Catherine

My husband's is bright blue. At yesterday's match, when I brought mine out to the line, a guy from another team said, "Oh look -- it's the Easter Egg guns!" So someday maybe we'll get two more -- a bright green and a bright orange, for Fiona and Gwen. And all go to matches together! :P

No extra points for purple, and it doesn't hang over my desk, despite how pretty it is. When we're not at the range, it lives locked in its' case.

Two sighter shots, then 20 more for record. All standing ("offhand" is the term used). The team is six people, and the course is fired over 2 hours and 18 minutes. Two people take turns at each numbered target; shooter on the right, then shooter on the left -- so there are three sets of two. We each take a turn shooting, coaching (keeping track of our teammates progress and helping with sight corrections if needed), and scoring (official tracking for another team). Gwen (and Fiona, back when she was younger) scores targets int he target pits. Those are concrete bunkers, and the targets are run up on frames to where you can see them. Watch for the dirt puff behind your target, pull it down, put a spotter (for the scorers and coaches) in the shot hole. Put a paster (adhesive sticker) over the old hole. Hang an orange disk in the spot indicating the score (X, 10, 9, etc), and run the target back up. Repeat 131 times. Rifle is a White Oak "Space gun", .223 caliber. More details later -- they're calling me to go out for ice cream. First things first! OK; I'm back -- and the ice cream was great. I believe the rifle is based on an AR-15 but am not sure; my husband is the local expert. It's a semi-automatic but we only fire single shot in matches. It has match-grade sights and isn't eligible for CMP matches because of all the changes made to sights etc. My rifle was made to fit me, with a shorter barrel and stock than is "standard". I believe it comes with sets of weights for both stock and barrel, so you can configure it to the weight and balance you want for maximum stability. Catherine

Hi all -- There was interest a while ago in my shooting competition. So posted here is a photo from May 2nd, our 2nd rifle match (this morning's was the last). If you look carefully, towards the right, you'll see tiny little rectangles -- those are the targets, 200 yards away. Our team was going for #7 that day; it's the last one that can be seen on the right. The black center actually measures 13" across. In the sights, it looks like a pindot. My husband bought me my beautiful purple rifle for my birthday a couple of years ago; I hope someday to shoot it as well as it deserves.

Well, it just seems that replacing a $29 "Peerless" brand bathroom faucet with a $3300+ Jado swan-sculpture faucet with crystal knobs would be hard to justify as a "repair". So it's definitely the hoity-toity/mucho bucko part that pushes it over the edge for me. And again, that's not saying you have to replace junk with more junk! But "repair" does become "upgrade" at some point. Catherine

I concur with Wayne -- the cause of the work was a leak; fixing the leak restored functionality and prevented further structural damage. Expense. Now if your client had replaced a standard Delta faucet with a hoity-toity high-end model, put in new ultra-spifferific high-end counters to replace ye olde cultured marble, added full body spray steam units to the shower, and stuff like that, then you'd have to split out the needful repair versus the upgrades. And I'd say even replacing a cheapo faucet with a mid-grade sturdy one is still repair under the heading of "why waste money putting in junk?"

:bday: and have a terrific day!

Send flowers first? Then when you approach her she'll think kindly of you? Or maybe even call _you_ for help?

:bday: and have a great day!

:bday: and have a great day!

I was willing to sign up with TRX early because of the money-back guarantee, in writing. With CCH, the discount is not enough to get me to sign up months ahead of time with no guarantee that my money comes back if they do not produce the product I ordered. It's as simple as that. Catherine

Very cute. But, KC, where on earth do you find the time to FIND all these things?!?!?! I am in awe of you.....

I was wondering if that was my next step. In my copious free time...... Thanks!

Did any of you who downloaded Chrome have a problem with importing bookmarks and settings? I now have Chrome but am not using it because every time I try to import those items (from Firefox), it hangs up. I've tried several times, including logouts and reboots. Still hangs. TIA, Catherine

Have a TERRIFIC day, Gail!

Wise advice, Medlin Accounting! On another forum I read, a guy in California a couple of years ago walked into his office mid-tax-season to discover they'd been broken into overnight and ALL of his office equipment had been stolen. No client files, fortunately. What saved them was he did a backup last thing every day to an external drive and took it home with him. They lost one day getting in new machines and loading software and setting up the printer networks. I signed up for online backup within a week of reading that. Would have done it even faster but I took some time to investigate vendors. But I should review my retrieval procedures. Catherine

I have been a Firefox fan for a long time but will have to check out Chrome. does anyone know about security? One of the many reasons I loathe IE is security flaws big enough to drive a truck through. Catherine

:bday: to you, jklcpa!

Have a TERRIFIC day!

Have a GREAT day!

Same thing happens even without the document manager -- print to PDF first time just fine. After that, blank files unless the original has been deleted by hand before the new file is written. I'd been assuming it was my PDF writer causing this problem. Perhaps there is something else going on -- I currently do NOT have the document manager, and I use pdf995 to write to pdf. But I get the same error as KC mentions. Could this be an issue with pdf's in general? Perhaps one of our VMSUS friends can answer this question? And yes, KC -- how is your husband doing? Last we heard, it was "somewhat better", if I recall correctly. Catherine

I sent a note and will let folks know what they say.

A dear friend, whom I've known since I was 19, said to me once, "What happened? We were 19 just yesterday -- and now we have mortgages, and _gum disease_!" We were only about 30 at the time..... but the "gum disease" really made me laugh. (Full disclosure -- she was the one with gum disease, not me. )

:bday: !!

Bizarre. I got an emailed receipt only.