already.
NOW
Next on the list:

Things are ‘squirrelly’ to say the least.
My Mining stonks are doing well for me… I’m back on the positive side of the investment, but that don’t mean shytte long term.

MY question is what I’m looking at with my last bit of actual gold. I have a 1/10oz Canadian Maple Leaf. Numismatically it’s about $700. HOWEVER this market seems to ONLY be dealing with spot.

And who can blame them.
Coin collecting is nice, and it’s good when the coin limitations and valuations are limited. However… during volatility timeframes like this? Spot is IT. The end-all-be-all

Hence my divestures of the gold
3 individual gram?
Nice for the long run
In a collapse?
Nosomucho
People are going to be like “Uh… yeah… a single gram of gold… BFD… what else you got?” with the follow on attempted loot grab and violence.

Better to keep the goldbacks (which yet may take on a valuation in common fashion) AND/OR as I’m doing, which is divest the gold in favor of a more recognizable and intuitive valuation from the morons I might have to deal with Post Fiat-Bux situations…

Tough call…

But I do know that 8 months ago I bought (against my inner voice and Sapper’s advise) a roll of near-uncirculated Mercury 90% dimes… $5 worth… at $265 for the roll. The rationale was that silver was looking at an upswing (I had no idea how correct I was in that) and that I could do the “Sezzle Finance” thing of $64+/- a month for a few months…

The same exact roll is NOW selling for $499.99 each

Sometimes you get lucky.

So make of it what you will
Me? I plan on making more $$ on my trades IF I can.
And BTW: It’s the Nukular Redhead’s Eighth Birfday today!
OMFG
WHen the hell did they grow up so quickly???

So more later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Well I hope people are pleased with the beginning of the Library. I haven’t even really gotten a full grip on just -how much shit- I’ve accumulated/stored over the past few years.

Crawling through 4tb of ‘stuff’ is a bit of a slog

Especially when I have to do it bit-by bit …
Or would that be ‘byte by byte’?
Gah! John Wilder levels of humor?
I must be losing it.

Either way, the Smoke recibees are now non-password locked. I completely forgot about that. My bad. All the rest -should- be good. I mean hey… One oops out of how much so far? Not a bad track record FWIW IMO.

Now…the Tactical Hermit put it up on his place, and used and sent me a magnificent logo that I’m going to use myself as the root on the shoulder of this place. It too is a work-in-progress, so please bear that in mind. I’m no code-monkey by far and it takes me a while to figure a LOT of this stuff out.

Other mindful/needful things… hmmn

Silver has broken loose, and looks like it’s going to STAY above the $95 marker for now. There are soooo many things that’re adding to the fun, but one thing I can say is that -I- have no idea what the end game is going to be. I have stated before that holding onto your Silver is a great idea BUT it becomes a question of ‘when’ does one try for the exit(s)?

Many folks keep talking about how precious metals are a ‘safe parking spot’ for your ‘wealth’… While I agree, the issue is that this means one has enough wealth to be able to store some of said-wealth in PMs. Meaning you have enough dough to be ABLE to ‘park’ your $$$ in a metal that literally does nothing UNLESS you sell/barter/trade said precious metal.

Which means you still have enough $$$ to keep doing the ‘day-to-day’ purchases, like groceries/gas/goodies… the ‘usual’ so to speak.

Most of us normies don’t have enough $$$ to do these things.

Hell… the little I do have has been bought over a number of decades one lil bar/coin/oz at a time…or gifted to me by some of you awesome folks… and even then, SOME of those purchases meant that it’d be Ramen for a week until the next paycheck comes in as opposed to NY Strip. Looking back now, I realize I did the right thing.

Now it’s all about the timing.
Because as I stated before, it’s when you leave the party that counts. Personally, I’d prefer to hit the exit BEFORE either the “cops pull a raid on the the “party” which in this case it’d be a nationalization like that Gottverdammt piece of shit Roosevelt did OR the “house” collapses under its own rotten weight, meaning a full on economic collapse.

Because I’d suuuure like to reinvest the fiatbux into something a bit more practical… like the previously mentioned M-249S OR another toy I found again which is actually a wee bit on the inexpensive side (compared to a Semiauto SAW):

They run about $6500 +/- IF they’re in stock.
The Semiauto SAW? The M-249S Model?
$15k IF you can find it as well…

Now…
Granted…
I would positively love a SAW. That was my primary weapon in the DotMil. I was always a Machine-gunner, be it on the M-60 or the M-249. TBH, I’m sort of glad I got out before the M-240 came out… Don’t get me wrong… it’s a fantastic weapon, especially in its original configuration, meaning with the wood buttstock.

