Getting ready

So I spent some time, you guessed it, "Getting ready" as it were for anything, I was sitting on a rather large amount of cash from saving up to this point, so I made a shopping trip for if I ever had to hit the road...

I got a few things...

A new backpack, my old one was wearing out and if I'm traveling I'd want some extra caring capacity.

A Motorola Xoom 4g LTE tablet (Verizon) Specd for a prepay plan, it weighs about half of what a laptop computer does, and can be parred with a Bluetooth keyboard, like say the one I'm using now, so I could blog from the road, the Verizon service is a plus, because of coverage area, if it's good enough for Sasquatch hunter's it's good enough for me.

An Otterbox case for my smart phone,  because lets face facts, I have a hard time not dropping my phone around my own apartment, and the last thing I'm going to want is to settle down for a week for an insurance replacement phone is sent to me, assuming the company is willing to send one out to the wrong state without flagging my account as a potential fraud case.

And I bought a Gun, well I should say I will have one in a few days, this is the part that's out of my comfort zone, I've gone shooting quite a few times with nick, and I got a good, practiced aim, as a result, but I knew next to nothing about firearms, I originally went in looking for a large caliber penis extension like a .357 or a Desert Eagle .50, but a quick text from nick shot that down (pun intended) for two real reasons.

Well for starters, I don't got the god damn wrist strength for a hand cannon it turns out, and those gun's unless you practice, and I mean practice constantly, are going to kick your ass around, the one I ordered however is a nice 9mm, because lets face facts, despite my last, anger driven post,  even a .22 if shot well will kill a person, but 9mm rounds tend to be cheep not to mention common, so that's a plus.

I never would have done this if my son was still here....

Anyways the second part, I had set up a sorta last minute appointment that day as well with a, I guess for the lack of knowing the proper term, a "Shaman" from one of the local Native American tribes in my area, I don't know what I was going to attempt here, but we sat and talked at length, in his rec room, for the record, he was wearing blue jeans and a polo shirt, perceptions were ruined by this. I guess I shouldn't of been expecting face paint and a cowhide teepee but, hey, ignorance is no excuse.

He told me a few important things about my self. The biggest being, that an "Evil spirit" surrounds me, and was making him uncomfortable. and that I was in danger.

I didn't think much of it, but he insisted on giving me a "Fetish", No you pervs get your head out of the gutter, roughly speaking, it's supposed to be a combination of a ward against evil" and a token of strength, apparently it's made up of crow feathers, bear claws, and various ornamental beads in for good measure, tied together with a dark leather strap, he even helped me affix it to my bokken, which was still in the back of my card, he told me that it would repel evil...

I'm not the type for it, but I admit, I feel pretty comfy right now in bed typing this up on my new tablet, I do feel a bit more at ease looking at the simple looking charm attached to my bokken...

Well it's a bit after 3am here, time for some sleep...