{"id":4477,"date":"2018-01-05T21:29:56","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T02:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2018-01-05T21:29:56","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T02:29:56","slug":"and-into-the-new-year-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/and-into-the-new-year-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2026AND INTO THE NEW YEAR\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good luck to all who are suffering the current record cold snap. Hiding out from winter in north Florida, we still had icicles on the cars and power outages when ice weighed down the power lines.\u00a0 No \u201cbomb cyclones,\u201d though, and therefore no sniveling here.<\/p>\n

My significant other, the Evil Princess, has completed her photo studio more or less. Here\u2019s an example: the somewhat fancified .45 I carried through the holidays because, well, it was The Holidays.<\/p>\n

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I will now segue into carrying the guns I\u2019m testing for articles during my teaching sabbatical, since \u201chow they carry\u201d is part of the test: Wilson Combat enhancement of the Glock 19, Nighthawk Custom 9mm Dominator with double stack magazine, and Ruger\u2019s new Security-9.\u00a0 Yes, we cover the waterfront on price range.<\/p>\n

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We are supposed to be living up to our New Year\u2019s Resolutions.\u00a0 As a card-carrying Old Fart, I\u2019ve learned to be more reasonable than optimistic about that.\u00a0 My resolution WOULD have been to shoot more matches\u2026but the schedule got in the way of that.\u00a0 I shot four Glock matches at the beginning of last year, winning three guns and some cash, which gave me warm fuzzies.\u00a0 This year, I\u2019m going to be able to make only two.\u00a0 I recently discovered that one in Florida was in conflict with a CLE class and a MAG-20 class \u201cup Nawth\u201d that will kick off my 2018 teaching season.\u00a0 Solution to resolution: I\u2019m gonna try to apply the time I\u2019d have spent in competition to personal skill-building on my own range.\u00a0 On the bright side, there\u2019s at least one IDPA match I\u2019ll be able to hit.<\/p>\n

New Year\u2019s Resolutions tend toward absolution for personal vices.\u00a0 Very well.\u00a0 I hereby resolve to drink only the finest alcoholic beverages, consume only the choicest tobacco, eat only the most delicious food, and sleep with only the most wonderful woman.<\/p>\n

(A key to success is only making resolutions you might actually keep.<\/em>)<\/p>\n

But, enough about me \u2013 what are YOUR New Year\u2019s Resolutions\u2026and what do you think are your actual chances of carrying them out?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good luck to all who are suffering the current record cold snap. Hiding out from winter in north Florida, we still had icicles on the cars and power outages when ice weighed down the power lines.\u00a0 No \u201cbomb cyclones,\u201d though, and therefore no sniveling here. My significant other, the Evil Princess, has completed her photo […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4480,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions\/4480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}