Home again, home again, jiggety-jig!

I bailed out of Dallas on Monday morning and overnighted an extra night in Springfield, MO because it was a long and tiring weekend.

Alas, between weather in Missouri and atrocious and unexpected traffic snarls in Illinois, Wednesday’s journey turned into a nightmare. I sat there chewing the steering wheel and watching the ETA on my maps app increment upward until it was predicting well after eight o’clock.

Even before I reached the Wabash river I was starting to nod off behind the wheel, which is never a good sign.

Rather than risk getting kilt inna streets by “Get There-itis”, I made a command decision and grabbed a room last night at the Holiday Inn Express in Terre Haute and finished my journey home this morning.

Glad I went, but even more glad to be home.

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Faithful Steed...

The annual Rangemaster Tactical Conference at the Dallas Pistol Club happened over the weekend of March 27th-29th this year. It's been in Dallas since 2021 and will be for the foreseeable future, since it's such a great facility and so centrally located in the US.

This was the second time I drove myself there. The first time I did was back in 2022 when I took the Zed Drei, and on that occasion I stopped in Springfield, Missouri on the way home and fell in love with the twee little Holiday Inn right off I-44. It's like a 5/8ths scale big city hotel, with an atrium and birdcage elevators and the works and if Springfield has an annual sci-fi con then this is where it happens and I'll bet it's adorable.

The Mustang's odometer crapped out a couple years ago while trying to spin the digits past 238,000 miles, but it must have a quarter million miles on the clock now.

I remember my dad fussing with his low-mileage 1955 Ford Thunderbird every summer, trying to get it running and it was barely more than twenty years old at the time with less than 50k on the odo, and here I am hopping in a 32 year old Ford with five times the miles, going "Time to drive to Dallas and back. YOLO!"

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A little bird told me...

...that registration will open soon for TacCon '26 in Dallas. It'll almost certainly fill in less than 24 hours, so be aware.

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