{"id":1270,"date":"2008-06-24T13:06:57","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/74.220.207.152\/~hogonice\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2008-06-24T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T13:06:57","slug":"new-dietary-hazard-protein-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=1270","title":{"rendered":"New Dietary Hazard: Protein Bars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Full of Caffeine<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Busy day today. Obligations. Connections. Whatnot. That&#8217;s why I haven&#8217;t been around.<\/p>\n<p>I just put an FFL in the mail for the guy in Texas with the 27-2. Got a couple of emails from <a href='http:\/\/smokeonthewater.typepad.com\/smokeonthewater\/'target='_blank'>Jim,<\/a> regarding pistol upgrades and care. He says not to store the gun in a holster, because it will mess up the finish. I never really thought about that, but I&#8217;ll follow his advice. I don&#8217;t have a holster, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably want new grips, primarily in order to avoid beating up the originals. Generally, on a range gun, I&#8217;d want something rubbery. But this gun is too pretty for that. I&#8217;m thinking I should find something in walnut or rosewood. I haven&#8217;t decided.<\/p>\n<p>Kim du Toit is filling my head with <a href='http:\/\/www.theothersideofkim.com\/index.php\/ggps\/10399\/'target='_blank'>dreams of a Model 65,<\/a> which is another Smith &#038; Wesson .357. I will not listen. I will not. I will not.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I will. Damn it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an L frame, which means .357 rounds will wear it out. So maybe I&#8217;ll be able to resist it.<\/p>\n<p>I feel horrible today. I barely slept. Last night I kept wondering why I couldn&#8217;t sleep. I didn&#8217;t drink coffee yesterday, and I only had one glass of tea. Then it occurred to me&#8230;I had eaten one item without knowing the ingredients. And sure enough, it turns out you have to be careful about protein bars. They&#8217;re putting caffeine in them now. They could say so on the label, couldn&#8217;t they? I&#8217;m really mad.<\/p>\n<p>Mike will be in town this week. Hopefully I&#8217;ll be able to drag him to the range. He still has not bought a gun. Every time I hear from him, he&#8217;s looking at a different model. His current idea? The Sig 229. Looks like a Glock clone. I know nothing about it. Seems like a boring gun to me. My guess? Near-Glock performance at a Sig price. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll get lots of comments for saying that.<\/p>\n<p>You can get a Glock for like 600 bucks. Let&#8217;s see what a Sig costs. Yeah, this is what I figured. Cheapest web price: $778. Oh my God. You can buy a Glock now for $480. Less than I paid in 1991. I very much doubt the Sig is $300 better. And it&#8217;s even uglier than the Glock. And the Glock holds two more rounds. FAIL. FAIL. FAIL.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, Mike must suffer until he buys something.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Full of Caffeine Busy day today. Obligations. Connections. Whatnot. That&#8217;s why I haven&#8217;t been around. I just put an FFL in the mail for the guy in Texas with the 27-2. Got a couple of emails from Jim, regarding pistol upgrades and care. He says not to store the gun in a holster, because it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-hunting-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}