Do You Know What This Is?

I was very tempted to open this envelope because I'd never seen one before.

It's a .45 ACP cleaning rod.

We didn't have them in my line unit.  We used M16 cleaning kits.

To find that there was a supply, still in the wrapper, is really disheartening.

Well, not really still in the wrapper.  This rod was encased in this wrapper in July 2004.  No idea if it was was turned in and wrapped or unwrapped from old stock, inspected and re-wrapped.

What I do know is we didn't have them.  In a line unit.  In Germany.  At the height of The Cold War.

Oddly I Am Relieved

The fact that Marv got a good Remington-Rand after I goaded him into it has made me feel much less anxious about my number not coming up.

I fully expect to never be contacted by the CMP at this time and I am oddly OK with it.

It's strange because I DO really want one.  I just don't NEED one anymore.

I live vicariously through Marv at times.

Two For Two

"I hope you stayed out of jail and off YouTube this Black-Friday weekend!"

SUCCESS!

Batch 15 Of 15

A relatively local distillery, Siesta Key, ages some runs of their rum in beer barrels.

It's quite good.  Unfortunately for you out of state people, you have to buy it from the distillery pretty much the same week it's released.

A Sad Collection Of Parts

Marv's Winchester '94 is dead.

Someone cracked the tang in the way back.

Took it to a gunsmith today to ask if it could be welded.

The receivers on the 1970's guns aren't suitable for such, he says.

So it's off to the graving yard and to be dismantled for parts.

Need anything from a 1971 Win 94 in .30-30?

Integrity And The Siren's Call

I once asked for, and received, a BelOMO PK-01VS red-dot for review.

I gave it my honest assessment and ran a long term battery test (you can see those at the posts in the link.)

In the back of my mind was the thought, "If this thing sucks balls and I say so, will they send me more stuff to review?"

It didn't suck balls, but I've never asked for anything else to review.

The engineer/designer half of me thinks that a review should always be honest and that the manufacturer should treat negative reviews as an opportunity to improve their product.

If your product doesn't suck balls, then you've no need to pressure writers for good reviews; they will happen on their own.

Even if your product doesn't suck balls, there's only so much that can be said about it.

The PK-01VS, for example, it's a red dot.  If the reader knows what a red dot is, then 2/3 of what you can say about it is already written in the reader's mind.  What's left is how it mounts, does it co-witness, what does it weigh, does it keep zero after remounting and what does it cost?

It's not new and innovative in a world where Aimpoint has been around for decades.

But what if it had sucked?

On the strength of my experience with the PK-01VS, Marv bought a BelOMO PO3.5x21P.

He wanted magnification where I didn't.

The PO3.5x21P is magnified and has decently clear glass.  It's also huge, clunky, heavy, mounts awkwardly high and has very weak illumination.

He paid for this scope.  But what if I'd gotten it for free for review?  Would I have said that I didn't like it?  Would I have told Marv it was exactly what he wanted?

The fact that I had this doubt is why I've never asked for something else to review.

When I buy something and put down my thoughts about it, I can be upset if it doesn't work and say so.  I can be thrilled it does work; and say so!

I've been at this blogging thing for a long time and the names in the sidebar keep changing.  A couple of the must-reads are gone because going big-time seems to mean you have to change completely to remain there.  The "I get PAID to explain this at WORK!"attitude seeps into interactions where an honest question once got a friendly, or even humorous answer.

The person on the other end of the aether is gone and has been replaced by a writer.

The first step in becoming a writer is to accept the free stuff the second is to write so that it keeps flowing.  Why?  Because it's not the subscribers that pay the bills, it's the advertisers.

It's tragically amusing.

Things I've Learned From Gun Writers

Over the years, gun-writers have said the following.

There is no possible way to shoot better without a shot timer.

There is no possible way to learn how to shoot without receiving training.

The Glock SIG Smith and Wesson FN Glock is the best handgun ever made.

Plastic Polymer framed guns are a passing fad here to stay.

9mm sucks and should not be relied on for serious self defense.

.40 S&W is the best possible cartridge for self defense and this will never change.

.45 ACP is what serious shooters use for self defense.

Never EVER Use appendix carry.

Semi-Automatic handguns are too complicated for novices, especially women, so your first gun should be a revolver.

Lasers are gimmicks and have no serious application.

