Yesterday was an interesting day.
Met my wife in town for lunch. She said that a friend of ours, a jeweler, is having a 60% off closing down sale that "we" need to check out. It shows just how much profit there is in jewelry. Long story short, I ended up buying her a ring for our upcoming 40th anniversary. It occurred to me that it was my anniversary too so I should get a present as well. I headed to the gun store. I ended up with a Springfield XD Mod 2 with 4" barrel in 9mm. Brought it home, field stripped it and gave it and the mags a quick clean and wipe down. Next stage, load the magazines. I don't think so. That magazine spring is so strong I can hardly get any ammo in the darned things. I went looking for my Uplula magazine loader. Off and on that took the rest of the day and most of the night. I obviously put it somewhere "safe", so safe I couldn't find it again. I'd hunt for it, sit down and think of any other possible hiding place, get up and tear something else apart. Eventually, at 11 o'clock at night I found the sucker jammed down behind the spare computer in the office. What the hell was it doing there? How the hell did I ever think of looking there? I was that desperate!!!
This morning's plan is to head back in to the gun store and get another couple of magazine loaders. I reckon that if I store all three of them in different places I should at least be able to find one when I need it.
I'm going to load those mags and let them sit a while and see if they ease up. It's raining and the temperature is dropping and I have nothing else to do.