But for some reason people keep giving them to me. i mean, i'm an a.d.d. kid who is easily distracted by shiny, pointy objects and i have an appreciation for well-made, well-designed things and i have a professional appreciation for them, but i am not a freak. there's one kid here who spends HOURS every night sharpening them. "dude. seriously you NEED to be spending that time working on your pistol and your rifle and practicing your magazine changes reflexive firing skills and actions on misfires. killing the bad guy when he's far away or keeping his head down so he never gets close to you is a GOOD thing. letting him get close enough to you and having your weapons fail so you HAVE to use a knife is a BAD thing. got it? good... and bad..." sometimes you have to break it down like a barney song for them.
anyways, if you pop the lid up on my footlocker, you'd swear i was a serial killer waiting to happen. there are knives galore in that thing. and not little kitchen knives either. mean looking things. a couple i brought with me but they must be mating like bunny rabbits in there when i close the lid or something. it's scary. but today one came in that i'm guilty for. i actually bought it. a new spyderco endura4. i hated spydercos at first, back when i saw sgt r's police model (which i know own, having bought it off of him for 15 bucks almost ten years ago). but they grew on me, and became less ugly and funny looking and more and more intelligently thought out the more i looked at them. i didn't need a new one, but someone stole the other endura that i brought down range with me. i'd had that one for years, since my last trip actually. but apparently someone felt they needed it more than me. and i got a flyer for this knife in my email and it was a sale price (www.knifecenter.com- they're awesome, and if you're deployed, they ship FAST. usually within 7 days you'll be holding whatever you ordered in your grubby little....). this thing is awesome. everything i hated about earlier models they fixed. screwed construction instead of rivets so that i can adjust the tension on the blade. 4 positions for the pocket clip. steel liners in the handle so it doesn't flex so much when i'm gripping it. the blade looks a little funny to me now, because they put a weird angle on the point, but they did that to strengthen the point so i can't fault them. ridges on the back of the knife near the thumb for positive control. just a solid, solid knife. i love a company that actually goes for function over form. while i haven't seriously used it yet, i'm giving it 2 thumbs up. i'm sure it'll perform at LEAST as well as any other spyderco and i'm expecting it to do much better. and they're a colorado company!
okay, enough of that. i'm not a paid shill. but i'm stoked. it's the little things sometimes, you know? it wasn't a bad day by any stretch of the imagination, but getting new toys always makes it better.
saw two movies today while i was building comms parts. "2010" which i thought was amazingly stupid and "what's eating gilbert grape". the jury is out on that one. normally i dislike juliette lewis though, and i thought she was kind of cute in this movie (possibly because she didn't talk much, so she didn't sound stupid) so it's got that going for it. it was kind of awesome. i NEVER get a chance to sit in one spot for that long. i've been wanting to assemble those kits for months now and haven't had the time.
got word from the smart tuition assistance lady. we like her. she's taking care of the mix-up. so hopefully they'll mail my books this week yet and i might get them sometime in february. this is good.
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