What a weekend

[skalls]

I left work early on Friday by an hour to get home to take care of 1 little item and then load up my range bag so a good friend and former coworker of mine could go out to the gun range to sling some lead downrange.  I brought a weeny gun (Ruger SP 101 in 22), an oldie but goodie (AK47) and the new hotness (Sig MPX).  I love shooting the MPX.  Except I always forget to turn the damn red dot site off.  So what happens when I go to turn it on.  Yeah, dead as hell.  That gun wasn't accurate at all lol.  But we had a good time and enjoyed a beer and some BS back at the range hall.

Got back home, fired up the grill so I could make shrimp tacos with a mango salsa.  Man they were tasty.  I think I could've made the salsa better with dicing the mango a bit more and pull back a bit on the red onions.  Mighty tasty though.  After that I had a couple friends come over and we enjoyed a couple cigars, bourbon and of course BS lol.

I had to shoo them out of my house earlier than expected because I was golfing early Saturday morning.  I woke up at 5 a.m., which while only an hour earlier than I normally wake up, is a god awful time to wake up on a Saturday.  Made it to my home golf course at 10 to 6 and managed to play a round in 2 hours 5 minutes.  And man what a round it was.  Birdied the first hole and that was the closest to par I was the whole round.  3 holes later I birdie the fourth and that was the "worst" I was at any point in the round.  Finished the front 9 in -2.  I can't sit here and tell anyone that I could've or should've shot any better than that.  The back 9 on the other hand, could have been something truly special, if not for the "head up ass" syndrome that can afflict golfers.

 (I just love the smell of fresh cut grass early in the morning).

I wound up finishing the back 9 in -1, but i had 3 really, really stupid bogies (when 2 of the holes I should've been sniffing around birdie) and missed 3 6-8 footers for birdie.  But, a -3 with no doubles, no penalty strokes, minor mental gaffes and I stayed under par for all 18 holes.  Yeah I was surprised at the score but man I was on cloud 9.  I also smelled worse than a football locker room.  It was muggy as hell and HOT out.  When I teed off at 5:50 it was 75.  By the time i took the turn it was 86, at 7 a.m.  

So I ran to my mom's house to clean up because I had some research to do at the local Ford dealership.  I wanted to get some info on the upcoming 2018 F150s.  2 years ago I got into a car crash and had to be a responsible adult and not overextend myself in a loan.  Being an adult can at times suck, but that's life.  I was going to right that perceived wrong.  I wanted to get my ass into a truck again.

Now to be fair, I did look at their website and they had several F150s I really wanted.  However a Lariat, King Ranch or Platinum trim was above my paygrade.  The Raptor they had was also already sold and also out of my price range.  But they did have an XLT with the trim level I wanted (heated seats, rear sensor, backup camera...) with the 3.5l ecoboost v6 mated to the 10 speed transmission.  Which was priced right.

Pretty much knew at this point it was going to be an expensive morning.  I got some good news with a very generous trade in deal, 2 grand above what the top end of the KBB value for my 2013 Edge.  Yup, expensive morning.

So while the finance guys were working numbers I clean out all my crap from the edge and box it up.  Get the numbers and wind up shaving another 3k off the asking price due to financing with Ford and a personal offer from Ford themselves I sign my life away for the second largest purchase of my life.  And my first legit new vehicle.  And btw, the engine was regularly getting 30mpg on the highway at 70 mph.  Not sure what wizardry Ford did to that engine but I like it.

What I did find odd is that in addition to a towing setting (which does make sense) there's a "Sport" mode.  For an F150.  Near as I can tell it makes the engine rev 500-1000 more than normal, sound a bit different and probably just burn more gas.  Admittedly if I was in a Mustang and not a full size truck I'd be in Sport mode 100% of the time.  Well, I know myself so I'm sure Sport mode will be engaged from time to time too.

I drive home and then see these boobs on the back of a Chevy.  I don't know why you'd put that on your truck but I was laughing hard.

Get home and realize that I left my damn garage door opener in the Edge.  Call the dealership and explain to them that I'm an idiot that can't keep track of things and that I'll head back to Hawley (a 33m drive with traffic that morning) after I clean up and rearrange my garage.  Doing that when it was 95 out and humid was most unfun.  I was ready for another shower and a cold beer.  And lunch since I haven't had much to eat today.  So back on the road I go to get my garage opener. 

When I get home I warm up some leftover chicken and soup in the fridge for lunch.  The moment I sit down on my couch to watch some TV I crash out hard for 3 hours lol.  Wake up and think, yeah it's time for a good cigar.  Enter the RYJ Exhibition #4 from GEO Jun or Jul 14.  Tasty little bugger.

Today I did about 20 minutes of work decluttering my garage.  I have a bit left to do but that can wait for another day.  I did however smoke up a small pork butt for dinner tonight and lunch meat for the week.  This was a teeny pork butt coming in at about 5.5 pounds.  Took 7 1/2 hours of smoking at 275 degrees.  Applewood made it be very very sweet.  Most of the fat cab rendered so nicely too so it's crispy fat chunks.

As for now, I'm grabbing a double corona and a cold beer and going to sit outside and relax, before the craziness of the work week starts in under 12 hours.

[JohnS]

Yeah, sounds like work will be a letdown in comparison to this weekend! Thanks for sharing!

[Dijit]

Holy crap, I cant begin to play golf like that but damn

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[Sean3]

Congrats on the new wheels, love gettin a new ride.  Enjoy!

[Winchester21]

Love the MPX I have the pistol with the folder stock and the 16"bbl carbine which uses the same mag(they are expensive buggers). Man can I burn through some ammo in those bad boys? Don't feel bad about the red dot dead batteries. I have at least 5 with dead ones. Nice score on the Truck. I am driving an Expedition loaner with the eco boost  6 while my Mercades is getting repaired from a wreck That is a nice power plant most likely what you have. What a great weekend

[Spanishcedar]

I am an EOTech Battery Assassin myself. 

Guns, Grass, Grillin, 'Gars and good times, thanks for sharing!

[BuzzArd]

I'm exhausted now.....

All I did was get the motor out of my coupe.   And drink.  I drank. A lot. And smoked a couple lovely vitolas.  But it now seems like nothing...  

 

[skalls]

16 minutes ago, BuzzArd said:

I'm exhausted now.....

All I did was get the motor out of my coupe.   And drink.  I drank. A lot. And smoked a couple lovely vitolas.  But it now seems like nothing...  

 

To be fair, aside from the wrenching (I suck with vehicles lol) that sounds like a great weekend.

Cheaper too

[BuzzArd]

2 hours ago, skalls said:

To be fair, aside from the wrenching (I suck with vehicles lol) that sounds like a great weekend.

Cheaper too

Only because you bought a whole damn truck!

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[saintsmokealot]

Beautiful truck and nice Boston butt!