I have seen multiple news stories of criminals following people home from banks, jewelry stores, casinos, even fancy restaurants.

Places criminals know you are likely to be coming from with cash or valuables.

You need to be cognizant of this.

First, be aware of your surroundings. These people are criminals, not KGB agents. Be aware if a car is following you, especially if you travel on more rural or out of the way roads to get home.

If you are concerned or suspicious, don’t go straight home. Go park where there is a lot of security. The parking lot of a municipal building or hospital would work.

Don’t let the bad guys follow you home.

Most of these crimes could be avoided with situational awareness.

Don’t let it happen to you.

It has been a wonderful shop week. I squared up a 3.5x6x1.5 using a homemade fly cutter. Very nice results. Tried to mill a slot with a 3/4 roughing end mill, but it didn’t sound good, so I switched to using a face mill.

Finished cutting the slot to depth, pleased as punch, found out that the slot was too wide. Measure at least once!

This led to me doing still more organizational work in the shop. That includes 12 strong magnetic hooks, so I can hang clipboards almost anywhere.

Turns out that I can mill that face down level and then cut the slot again, with an end mill.

The result was beautiful. I’ve milled a slot 1.406 wide, 0.420 deep in the center and 4.005 deep on the edges. I started cutting the dovetails. It looks beautiful.

My dovetail cutter is too small.

Oh, well. I can’t stop there, I’ve got a larger dovetail cutter on its way.

Meanwhile, the missing parts to the dividing plate accessories arrived today. I do have to cut a grove for the spring washer to hold the sector arms in place. I am also going to turn and thread the eccentric to take a threaded ring for tensioning.

I should be able to cut my first gears this weekend! I’m looking forward to it. I do need to take a picture of the 3-jaw chuck holding another 3-jaw chuck with a backplate bolted on for facing. That worked better than I should have expected.

One of the things I’ve started doing since my cast iron mistake is that I am actually looking at and working with the right feeds and speeds. It makes a difference.

In court cases.

The Supreme Court held a conference yesterday, they will release their order list on Monday. During this conference, they discussed Harrel v. Raoul. This is the lead case in the cases out of the Seventh Circuit court over PICA. The Illinois semi-auto and magazine ban cases.

In my opinion, this is the case to be watching. Given the opinions that were issued yesterday by the Supreme Court, the justice that will be writing the opinion is Rahemi will be one of the conservative justices. It could even be Thomas, himself.

Thank you for all the feedback I received regarding being fat. I will continue to work the problem.

The comments, of course, are open. Please let us know what is on your mind, what you’d like to hear about, or just pick your best meme of the week and share.

Those pesky Liberties and such always get in the way of a good, safe and equal society. They must be stopped!

I need to find a book for a friend and get a pic of the cover and a couple of pages.

Jay S. Albanese, Organized Crime in Our Times – p.141-42 (2011).

You can use WorldCat.org to see if it is in a library near you.

You can send them to migueATgunfreezone.net

It is for a good legal cause.

This woman was attacked by five thugs.

More and more I’m finding these videos where a person is attacked by a group or mob.

As society crumbles, it seems that mob violence for fun is becoming a more popular pastime.

You need to be realistic in preparing to defend yourself against a half-dozen assailants who want to beat you, not for your keys or wallet  but for fun.

And my feed still invaded by Liberal drivel. I would have never thought I could actually read screeching, but some of the stuff coming from that side allow me to do that.

That they hate our kind is to sugarcoat it. Lobotomization followed by wholesale extermination would be a nice way to deal with us if they had their way.

The question is who are they going to subcontract to do the deeds. I doubt pretty much that they would stand the sight of blood, much less get their hands bloodied.

Every day that passes, makes me believe we are inevitably heading for Larry Correia’s comment about flipping the switch.