Use lasers they're an excellent solution to the aiming problem.

Red-Dot sights mounted to the slide are too fragile and will never catch on.

Buy a red-dot for your handgun.

.NNN is the best hunting round ever created, don't bother looking at anything else.

.30-06 is the best hunting round ever created, don't bother looking at anything else.

.308 is the best hunting round ever created, don't bother looking at anything else.

This (cheaper version of the gun) is garbage, buy the normal model.

The (cheaper version of the gun) is actually a good shooter, use the money you saved on the gun to get good glass.

Glass that costs as much as your rifle is the bare minimum quality to hit anything.

There's lots of affordable glass that costs less than 1/4 what your gun costs that's actually quite good.

The Colt All American 2000 is an excellent design made to the highest standards.

The Colt All American 2000 is a piece of shit.

In case you gun writers ever wondered why we, the public, don't take you all that seriously any more...  You can't make up your minds about what's best.  The constant reversals are annoying, at best.

The fact that you can't anger the advertisers means you cannot give an honest review of any product.

The most honest you can be about products in general is too vague to actually aid a potential buyer of the items.  "There are these things called holsters, there are many different styles and materials, you should get one," doesn't actually help anyone to decide what kind of holster best suits their needs.  But there's lots and lots of articles that follow this pattern.

Datum Example

Most of us gunnie types have at least read about length of pull, drop at the heel and drop at the comb.

Many of us can even say what these measurements are and how they are taken.

But do we know what they mean?

They're the measurements that determine the "fit" of a gun to a given shooter.

They're both objective and subjective.

Objective in a given person of a given set of dimensions will need these dimensions to be within a range for their measurements.

Subjective in the shooter will like the way the gun feels best at a point within this range, which could differ from another shooter of the same measurements.

Fitting the gun to the shooter is taking these measurements and applying them to the gun.

If you've no idea what your measurements are and what your fit to a given set of lengths and drops, these dimensions are pretty meaningless.

But what they are for and how to use them is readily explained.  There's even web pages and videos explaining them and showing how they're applied.

Chock Full Of Shooty Goodness

FuzzyGeff finally got to put some rounds down the barrel of the AR that's been stored here for...

Uh...

A long damn time.

Popping the cherry below the fold.

Dimming The Sun Will Cool The Earth

"Scientists" say so!

The "good" news is the sun is doing it all on its own.

It's no surprise to people who pay attention to solar weather that the hottest weather we had last century coincided with more sunspots and the cold we're starting to see now (if we're honest with the measuring) coincides with a lack of sunspot activity.

If It DOES You've Been Doing It Wrong

Army says new war ready M17 pistol will change modern combat.

Handguns are as close to superfluous as any weapon still carried can get.

Yes, they have a role.

Before you latch onto that too hard remember, so does a bayonet.

A role isn't the same as having a large role.

The radio is still the number one most dangerous weapon on the battlefield.

I'm willing to bet we spent an order of magnitude more on getting the M17 than we did getting radios.

A new pistol just isn't a game changing weapon.

I cannot find the quote from a Marine general who was ruing over how much we'd wasted on all the previous handgun programs and that if they'd just cut him a check for not even half that he could equip every member of all the armed services with a new pistol from any of the major manufacturers.

He said something to the tune that as long as everyone can shoot issue 9mm NATO, they were golden.  If everyone was using the same magazine, they were platinum.

Broken Record

I admit, I am a broken record (ask your grandparents) about endurance abuse & neglect testing handguns.

The proponents of such "testing" consistently fail or refuse to explain what we're learning from the experiment.

They seem to be claiming that guns that don't make it to the end are somehow unsuitable for use as self defense tools, but is that really true?  Does the testing demonstrate this?

I posit that it is not true and the testing is irrelevant to practical concerns.

Remember 2,000 rounds of 9mm is 52 pounds of cartridges, 3-1/4 pounds of cardboard boxes and the weight of the container you're lugging it around in.

Are you carrying that much ammo on a daily basis?

Are you even carrying 100 rounds?  That's just two boxes.

Spraying the ammo as fast as you can work the trigger only dumps about six shots a second and that's gonna give NYPD accuracy.  Shooting that fast, for most everyone who's not Jerry Miculek, is called "criminally negligent".

