Thursday, April 24, 2014

Al Capone's vault...

So I went to clean out the car prior to sending it off to the auto day spa. I opened the door, briefly wondered if I was supposed to throw in a lit torch to see if there was enough oxygen in the sealed tomb, then began rummaging under the seats and stuff, just to make sure I hadn't inadvertently left any heaters in there or anything.

Things I found:
  • My old Royal Robbins "shoot me" vest. I have no idea why it was in there.

  • The Surefire Z2 I kept in the door pocket. Boy, how spoiled we've become in flashlights! I remember when this thing was eye-searing magic, but after using a P2ZX Fury, 62 incandescent lumens looks about half as bright as a dead firefly. 

  • A rock from Blogorado a couple years back. I put it in with the Hoosier rocks in the herbaceous border with the fervent hope that it baffles the **** out of some future alien geologist who concocts a wacky theory to explain its presence.
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12 comments:

  1. Farmmom9:31 AM, April 24, 2014

    I thought I was missing a rock!!

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  2. Dan9:35 AM, April 24, 2014

    First world problems: you own so many guns you can't remember if there are any in a car you haven't driven in a few months. It's great to be an American in the 21st century.!

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  3. mikee10:17 AM, April 24, 2014

    If you can remember where the rock in your car came from, you are cleaning your car out way too often.

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  4. Drang10:18 AM, April 24, 2014

    "My theory is that the ancient Usaians transported rocks from other parts of their so-called 'nation' in a quaint religious ceremony."

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  5. Matt10:48 AM, April 24, 2014

    When cleaning out my truck I used to send my Schnauzer in first. She would root through everything and eat all the food scraps and crumbs. The squirrel used to do it but he left when I hit the deer.

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  6. RHT44711:13 AM, April 24, 2014

    "... baffles the **** out of some future alien geologist who concocts a wacky theory to explain its presence."

    Heh. "They'll think there was a river here."

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvdsQ4DuaGk

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  7. Anonymous11:44 AM, April 24, 2014

    "First world problems: you own so many guns you can't remember if there are any in a car you haven't driven in a few months. It's great to be an American in the 21st century.!"

    Heck, I lost two guns in my regular driver. Just found one after nearly a year of looking. The other only took a couple months of looking.

    I found a couple hundred rds of '06 ammo in my work vehicle. It used to be my regular driver. I'd forgotten about the ammo.

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  8. Sklutch12:50 PM, April 24, 2014

    Yeah, for some reason my original M3X doesn't seem that bright, anymore. I missed the window to update the bulb to a battery-sipping LED. My newer taclights all *seem* brighter, but I don't have a lumen comparison chart built. Yet.

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  9. Critter2:47 PM, April 24, 2014

    "Yew still got that 500 lumen light?"

    "Yep!"

    "Yanno, ya cain't see nuthin' iffen it ain't 2300 lumens."

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  10. Anonymous8:53 AM, April 25, 2014

    I bought some roman coins in the 70s. They were heavy base metal and pretty cheap. After carrying them around in my seabag for six years or so, I finally dug a hole at on a beach near my last duty station at Bangor, WA and deposited them. It was a muddy beach so I'm hoping it confuses the hell out of some beachcomber/ archeology student in a hundred years.

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  11. Titan Mk6B9:23 AM, April 25, 2014

    Recently bought a 730 lumen light so I kind of understand about the older ones. I have begun to refer to it as armor piercing.

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  12. Maxwell12:56 PM, April 25, 2014

    "...fervent hope that it baffles the **** out of some future alien geologist..."

    It's good to have affirmation, once in a while, that I'm not the only one who actually thinks this way. Thanks!

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