Night Owls only

[HHISIII]

I love my Combat Commander, but at the end of the day, my groups with the P9S are half the size.
John Moses was a bright guy and had some great ideas, but Meidel wasn't exactly a moron and had a few decades of technology at his back that John did not have.

 

[Harp]

Oh, nothin' personal, Harp, but I'd trust my cocked-and-locked "loose-fitting rattletrap" GI-style M1911A1 over a European sissypistol every time.

*Hoot*

Diversity of opinion about a work of art
shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.

Oscar Wilde; Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray

I once favored the 1911A1; until it proved a wildcard. Then the Python, an Ace of a deuce.

Thomas More's "The Pain Experienced by Ghosts;" The Supplication of Souls

The knight's perspective; timeless wisdom.

Another Cinderella night owlin'.

 

[Diamondback]

End is in sight... only six months' worth of posts that I couldn't dredge up between the "Sort Ascending" and "Sort Descending, 1 Year Ago and Older Only" searches. Six more pages of results and the rebuild will be as complete as it can get...

Amen on difference of opinion and different specimens... mine is actually a hand-build, so it's a little tighter than GI fit and delivers better accuracy than what my hand is capable of. Goes bang every time, too, unless I use El Cheapo mags. (Which is why I have El Cheapos: to deliberately induce malfunctions in training, and they're all specifically marked for training use only--if it gets ugly, I'm sticking to the good Wilsons and McCormicks.)

 

[HHISIII]

A well-tuned 1911 is a seriously accurate weapon, but unless you go to the $5k+ range, the P9S is more accurate. Now if stock mags would just get cheaper ($80-100 per currently) or if an aftermarket company would produce some, it would be a very practical weapon.

On another note, I'm going to go ballistic if the roofers don't finish tomorrow. They've been at it for over 2 weeks now. Between coordinating with my landlord, who lives across the country, and non-stop rotted decking/skylight braces, it's been miserable.

 

[Harp]

*Hoot*

I've decided to return to the emperor's court
once more I shall see if it's possible to live there
I could stay here in this remote province
under the full sweet leaves of the sycamore
and the gentle rule of sickly nepotists

Zbigniew Herbert, The Return Of The Proconsul

Machiavelli's The Prince. Philosopher and knave.

Cinderella night owl -

 

[Harp]

No, nothing worries me.
Nothing can trouble me.
My soul knows how to fly
Higher than the Lark.

St Therese, Abandonment Is The Sweet Fruit of Love

Guy Gaucher, John and Therese; Flames of Love
The influence of St John of the Cross in the Life and Writings of St Therese of Lisieux

Mystical theology as revealed by a divine philosopher.

*Hoot*
Thesis research; Vivaldi, Autumn; "The Four Seasons" III Allegro
...and Notre Dame football blog review.
any other scholastic Saturday night owls flyin'?

 

[Diamondback]

Gearing up to unleash a brand new secret weapon in my War On Wargaming Morons: a complete Bomb Group of B-29 Superfortress miniatures, plus an additional squadron toward a second BG. Think I should be extra-special nasty, make the odd squadron the 393rd BS/509th CG and "nuke 'em up"?

 

[Mr Vim]

*bump*
*hoot*

It lives again, and again, and again, the night owl thread won't go away, as long as I keep having to stand night watches anyway.

Are there any other night owls hooting so late that it is early everywhere else but Alaska?

I will be back on tomorrow night at an earlier time (later for yous)

 

[Mr Vim]

Well, I'm back again on yet another night shift, is there anyone else up and kicking?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Is anyone else up at this point in time? I am going to be for at least 15 more mintues

 

[The Good]

I have continued, throughout the semester, to stay up late, and often until early morning hours. This has been the most stressful college semester so far, although I have become relieved somewhat after dropping my mathematics course before the end date to do so. I still have a couple of essays and two research papers ahead of me, though.

 

[THe Conductor]

I work a job on the railroad, that puts me on duty at 8 pm, and off at 8 am. Rumbling through a sleepy town on a train at 2 in the morning is a weird feeling. You look down empty streets, the only thing you know about each little town being the name, milepost, and whatever customer you might have to switch out. Its kind of an unexplainable, surreal feeling, which is probably I why I get such a kick out of what I do. Its kinda nice being the rolling bastion of life in a dead town, all 100 cars worth.

 

[CopperNY]

i worked 11pm to 7am for seven years. were i still single, i wouldn't mind at all. my "second wind" for the day seems to hit around 9pm and i am at my most creative until about 3am. felt my best sleeping from 5am to noon. on my days off i enjoyed going to the grocery store while it was mostly empty and having my days free for errands/appointments.

 

[Harp]

I have continued, throughout the semester, to stay up late, and often until early morning hours. This has been the most stressful college semester so far... I still have a couple of essays and two research papers ahead of me, though.

*Hoot*

"Another storm coming.
Under the copper light
my papers seem luminous.
And over them I will take
ever more painstaking care."

Thomas Kinsella, Wyncote, Pennsylvania: A Gloss


I envy you your college years.
I often read through the night in college and loved writing papers.

 

[zombi]

I've been working 12-hour night shifts for going on four years now. Someone's got to keep up with the patients at this hour! I don't mind it, and my husband works the same shifts I do, just in a different area of the hospital -- so it's not too bad for me.

I woke up too early this afternoon, however, and I'm going to be VERY sleepy come 0300!

 

[Harp]

I woke up too early this afternoon...

The Full Circle Bookstore is a great place to spend an afternoon.
Blazing fireplaces; sipping Kentucky bourbon from the flask; reading Aquinas.
Then, lay down a bet on a thoroughbred at Remington Park;
and stop for the best ribs on this planet at the grocery on 2500 NW Pennsylvania.

I ditched law school classes at OCU for the more inspiring advantages
Oklahoma City offers.

 

[zombi]

Full Circle is a great place to spend an afternoon

Can't blame you for ditching law classes at OCU! Though their Christmas decorations are always beautiful.

 

[Mr Vim]

Well golly folks, this thread is over thirty pages long! I am quite happy to have made something on this site with such longevity.

I'm on another string of night shifts, going all the way through most of next month, so I will be popping on here from time to time to check on any other owls blinking bleary eyed over their tea/coffee/energy drinks as they try to type out that last important line before their head hits the keyboard as they fall asleepdffffffffffffsssssssssssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
*snort* what was I saying then?

 

[Harp]

*Hoot*

Lady, Lady, I saw your face,
Dark as night withholding a star...
The chisel fell, or it might have been
You had borne so long the yoke of men.

Anne Spencer, Lady, Lady

Cinderella thesis research: Simone Weil's The Need For Roots.
T.S. Eliot wrote the preface for this posthumous 1952 edition; remarking
Weil's difficult, violent, and complex nature, then cautions against summary judgement.

Mozart's Sonata No. 8 in A Minor, Alfred Brendel, piano
:coffee:

 

[Blackthorn]

Well golly folks, this thread is over thirty pages long! I am quite happy to have made something on this site with such longevity.

I'm on another string of night shifts, going all the way through most of next month, so I will be popping on here from time to time to check on any other owls blinking bleary eyed over their tea/coffee/energy drinks as they try to type out that last important line before their head hits the keyboard as they fall asleepdffffffffffffsssssssssssssssssssssssaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
*snort* what was I saying then?

Wow, I should have checked this forum a long time ago. I found it about 18 months ago, while working night shift in a water treatment plant. I also work a rotating shift, and I have about 6 weeks left before going back to day shift. So...hello!