The Abode of McThag

For some reason the gnome on the left reminds us of Willard. Maybe it's the cigar.

  This is a capture of a warning from The Gasmask and Respirator Wiki article on the M25 mask . I wore an M25 often and for hours at a time...

I am thinking that being a corrective phrenologist (<--spell checker knew this word!) would suit me to the bone. They say do something yo...

All Winchester Model 54 rifles are pre-64 because they stopped making them in 1936. Dear sellers, you don't need to say that they're...

I keep a spreadsheet of all the maintenance and modifications I do to the cars. That includes a date and mileage for when the maintenance is...

  How long is this guy gonna last before something kills him? Related: We decline your request to be fucking idiots about this little war. T...

Noxious , a 2013 Equinox has been replaced with Alice the White Horse , a 2013 Equinox LT. Harvey is extremely happy with spending $400 a m...

Reader Terrapod generously shipped us a used laptop they scored from a county surplus equipment sale. THANKS! from me, The Lovely Harvey an...

Harvey's beloved Equinox is not long for this world. Sad face. We're on the hunt for a replacement. I thought we might have found i...

Kaylee is my first AR-15.  She started life as an attempt to make a clone of an XM177E2.  Unfortunately, I didn't know much about XM177E...

I have had a KAC 600m folding sight on Kaylee since I first changed her over to a flat-top. Over time she has become, more and more, an M4 ...

  Today is the Equinox, and I will be working on an Equinox...

The US, technically, doesn't need the oil that comes through the Straits of Hormuz. That means that it's someone else that needs tha...

For some reason Lennar is spamming my Facebook with ads for their wares. The house they keep showing me has a "3-Car Garage." It...

Devon Eriksen says: If you don't own a rifle, your opinion is mostly irrelevant. Everything humans do to interact and work together is a...

The men in my family don't have a consistent problem that leads to their demise. Grampa on Mom's side was a diabetic who didn't ...

Because  The Lovely Harvey  is entering the post-menopause frisky stage and I have been afflicted with a common problem, I inquired as to th...

TL8 starting wealth is $20,000. Under standard, settled lifestyle, assumptions you can spend 1/5 of that on "adventuring gear." Wa...

David Freiburger has a new T-shirt: That image has an amazing resemblance to The Beast ! I'm pretty sure he doesn't mean MY V-8 powe...

I've been watching, and enjoying, the NBC show "The Blacklist." It's a bit formulaic, but lots of fun. James Spader is a j...

Blogger continues to fail at hot-linked pics. Flickr is not innocent because they keep giving links that expire almost instantly. The work-a...

Way back when the Kevin Costner movie "The Highwaymen" came out, I mentioned that I enjoyed it, but something just stuck that didn...

Paul Erlich, a scientist known for making a bad prediction more than anything else, has passed. If being wrong had been the only problem, we...

Don't interrupt a USMC air defense unit's naptime...  Especially when they've got 3+ LAV-AD handy to let you know they're fe...

Japan and Australia have decided to not send ships to support Operation Epic Fury. There's been a bit of  sturm und drang  about that, b...

My foray into 20th Century body armor has hit protective masks, which are considered armor in GURPS. They end up being a lot like helmets in...

On this day, in 1990, a Caprice Classic completed final assembly in Willow Run, Michigan. It was sold to the Carlisle, Iowa PD, despite not ...

Traveller, set in the year 5621 at the beginning of most campaigns, is now officially an alternate history. How can something set almost 3,6...

The Boy's  psychiatrist ordered a round of genetic testing for him. She did a bad job of explaining why, but we have the results in and....

A new term for me! British officers were responsible for their own kit, so they'd head down to the tailor's for a uniform and while ...

Tried to fire up LibreOffice on the Win7 machine because two big screens is better than one small one for doing my GURPS stuff. Silver Light...

Getting some convictions against Antifa! Andy Ngo, also remains a thorn in their sides.

 That company from last year with the brutal contract I declined to sign... They're getting investigated for fraud. People who used them...

I noticed, building the Death Star, that the Imperial military is amazingly egalitarian. Two of the seven stormtroopers are women.  Only two...

I only got lobster once while I was in the Army.  On Columbus Day in basic. We got steak fairly regularly, especially on Federal holidays. I...

The press keeps repeating that we blew up a school on the first day of attacking Iran. The way they report it, and the Iranian government ke...

I have completed my buddy's Death Star! Huge. It's the biggest thing I've ever constructed from Lego. Now we have to figure out ...

My version of counting sheep to go to sleep is running through all the steps of bringing a Type-S scout ship from cold-iron to pre-flight. F...

My odd throat / thorax thrumming, while probably gastro related, is similar enough in my description to trigger further testing. EKG and tak...

We ordered new lock cylinders for Harvey's gun cabinet. At some point the company changed from an octagon lock-bar drive to a square. S...