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The end of the road
Dec. 23rd, 2005 01:18 pmIt's a quiet day in the office. As is often the case at most companies on the Friday before a holiday weekend, there are a lot of people who didn't come in today. Many of those who did come in this morning left early. It makes the day seem to drag on when there are so few folk in here.
Yesterday, I had my hands in the pockets of one of my cold weather coats and found a few unintentional mementos of the work trip to NC a couple weeks ago: the casings from a couple oddly short 9mm rounds that'd been fired and some bolts.
The trip was an odd one. I and a coworker drove down to an installation in North Carolina about 30 miles south of Norfolk VA. We were doing basically the same thing we did earlier this year, supporting the tests of some stuff my and a couple other companies are working on. This test involved 3 sites on the installation, one of which was a huge area full of hundreds of vehicles in various states of decay.
( Automotive Limbo )
Oh, and the 9mm shells were found in one of two cars that I'd nicknamed "The Bonnie & Clyde Death Cars" because they'd been used for some kind of small arms practice. The things were riddled with holes. The shells couldn't have been from the rounds fired through the vehicles, since there were a number of hollow plastic slugs in there too. What I'm told were "rat rounds." I'm guessing someone just fired 'em near that vehicle at some point and the ejected shells went into it.
The bolts were from some of the hoods I removed and subsequently reattached quickly without using all the original bolts.
Yesterday, I had my hands in the pockets of one of my cold weather coats and found a few unintentional mementos of the work trip to NC a couple weeks ago: the casings from a couple oddly short 9mm rounds that'd been fired and some bolts.
The trip was an odd one. I and a coworker drove down to an installation in North Carolina about 30 miles south of Norfolk VA. We were doing basically the same thing we did earlier this year, supporting the tests of some stuff my and a couple other companies are working on. This test involved 3 sites on the installation, one of which was a huge area full of hundreds of vehicles in various states of decay.
( Automotive Limbo )
Oh, and the 9mm shells were found in one of two cars that I'd nicknamed "The Bonnie & Clyde Death Cars" because they'd been used for some kind of small arms practice. The things were riddled with holes. The shells couldn't have been from the rounds fired through the vehicles, since there were a number of hollow plastic slugs in there too. What I'm told were "rat rounds." I'm guessing someone just fired 'em near that vehicle at some point and the ejected shells went into it.
The bolts were from some of the hoods I removed and subsequently reattached quickly without using all the original bolts.