Asp Knife is a very different design.

I kind of dig this all-in-one Fireman's tool. It's got a rappelling ring! It scores glass to break through windshields. You can chop through sheet steel. And the end can be used to turn off fire and gas.

I know what CJ wants for xmas...

Call me impatient, Erin, but what's that one second vid about? I hopped and skipped through it, and all I saw was bagwork.

It's about the illusion of safety with concealed carry -- just because you have a firearm doesn't mean you're safe. It demonstrates how fast an assailant without a weapon can incapacitate a trained person with a concealed weapon. The big guy is hitting the bag, nstead of the older guy.

The older guy can draw from concealed carry in 1 second, and the big guy can get 4-6 good hits in before he can get it out.

The older guy can draw from concealed carry in 1 second, and the big guy can get 4-6 good hits in before he can get it out.

If the guy decides to pull a gun while a guy is in arm's reach, then he's an idiot. But I guess they say that. Guns are much better than punches at a distance.

Yeah, from what I get, the class is predicated on the "Don't be Too Stupid To Live" model.

They have 2 hour intro classes for $35 that includes a one week pass to any self-defense or conditioning classes. I might take one in February.

It'll probably kill me, but it'd be good research. I'd have to buy non-marking sneakers, though. My only pair are roughly 800 years old, have holes in the toe, and have black soles.

I just checked, and this cough started on October 16, and has gotten worse and better, but never actually went away.

I think a lot of people have that. Tim got sick the week before Thanksgiving, and while he's 98% better, he still has a cough.

I started having some amped-up allergy symptoms around Thanksgiving, and they're not going away, not even with Benadryl (on top of daily Zyrtec [and I have cycled through Zyrtex, Claritin, and Allegra]), so I have a doctor appt. tomorrow morning. I don't know what it is, unless living with cats finally got to be too much after 4 years.

(You guys, it was 4 years on Dec. 1st. FOUR YEARS OH MY GOD.)

But the thing is, I haven't been having gradually increasing symptoms; they just suddenly got bad around Thanksgiving. Normally, I would assume sudden bad symptoms are due to a change in *something* -- new drug, new food, new cat, new *something.* I can't figure it out, but it's starting to freak me out.

I know what CJ wants for xmas...

Not just CJ. Hmm.

Hil, time to make some noise. Have you been to urgent care or an ER?

But the thing is, I haven't been having gradually increasing symptoms; they just suddenly got bad around Thanksgiving. Normally, I would assume sudden bad symptoms are due to a change in *something* -- new drug, new food, new cat, new *something.* I can't figure it out, but it's starting to freak me out.

That's me right now. Since before Thanksgiving, needing Benadryl almost every day, itchy eyes and throat, sneezing, the whole works. Nothing's changed -- we have the same two cats we've had for two years. I don't get it, but I'm tired of it.

That's me right now. Since before Thanksgiving, needing Benadryl almost every day, itchy eyes and throat, sneezing, the whole works. Nothing's changed -- we have the same two cats we've had for two years. I don't get it, but I'm tired of it.

That's almost exactly what I've got going on. Plus I have this thing (new in the last 2 days) where my face feels sunburned, but it isn't red and there's no rash or hives or whatever. I feel like some crazy histamine reaction kicked in and won't stop.

I know what CJ wants for xmas...

You are so right. Ain't happening, but oh, how he would love that.