Still, six shots a second takes a bit more than five and a half minutes to burn through if you didn't have to stop and reload every 17 shots or so.  If you are using magazines that hold 17 instead of 2,000 rounds you're looking at 117 reloads.  That's going to add at least two minutes to your time, probably more like four.

So, for your pistol to be acceptable it has to be capable of ten minutes of shooting as fast as you can go?

THAT would be a test of a gun.  Because that doesn't allow for cool-down and subjects the parts to some real heat and fatigue.

What we really get is 2,000 rounds stretched over weeks or months.

Pray tell; in the intervening time between strings why didn't you clean and lube the gun?  You had time.

Did You Notice?

No malfunctions, stoppages or jams in Marv's M1911A1.

On the whole, if the gun was as bad as the internet keeps saying it is, I'd have expected to see a lot more problems from the numerous examples at hand here.

I guess it's the mechanic in me that just doesn't abuse my machines.

A hard learned lesson from cars is preventative maintenance pays dividends down the road.

I sometimes think the endurance tests on pistols, if taken to the car world, would be, "We drove the Nissan Stanza for 100,000 miles without changing the oil or replacing the tires!"

"Are you fucking stupid?" is what car-people would say.

Yet with guns...

Where's The Rattle

There's something wrong with Marv's M1911A1...

It doesn't rattle.

I've never seen this in an issue M1911A1 before.

Related to this, I think, is you cannot get the slide to move off angle appreciably from the slide rails.

It's very strange.

I've seen this on brand new 1911 guns before, like my Springfield Armory or the Colt...

BOOM

A shot glass full of nitroglycerin does 4d+2 cr ex.

I know you were watching West World and wondering.

Merit Aperture

Found a Merit Aperture for my Lyman 66LA sight on the Marlin.  This one appears to be a #4SS

These things are just the neatest!

The seller warned that it didn't work in his Lyman sight because it wouldn't tighten down.  I suspect that he's got a Lyman 57 series sight that needs a longer shank of the #4LS.

My sight uses the shortest, and most common shank.

Local Space

JT and FuzzyGeff have been playing GURPS: Traveller: Interstellar Wars.

They've traveled from Nusku to Terra to Procyon and are preparing to embark to Sirius.

Procyon and Sirius are visible in this shot!

Procyon is the dimmer star just left of the center of the frame.  Sirius is the bright star down and right from it.

Two parsecs apart on the Traveller map.  Both are about 3 parsecs from here.

They Made A Car Wars Car!

Did you play Car Wars when you were younger?

The people at Black Rifle Coffee might have.

Electric cars armed with big guns.



Kinda skimpy in the armor department, but there's no arenas or leagues yet either.

Soon?

Tech's War On McThag Continues

My dear, beloved, Moto X 2 is terminal.  It keeps shutting off spontaneously at random.

Mostly while trying to take a picture, but now while using at as a phone while Harvey is trying to communicate something important from the road.

So, spending money I don't really have to spare, I've got a Moto Z3 now.  I already miss my football leather back and purple anodized accents...

The Motox2 has been giving warning signs for a while and I've been shopping, so I knew what I was going to get when I walked into the store.  The sales person was complete unprepared for such decisiveness.

It's huge, and heavy compared to the svelte Motox2, but MAN is that camera good.

Still getting it set up and disabling all the NEW IMPROVED features.

There's an astonishing number of "we can improve your experience if you just let us have access to..." messages.  You can't entice someone who's content with what they've got already so I've been denying them this access.

Two things I am avoiding setting up are the facial recognition and fingerprint unlocking features.

Something about the new phone I'm very happy with is the Skymap app once again points accurately.  The Motoz3 must have better compass and gyros than the Motox2.

The larger screen gives a better experience when using it for GPS navigation and having a new battery sure improves how long it can stay on.  Today is the battery life test.  I'm going to see how long I can go.  Yesterday 12 hours of playing around with it on the side while playing Traveller: Interstellar Wars only dropped the batt to 89%.

On an aside:  I noted while shopping for the phone that Verizon still has flip phones.  This is excellent news for the Bubbas and Willards out there who don't WANT a phone that's more than a phone.  Remember what I said about being content?

Verification Required

Some asshole in India ruined it for the rest of you.

27 spam comments for his SEO service.

Word verification is now active.

Sorry.

I'm Going To Invent Space Travel

Just so I can throw that BLEEPING computer out an air-lock!

