TGO David

This is one of countless pictures that I took in Sedona last year. No retouching. I did shoot it through a polarized filter, but that's it.

Very cool. It seems like the whole Raptor owners community is looking for 1:18 scale diecast models of our trucks. So far no one has stepped up to make them. I'm pretty surprised that neither Maisto or Auto Art have made them yet, but that Lexan R/C body is definitely the coolest thing I've seen yet.

I have Line-X in mine.

I agree. The interior is nicer than the exterior.

We'll get them together and take some pics and post them up.

So... we need to get the trucks together and see if they really look like photo negatives of each other.

If you guys are looking for temporary work, I'd suggest working through a temp agency. That may seem blindingly obvious, but those are the best sources of work on a day to day or week to week basis. Thankfully you guys are being honest about the temporary nature of your need. The "good" news is that there are a lot of temporary opportunities out there. Quotes due to the fact that sadly some companies could easily staff permanent positions but opt to use temps rather than hire a person and give them benefits.

If the Grand Canyon interests you, save your time and money and just watch a documentary about it. Far less commercial that way. It is pretty much the National Park Service's Disney Land. Just my $0.02 worth.

I agree completely.

Spent 3 days there last fall. Gorgeous town; would love to retire there or to a neighboring town... but that's a good ways away. I'll put together a list of "must do / must see" things later this evening when I have some time.

Nope, took tonight off to go see a movie with my wife. No work for me this evening!

We have had this in the past via a modification to vBulletin called iTrader. iTrader was written by a third party volunteer author who subsequently stopped writing the code, and then a few more people from the vB community picked it up and started working on it again, updating it for vB4. The last time I tried to use it, there were some pretty serious bugs in the software that caused us some problems so I abandoned it again. The good news, however, is that I plan on moving us off of vBulletin very soon and the new software has several well written add-ons that bring that functionality back to the table along with a very nice "classified ads" system. I will be implementing those as soon after as possible. Right now I'm neck deep in some very major projects at work so I just haven't had a lot of time to work on TGO. In fact, this past week I've done the most recreational surfing of the forums that I've been able to do in a long while. And sadly that's because I was pulling some 8pm - 3am upgrades for work from home. That stuff is about to calm down in the second week of August and I hope to be able to earnestly pursue getting us moved to the new server and to the new software.

You couldn't pay me to eat a fish pulled from Percy Priest.

There are far too many variables at the client side (i.e. your computer) over which I have zero control and far too many people not experiencing this problem at all -- myself included -- for me to be able to troubleshoot this or even consider it to be something on the server side. As always, the vast majority of login related issues are either the result of (a.) wrong password or (b.) settings or software on the client side interfering with the browser cookies that TGO uses to store your session credentials. Sorry.

I will say that it is harder for me to get as much work done in the office as I get done working from home. Here at the office there are so many other distractions vying for pieces of my time. People stopping by and expecting you to drop whatever you're doing at the moment to look at something for them, phone ringing, etc. At home I can just focus on the tasks at hand and do my work. Kind of the polar opposite of what so many people say it is like working from home.

Try a search... its been discussed here before.

Don't think that song hasn't been in my head all evening as well! Indeed it is. He's doing much better, thanks! Poor guy has had a rough week.

Happiness is being provided the opportunity to work late night infrastructure updates for your company, from home, with a glass of lemonade and a firearm sitting on your desk in plain sight. Some of my peers work from home 2-3 days per week and even others work from home entirely unless needed. I'm truly blessed to have a great job with a great company once again. Even if we are putting in some horrendously long, late hours this month to take care of some projects.

No beers necessary; it'd be a nice chance to catch up and shoot the breeze. Let me dig that thing out when I get done doing updates for work tonight and see what the dimensions are.

Guys... Yeager's involvement in the incident on Route Irish have been discussed here ad nauseum and, frankly, I don't know that it is possible given the third-hand information available to extrapolate "the truth" about what happened or who did what. We can definitely draw some conclusions with reasonable accuracy, but there will still be unknowns that leave room for uncertainty. That said, I think it is easier to debate the matter at hand and draw conclusions from that. The older I get, the less patience I have and subsequently I am less willing to accept risks when it comes to investing my money or my time. If I cannot enter into an endeavor with reasonable assurance that I am going to either enriched personally or financially from my involvement, I do not enter into that endeavor. I can apply that mentality to firearms training pretty easily. If I have questions about a training opportunity or organization or personality because of well-known baggage, I am not going to spend my money or my time with them. There are too many good, reputable trainers and training orgs out there -- perhaps even teaching the exact same things -- for me to take risks with, or support, those who have a cloud of bad karma surrounding them. This doesn't apply to Tactical Response in particular, it just applies to all of them in general. Your mileage might vary.

Yep.

This is true; the new owner can apply for his tax stamp(s) however he is not allowed to possess those items until the stamp(s) arrive. During which time the items must be transferred to a dealer and then transferred BACK to the recipient. They cannot remain in the possession of someone who does not have the requisite papers. It's far less of a headache to have your ducks in a row ahead of time via a trust. Barring a person going through the headache and expense of obtaining their own tax stamp, the items would have to be surrendered or destroyed. Which brings up another valid point: If a person is added as an executor or trustee of the trust, they don't have to keep paying the BATFE for those tax stamps every time the item changes hands.

I think I still have my MGWLTD sight pusher for the HK45. I can check to see if it accommodates the taller sights.

I question the thoroughness of your understanding of the advantages that come with using a Trust for NFA items. Have you read up on it? I am not going waste your time or mine if you've already done your research, but most people change their opinion once they really see what going through a Trust enables them and their friends/family to do. Especially in terms of estate planning. With you being the sole signer of that form, once something happens to you that SBR must be destroyed or forfeited to the BATFE.

I never got around to buying a MOAKS but I really need to pick one up sooner or later.