The Watering Hole

Got the Kimber sighted in with the Burris scope. All Burris on top now, bases, rings and scope. I was twisting dials and not getting to where I wanted when I remembered that the adjustments were 1/8th minute, not 1/4. Ahah moment done and then got close enough to click it in. Wind was more than I would have liked so I may have to make a minor adjustment later. POI of RWS Subsonic and CCI Subsonic is very different at 50 yards, they cannot be used interchangeably. I set up for the CCI for now. I had planned on picking up more limbs and getting the pile burning BUT then the phone rang. It was Belinda, going yet again to the ER with extremely low blood calcium level. I wish the stupid insurance company would get their problem worked out with paying for the IV glucose bags that she was being sent. Because she can't pay the twenty percent copay, that she didn't know about, the shipments of calcium gluconate in IV bags were cut off. So then the blood calcium level gets dangerously low and the dialysis clinic sends her to the ER for calcium, which results in a big bill to the insurance company. It winds up costing her insurance much more than if they just sent the damned calcium to start with. They are supposedly working on an assistance deal but time is passing and ....nothing. In the meantime, they get yet another ER bill. Brilliant health management program. 🤤

Biggest portion of all phone calls are garbage. I have all of the important numbers that call me saved in my phones contacts so that they show immediately if I need to answer, the rest can either leave a message with a callback number of go to Hades.

Dealing with businesses and insurance companies drives me insane. Maybe I'm not far from that anyway, but people better hope they don't catch me with a diagnosis of days only to live.

Daughter got hit in the rear end this afternoon. No major body damage, took out the back bumper of their Chevy Equinox.

My right shoulder is still bothering me, keeping me awake some nights. Physical therapy probably will be upcoming. Got fluid in my right ear from nasal allergy, pollinated I is. Even the right ankle that I broke and tore up the ligaments on in 1981 is hurting tonight.

Finished adjusted the Burris Timberline 4.5-14 on the Kimber and then set targets at 75 and 100 yards marked off in inches vertically to determine which of the reticle marks to use for holdover at those distances. The last mark was exactly on at 100, 8" of holdover at 14x. At 75 yards I thought that the second mark should be the one to try; first shot struck the nail holding the target and sprayed lead fragments all over the paper! Obviously not that mark. Tried the first one, not enough, so it worked out to be in between the two. It's bad how inconsistent CCI Subsonic is; you get two or three shots through a slightly elongated hole, get hopes up, then poof, hopes dashed. Guaranteed to miss at least twenty percent of squirrel head shots past fifty yards.