We finally found the culprit who has been secretly tripping everyone up.
To catch this underground monster, we had to pull up entire slabs of concrete. Look at the size of this thing! The darn root literally has bark on it. It’s out here masquerading as a freakin’ tree branch beneath the walkway.
If you’ve taken a random spill at the Shockley Estate anytime over the last few years… you’ve been officially vindicated. It wasn’t that you had too much to drink(we’ll maybe), and it wasn’t your coordination… It was this massive subterranean beast.
I’m very proud to be an American, but California is not a free state. I know many of you couldn’t care less about the 2nd Amendment, but I do. My constitutional rights are being infringed and no one seems to care about it.
Now, I don’t want to get off on a rant here, but like it or not, I enjoy shooting. It’s fun and owning a firearm adds an extra layer of protection for me and my family. But this state has taken all that away from me.
Forget the restrictions on which handgun I can purchase, how often I can purchase a firearm, or the fact that I have to wait ten days to take home a firearm I’ve purchase, whether it’s my first gun or my 100th. Add in the fact that for the past five years I haven’t been allowed to ship ammunition to my home, I can’t have a functioning magazine release in my AR-15s, and I can’t purchase magazines that hold more than ten rounds.
As if that wasn’t enough, California passed a law that went into effect on the first of this year that prevents me from shipping to my home, ANYTHING that attaches to my firearms. I can’t buy a barrel, stock, trigger, safety selector, not even a magazine coupler. How in anyway can this be considered legal?
Why aren’t people losing their shit over this?
Imagine if they put these sorts of restrictions on your right to free speech. There is no difference here! The 2nd Amendment is not a second-class right, but yet it’s treated as such. The California legislature knows they are passing laws that violate our rights, but they also know they control the courts and can tie up our appeals for literally decades.
And the worst thing about all this… There’s not a damn thing I can do to change anything.
Although the Supreme Court has finally agreed to take up a few key cases, we won’t see any judgment for another year, and then California will again defy the Supreme Court and enact more legislation to impede our rights even further.
I love this state and the area where I live, but I’m done with all this mess. I’m looking forward to our time traveling away from this state and seeing what the other states have to offer.
…when a privately funded company can launch Astronauts into space, but also land the booster rocket safely back on earth to use again, and again.
I tell you, watching these liftoffs still takes my breath away.
Say what you want about the man, but all this would not be possible without Elon Musk’s vision for decreasing the costs of space launches, and paving the way to a sustainable colony on Mars.
I just realized after all these years of watching my favorite holiday movie, “The Year Without a Santa Claus”, that it was all a dream… At the end of the movie Santa says, “I dreamed unhappy things”, and then he loads up the sleigh and heads off to deliver presents on Christmas Eve.
Over $2,200 spent on fuel in the past three months. That includes my commute (12 mile round trip), Michele’s commute to Fresno three times a week (90 miles round trip) and two trips to the coast in the beast. Even without the short vacation trips, we are averaging well over $600 per month just on fuel.
