The quarterly blog

Again sorry for not keeping up with this, I have been on the insane side of busy lately.

First in the past few months I finished the R770 project, the hunting rifle from my previous blog.

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Then I picked up on three more projects....

I started and completed a restoration of a 1895 7.62x38R Russian Nagant Police Revolver (manufactured in1935).

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A Polish Underfold AK47 parts kit (manufactured in 1973)

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and an M16A1 Vietnam era battle rifle. (manufactured in 1963)

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Since parts are nearly impossible to find at the moment I am just working on the basic restoration of the metals wood and plastics. so there's not much progress at the moment.

Also I have written a total of 4 books in the past 6 months.  2 are being reviewed by Editors, and the other two are currently with my illustrator....it still feels funny to say that I have editors and illustrators, but I better get use to sucking up to them since I can't draw worth crap, and my spelling and gramer suck.   I really want to talk about them but at the moment I can't go into detail since I am not sure if I will be trying to have them published or publish them myself. Hopefully by the next quarterly blog I can talk about two of them, the other two will have to wait for another 7 months (minimum).

What I will say is I am amazed how much writing has affected me, on the one hand I have 2 children's books (and another 7 that are work in progress outlines) representing everything good that I can squeeze out of my shrivled little brain, and on the other I have two (and a half so far) of what can only be described as the embodyment of every horrible/sick/demented thing stuck in my head, pouring out across a computer screen.

As far as gaming goes, I have played through Bioshock Infinate 3 times, bought and faled to get into 5 other random games, and have been continuing to play Skyrim for about 60 hours a week, and have busted ou the old SNES, NES and Genesis and the wife and I have been getting in regular Retro Game date nights that normally end with someone (me) getting hit with a controller. 

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