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Tom and I met up with the local crew at Robinson’s Restaurant in Apopka at 8AM. Enjoyed a good cheap breakfast and pre-ride conversation in the nice little air-conditioned establishment. Rick, our local tour-guide, had chosen a shorter than usual ride route to minimize our exposure to the heat we’d run into before mid day. Fortunately, for Tom and I, the route took us to the west side of Deland only minutes away from our points-of-origin in Deltona and it was still only 10:30AM.

Tom and I decided we’d had enough riding for the day…so we decided to go out to the shooting range for the afternoon and get some more heat exposure. I’ll try to follow this post with a new range report.

Rick: Thanks for leading the way today! I’m looking forward to that Sep.-Oct. ride up in the mountains we briefly discussed today.

I decided to visit a shooting range I hadn’t been to yet this morning to try out my new Rock River Arms “Tactical CAR-A4″. My 15 year old daughter, Leigh, wanted to come along. Jan and Blake didn’t feel like getting out of bed at 7:30AM to join us….which was great because that meant more ammo for us!

This relatively new Strickland Range facility was impressive and well run. I will definitely be returning here often.

I only took four guns out today: VEPR 7.62×39, the new CAR-A4, the Springfield TRP Operator 45ACP, and the little Kimber Ultra Raptor 45ACP.

Here’s Leigh, who has never fired any AR variant before, doing a very respectable job on the target:

This is Leigh’s very first attempt with the CAR-A4 at 50 yards range. Her grouping got better on subsequent targets.

My turn! Thus far I am totally satisfied with this Rock River carbine. Today, we fed it 160 rounds of Wal-Mart UMC and another 120 rounds of Guatemalan 5.56 surplus with zero malfunctions.

Next time out, I will have it dressed up with a scope, bipod, and who knows what else.

After leading the charge for 10 months on our ever-growing Ruby on Rails based application, it has long since reached the point where I can easily waste several minutes looking for something either I or one of the other developers has worked on. Here’s a little bash script I wrote to make things faster and easier to find:

#!/bin/sh
# /usr/local/bin/grepp (note the extra p on the end)
# assuming I'm already in the root of my app directory, I only want to look in these
locations="app bin lib"

for location in $locations; do
  echo "-----------------------------------------------------"
  echo "Searching in $location/*"
  grep -ir "$1" $location/* | grep -v svn
done

Super-Simple and saves me a lot of time when I need to quickly dig into it and modify things!