See, part of the requirement for the adoption of the FN-MAG was that the stocks had to be chemical proof as in NCB proof. Hence the plastic stock. Wood unfortunately can absorb a lot of bad things even if it has a nice finish on it. Because of this, the M-240 suffers from some serious nose-heaviness, so badly that I am NOT a fan of it.

In general I personally think they need to go back to the venerable M-60… the new-new version that some companies have made utilizing ALL the new-tech metallurgy and ¡SCIENCE! that went into the ‘new builds’ I mean there’s plenty of YouTube vids of guys hammering away, 10,000… 20,000 rounds non-friggin’-stop on one of those new M-60s… without a SINGLE malfunction nor barrel overheat/meltdown.
Seems it’s the M-60E6

Bullet Hose INDEED!

In fact if I were to ever be in the enviable position of having “Fuck You Money” I could easily see myself owning two or a dozen of those bad bois.

And on that note…
MUSIC BREAK!

I found this bit of weirdness for you all:

OK…
Wild shit.
Personally I get a kick out of the old guy at 3:11… just jammin’ his socks off… I mean wow… crazy right?

Russian and Eastern Euro musical performances are just soooo off the wall… as I’ve posted about before, there’s that weird dude Vitas:

Seems he was BIG-BIG in Russia for quite a while… his star has faded a bit, but he still DID do a set with Snoop Dog live at one point, so you have to hand it to him… his weird falsetto voice is wild too… there’s a video of him at home on his farm where he does that strange ‘trilling’ noise at his Turkeys of all things, and they responded to him…
Cracked me the fuck up.

The other one that leaps to mind is Winny Puhh which is an Estonian metal/punk group….
Waitaminute…
Estonia!?!

What the actual fuck?
Yeah… that’s from the 2013 Eurovision Music Competition.

They look like a deranged Wookie Wrestling Team or something… key words “…or something.“

I figured we could use us a laugh or three, as such things being so utterly weird and fucked in general.

The only thing NOT completely hosed is the price of silver, which is headed to $100 (despite all ETF attempts to the contrary)… seems the financial house of cards is teetering and Joe Sixpack is starting to finally wake up. I mean if the prices at the grocery store don’t tell the tale, then I have no idea what’s going to wake up people…

Sapper just spent $150 on what essentially is a week worth of chow for the two of us. And we had $66 in ‘freebies’ in that we got a bunch of BOGOs… we even limited some of the ‘stuff’ we got b/c the prices were just too damned high, and I guess we’ll make do until either some of these things go on sale, OR I get some side-hustle $$$ in… the ad revenue for the Goolag for this place -should- be in in a day or two, provided I broke the $100 limit.

Traffic as of late (per the ad revenue) has been sooooo low as opposed to the good ole days. Shadowbanning IS a real issue, ever since I got ID’d as a ‘noticer’… Thankfully I don’t rely this ‘stuff’ as a sole income.. I can see why some folks completely become unhinged if and when they “catch a case” so to speak from the Goolag Eye-of-Sauron. I mean long ago, in a land far, far away my ad revenue was around $300-400 a month.

Now? I’m lucky to hit $100…

And yet according to the ‘stats’ I can see, and the reason I’m sure there is fuckery afoot, is that I’m STILL getting around the same number of hits I used to back when it was the Days of Wine and Roses. It’s that the income has fallen off a cliff…

Meh… Goolag Fuckery at its Finest.

What else can I say?
At least I occasionally share some stuff with y’all on the ‘Zon and get a ‘taste’ if you will, the BIGGEST by far was the MREs when they were selling at insanely low prices. THAT right there? According to the ‘Zon, I sold a metric fuckton of MREs.

Then lastly, I’m still ‘solvent’ in the Stonks.
I haven’t made anything… well I have, but I haven’t.
I took a $10 loss last week combined that I rebounded from today. I’m now at $151.87 at last check at the end of the day.

THAT is why I don’t “stonk”
The last time I did, I had completely forgotten about it… it was some Medical Marijuana company that went public… I bought in, and it completely cratered like a motherfucker within 8 months… It was only $100 I put in, so meh… but it told me to stay the fuck OUT of the Market in general… The stuff I have right now?

