Sunday Morning

We have late church this year, so Munch (a.k.a. Spawn) and I get to spend the morning together while Bubbles sleeps.

This morning we did a lot of good talking, and also built Lego ships. Spawn was very excited when I first showed her Legos a month or two back. She immediately wanted to design monster shooting ships. I should have captured our first effort, but it was a rush job and not very aesthetically pleasing.

These are better.



The one on the far left is the prison ship where we keep captured monsters. The smaller one in the middle is my ship she insisted I build so I could capture monsters with her. The one she's holding is her rebuilt model we did today with super uber monster shooters on the sides.

We were playing with the new ships and I let the new monsters know they were going to jail and would never come out again. Spawn promptly said, "You're going to jail forever, and you'll have to pee in a bucket!"

Ready for Next Weekend

Next weekend we get to go visit my brother and his family. The cousins all like to play together, and so do my bro and I. We'll take a range trip. I cleaned and oiled everything today. When you haven't done the monthly cleanings you should, it adds up to a lot of work!

I didn't find a lot on removing the rear sight on a Ruger 10 22 rifle online, and I had to replace mine as it was broken. One forum mentioned these are not robust sights and the guy growing up had to replace his 2-3 times a year when they hunted for small game.

All it takes is a hammer, a nail set and little fear. I padded a vise and carefully tightened it down to keep from marring the barrel, then set to work with the hammer and nail set. It did come out, with more application of force than I'd figured. The hard part was setting the new one carefully into place, as I naturally didn't want to break that. If it's not perfect, it's close.

I also got around to cleaning the 10 22 rotary magazine. Mine had jammed and wasn't working properly. A video helped out.



While I'm at it, I'm going to post this one for when I want to pull and clean the bolt.


Also for reference, full field strip (Replaced the defunct video on 01/25/2014 with a working one.  And I cleaned today):


I haven't yet been brave enough to pull the trigger group, but it looks easy, and my bolt could probably use cleaning.

Penguin Pee

IMing is fun.

Bubbles: Spawn's telling a story about a baby penguin that sat on her daddy's hand and peed.

Monkey: I'll be sure not to let her sit on my hand.

Bubbles: haha

Omnipotent

We were teaching Spawn "How Firm a Foundation" tonight. I realized she didn't know the word "Omnipotent" yet.

"Omnipotent is a new word for you, isn't it?" I asked.

"Uh-huh," she affirmed.

"It means all powerful. God is omnipotent, which means He can do anything."

The awed Spawn promptly asked, "Even backward somersaults?"