November 21st, 2023. Quarter-past 1pm
Things are starting to slowly wind down, I finished my penultimate weekly assignment for my calc II class yesterday and now and drafting up a collective form of materials I need to catalogue for the final exam. This is just exhausting really, I'm ready to just get some rest over the winter if I can given I have two more semesters of physics classes to do before I can finally get the hell out of this shit hole and transfer to my local four year uni. Other than that I bit the bullet yesterday and bought myself a GAU-5 11.5"' barrel. I'm probaby going to stick it on my slickside 604 upper and just cannibalize my A1 clone for the lower. I can always just stick the completed A1 upper and stock back on that lower if I want the A1 back but for now it'll be nice to have a carbine to complement the 20" A2 I have.
Mixmasters are pretty neat imo and I think need much more love given how much they emphasize the interchangability and versatility of the AR platform. I also bought a CAR-15 style stock from PSA that was on a black friday sale so it'll complement the build nicely. I briefly considered tossing an M4 waffle stock on it for some light modernization but I can probably just get one later if I really need it. I already have a modern six position carbine buffer that I plan on exchanging with the retro style two position one that comes with the kit so that's plenty enough modernization for my tastes unless issues arise in the future. I've been spying some photos from the current shit-fest in the levant and it seems the Israelis are issuing their citizens with very similar late cold war carbines with waffle stocks & carry handles in tact. Which is such a strange sight to see after two decades of flattops to say the least.
November 16th, 2023. Just half-past 11 am
Quick post today, dont have much to say, I got my Oxpho Blue from Brownells in the mail last night along with my torque wrench, tho regarding the wrench I'll probably need an adapter bit since it seems to be too small to fit snug into the armourer's wrench. I'll see if I can make another page for general gunsmithing / maintenance stuff later today, I'm going to see if I can cure the holster rash on my USP45 from it's previous owner. Other than that, I'll probably revisit my studies. It's a pretty muggy Thursday afternoon but at least there's an excuse to have the boys bumping loud and proud today.
Later on, quarter-past 11 am
The UPS driver was pretty damn loud on making the delivery and I ran down there as soon as I heard the gate shut. The stock is sitting on my trunk at the moment and I'll probably cut into it after making this post. I also had an idea for a new page so I went thru the effort of making a template HTML file for future additions to the site as well as a new section called Propellant . Here I can post to virtually no one about the music I find interesting and some of the stuff I fool around with musically in my spare time I guess. I'm sure I'll probably going to be real active on there on thursdays for no particular reason :3
November 14th, 2023. quarter-past 10 am
As you can see I tweaked the sight a bit more, changing some colours around and adding a pretty snazzy backdrop. I'll need to post more on here but I've been in a but of a rut mentally. According to my canvas modules I'm about three weeks out from the exam for my calc II class, making these next three weeks the final stretch before everyone shuts in for the winter. I've got my notebook and a sheet of copy paper in front of me for the study template but I'm just mentally out of it honestly. I'll eventually get to starting this fucking thing but man I just need a break I'm so tired of everything, school, being alone, the dogshit political climate that's abrewing like a rainclowd on the horizon as the next election here draws closer, ugh. Currently I'm waiting for a repro M16A1 stock to hit my doorstep as it's the last gun related part I ordered that's on it's way. I bought a torque wrench and some blueing agent from Brownells but that's less directly gun related ofc. It's probably the last part I'll ever order to my own door given my regarded uncles who apparently despise my ability to protect myself from the rise in crime around these parts, whilst they live in gated communites five or so cities away
Fuck man I'm just like so done with things, I need winter break to get here just so I have a moment to catch my own breath. Registration for the fall semester starts on the twenty-seventh of the month which happens to be cyber monday, so hopefully I can score myself a decent time section of PHYS2A and just chill because fuck me after this class I never want to do a math-only class ever again. My insomnia is currently kicking in so I've just been at my desk as the morning sun warms my room like a greenhouse. It's supposed to rain today but who knows I've been staring out my window for a hot moment and nothing has happened, perhaps like Phil Collins says, "you cant hurry rain" err, I mean "you cant hurry love" :D
Later in the day... just a quarter-past 2 pm? :3
Revisited a template I was looking at last night, was too sleep deprived to understand anything then but upon a fresh shower and a new skimming of the syntax I think I'm making progress, props to the sub-web for pointing me in the right direction. Other than that, not much has changed, I mean it's been less than twenty-four hours lol. I was eye-balling some parts to clone a GAU-5 that I could put on an existing lower I have on an M16A1 clone I just finished, but I ultimately decided to wait as I'm nearly broke at them moment after building the A1 clone. I also cant even send the parts to my own place because my living situation is *odd* to say the least and some of my family are anti-2A. Ironic given how the only reason I'm even typing this on here is because I had a rifle present to save my life in the first place.
Whatever, I can just keep my little projects stowed away in my quarters under lock-and-key. I got a digital lock on my doorknob that's pretty neat imo. Makes it feel like I'm entering a CIA blacksite everytime I open my door 0_0 . What they dont know wont hurt them anyways. I went down to get a set of furniture I had ordered a while back and as I ran down the lodge below us reaked of pot like it was a damn dispensary and that really just made me laugh in consideration with the so-called moral arbitration. Firearms bad but pot good! God it's tiring to live around morons and hypocrites sometimes but I'm stuck in this hell hole for school and my chemistry degree that's slowly killing me, but that's a line for another post. I'm going to keep working on the site and documenting the process.
November 12th, 2023. half-past the witching hour
Ok not going to lie I fucking suck at computers, I havent touched HTML in a long time, at least since I was a teenager when I was messing around with it on Khan Academy. I originally was going to make this a Twitter page but Elon I guess is too busy pretending to be cool or something to make his H-1B slaves maintain a functional website. The captcha booted me twice in twenty minutes and after getting through it a third time it flat out gave me an error message even after I got the email confirmation in my inbox. That was the moment that made me think about finally biting the bullet and starting this page. It'd been a thought on my mind for a while.
Basically, I'm kinda regarded and have my brain spread all over the place in terms of interests. I'm a chemist by trade primarily interested in ballistics but also could be shoebox'd as a weeb, though I really only keep up with a couple mangakas such as Inio Asano, Oshimi Shuzo, Tatsuki Fujimoto, etc. In concert with weeb shit I'm a massive music-tard and play piano and guitar actively, though I dabble in bass and harmonica. Basically I'm a mess and I'm going to pour it on here and hopefully you're going to like it. At the time of writing this I'm in uni and I look around me and most of my "peers" are people about four or five years younger than me (I'm twenty-three at the time of typing this) and all spewing Twitter idpol shit from both sides of the horseshoe and honestly I cannot stand these people. I cannot make an authentic human connection with anyone and so as a result I type my thoughts into the void here :3
When I get better at HTML I'll probably make this place look a bit better, I might try updating the font from Veranda to something more pleasing to read but for now the zero people reading this will have to bear with the atrocious monochrome aesthetic of this place lol. I dont even have any sections or tabs on here yet so forgive my digital primitive-ness this is legit the first time I'm forcing myself to really confront my luddite nature when it comes to code.