ENDEAVOUR SILVER COR symbol EXK closed at $12.34
and then
KUYA SILVER CORP NEW symbol KUYAF closed at $0.70

BOTH are silver mining concerns, and I’m just going to let them sit there forever and see what they do. Right now, I’m just loooooooooong in them like a motherfucker. No other plans a’tall…

Lastly, I got ONE last stonk that’s not mine related:

ONDAS INC symbol ONDS closed at $13.24

It’s a drone-related company.
I figure anything drone related, especially DotMil Defense Drone related? Well it -should- do well in the long term. That being said is that last week, it did sort of shit itself (no idea as to the nature of the ‘why’ but it closed Friday at $12.16, opened today at $11.86, and as you see, did a neat recovery.

There ARE others I researched but didn’t have the $$$ to get in on… like AVAV, another drone stonk that when I started watching these things the first week of January, that one was at $250+/-. It’s been up and down, down today in particular, however, it closed at $332.33… Just too rich for my blood.

TBH, I’d be doing just as well throwing random darts at the stonk pages in the Wall Street Journal I’d wager. It is what it is, and I for damned sure am NOT anyone to take investment advice from.

So that’s what I got for tonight.
OH! and BTW: I’ll be adding more to the library as I rediscover various things… to include some forbidden fiction and whatnot.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
I’ve been (and still am) working on a project.
And tonight is the big reveal!

Specifically a Folder on a Cloud-Based Drive that I’ve been stuffing a lot of my goodies in.

To share with all of y’all Degenerates.

It took me a loooooong minute to put together the Flammenwerfer Instructions Folder. Ever since I scrubbed Ye Olde Blegg of some of the earlier content, I had to do a virtual machine to get a load up, and then dismount and convert ALL the instructionals into a dot-docx format. Never mind gathering all of the pictures from both MY sources and other sources out there.

And since DiveMedic is my host-with-the-most, I had to set it up on the Cloud, lest I crash his server again (Sorry about that bro!) Once I got everything together, I then had to hunt down in the darkened corners of this PC (4 terabytes worth of shit, all cross-referenced and in some cases buried to where even I have had trouble finding them again.

I did find my OPFOR War Manual collection. That folder is in there as well. LOTS of interesting stuff in there, and all of it is “Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited” so no worries about getting hemmed up for anything secret-squirrel being on there.

So, Please Bookmark It
AND let me know if you have any issues with it, either downloading or any corrupt files. I let the Tactical Hermit and WiscoDave dig into it as a test today, and TH said it’s good to go. WiscoDave hasn’t gotten back to me, so y’all can let me know either way.

Shit like this WILL be on the Final Exam.
And a lot of it is still yet to come.
YEARS of my ‘stuff’
All for the sharing and the downloading

For “educational purposes” of course.
So welcome to

BCE’S LIBRARY OF MAYHEM

And any of you fellow Bloggers, feel free to link to it as well.
I’ll be adding to it as we go along, and the folder names will give you an idea of what’ll be in it….

3D Print Files
Weapons Manuals
Survival and Medical Guides
Intel Gathering

All the really good stuff
I’ll also do ‘quick links’ in the right side of the Blog Itself for a fast-grab reference guide, in case you are looking for something specifically, and don’t necessarily want to do a deep dive into the folder

Let me know what you think!
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Sorry for a double night missed but ‘reasons’ and the pinched nerve is still bugging me… and nope. This’s NOT from lifting, this’s from my original injury from waaay back in the day and this cold snap has made Ye Ole Sons of Arthritis come back with a bloody vengeance.

It’s been cold around here… and yeah, I know…
Some of y’all live in the Arctic Circle compared to me.

But if you choose to live where snotsickles are a regular thing 6 months out of the year, that’s on you. I grew up in the frozen barren wastes of Hoth, and have no need nor desire to return there. I blew that snow encrusted A.O. and left it for the Tautauns and Wampas.

Reminds me of a few of my more savage classmates from High School… that or one or two of my first dates…

Don’t ask.

So FINALLY got the disk to slip back into place in the lumbar via an inversion table that I’ve had kicking around out in the garage for about ten years or so. I completely forgot I had the thing until Sapper brought it in from the garage and told me to give it a whirl, as he was sick of me gimping around… that and he had to load and empty the dishwasher as I can’t (or I should say couldn’t) bend at the waist to save my life for a week or so there.

