New Gun - Walther P22

Picked up one of these for Christmas -



The P22 has two barrels, 3.5" and 5". I've only put two or three mags through it so far, but it shoots well. No malfunctions and it is very accurate.

Hopefully i can make it to the range the weekend and put up a range report.

New Year - Diet?

Time for that New Year diet. I’ve managed to put on quite a few pounds over the past year. I successfully quit smoking at the beginning of last year (actually I quit in February of 2004), and have been gaining weight ever since. My weight is back up to the point that it is causing other problems like heart burn, elevated BP… So it’s time once again to go on a diet.

Now I’ve had pretty good luck with diets in the past. Many years ago, I was up to my current weight and did the slim fast diet. I dropped from about 220 to 180. Then about 4 years ago I was back up to about 210 and went on the protein diet. I drop back down to 180 and joined a gym and got down to 170 and was in excellent fitness. For whatever reason, I slowed down and stopped working out and then quit smoking (yes I would leave the gym and light up) and next thing you know it’s four years down the road and I’m squeezing in to 38 waist pants again. So what is my goal…. I’ve not yet decided, but optimistically I would like to get down to 180.

Problems with Verizon Wireless

I give up on Verizon Wireless and will just pay the damn $175.00 bucks to get out of their contract. I hereby warn all in the blog world, stay away from Verizon Wireless. They’ll rip you off.

Let go back a few years…. I have been with the same cell company for, well technically since 1991. At some point GTE Mobile net was bought out be Verizon. Anyway, back in October of 2002, I purchased a palm pilot type cell phone from Verizon and signed a new contract. Move along to March of 2003 and I called them to change from a nationwide service to a Texas only service because I was changing jobs and no longer would be traveling nationwide. What I did not know was that at that point, they reset my contract start date March of 2003.

In July of 2003, my phone breaks. I bring the phone in and they clean some contacts on the door and call it good. A couple of weeks later, my phone stops working all together so I bring it in again. This time they call it water damage and say it is not fixable.

It is less than a year old, but is not fixable and my contract is not up (remember they reset the start date to march 2003 with out telling me). But they’ll give me a lesser phone for 100 bucks. So I pick up the lesser phone for 100 bucks and go on my way.

So now, one year and four months later, and my phone is on the fritz. So I call verizon and learn that I’m on a two year contract and can’t get out of my contract. They'll upgrade my phone if I pay 100 buck and sign a new 2 year contract. Or it’ll cost me $175.00 to get out of my contract.

Screw you verizon, I’m getting out and taking my $130.00 / month phone bill elsewhere. Hello Cingular!!!

Range Report

Put about 250 9mm rounds and 50 .45 rounds down range today in a Beretta Fest of a range session. Met a fellow Beretta enthusiast at the range (planned meeting) and shot my Cougars along with his 8000F cougar, a 92 Stock, Elite II, 92G Centurion, and a CX4 Storm. Got to say that the Stock was a highlight, that is one sweet shooting gun. The Storm has a red dot sight and you just can’t miss with that thing. The E II is a great shooter too.

I’m thinking about trading my 8045 for a 92 variant of some sort and today’s session gave me the opportunity to try a few 92’s. Thanks million to Texretta for the opportunity.

Another first for me was shooting at steel targets. That’s a hoot. I think I’ll be doing this a good bit. Something different from just putting holes in paper.