This story starts a while ago.

Windows update locked up during the "do not shut down your computer" portion of the update and did a spontaneous restart which has caused that update and all subsequent ones to also fail.

Today the anti-virus wanted updated and when I did the restart, my login told me that my user profile was missing.

I tried several means of gaining access to the computer and somehow ended up in "Startup Repair" which included a restore to last known good config.  I got there by trying to remember which function key actually prompted Safe-Mode and in the several reboots the machine just went to the repair function.

MUTTER MUTTER MUTTER

The repair seems to have worked and an uninstall/reinstall of the anti-virus went without a hitch.

Inconceivable!

William Goldman has passed on.

I enjoyed the music he had the monkeys dance to.

Good!

No tax break for disabled first responders who did nothing for Florida but move here.

Their example just reinforces that this was a good tweak to the law.

An NYPD cop can't get the tax break for getting fucked up in New York.

Maybe this will encourage them to stay up north rather than move here and screw things up for people who want to be Floridians, because I've met damn few New Yorkers here who are anything but New Yorkers who happen to live in Florida.

Converting Money To Fun

The range rents machine guns!

We couldn't resist the M1928 sitting the case.

Marv's portion of the shooting.  He went first and got the 30-round mag to my 20...

CMP M1911A1

Marv's pistol arrived from Alabama today!

It's a 1944 production Remington-Rand!

I am happy that my Springfield Armory Model 1911-A1 USGI compares favorably with it!

The Remington Rand appears to be completely refurbished and even appears to have a brand new barrel!

It came with a 1975 Check-Mate contract magazine.

But does it shoot?



As a matter of fact, it does!  It shoots very well, Marv's first magazine was a 3" group at 7 yards.

History And Moral Philosophy

There's outcomes that I can affect.

There's outcomes that I cannot.

If I cannot affect the outcome, I cannot be held accountable for it.

There are situations where others try to hold me accountable for actions that others take.

I rankle a great deal at "the responsible gun owner always..." in the same way as I reject "no true Scotsman."

Your gun locked in its safe and in an empty house for 10 hours while you're at work?  Far less secure than hiding it under the seat of your car at a football game for 2 hours.

I know it doesn't seem like it, but it's true.

Access is measured in time.

Your house is just as easy to break into as your car and the thief has five times the time to do it.  There are also many fewer witnesses.  The house also provides concealment for nearly the entire event, the burglar only being exposed for the entry, exit and egress.

It's sobering.

The best we can do is make our cars and houses less attractive to the thieves than other houses and cars.

Something I've mentioned before is the victim is a participant in the victim selection process, but is not a participant in the crime.

It's true of muggings.  It's true of rape.  It's true of getting your car looted.  It's true of getting your house broken into.

Hiding your pistol out of sight in your locked car is actually doing something to prevent its selection over leaving the pistol in plain view.  The thief is looking for something valuable.  It is important to remember that the thief has already decided to commit a crime before they ever touch your car.

They've selection criteria.  They might limit themselves to just the cars that were left unlocked.  They might pick every car on a block, locked or not and break windows.  They might just do a quick rifling, in and out.  They might be very thorough.

You don't know which kind you get until you actually get something stolen from your car.

Did you do everything you could have done to prevent the theft?  No.  You cannot secure your car well enough to prevent all theft.  It's impossible.

The lock on the glovebox?  Useless.  Lockbox under the seat?  It slows the thief down, but screams "something valuable in here!"  Locked in the trunk?  Access to the passenger compartment is access to the trunk in most cars now.

All you're hoping for is to slow them down enough that they move on without taking anything.

And it is just hope.

Don't tell yourself that, "It will never happen to me because I always..." because it can so happen to you.  Especially don't get on a moral high horse about it, because your precautions are not as effective as you think they are, you're just filtering for a different breed of criminal.

Space Gaming vs Fantasy Gaming

Dungeons and Dragons is still the 900 pound gorilla of the table-top role playing world.

There's not so much science fiction gaming out there, or rather there's lots and lots of games that most people have never heard of.

Even Traveller is obscure outside the hobby where people who've never seen a polyhedron in their lives have heard of D&D.

I am wondering the why of things.

Something glaring presents itself when you look at this at all and you notice that not only has most everyone hear of D&D, they're already familiar with most of the tropes of the game.  I don't know why this is, but it's apparent.