Some folks say NOT to use those things
I’m of two minds,

One Negative is the danger factor… and yeah, it’s sort of dangerous to use. Lots of Docs have spoken out against using them, and well, also being upside down hanging while locked in is sort of placing myself at a disadvantage right?

However, and despite all the negative reports, for Me? It works and works well. I literally felt the disk (I think I even heard it TBH) pop back into place. SO here I am, and I’ll probably be using it more frequently as I’m far more energetic these days, feeling a LOT like my old self, and getting ‘back in the saddle’ both mentally and physically.

It’s been nice to get back there/here.

And because of it, I got a LOT packed into today.
Went a saw a man about getting the oil pan done on the Boat. Still too pricey for my blood however I did get ONE piece of intel I have to research next week. Seems that The MWR People (Morale Welfare and Recreation) at McDill have an Automotive Self Help Shop!

Now when I was back on active duty, we had one in Germany, and it’s where I learned to turn wrenches beyond what DeadDad had taught me. I learned quite a bit. Now what I need to do is find out if they let disabled Vets use the place. If they do, a Bay with a lift costs only $24 an hour! And they have two mechanics on hand to assist, as well as ALL the tools and modern conveniences that one would find in a top tier repair shop.

THAT is what the mechanic ordered!

I can (and have done) oil pan replacements before. It’s just I need either a lift, or a pit to work in… and there’s nothing available until potentially now!

Figure $70 for the pan/gasket/goop on the ‘zon (already priced it) and $75+/- for the bay… figuring three hours as I’m old, cranky and don’t want to rush it… add an additional figure $100 for the oil and filter… which I -have- to buy from them according to the website… no outside loob allowed!

Call it a max of maybe $300 to do what the cheapest mechanic in town wanted $750+ for? Game, set, and match!

And if it goes smoothly, and I talk to the Mechanics who’re there on duty to assist, I might be able to get the AC Operational before we descend back into Hot n’Hoomid weather again. Here ‘s hoping right?

Otherwise, the news I also got today is very interesting.
Sapper an I whilst out doing errands stopped into a local Silver and Gold Dealer to check things out, and see what is happening locally. While we were there, the guy tells us that everything has come damned near to a stop. One of the biggest refiners of silver in the country, Elemetal has completely stopped buying scrap silver and selling silver bullion.

The guy running the shop said everyone in the business is ‘frozen in place’ as Silver closed at $90.85 in US Markets on Friday, despite ALL the claims that it was going to ‘crash low’ due to ‘volatility’. I pointed out that the US Mint has shut down sales to ‘recalibrate’ right here on this blog long ahead of the rest of folks…

That was a few days ago…
And it seems they DID recalibrate.

I got an email from a substack I read called Silver Academy
The hyperlink will take you to the article that I got this news from, but it seems the US Mint has recalibrated:

Yessir.
There’s recalibrating and then there’s this.

That IS the ‘live pricing’ on uncirculated One Ounce coins, selling for $169.00 a throw! Proof coins being a wee bit higher at $173.00! As stated:

Proof Silver Eagles jumped 82%, from roughly $95 to $173 per ounce, while uncirculated and backdated Silver Eagles soared 86%, from $91 to $169. The message is unmistakable: the old silver price system can no longer function under real-world constraints.

Which is what Asian Guy and a bunch of other have been yelling for a while… the US COMEX is bullshit and now? Real-Time pricing is coming out, hence the ‘freeze’ in so many areas of the market…

No one know whether to shit or go blind so to speak.

I’m curious if I’ll see the delivery of those 3 ‘dirty’ Eagles I bought at $77 an ounce back on January 3rd. At this rate I’m doubting it. If I -do-? That’ll be about a hundred bux profit each before it even gets in the door. And currently, the APMEX is selling random year coins going for $109.22

IF you use a credit card and only buy less than 20 coins…

And for those who’re asking about why I was calling them ‘dirty’ Eagles, they’re just that… circulated, maybe tarnished but complete US Silver Eagles… They may not be pretty, but they ARE worth waaaay more than I paid for them ALREADY.

Which is why I’m wondering IF they’ll ship or decide to play the game of “Oh so sorry, here’s a refund!” of my $240 as it’s in the smol print that they can do that.

We’ll have to wait and see I guess.

