Email from National Treasure Joe Huffman, concerning The Great Gun Robbery:
That really sucks.
I have moved your entry to next year. Same position, etc.
The event will probably be April 29th -> May 1st.Joe Huffman
Boomershoot Event Director
For me, Boomershoot is becoming like the Jews’ mantra: “Next year in Jerusalem Orofino.”
NOT HELPING, YOU GUYS!!!
Oh let me see… this?
…or this:
Well, I’ve been to Paris before, but never Milan. So:
Arriverderci, tutti. [Italian for “See y’all later.”]
Wait… what day is it?
Oh yeah, it’s Monday.
So to get things a little more ship-shape, some funny stuff. And given what happened over the past couple weeks, what better than a little black-and-white humor? (And just so we’re all clear about my bona fides : remember that I’m a full-blooded African-American.)
Well, who can resist that invitation?
And after all that, I think it’s time for an All-American White Girl:
Yesterday I went over to our (still-being-rebuilt) apartment. Not having any room in our tiny hotel room, on Wednesday I’d taken all the Boomershoot stuff and stored it in our (locked) garage, to be loaded into the rental SUV for the trip up to Idaho on Monday (tomorrow).
On Friday night, the garage was burgled and all the guns and related stuff stolen.
Rifle #1: CZ 557 Varmint (.308 Win)
Scope #1: Vortex Viper HS-T
Rifle #2: CZ 550 American (6.5x55mm)
Scope #2: Meopta Optika6 Illuminated (4.5-30x50mm)
Revolver: Ruger Single Six (.22LR/.22Mag)
Also, a double-rifle hard case and two range bags.
And, of course, about a thousand rounds of .308 and 6.5x55mm ammo, all helpfully loaded into ammo cans, and a few dozen rounds of .45, .22 and 9mm (in the range bags). Amazingly, a pair of expensive Steiner binoculars were tossed aside (!).
Total value of the stolen goods: just under $6,000.
All our brand new replacement furniture, and electronics (TV, computer etc.) and all my tools (!) were untouched. They were after the guns. (Thank gawd I’d already moved all my other guns over to Doc Russia’s place, or else I’d be in even more trouble.)
According to the Plano PD (yeah, I have a case # and everything), there were no fingerprints left, which points to a pro job. There is a pretty substantial group of suspects — this was not a case of a couple guys walking past and deciding that this looked like a likely place to burgle — but I’ll leave that to the cops to figure out. They have the list.
What this means:
1.) I’ve had to cancel Boomershoot this year — no point in going, no guns to shoot, no ammo, nada. I’ve already canceled the rental SUV and hotel accommodation. So we’re all clear on this: I am spitting angry, but most of all I am embarrassed because many of you kind folks sent me money, not only for the drawing but to help with the costs of associated purchases for the trip — several items of which have already been bought. Aaargh. Nevertheless, if you are one of those people who specified that the money was for expenses, email me and I will refund you your money. (Almost all the paper records I have were being kept — where else? in one of the missing range bags — so I have no clue what the total amount is; but I’ll trust in your honesty.)
2.) When the insurance company reimburses me for the guns (less my $500 co-pay of course), I’ll replace the CZ 557 and scope, and hold the lottery for that rig then. I don’t know how long it will take for them to do this, most likely a few months. Please be patient with me while I speak to the insurance company over the next few days.
3.) I have no idea whether the guns will ever be recovered.
Fuck.
This is what happens when I get curious about stuff and set out to explore.
Last week, I read that former Spain- and Real Madrid goalkeeper Iker Casillas (one of the best goalies ever, btw) has divorced his journototty wife Sara:
…and moved to a “Japanese-style” penthouse in La Finca.
Where dat?
Not being familiar with Spain, I eventually found out that it’s a swanky suburb of Madrid. (I should also mention that I caught the giggles because I first read “Finca” as “Fica” — the Italian slang for “pussy” — but I recovered and went on.)
I should have stopped upon learning that La Finca was a Madrid suburb. But noooo, I had to see what it looks like. Casilla’s penthouse apartment (see here) should have given me a clue, but when I DuckDucked it, I saw stuff like this… endless examples of foul glass and concrete boxes modernity:
I could go on, but I think you get the drift. (If you want to see bigger pictures — gawd help you — just DuckDuck “La Finca Madrid”.)
As a rule, I quite like traditional Spanish architecture — especially the Catalonian style:
…and as for apartments and public buildings:
Compared to those, La Finca Horrible doesn’t even come close:
I think I need to look at something beautiful, just to recover from that hideousness. Here’s Paz Vega:
Now that’s some classic Spanish architecture for you.
Via Insty, I see this little piece on people not falling for the Socialists’ gun panic pronouncements and concomitant bullshit anti-gun legislation:
Despite the overwhelming rhetoric machine that the anti-2A people have, a new poll shows that the American public’s taste for new and stricter laws has dropped a bit.
However, what caught my eye was the accompanying pic (from Oregon):
…AND it’s apparently a recent pic.
They must be having fewer gun purchases in Salem, OR — because here in Cuidad Tejas, a stockholding such as that would be cleared out in about 20 minutes on any given Saturday.
They probably have ammo too, the lucky bastards.