on fire power…

this is my rifle…

there are many others like it…

but this one is mine. 

the bastard was talking abou the the fishing column with the old man of the sea one day and he had one of these in his cube.

"heeeeeeeeyyyyy… what's that?"

"its the bug-a-salt. you shoot bugs with it…with salt."

long story short is i purchased one of these things.

when the wife asked why the hell would i shoot salt at flys i replied simply that i've been swatting flys with my hands…

the old fashioned way…

for years!

now i want to shoot them.

truth to tell though…

the bug-a-salt has limited results…

the range is okay but not brilliant…

and most flies don't die on the first shot unless you get them point blank which is rare but majestic.

that said, now when there is a fly in the apartment…

and my daughter points this out to me and asks me to shoot the fly…

it somehow feels unwholesome…

until she says she wants one of her own when she's a teenager.

i may have this parenting thing licked just yet.

—the bastard