Speaking of ‘Randomness’ I added a page to the website. So far it has the interview I did with Real-Life Fiction and the lone short story I’ve written on it. I plan on adding more short stories as time goes on and other such things.
On the writing side of things, not much to report. Just grinding through it. Putting a bunch of words down, then rewriting them, then editing them, then deleting them, and writing them back better. 🙂 It’s going okay. I’m not blazing through it like I hoped since I already had an outline. Mainly because of the research I’ve had to do. Writing about my beloved Corps means I want to be accurate and badass at the same time.
Conquering Prehistoric is still going strong. I really appreciate all the buyings and word of mouthings and everything else that went into this book being a success. I can’t wait to write more… eventually. 😉
In other news, at the risk of some moronic dipshits calling my daughter a ‘future white supremacist’ again… (Which the only proper online response to is – LOL, Go F*ck yourself. In person it’d be a throat punch, but these dweebs never have the gall to say such things to your face.) I’m going to post a couple pictures of her with a little update.
Her health is… still pretty messy. We’ve got a few big appointments coming up, one for seizures. Hope to get some progress there. But she is mostly back in school. After missing about a year and a half, it’s a good step in the right direction.
And she got her first pistol a couple of weekends ago! A Ruger Mark IV, 22/45. Purple.
There’s a neat story to this gun. The local gun store had a pair of them, one with an optic and one without, for at least two years now – if not three. So every time we’ve gone in, since she was five, she’s wanted one of them.
Finally, the non-optic gun sold about a year ago. And the more expensive optic mounted gun sat there.
We went into the store, I was actually looking at trying to get a nice .380/9mm sub-compact to carry in my new Eberlestock Bando Bag. And she went straight to it and told me once again that she was in love and they still had it.
I noticed it’d been marked down. And while I was looking at it the owner of the store gave me an even better offer I couldn’t refuse for it. Called it the ‘dusty box’ price as he wiped the dust off the Ruger box.
So it seems that gun had just been sitting there waiting on her to get old enough to handle.
We took it to the range with Grandpa to try it out.
She did magnificent. She was listened, she was accurate, and she was safe with the manipulation and handling of her new gun.
Really proud of her.
Then Grandpa and I shot it, and we shot garbage groupings. Apparently we need more practice with optics, being iron sighters has left us behind the technological curve. 🙂 (Now I’m looking for a sub-combat with optics, lol)
So that was fun. But I need to get out to the range more often and get back into competitions as well.
Speaking of the Eberlestock Bando Bag that I mentioned before… This thing is neat.
The XL can hold my G19 as shown above. Only complaint is the ‘little stretchy thing’ that holds the gun in place is junk. I replaced it with a MTAC Gun Holster. It has velcro on the back and will cover the trigger and hold the gat in place better.
This works a lot better.
And the Bando Bag is great for carrying while wearing gym shorts. (Which is my typical summer attire these days.)
As long as you are comfortable wearing a glorified fanny pack…
There was a lot of complaints about the waist strap not being long enough, but I can tell you as a fit guy gone fat… it will fit your big butt. And they sell an add-on strap to make it even bigger. (I guess for people in hover rounds…)
My wife and daughter also brought home a stray dog five weeks ago. We took her to the vets, dropped $300 bucks on getting her dewormed, vaccinated, ears cleaned out, and some pills for whatever allergy was making her hair fall out, etc. Looks to be a pitbull mix of some sort. She has a mouth like a gator. But super sweet and loveable puppy.
Then we tried to find the owners.
No luck there. But we found a nice lady wanting to take her, only problem was she is in the middle of closing on her house. So we’ve been boarding the dog for five weeks now… and today she is being picked up for her forever home.
Here’s a picture of her next to our Bull Mastiff. It was hard to get because they are always playing, but it shows just how monstrous our Roxy is.
We look forward to going back to three dogs tonight. Four is too much for us. 🙂
All that being said, it’s been a fairly eventful month at the Testerman Compound.
We remain blessed, and hope you do as well.
Erik.
Gunpowder and Ink! 