A little personal story … and the outcome I blame on long time commenter, JA aka the Jewish Atheist.<\/p>\n
About a month ago, after dinner with my wife and youngest daughter, we stopped in a sporting goods store with an eye to pricing camping equipment. The store didn’t have a good selection of “real” (backwoods, hiking\/canoeing) gear but my youngest announced she needed a new swimsuit.<\/p>\n
Blam! I was trapped. Time just gets sucked away when two women start shopping. The two of them dived into the suits picking out various ones and trying on a vast array of offerings. So I was left to wander the store. I didn’t find much. An odd or end to help clean the pistol (.22 caliber Ruger Mark III) we use for our weekly range outing. The only other thing I found (and purchased) was an inexpensive Buck folding knife. Which … my eldest daughter then appropriated for herself. Hmmph.<\/p>\n
Now, some months ago, JA had recommended a Spyderco “Sharpmaker” for keeping kitchen and other knives sharp. I had taken it to a family gathering some time ago and whiled away some hours gainfully sharpening our hosts cutlery and as a tool it’s worked quite well. \u00a0Anyhow, having had one knife snatched like that led me to shop for another … and I picked up a book on “whittling” from Amazon (<\/em>The Little Book of Whittling<\/em><\/a>) <\/em>after all\u00a0you can’t do anything without more books. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Seeing that Spyderco made a sharpener so I checked and lo and behold they make knives too, e.g., \u00a0 the\u00a0Spyderco Tenacious<\/a><\/em>. I got this one. Which was then appropriated by my youngest daughter. In (mock)\u00a0desperation, I purchased a third which I claimed for myself by calling it a “father’s day” present (specifically this one, Spyderco Dragonfly<\/a><\/em>).<\/p>\n So now we are all spending some quantity of spare time with our new hobby making pieces of wood smaller and trying not to nick our fingers too frequently. I did in fact buy more bandages just last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A little personal story … and the outcome I blame on long time commenter, JA aka the Jewish Atheist. About a month ago, after dinner with my wife and youngest daughter, we stopped in a sporting goods store with an eye to pricing camping equipment. The store didn’t have a good selection of “real” (backwoods, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-marko"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t