Cold breath moves softly
like a dream barely realized--
distant wings hammer.

Funereal leaves
falling, rustle restlessly:
laughter old and dry

Icy limbs clatter,
trembling timber intertwines,
moaning gale laments.

Moonlight ensorcells
writhing bleak and twisted clouds,
dark turbid shadows.

Gaunt ravenous sky--
high lonesome wrawl of winter:
hungry like the wind.

It slipped up on me and I almost didn't realize it.  I would like to take a look at some S&W snubby prices, see if that new Kel-Tec pistol has hit the shelves yet, grab a handful of Bianchi Speed Strips if anyone has them, and get a box or two of ammo.  Maybe a knife, to replace my lost kerambit, if I can find something I like.

UPDATE:  Came away empty-handed.  There were a few interesting things there, though.  I saw one Taurus Thunderbolt, this one a stainless version in .45 Colt ($600).  There were a couple of those Kel-Tec .223 "pistols" but none of the new PF-9 pistols.  I also saw one Winchester 1894 in .218 Bee!  That would be such a sweet gun.  He wanted $695 for it.  Prices on S&W Airlights were also quite reasonable, I just didn't have money to spend on guns today.  One guy had a big table covered with enormous Wildey semi-auto pistols.  Also I noticed one of the new Taurus 1911's priced at $430.  This guy also had all the nicely-priced S&W snubs and some other guns.  They were all marked with two prices, one regular and then another "on sale fox $xxx."  I think maybe he was trying to move some inventory before Christmas or something.

Then I stopped by a T-Mobile shack and upgraded my antique cell phone to a new RAZR.  Just ordered Motorola Phone Tools 4.0 from Amazon so I can easily transfer pictures to my computer.  Looks like they have it the cheapest at $4.69 or something like that.  Most other places want $30 or more for it.  It also comes with a USB to mini-USB cable, in case you don't already have one.  Battery technology has really improved in the last few years. The new battery has about the same surface area, but is only about 1/4 as thick as the one in the old phone.

One question:  Aren't all the Ruger P-series 9mm mags the same?  I saw one guy selling 15-rounders that were Ruger factory mags for the P85, but then he had some aftermarket mags for the P95.  I was under the impression that all the mags were the same for all models of the same caliber, so a mag allegedly for the P85 would work just as well for the P95.  Am I wrong?

UPDATE 2:  Just to clarify.  I did not get the phone at the gun show. As I said, I stopped by a T-Mobile shack.  It was several miles away and on a different side of town from the gun show.  The gun show is on Broadway at Loop 410.  The T-Mobile store was on Walzem.  Sheesh.

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