(posted from home)
(this post covers 12-14 October)
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Saturday, October 14-
This morning Labashi and I worked on her bathroom-lights rehab project. We removed the old ceiling fixture and wired-in and hung a new one. We also removed two hanging (swag) fixtures and associated wiring and planned out the replacement parts we are going to need to assemble new lights from parts, some old, some new. Labashi spent the afternoon shopping for the just-right parts for the new lights. I spent the afternoon cruising in the Miata, top-down on this sunny but cool and windy day. I’ll be storing it away for the winter in a few weeks so thought I’d better enjoy it while I can.
In the evening we watched the classic Rod-Steiger-Sidney-Poitier 1967 movie “In the Heat of the Night” on TCM. Then the 1951 movie ‘A Place in the Sun’ came on as part of the TCM’s “The Essentials Series” and we watched that one too.

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Friday, October 13-
I spent much of the morning on the web and in the afternoon I rode the Concours to the shooting range I had visited yesterday to check on a pistol course they have coming up (according to their online schedule). Unfortunately I ran into a customer-service-challenged salesman. Where the two guys I talked to yesterday were well-informed and helpful, this guy had an attitude right off the bat. When I mentioned the four-session course he didn’t know what I was talking about (though the course starts Monday) but did eventually find it on the schedule in the Training book (while his body language said “why are you bothering me with these stupid questions?”). When I asked about contents of the course, he said “whatever it says there in the book”. When I asked about price for the course, he emphasized the fact that a $50 deposit is necessary and is non-refundable no matter what. And then said they would cancel the course if they didn’t get enough people. When I asked about buying a certain pistol he said he couldn’t get the options I wanted. I asked about buying it mail-order and having it sent here as the Federal Firearm License-holder for registration and transfer to me. He first said they wouldn’t transfer a gun they didn’t sell. When I pointed out their web site says they have the service and he had just told me they couldn’t get the gun as I wanted it, he then said, oh, yeah— but there’s a $40 charge for the transfer paperwork. I left. I’m not going back.
The Concours, on the other hand, was a joy to ride today. The deceleration wobble is gone and the bike feels very smooth.
That evening we watched the movie “Prairie Home Companion”. We occasionally listen to the Prairie Home Companion while on the road and enjoyed this Robert Altman-directed film portraying a fictional last night of the radio show.


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Thursday, October 12-
This morning I updated my blog and later drove the Miata to a local indoor shooting range and gun shop to check it out. I was interested in checking out this new range as a possible place to go this winter to work on my shooting skills. I enjoyed talking with two of the sales guys and they were very helpful in answering my questions. The range is brand-new, well-equipped, easy to get to, and though it’s in the country, not far from the Starbucks off I-83 at Shrewsbury. That sounds like a good combination, doesn’t it? Shoot a box of shells then go have a coffee and read the papers. Then another time have a couple of espresso shots at Starbucks and go see how that works out at the range.
That evening we didn’t have a movie but watched ‘Survivor-Cook Islands’ on TV. Nothing new there but you never know when an interesting twist will come up.