Monday I’m figuring some form of fuckery will be afoot with COMEX and ETFs… I mean it was (the fuckery) was going on ALL week long, but despite the best attempts of the Large GloboHomoHebrew banks to try and drive the price down via bogus ETF Paper Trash and dumping TONS of fiatbux, silver still rebounded like a Weeble

“Weebles Wobble but They Don’t Fall Down!”
If you remember that, your childhood was Epic!!!

So yeah, I’m watching, and waiting and I’m just going to sit on my paltry Silver Stash. IF and only IF it gets into nosebleed levels of valuation will I sell, and IF I sell, it’ll be so I can get some ‘things’ that have been on the “Wants/Wishes/Needs” list for the Post Apocalypse… a Barrett .50 or maybe a M-249S belt fed… something that keeps me feeling all warm and fuzzy… I mean the coins themselves are great and hold value

BUT

IF everything goes utterly in the shitter?
Having a bunch of shiny baubles is great but does you no good IF there’s only a barter economy… I’ve read it in a LOT of post SHTF books… I mean a One Oz. Gold Coin? Great. Currently (as of now) spot s $4500+/- a few hundred. Thats while money is worth something

You can’t eat it, and it might be worth something in trade, but in reality? Silver and Gold only hold value as long as there’s something of value you can exchange it for… and TBH, depending on what you’re bartering for, a Loaf of Bread and a Gallon of milk might be worth that One Ounce coin IF fiatbux become Weimar Script or like Zimbabwe, where they drafted One Hundred Trillion Dollar notes:

…and the reason it’s so recockulas is that the “smart money people” i.e. people who HAD gold and silver were already long fucking gone before the place collapsed into the festering shithole it became (and still is from my understanding)…

And that right there
THAT is a big thing.
The “Smart Money People”had other places they could go that had not collapsed like Zimbabwe.

-I- personally think that WHEN (not if) the de-dollarization and inevitable bed-shitting of the economy happens, I’d rather make sure MY value is locked in going LONG with Steel, Iron, Links, Lead and Good Frens to back me up, ‘cos I have a feeling that if we The US economy. take a “Ye Olde Giant Shytte”, the rest of the world is going down with us, so better to have that Barrett and 5 cases of .50 APIT or a M-249S that your friendly local gunsmith knows how to work on… than to be stuck with a bunch of shiny-shiny that does you no good until AFTER everything recovers…

Which could take decades.
And any bets that you’ll find plenty of that shit just laying around after the fact? Hell… some people are just ‘loot drops’ waiting to happen… go figure.

So More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Well, the diet is going well. The stomach is most definitely shrinking and tonights grub was two tuna sammiches on Publix Mountain Bread. Pretty simple and filling… 2x sammies and the bread calorie wise is about 320, while the tuna was a total of 220 calories plus or minus. Each sammich gets a full can of the tuna, and each can gets about two tablespoons of olive-oil based mayo…call it 650+/- for both sammiches.

And for all of y’all who tell me to stop making lists and counting calories? Believe you me I will but I’m retraining both my belly AND my brain to adjust and track, and eventually reform into habits that I can stay on. Today was a skip day on the gym, as well as the walk. I need a wee bit of a break. A cool thing I found out last night was that I have some Muscle Milk powder that’s still good, and it seems that some of those chocolate drinks that come in the MREs these days?

Seems some of them ARE essentially Muscle Milk/Protien drinks. And man, I got a PILE of them laying around as I usually don’t drink them. All the ‘extras’ that I can’t or won’t usually use from an MRE gets thrown in a big ole box, and then when the box is full (like last night) I sort everything out, let Sapper take his pick of what he wants, then I’ll sort MY picks and shitcan the rest… crap like the “Italian” breadsticks or the wheat bread ‘loaf’…. Gah… shit like that makes me wonder if the Natick guys are actually Mad Scientists…

I got a deal the other day that I was pleased with as well. one of the other gun shops around here has a counter area for used/unwanted gear… mags, scopes and occasionally ammunition. I just happened in when some guy was placing some boxes in from his Granddad’s estate, and maaaaaaaaaaan… MY lucky day! 2 new boxes of Magtech .44 Magnum… NOT reloads. New… just a little wear on the outer box… 50 rounds each of 240gn JSP! Even better? $25 a box!!!

That was almosts a BOGO so naturally I grabbed ’em up.

Considering the .44 is a single action six shooting wheel gun, and it feeds one at a time reeeeeally slowly I figure 100 rounds ought to last me quite a spell.

