Howard

While true that we have not build new refineries in years, and have closed many small ones, there have been huge improvements and major capacity expansions at existing locations. Total capacity and reliability is up. But yes, they are not disperse and the majority are in the gulf - that is due to economics. Refining is not the only thing that has fine tuned the supply chain, look at the automotive industry. You can have a tiny parts company fail and it will shut production lines down at major auto producers these days as it may be the only supplier of a specific part and they carry almost no inventory.

When you say some guy, do you mean a retail store or some guy that is selling a used TV? If the latter I would skip it. Last November I bought a 55" 4k HDR Samsung set at Costco for under $500.

The odds of that happening are about as high as them going door to door in the hood and searching each apartment for drugs and weapons - just as illegal.

Didn't have to as they left 15 round in place at that point it time, now the battle will start again

I was there that day, and also heard him state "I will not comply"

Many many moons ago I was a process engineer at a Chloralkali plant that as you correctly stated yields hydrogen while producing chlorine. We sold as much of that hydrogen as possible for its value as a chemical, only as last resort did we burn it in our boilers as a fuel as it is much more valuable as a chemical.

Can't be done, well let me correct that, can't be done economically - as it takes more energy to break the water molecule apart than you would get by burning the hydrogen. Those pesky laws of physics at work. Fuel cells typically use hydrogen that is a byproduct of other chemical reaction, not from the dissociation of water.

I had looked into those years ago when I had my laundromat. I ended up installing high eff condensing tank heaters as the instant hot water heaters typically are lower efficiency and are a maintenance headache. Also they are limited to a certain flow rate so if you have lots of hot water users on at once (shower, washing machine, dishwasher) you will tend to run out of hot water with them. I know people will say hot water tanks waste a lot of energy, but I have not found that to be the case with a good well insulated tank. My gas bill during the non-heating season typically runs under $20 a month, and that includes about $6 in base charges. Thus my total energy charge is about $15 a month and that includes hot water, cloths dryer, outside grill and range top. Thus my 100 gallon tank can't be wasting that much energy.

Perhaps your gas hot water heater was too small. I can run hot water 24/7 and it never runs out - but I have a 100 gallon hot water heater.

Do we have any lawyers in this group? I have not slept at a Holiday Inn Express nor do I play a lawyer on TV, but it seems there is an easy answer here. Some 2A friendly lawyer should have lots of us signed on to a class action suit ready to roll if this happens. It seems a clear violation of our rights to make us surrender our property or force us to sell it out of state at fire sale prices. When the Government wants to take something by Eminent Domain they have to pay fair compensation for this. If we could force the state to do this for all magazine in the state the bill would likely be large enough that the public would be outraged at the state spending this money and force it to be killed. Even if that were not the case, at least we would get fair compensation for being screwed over.

Another option is to replace it with a heatpump hotwater heater or they make add-on heatpump units. They require much less power and would easily run without totally over taxing a generator. If you are not familiar with them, a heatpump extracts heat from the surrounding air and dumps it into the water. They probably use 1/3rd to 1/4 the amount of electricity.

Costco on RT15 in Wharton is still $2.269 and has been that way for about a week now.

I would not be so sure about the last part. Back in the 60's and 70's you would see when people limed their lawns as they all used the white powder line. Today there is black granular lime that is not nearly as messy and you would not see it even if it were just applied.

Talking of thread the needle that is what I did on the last swinger on the teeter totter stage. I only got one shot off on the swing so I took a knee in the exit box and fired one shot into the sliver of "D" that was exposed under the no shoot. I was told the RO's looked in disbelief and then said "Did he really do that" as evidently they had not seen anyone else take that shot. Fun match.

No, I shot Friday. Glad I did as we finished around 5:30 but I heard people went until 7:30 on Thursday. I would imagine your stage plans were very different with those tiny "magazines" you had to use. I'll take a look a see how someone that knows what they are doing did it. Thanks for sharing. Oh, mine should have had all thirteen stages there is you went till the end. Let me know if that is not the case. PS - very impressed that you saw to take the low target on the left from the middle avoiding that position, I did not notice it was available from there. Guess I don't have the GM eye

First, thanks Dave for the kind words. Don't fear this stuff, you don't have to run like a wild beast to have fun. As Dave mentioned this was the Area8 annual match which draws from about five states where you have some of the best of the best shooting. Heck a bunch of these folks can shoot a stage twice as fast as I could run it without even having a gun in my hand or aiming and shooting. That is life. I wan't always picked last in gym class but I was never picked first. Also I never touched a gun till I was 54, I'm 59 now. I did not shoot my first match till I classified as a Senior either. This was a big match, local club matches are nothing like this. Check out the match at Shongum Sportsmen's association this Saturday if you are in the area. We typically have two bigger stages with movement - but not lots of running and three or four small stages where you just shoot from a box or maybe shoot from one box and then step into another. You also compete against other at your skill set. I kick some people's ass while getting my as kicked by others - its all fun. There are people that walk the stages too. I shot a match yesterday in PA where a guy that was probably 85 walked the stages and shot slow but he had just about all dead center head shots - he never even tried for the easier body shots. Once you try this you will never go back to shooting plain targets at a range. As Dave suggested static steel at Old Bridge is a great match to try, but it is easy to feel you suck there as some of the people are so freakin fast. When I first tried that discipline I hated it as everyone would kick my ass and I felt I really sucked. Now I enjoy it. The other fun match they have there is knockdown steel, which while some stages have a little movement is really just shooting from static positions. What is nice about that match is you don't draw from a holster, so no special skill or equipment is needed. All you need for that is a 9mm or larger gun and about five magazines. If you have a common gun (Glock, CZ, etc) there are lots of people that will lend you magazines if you don't have enough. Give them all a try is all I can say, you will have fun.

Knew he was there, and he actually did well - winning Revolver division !!!

Hell yea, lots of fun!

So you got to see me over run targets, do some standing reloads and a bunch of other dumb stuff. Not my finest outing.

Did not shoot it, but just playing around with it seemed a little crisper. Still does not compare with some of the aftermarket triggers and no idea if the trigger itself is the same as the Gen4 or you would have to wait to get parts till someone makes them. In no rush to go out and get one. First I need a G17 slide to go with the Jager threaded barrel and comp I won yesterday.

If anyone cares to watch (probably not) this was my attempt at the Area8 match yesterday. USPSA Area8 8-25-2017 video

Just went and held one at RTSP and took it apart to see what makes it tick. Since actually like the finger groves on the Gen4 and am not a south paw I don't see that it really offers anything over the Gen4. You will still need to do something to the trigger, and like any new model it will probably have issues and parts will be hard to find for some time.

Didn't see it mentioned, perhaps I missed it, but Old Bridge runs a match they call OBRAMS which is basically a USPSA style match where you shoot .22 cal guns. I think they are all two gun matches now, pistol and rifle, but you can probably get away shooting it with just a pistol.

Years ago, with other Husky, we did not have an electric fence. We had him on a 30' chain that was hung from a cable about 10 feet up that ran just about the length of the entire back yard. That let him run around a good bit of the yard without being able to run away and get hit by a car or lost.

Actually there is something wrong with that. I have three Huskies and often put them outside when I go out to run errands. They have an electric fence and much rather be outside playing with each other than trapped in the house. They like to run and play, especially when it is cold outside. I get that you don't want a little short haired dog with a 50 pound chain freezing in the sub zero weather. I don't get the part about this being an issue when it is above 90 degrees. Most of us probably have air conditioning in our homes, but there are many people that do not, and it is actually better for the animals to be out where there is a breeze than frying in a closed up house that might superheat.