I am definitely feeling a little rummy today. I have been burning the midnight oil canning peaches and getting up early for work as well as managing some of the estate cleanup activities and all of the household. I tentatively set plans to go to the range today after work but there is just too much going on I am going to have to look for another day.

That leaves me at the same place as I was last week with reloading and I have a new red dot sight that I want to get bore sighted before I go to the range. Since I am abandoning that idea, then I don’t need to that yet. So what else is going on in my Tacticool world? As you can probably guess, not a lot but that doesn’t mean that I cant talk about something relevant.

Let me diverge for a minute. A couple of days ago, I saw that 20lb propane tanks were on sale. Since the ice storm in February, they have been chronically missing at stores, The ones that I have seen the normal price has gone up at least 33% since last year. I have been waiting for them to come back in stock and better yet, go on sale. That was the day so I bought one.

My son asked me why I needed another cylinder. My answer was that I only have one and I would like to at least have a spare so that I could use one while I was refilling the other. And I also tried to get across that the time to get one is when you don’t actually need one because as we can see from this real world example, it may never be back in stock when you need it. I do want to get one more and have them all filled for if we ever needed emergency heat or cooking in the future.

That is a good lesson but let’s apply it to Tacticool. I spend a lot of time in my office. Being that it is in the basement and isolated from the rest of the house, stuff can happen and I don’t really know about it. We do have recently installed Ring cameras so I do hear the chime and can login to the portal to see what is the cause of the movement but I don’t always do that.

I was thinking about moving some of my firearms into my office. This was mostly for climate control purposes but the thought did cross my mind that it would be nice to have ready access (just in case) something should ever come up. Currently, I have stuff kind of distributed across the house.

As my juices started going, I started thinking about my options for better access. One option would be to carry consistently. I have to say that having my permit for over six years, I find to to be a large inconvenience and it is not comfortable. It also doesn’t work well with light summer dress or informal clothes that a belt is not necessary or possible.

Another option would be to just have access in my office. I don’t really want to have loaded firearms just sitting around, that is not really a great option. So, now I am just carrying one around, I might as well have a holster. I will solve this one way or another.

My point for all of this is that just like the propane cylinder, it is difficult to be prepared after the fact. And since I am kind of blind in the office, I would feel better if I didn’t have to run upstairs to get the keys to the gun cabinet should I need access.

End Your Programming Routine: The probability that I would have an altercation is extremely low. It doesn’t mean that I can’t be prepared from a thought experiment point of view. I am encouraging you again to do the mental exercises to think out what if the power was out for days in the winter or what if someone broke in or even wandered in. The time to be ready is not after the event happens.