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Greetings and Salutations!
Off on -another- adventure, this time up to the Villages to visit Gretchen’s ‘rents. During the drive up, I got a call from MomUnit who’s requested me to head to Charleston ASAP as she’s decided to sell her house, and wants me to come by and grab up whatever ‘stuff’ I want as she’s literally cleaning house.

Not much I want nor need, but I really do want to see her, especially since the new job is beginning shortly, and vacation time will be at a premium. So I have some interviews and appointments on Monday and Tuesday, so the soonest I can bounce is Wednesday.

May you live in interesting times right?

So tonight we’re staying at a Best Western down the street from her ‘rents place. The logistics of staying there are kind of intolerable, mostly that BOTH her ‘rents STILL smoke… the stench is kind of horrific as mentioned. They keep it (for the most part) out on the porch, however, the house positively reeks<\/strong>. Now speaking as an almost 30 year smoker (quit now about 5+ years) I really<\/strong> hate the smell, and I do NOT want the Doonie exposed.

Speaking of which:
Gratuitous Baby with Doggo pic:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chili really<\/strong> seems fond of the Doonie, and gives him these gentle little puppy licks, which cracks his all the hell up. He’s doing very well<\/strong> and for a 7 month old, he’s now learned ‘Mama’ and ‘Dada’ respectively. He seems to genuinely understand the concept, so it’s pretty wild…

His growth spurt seems to have subsided for now as well. He’s now this big:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As you can see, he’s kind of overflowing the little chair that Gretchen’s BFF got him. It’s meant<\/em> to be good until he’s either 40 pounds or three years old, but as you can see, he’s almost maxxed it size wise.

Which is why in almost every picture you see of him, he’s only in a nappie, as he outgrew damned near everything we got him, including onesies… we have some larger outfits, but unless we’re heading out to somewhere ‘oot and aboot’ a plain old diaper is fine, especially just around the house.

I mean case in point, his lil pool outfit? This one<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First off, the top? Thats a 3T top.<\/strong> The swimsuit? That’s a 2T<\/strong>, and as you can also see, the car seat\/car bassinet he’s in? It’s like stuffing a sausage to get him in it.

He’s supposed<\/strong> to be using that seat until he’s 18-24 months.
He is, as of today, 7 months and 17 days old.
And they do not<\/strong> make a larger size.
One size fits all.

Bullshit.

The straps on it are almost maxxed out, and well, we’ll have to figure out the next car seat when the time comes, ‘cos this one I figure at his current growth rate, he’ll be too big for it by Christmas.

At his current growth rate, I’m looking to buy ANOTHER deep freezer for the garage. I have one upright deep freeze, plus an additional ‘beer fridge\/freezer’… that was the original fridge X#1 and I got when we first got married… nothing wrong with it but the color, so it became the garage-beer fridge. So yeah, get a BIG deep freeze and prep to buy a fucking cow for it,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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as the Doonie has already shown a love of BBQ ribs and his appetite as he grows is a thing of nervous-making.

So yeah… MAD appointments early in the week, Charleston midweek, and HOPEFULLY not a damned thing<\/strong> by the weekend.

One can hope.

On other news, not really sure of the International Scene except it’s the same-old-same-old with Iran, Chyna, Russia and the Izzies and of course The Krain and the Koked-up Krainfeld and his Kohort of Kurruptocrat Klowns doing the usual, AKA being coked up corrupt scum.

I personally am getting a bit miffed at Lima Six right now. As you may remember, I sold off a sizeable amount of my silver and gold stash at the top of the Market, and invested said fiatbux into ‘functional metal’ AKA a belt-fed upper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Now, mind you this was ALL “pre-Doonie”

And considering the rarity of them, I can probably turn a neat profit if I decide to part with it… I at least know in an emergency, IF I needed $$$ in a rush, that someone will take it off my hands in a New York Second, hence why I called it “investing in ‘functional metals'”

It was promised to be here no later than 16 weeks from date of order. I ordered it on March 18th. That’s a few days OVER 18 weeks ago dammit.

I have a couple dozen reasons I’m itchy to get my hot lil paws on it. One BIG reason however is that I feel like it might<\/em> be needed in the very <\/em><\/strong>near future… as in having a weapon capable of massive area suppression is a wonderful thing<\/strong>. Nothing like being able to ‘bring the hate’ in a ‘Bad Moon Rising’ or keeping a ‘Crowd of Rabid Urban Yoofs Running Amok’ at bay.

Also I can’t wait to poast about it.

I even went as far as to break out a bunch of the ‘good warshot ammunition’ from the deep storage stocks to belt up a BUNCH of both 4-in-1 Ball\/Tracer, as well as some 5-in-1 when the tracers started running low. Links I have plenty of… call it had <\/strong>a huge stockpile of as I collected them over the years, as well as like 3? or 4? 100 round ‘nutsack’ ammunition bags that I brought back from Iraq for a ‘rainy day’ sort of thing.

I mean I have 2 x 150 round belts for a M-60 or M-240 that I made out of saved links and .308 rounds. One never knows when or if one is going to stumble across a belt fed weapon in need of feeding. So keeping them fed and safe is very important.<\/em>

SO, that’s the current sit-rep here.
Hope all is well with you all.
More Later
Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Greetings and Salutations!Off on -another- adventure, this time up to the Villages to visit Gretchen’s ‘rents. During the drive up, I got a call from MomUnit who’s requested me to head to Charleston ASAP as she’s decided to sell her house, and wants me to come by and grab up whatever ‘stuff’ I want as … Continue reading “A Short Update”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9825"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9836,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9825\/revisions\/9836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}