Science fiction games lack this trope familiarity, even if the non-gamer is an avid science fiction fan.

Part of the problem is the most popular "science fiction" film series aren't actually science fiction.

Star Wars is a fantasy setting.

Star Trek is futurism, not science fiction.

To begin to grok why Star Trek isn't sci-fi you have to also grok something that Larry Niven noticed a long time ago, "Make changes and stick to them, no matter where the implications take you," is the core of the definition.

His adherence to this rule is why he stopped writing in his "Known Space" universe.  Dig out "Safe At Any Speed." for an example of this.

When you take all of the established, canon, technologies in Known Space, you end up with Safe at Any Speed.

It's "if the protagonist has a gun and a cell phone, will the horror movie be longer than the cartoon shown before the movie?" problem writ large.

Star Trek does not make changes and stick to them.  It's a roiling, hot ball of deus ex machina over and over again.  There's too many problems presented that are solved by something we've seen the transporters or replicators do.  Don't cop out and say, "but those were malfunctions!" because scientists and engineers will be all over those documented cases and looking to replicate the beneficial effects from these malfunctions.  The process of preventing the malfunction from reoccurring when not wanted often results in the understanding of how to make it happen at will.

When Star Wars and Star Trek are your cultural touchstones for the tropes...  It's hard to do science fiction gaming.

What you have to do is explain the entire underpinnings of the world as it is being created and presented to the players.  Your singular creation which will have gigantic holes in it because of your own biases and blindspots; holes which the players will sail entire planets through.

There's time where you didn't consider an implication and the players do... and find that another thing you've declared probably wouldn't be.  Now you have to make an explanation for that, which doesn't break two things you've declared.  It gets silly and complicated fast.  You totally understand why Mr Niven stopped writing in the world he'd created because the feed-back loop from players is much faster and personal than from readers.

This is because they're sitting right there and they're in control of some of the characters in the story.

I do keep trying, though.

Civiliansplainin'

Wanna know what I'm sick of?

People who've never served a day explaining to me why observing Veteran's day on the wrong day is correct.

It's not the 10th, it's not the 12th of November.

It is the 11th, and for a very important reason. World War One didn't end on the 10th or the 12th.

Here, just past the 100th anniversary of that end, people should be more aware of it.

Instead they whine that they didn't get a three day weekend out of it this year.

They explain that they couldn't take time out of their normal Sunday to observe this day.

These people can go fuck themselves. With something rusty. Sideways.

Come Memorial Day they're going to explain how it's about their dead, never served a day, relatives too.

They never even note Armed Forces Day. Why? Because they're too fucking selfish to observe a holiday that doesn't come with a day off.

Again, fuck these people. Sideways, with something rusty.

Dear Democrats

If you're serious about every vote being counted, you might want to consider starting by electing a commissioner who can do the job without the appearance of malfeasance or incompetence.

Done!

Fit and finish of the parts is atrocious!  I am reminded why I started buying the Japanese kits now.

But whom else but Monogram would put out a kit for a '78 Corvette?

My skills have diminished over the years too, there was once a time I could have done better.  Going blind isn't helping a bit.

Is Anyone Actually Surprised?

It would appear that DoJ is going to ban bumpstocks by decree via the regulation process.

It's not the first time, and doubtlessly not the last, where a regulatory agency has taken legislative power for itself and promulgated a regulation which is not supported by the law cited.

Until we get someone in the elected portion of our government to stand up and demand that the regulations serve the law and not be laws unto themselves this will never change.

By the way, if you've a pistol brace on any "pistol" that would otherwise be a short-barrel-rifle, I'd get my Form 1 and $200 check out to West Virginia most riki-tik.

Prolly going to come for the not-shotguns like the Shockwave after that.

Sadly, looking for loopholes is the mark of people desperate to do something that's otherwise illegal.

Can't own an MG?  Figure out how to make a semi-auto act like one.
Can't own an SBR?  Pistol brace.
Can't own an SBS?  Not-a-shotgun-but-a-firearm.

Finding the loopholes always brings a response from the entities who banned the things and left the loopholes.

It used to be they passed a new law... welcome the world where there's a Legiscutive Branch making all the laws.

I still feel that regulation should only go into effect once its gotten Congressional approval, especially since regs are treated as if they have the force of law.

