Is the wait always this bad? Wait OVER! (updated)

[Junk Yard Dog]

It's amazing how the entire UPS, FedEx, or USPS system can slow down the moment your firearm enters the system

[Thib]

It's amazing how the entire UPS, FedEx, or USPS system can slow down the moment your firearm enters the system

Of course you just made me look at the tracking page again to make sure... Out for delivery! Now, to get creative with my work schedule to get that adult signature so I don't have to wait another day!

[Junk Yard Dog]

Now the worry about the truck breaking down, or having an accident starts.....

[zeebill]

Welcome aboard Thib. It is nice to see that USAF logo. Not many members here have indicated that they are Air Force associated.

Clint
USAF 1955-1959 AFSC 43151C

How's this Clint?
USAF 1965-1969 AFSC 25231 Weather
Bill

[Hombre]

.....How's this Clint?

USAF 1965-1969 AFSC 25231 Weather
Bill

That is great Bill

Maybe there are closet USAF members all over the place.

Are you signed up at AFTWS?

[Thib]

And... we missed the Brown truck.

Sister in law was here all day with my daughter, decided to run out for 20 mins to grab lunch. Murphy's law... yellow tag.

Got it covered tomorrow.

[Junk Yard Dog]

Never fails

[popgun]

HAY THIB! you now need the truth. all of them sleep with there mosins after they get them(and still do) the wait is the fun(the later is more true) popgun

[desertgunner]

....and the perfume of cosmoline and No 9 oil slowly crawing up from under the bed, entering your nostrils, making them flap, flap until you cannot bear it anymore, you situp and...open the box....
and there she is......ALL YOURS!

Just keep on drooling, tomorrow is another day to get happier than today. Don't be sad.....

[Jumperwire]

Welcome aboard Thib. It is nice to see that USAF logo. Not many members here have indicated that they are Air Force associated.

Clint
USAF 1955-1959 AFSC 43151C

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I was

[Hombre]

Neat jumperwire.

Looks like your Civil Engineering Squadron took the "keep em flying" motto very seriously.

[Ironnewt]

my last one for today:
Thib, your's will be in your hot, sweatty hands tomorrow to hold for good.....
I have a 32 Ishevsk Hex sweatting in quarantine (CA law required) not far away, calling out for her owner alone in the night....
to wait for another 9 days...

That's heart-breaking for me.....


Yeah, age makes you go on the sentimental journey....more often

That has got to be enough to drive someone nuts. I've visited California and it's got some great places to see and visit but damn if you don't have to put up with some crazy laws and some real wack job politicos

[popgun]

cme!! how about the USN!!!!! 22YRS. MY BEST BUD IS USAF!! come on say somthing about us old swabs.. popgun

[Hombre]

And... we missed the Brown truck.

Sister in law was here all day with my daughter, decided to run out for 20 mins to grab lunch. Murphy's law... yellow tag.

Got it covered tomorrow.

I was going to mention that mode of failure but didn't because I was afraid it might jinx your delivery. Guess I should have mentioned it.

[Jumperwire]

Neat jumperwire.

Looks like your Civil Engineering Squadron took the "keep em flying" motto very seriously.

They always had a motto, "it don't rain on the Horse" Ironically, we had an exercise and our commander got hit. He was down and the Inspectors asked me, "Airman, what do you do now?" I told them, "where I come from, when a horse is down, we put him out of his misery." That wasn't the right answer.

[Ironnewt]

And... we missed the Brown truck.

Sister in law was here all day with my daughter, decided to run out for 20 mins to grab lunch. Murphy's law... yellow tag.

Got it covered tomorrow.

Hey It could be worse, you could be expecting a UPS and a Fed Ex and miss both. or hit a tri-fecta Miss UPS, USPS and Fed Ex all in the same day. YOICKS!

[Hombre]

Neat jumperwire.

Looks like your Civil Engineering Squadron took the "keep em flying" motto very seriously.

They always had a motto, "it don't rain on the Horse" Ironically, we had an exercise and our commander got hit. He was down and the Inspectors asked me, "Airman, what do you do now?" I told them, "where I come from, when a horse is down, we put him out of his misery." That wasn't the right answer.

Those inspectors were not known for their sense of humor. I guess since your squadron motto is "Always Lead" he expected you to say that you would take command.

I had looked up your squadron and figured you guys were very instrumental in following the AF general motto, and your Red Horse looks like he is taking off with full afterburner going.

[desertgunner]

Ironnewt,
you are so right...they (?) call California the State of the Fruits and Nuts.

Have my sincere promise: I might be a nut, but certainly not a fruit,
.....those are reserved for our Senators and House Representatives, so that they can thrive on fruity and frutier on gun ban issues they have no basic clue on in the first place.... pirated in education and heavily paid..... no, I cannot go there, sorry! I degress

But, yeah, it is a nuisance , I would just have to move to Arizona, 90m away, to be in a breating mode again. Freedomwise.

Never mind, my new one is in quarantine, in case I might be a felon.....and she certainly does not deserve that. ......, but I have not been a felon the last 8 checks.....
Which by no means SAYS I accept ALL this DEM S..t I am faced with every day. The sign with the rolled up rattler in my and our neighbor's yards tells the story well enough to be understoood for the "Fruits".

I rest my case, 20-12-2012 is coming......OR NOT , we are prepared....

[Jumperwire]

Neat jumperwire.

Looks like your Civil Engineering Squadron took the "keep em flying" motto very seriously.

They always had a motto, "it don't rain on the Horse" Ironically, we had an exercise and our commander got hit. He was down and the Inspectors asked me, "Airman, what do you do now?" I told them, "where I come from, when a horse is down, we put him out of his misery." That wasn't the right answer.

Those inspectors were not known for their sense of humor. I guess since your squadron motto is "Always Lead" he expected you to say that you would take command.

I had looked up your squadron and figured you guys were very instrumental in following the AF general motto, and your Red Horse looks like he is taking off with full afterburner going.

No they didn't have a sense of humor. That was my first assignment. Osan, Korea. We worked hard, but I enjoyed every bit it. That unit is now in Guam. Some how, I can't imagine it's quite the same.

[Thib]

The wait is over!

After fighting with the box for a bit, then again fighting with the strange black bubble wrap... it hit me! That heavenly essence filled my senses, abruptly interrupted by "Jesus, I better not light a match! We'd all go up in flames" from the kitchen. I guess I should have unpacked in Man-town instead of the dining room table... my bad!

What I ended up with is a 1932 Izhevsk Hex with what appears to be matching numbers all around. (I see no evidence of grinding or strike outs, but I am just a mere rookie. I will wait until I can get more pics up)

This picture is only a tease, the best I could do with my Droid, apparently the wife busted the digital. I couldn't get good close-ups with the phone. I will grab another camera tomorrow and snap some good ones.

I have washed my hands nine times and I can still smell the cosmoline #9!

Thib