I’m running a piece of Cat 5e cable from my office closet to my bedroom and ran into a problem of punching a 5/8″ hole in wall.  The largest drill bit I had was 1/2 inch and I was in a bit of pickle.  Until I realized that 7 foot atlatl dart has a 11/16″ tip.  Score.

I was walking into Lowes to get some stuff to make a new batch of atlatl darts when I spotted two severe-looking men in an old station wagon wearing all black as well as matching balaclavas parked out front frantically looking back and forth between the door and the surrounding parking lot.  The idea of two people holding up a Lowes crossed my mind but a Lowes has to be a damn hard thing to hold up due to its heavy reliance on credit and POs as well as its open layout, numerous places to hide and offerings for the ingenius victim to create some rather interesting countermeasures.  I thought of how to combine circular saw blades, a door frame and shock cords to deadly efficiency but my dreams of home improvement counter insurgency died when an old women dressed in pink carrying the ugliest collection of wallpaper imaginable walked out and made her way into the back seat of the car.  If that person had been my mother and I’d been seen with her, I’d camouflage myself and look around frantically too.

I was walking into Lowes to get some stuff to make a new batch of atlatl darts when I spotted two severe-looking men in an old station wagon wearing all black as well as matching balaclavas parked out front frantically looking back and forth between the door and the surrounding parking lot.  The idea of two people holding up a Lowes crossed my mind but a Lowes has to be a damn hard thing to hold up due to its heavy reliance on credit and POs as well as its open layout, numerous places to hide and offerings for the ingenius victim to create some rather interesting countermeasures.  I thought of how to combine circular saw blades, a door frame and shock cords to deadly efficiency but my dreams of home improvement counter insurgency died when an old women dressed in pink carrying the ugliest collection of wallpaper imaginable walked out and made her way into the back seat of the car.  If that person had been my mother and I’d been seen with her, I’d camouflage myself and look around frantically too.

I needed to pick up some whiteboard markers and drove to Staples to get them.  In the parking lot, a fellow careening across the parking lot was stopped by me two by my proper driving as he cut across lanes to park.  The final straw was in me taking a pull through that blocked him from having the parking spot for which he was gunning.  He circled around and back to get an available spot and glared at me as I walked past.  I was worried about him keying my car so I waited in the store vestibule until he passed my car.

He reached into his pocket and pulled out his keys approaching my car.  He stopped, looked at the 40 item bundle of atlatl darts on the top of my roof, put the keys back in his pocket and returned to walking towards the store.

Atlatlry: I’m going to answer the age old question.  What do 6 retards looking for an atlatl dart look like?  Something like this. The one or the left threw the atlatl further than the dart.  The 3rd from the left was proud he got his dart beyond the caution tape.  The final fellow realized that the further back he leaned, the further it went to the point where only a ninja move from Dave P. prevented someone’s nose from being picked with a dart.

What can I help you with?
Me: We need an end cap for a atlatl dart quiver to hold 6″ wooden competative atlatl darts for an Scouting event this weekend.
Lowe’s Associate:  Aisle 43.
Now that’s keeping your head in the game.