But Congress has abdicated their power to unelected bureaucrats in the executive branch.

Matter Of Ounces

The detachable carry handle Willard put on his M1956A2 was primarily for looks.  He wanted it to look, as much as possible, like an AR-10.

With a loaded PMAG, it tips the scales at 10 lb. 12.7 oz.

With a fixed rear sight it drops to 10 lb. 7.1 oz.

With a Magpul BUIS it falls to 10 lb. 3.2 oz.

All three sights do the same job with regards to the shooting with iron sights.

One is for looks.

One, the lightest, allows easy attachment of an optic.

Tinkering

Willard's M1956A2 is here for comparison with his BRN-10B.

I've been coon-fingering it a lot.

I noticed that the safety/selector was very hard to operate.

Turns out it was the detent.

I had a spare laying around, so I swapped in a new detent, all is now better.

Everything Old Is New Again

Pinks and Greens are back, Baby!

I am wondering, though, where Ms SSG on the left got a Schützenschnur, and why is it white?

On a side note, we yearned to wear the black beret the Germans gave us for graduating their tank school.  We settled for the Schütz...  I got silver.

Seen At The Applebee's

On Veteran's Day...

While doing my annual mooch I saw a someone wearing their old class-A's.

Initially I thought it was corny to be wearing them to Applebee's, but we vets do get stupid about wearing stuff on Vet's Day.

Because he was seated in the booth in front of me I got to take a good long look at his ribbons.

Something stood out.

The Kuwaiti Liberation Ribbon top center above three rows of other awards.

That's a foreign award, they go last; not first.  Even the tutti-frutti goes before it on your panel.

I'm not far from saying this guy was never a veteran from getting something this basic wrong.

Needlessly wrong.

It's not like I've ever seen an Applebee's check for a DD214 or military ID lately.

FFS, the correct order is readily available on the internet.

Subtle But Real

If you're ever curious about the difference between Democrats and Republicans all you have to do is look at the lawsuits over the voting process in Broward County, FL.

The Republican suits all demand that the laws be obeyed.

The Democrat suits all demand that the laws be overturned, or an exception to the law be made just this one time.

 

This is the crux of the Democrat strategy.  Legislation is subject to the will of the voters, truly unpopular laws will be overturned when sympathetic legislators are elected.  Popular laws will be retained.

 

Why go to all the bother of electing a majority when you can just have a single judge eliminate a law you dislike?  Or create a law from thin air by twisting the wording of an existing law so far as to be creating a new sub-dialect of English.

 

The power to strike down unconstitutional laws is an important one, but the constitutionality is rarely cited.  It's about "fairness" and "justice".

 

Dearies, you're the ones (under the color of fairness and equality) who changed what was a functioning justice system to a legal system.  You were warned that it wouldn't do what you thought it would once it ran for a generation or two, but you did it anyway.  The same changes eliminated peace officers and made them law enforcement officers.  You're not happy about that either.

Can They Hear Themselves?

“There’s zero reason why this election and the recount and the certification of votes needs to occur on Nov. 20,” Nkwonta argued...

Except for, you know, THE LAW.

Not that I'd expect a lawyer to have even the briefest comprehension of what laws are and how they work; what with their lengthy and expensive education on the law...

Oh wait...

Simple Pleasures

A friend of mine used to own a '78 Corvette.

His wife bought him a 1/24 scale model that he's neglected to assemble for these past many years.

They asked if I would build it for them.

It was Corvette Red with an Oyster White interior.  Italian Red will have to do for the red since nobody stocks the proper, slightly darker, red in a model paint any more.

I don't think I've taken this much care on a car model, ever.

Political Problem

The hallmark of politics lately is the application of large negatives on my life and well being so that a small positive can be applied to someone else.

I would be much less frantic about politics and elections if there were positives coming that balanced the negatives for me.

I would be much less bitter about politics if the things gained by other groups weren't taken from me.

I would be much happier if the other side would listen to the reasons I am citing and noting that there are costs applied to me that aren't being applied to the beneficiaries of these policies.

I'd be nearly ecstatic if the other side wouldn't label me a bigot for daring to object to the changes they are making.  Especially since the other side is so clearly bigoted.

No More Cameos

Stan Lee has shuffled off this mortal coil.

Godpeed and Excelsior!