Had a good holiday, spent most of the week in Houston with my parents. Turkey was consumed, dressing took one for the team, mass quantities of my favorite fruit salad disappeared down the ravening maw, and so on. It's nice that I'm still living close enough that I can drop in every so often and spend some time.

Was a pretty good weekend on the acquisition front too. Finally stepped into something approximating the 21st century with respect to phones, dropping the old dumbphone for a Galaxy S2. So now I have an Android device which seems to want "apps", which is great except that I don't actually know what apps I could actually use. No, I'm not playing Angry Birds until some day when I'm REALLY bored. Anyone got any other ideas?

The other big purchase was a Mosin-Nagant rifle. Found a dealer who had them in stock for $109, and thought "hey, I don't actually own a rifle..." Obviously it's not a good rifle in the sense that it lacks a lot of modern bells and whistles, and it is literally older than my father (armory markings from '42!), but it's dirt cheap and in pretty good shape once all the Cosmoline came off, and Russkie ammo isn't too expensive either. And at the end of the day, it's perfectly good for putting a (fairly big) hole in a piece of paper, or a varmint of up to bear size, or for manning the barricade etc. Picked up a case and a cleaning kit, while I've got a recoil pad and stripper clips on the Christmas list for the family. I'll get some pics up later.

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