Shooting Class

In an effort to slow the boredom of living in Ridgecrest I have signed up for a shooting class that began a few weeks ago and will run through May sometime.  Yesterday was our second shooting day, and we got our targets back from the first day:

In Case you do not want to open the picture, I did ok.  We are shooting Savage single shot bolt action target .22LR @ 50 ft with peep sights.  I think we will be moving further out later in the class.  This last class was trying to get them better sighted in, and shooting prone with no rest.  I'll post those when we get them back.

Here is what I see through the the peep sights:

And that little dot is all the black center area (rings 6,7,8,9,10) of the target.  I'm not real sure how far out we can shoot reliably with these sights.

The Computer

My laptop had been running a little slow, so I ordered another gig o' ram to top it off at 2 GB.  Turns out, while one ram chip is easy to access on a panel on the bottom of the laptop, the other is placed under the keyboard...I had to Google that one on the touch since the computer was already apart.  So, one thing lead to another and I ended up with the computer looking like this:

 

My screen hinges were a little loose and one of my mouse buttons had gone screwy.  Well it turns out that some of the screen hinge screws are inaccessible (permanently), so that got tightened up best I could and super glued. 

The screwy mouse turned out to be a broken rubber nub under the button so I ordered a new one from Ebay for $24.  One week later I had a new replacement that replaces the the entire lower and mouse (lower left two silver pieces in the picture.  And now:

 

So the computer is up and running good again with the new mouse and its faster.  I also got a 2 TB hard drive to offload all the junk to.

Biking II

The next day we headed to Topanga State Park for some more riding.  It looks like we did about 2.5 miles there - when picking a place for your first mountain bike ride in a while, choose somewhere that is not all uphill (really steep uphill).  Also make sure the bike can shift into all its gears, I couldn't shift into one of my front rings so I was down by 9 gears.  We rode back to the truck and did a little hiking on one of the trails.  We left there looking for a little food along the ocean but didn't have any luck, so we headed back to Ridgecrest for a bonfire.

Ouch

Biking I

In an attempt to do something healthy Angela and I headed to LA for the weekend with the bikes in the back of the truck.  We got there mid day on Friday and went for a ride along the beach from Santa Monica to Venice Beach.  I didn't think we had ridden very far, but looking at Google Maps it looks like it was 9-10 miles in total.

As you can see...

I made a couple of attempts to post from the Ipod touch I got for Christmas.  You can't do anything but the title straight from Safari on the touch because it doesn't recognize the text entry area ???  I later searched the internets and found that you can e-mail to your blog.  The only negative there is that I still cannot get pictures, so unfortunately I don't think the touch will add to any on the go posts :( 

Or maybe you can.

Here is my attempt at sending a post to my blog through email.

Sent from my iPod

You can't blog from an iPod / iPhone ...