I think I told y’all about it?
Can’t remember
Anyway… I do love talking about my weapons so…

MY Christmas gift to myself as outside of Sapper and MomUnit, no one got me jack… not that it matters, but Palmetto State had a clearance sale, and that Sezzle payment program??? Oh man it’s just made to get a guy like me in trouble. They had a Pietta Prospector 7.5″ 44 Rem Mag for $399.99!!! I’ve seen those go for as much as $1200 on some big box gun stores…

So what the Hell right?

I’ve always wanted a six-shooter.

And since Florida has gone to full on open carry, well… if’n you’re going to open carry, do it with STYLE.

I ordered a gunbelt on Etsy custom fit to my big self. It’s got a US Cav style open top holster, and the belt itself is 2 1/2in thick, with 12 ammunition loops for .44, and 6 loops for .45-70 as I figure why not?

Sometimes you just have to go “full retard”

In the Zombiepocalypse, what I lack in rate-of-fire, I MORE than make up for with absolute ball crushing/skull vaporizing FPS on both weapons.

The workmanship on the weapon itself is magnificent.
Wonderful finish, crisp trigger, accurate… ZERO complaints from me. Well… maybe ONE… that angle on the grip lays some hate on your wrist when firing it….44 Rem Mag is a mule of a round.

We’ll see…
I mean I could sell it used right now and make a profit either way right? AND speaking of making a profit, TfAt must be jumping for joy as silver hit a new high on the Comex at $90.02 spot. That’s great, HOWEVER

Comex is bullshit as I’ve been watching, learning and observing. Shanghai and Kuwait are selling at spot a little more like $100 to $115… never mind the numismatic valuations of particular coins… as you can see here:

I capped that at 15:14… Silver was, per COMEX, sitting at $88.03 spot:

The problem?
Look at the ask for ONE AMerican Eagle One oz Silver Dollar
$101.02
That’s the best price.. as in how much you pay in bulk per coin, when in reality, if you ONLY want one coin? ONE COIN is going to run you $108.67:

That means that the premium on ONE COIN is about (at that moment) was $20.64 per coin.

THAT tells me that COMEX is bullshit.
COMEX has been fuckign around forever and a day, and I think they (and we as collateral damage) are going to find out good and hard.

Asian Guy does a pretty good vid here:

CME Just Nuked Silver Margins pic.twitter.com/ws3g2KtPnJ

— Asian Guy (@AGAsianGuy) January 13, 2026

The TL;DW is simply this.
If you have physical, hold onto it.
COMEX is doing some OPEN and BLATANT Market Manipulation via Margin Call rules changes, to the point that now? It’s painfully obvious that the dollar is about to take a GIANT shit, and we’re headed into a recession IF we’re lucky. Gold is over $4500 and climbing. ALL the red flags are there.

Add on that the US Mint put out a Official Letter:

It was posted on Twitter, and then I confirmed it through various open sources. The mint is, as stated suspending sales of silver products. This’s because the pricing on the website(s) are so out of line, so quickly, that they can’t fill the order without losing cash. In fact back two weeks ago? When it ‘slumped’ below $77 for spot?

I ordered 3 Silver “tarnished/circulated” Eagles for $77 a throw. With shipping, it was about $240. Provided they fill the order, and don’t fuck me over, I’ve already made (per COMEX) over $20 per coin, and I haven’t even gotten them yet…

Which is the problem.

Gretchen’s Dad some long time back asked me about those Gold and Silver ETFs that’ve advertised to foolish Boomers…. the “You send us the money, we’ll store the gold, and all you need to do is IF and WHEN you want the physical delivery, just call us!” pyramid scheme. Once I explained it to him, he understood, and didn’t buy in on it…

If it ain’t in your hand, then it ain’t yours.
Possession is 9/10ths and all that.

HOPEFULLY they ship when they said they will, which is January 19th, but at the rate it’s been climbing? I’m not so sure… this much volitility and soooo many cases of Hebraic Scumfuckery and Douchebaggery, I will say I’ll just be glad to get the $$$ back IF they decide to fuck me.

