Grill time

We bought a grill the other day, took it out of the box and the lid was crunched.  So, two days I took it back and waited for Home Depot to go through their boxes until they found a good one...the third box off the top shelf.  We assembled it in the garage the next day and then a few days later got the first food (burgers) grilled.  We have since done burgers again and kabobs tonight.

  

Home Improvement

Here are the pictures of some of the improvements that were made with the help of both our parents.  The original plan was to have Angela's parents help us paint and my parents help us move.  It turned into the opposite, mostly due to moving time constraints.  The paint change in the bathroom is the most obvious and biggest.  Its harder to see the changes in the colors of the living room and into the kitchen, but it really changed the house and made it feel more like home.

Other upgrades are Angela's kitchen faucet that dad installed, and risers for the shower heads in both bathrooms, ours also got a new shower head.

New Home

Just thought I would post some pictures of our new home.  Click Me!!!

Shooting - post II

All has or had been going well in the shooting class.  We had been shooting prone, with and without a rest and my lowest score had been a 40/50 on the first day and a 49/50 on the second outing.  I don't have my targets back yet, but last class was the beginning of the sitting position, and I did not figure it out yet.  I'll be happy if I got a 30 on more then one of them.

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