‘Cos then I’ll just turn around and re-invest the cash in a few Silver Mining Stonks I’ve been playing around with. Nothing too big… I opened a brokerage account, deposited $150 and well… I’m just a wee bit ahead, which for a complete moron and n00b like me, I’ll take the “W”

There’s also some shares I got into for a drone-related company that’s supposed to get a contract award for ALL the DotMil services in March I think? Because of the yo-yoing of the Fed, what HAD been a nice lil climber back at the start when I first started watching some particular stonks, but hey, I’m good with it…

There’s only one Stonk I wanted to get and that was another drone company. When my funds were finally available, I still couldn’t buy in, but I’ve watched it go from $258 a share to sitting right now at almost $340. Like a 98% increase in two weeks…

Dammit.

I’m still watching and waiting to see what’s coming next…
Either way, Silver Mines are going to be a long investment (however long the market lasts that is…) and ANYTHING Drone Related for Defense Utilization is ANOTHER area to closely monitor.

So that’s what I got for tonight.
Hope y’alls night is quiet and pleasant like mine!
More Later
Big Country

Greetings and Salutations!
Leg day this A.M. and the arms recovered enough to actually you know, like type again. The great news? I’n down quite a few pounds… I weighed in this A.M. at 347…

Do NOT ask how much I had gained.

Let’s just say emotional turmoil was not good for the waistline, nor the mindset. Which is now back in full effect. I mean the diet is going along well, I have my accountability sheet that I’m filling out daily, and making sure I keep it about 2200 calories for the entire day.

That’s waaaay down.
ESPECIALLY for a guy my size.

Add on what I’ve cut by completely going booze/beer free.
Mind you that sort of sucks, but I’m already way less bloated, and feeling better. My sleeping rhythms are back, and I’m up extremely early to either get my lift on or my walk on. Been doing a few laps around the neighborhood in a stripped down tac-vest with my XSAPI plates. Cardio donchaknow?

The left leg is doing much better as well, except that I literally ‘love tapped’ the passenger side running board on The Boat with the left shin, and because the skin is like tissue paper, I torn a big ole swath of skin off of it. AGAIN

So I’m back to square one.
However
The new secret weapon(s) which have been helping me?
One is Silver Honey:

It’s Manuka Honey and Antimicrobial Silver.
Supposedly it’s for horses.
Since I’m as large as one, it seems to be doing the job quite nicely. It also seems to be ‘fading’ the damaged areas that were inflamed and angry. Link to it is HERE

The other is a single compression boot:

Now I got that BEFORE Christmas, on the 17th so I got it for less than $50. Link to it is HERE And yeah, both wet my beak if you buy eithe rof them. The Leg Compression thing is great!!! It’s got 3 settings, the one I like most is the setting thats starts compressing my foot, and then works it’s way up my leg to my knee, squeezing all the pooled blood and lymph out or at least back into normal circulation.

The only major negative is you need to download and run it via a bluetooth connected app. I’m soooooo sick of apps I swear man… It does work however, and my leg looks much better for it, and I’m no where near as gimpy as I was.

So since the diet is now on full time, I’m cooking healthy like I did back in Baghdad. For that matter, I got a lil ‘homesick’ for my place back in Iraq from 2008-2011… Like genuinely missing my life and lifestyle from back then. It was a much simpler and straightforward existence to say the least.

The food was MUCH healthier overall as well, as Halal chow witht he Muslim Rules makes sure that GMOs are a nonstarter, and the grains you DO have available are from the same. exact. grains that Suliman the First was chowing on… Like the OG-Grains if you will.

So since I had previously stocked up on some quality meats that I had intended on using to impress a female (yeah… of course the deal fell through… story of my life amiright?) so Last night I yoinked! the meetza outta da deepfreeze and made ready for the cooking tonight.

In this case, this was Iraqi Kofta Kebabs.

I used to make these things at a minimum of 3-4 times a week in Baghdad. My Iraqi workers taught me how. God I miss them guys and gals… Anyways…

Kofta is a type of of spiced meat, usually cooked on skewers, made from ground meat (like beef, lamb, or chicken) or vegetables, mixed with spices, onions, and herbs. It can be grilled, baked, fried, or simmered in sauces, and is usually (for me) served over rice.

In my case?

I used a pound of Ground Waygu Beef, and a pound of New Zealand’s finest high-quality, tender, grass-fed Lamb. The skewers I got a lil ways back as a gift from bro who knows how much I like to cook, and got me the right skewers for the job:

Besides the spicing, in order to have a proper kebab, the meat has to cook from the inside as well as from the outside. The way this is done is that each one of those bad bois is about 3/4 of an inch wide. The tip of the skewer gets stuffed into the hot coals, allowing the heat to run the length of it, and cooks the inside of the kebab. The rick is to NOT allow the meat to peel apart and fall INTO the coals.

Thankfully I only had one do this, and I was quick enough to recover the meat. Part of the trick is making sure you have breadcrumbs as a binder… The way I did it, was I placed alllll the spices into a BIG honking bowl, and hand mixed it all together:

Where things went a wee bit sideways was I didn’t put enough breadcrumbs in, or at least that ONE skewer that fell apart didn’t get enough breadcrumbs… Meh… either way, it all cam out fantastically.

The Spices I used and how much are as follow:

One Medium Diced (via my smol food processor) Onion
Three BIG Tablespoons of Minced Garlic
1-1/2 Cups of Finely Mashed Plain Breadcrumbs (I used Pepperidge Farms)
1 Cup of Dried Parsley (or one whole fresh bunch, w/no stalks, diced up)
1 1/2 Teaspoons Ground Allspice
1/2 Teaspoons Green Cardamom
1/2 Teaspoons Nutmeg
1/2 Teaspoons Sumac
1/2 Teaspoons Paprika (I like a wee bit more, so dealer choice)
1 1/2 Teaspoons Aleppo Pepper
Large Pinch of Salt

I mashed all of it up, and then formed a small-ish ball of the meat, and skewered it. Then I worked it evenly down the skewer, thinning it out, and rounding it, keeping in mind that the first 3-4 inches needed to be free of the meat, so as to shove it directly into the coals:

Then I placed it in the outside redneck fridge to cool them for 20 minutes to keep them from falling apart. When they get to room temperature, the meat starts to seperate and fall off the skewers… chilling them keeps them together so you can get them on the grill.

Now I also chopped up another leftover half of an onion to grill, as there’s always a leftover onion in the fridge, as we use them in almost ALL the cooking around here:

I just slapped those w/some fresh ground pepper and salt, and roasted them on the grill… they came out great.

Now unfortunately, I didn’t get a pic of it cooking as I was as busy as a raped ape turning and shuffling the skewers from hot-spot(s) to cool(er) spots, and making sure nothing came completely apart. I need to fabricate a proper grill if I start doing this on the regular, as the Round Weber I have isn’t the best for this sort of cooking. I also made one of those “Middle Eastern/Spanish Yellow Rice” sides that was Meh! at best…

Sapper and I were not impressed with the rice (bland AF TBH, the majority got shitcanned it was so blah!) but at least it gave the plate some color. I served it with 2x pieces of freshly lightly toasted Na’an Bread, and some Peppered Humus for flavor. It came out looking rather good IMO:

(The onions are buried under the na’an BTW)

As you can see….
A perfect char on the outside, nice a cooked all the way through on the inside, and juicy as all get out. I think I stunned Sapper as he was beyond impressed.

I mean like I cook well, and he knows it, but there have been one or two misfires in the past. I think he was expecting this one to be a misfire, and was genuinely pleased to the point he said it’s better than the place we go out to eat at in Apollo Beach, a new Haji Shop. It’s good, but this is better AND it’s not $24 a plate. I agree with him… it’s absolutely what I used to cook on the regular back in the day, and outside of the rice? It’s healthy.

The only part that sucked was while I was doing the plating, BOTH puppers were literally drooling to the point that smol puddles formed on the floor, so now I’ll have to mop the kitchen again as this diet is heavy on the cooked meats, so both Puppers, Chili AND the Sausage Princess are in near-constant ‘hover/drool’ mode while Daddy Big Country is cooking up a storm.

Now as far as cook time for the skewers, these cannot be thrown on and left to cook. You HAVE to watch them, and constantly rotate them. I had the heat cranking on the coals to ‘blast furnace’ levels to get a good sear/char on the exterior, and rotated constantly to keep it evenly cooked so the meat didn’t get a chance to, as mentioned before, fall OFF the skewer and into the coals. YYMV.

So that’s my night and diet, and meal for dinner. Let me know what you think, and also let me now if you try it. My next experiment is going to be the same recibee, but using the Ninja Indor XL Air Fryer/Grill. The grill mode works pretty damned well, and I want to see if I can get the same results without the skewer, and making the Kebab thinner to cook evenly. If it works, I can whip up a PILE of them as pre-made food prep, freeze a bunch of them, and eat on them for a few weeks if I do it right.

What say you?

So More Later
Big Country