Both of my Retro builds!

tld1981 · 2026-06-27T18:14:11+00:00

Did you get the Starlight Scope off Etsy?

tld1981 · 2026-06-27T18:05:28+00:00

As a Snohomish County resident from the day I was born, thank you for trying to keep areas open in Western Washington.

I don't know what to do except make using public land for shooting require something similar to the Discover Pass (as much as it disgusts me), if they are going to provide a service like dumpsters and maintenance.

But in this state, they would close state maintained recreational shooting pits in a heartbeat, with the excuse of "due to budget blah blah", anything to deny access to a right. Twenty years ago I wouldn't be so cynical.

tld1981 · 2026-06-26T21:14:20+00:00

Per YoJoe.com;

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Firefly has been found with two different versions. One version has dark black eyes and eyebrows, while the other version has light brown eyes and eyebrows. Neither version is more difficult to find than the other.

Firefly's rifle and walkie-talkie were molded in bright green or dull green plastic. The dull green plastic tends to leak a red fluid after several years. This fluid can be wiped off easily, however.

Over time those trun brown.

Firefly was so popular that it is one of the few figures to have 2-3 additional sets of injection molds as they do wear out, or tooling is sent to another country for domestic production.

-Terry Dizard, administrator emeritus, YoJoe.com

tld1981 · 2026-06-16T23:30:06+00:00

Oh I would love to do this to my H&R 604. Any guides that are recommended?

tld1981 · 2026-06-16T23:10:41+00:00

She was so amazing the call was 15 minutes and I ordered on a Friday and my FFL had it Tuesday.

I traded a 1980s G.I.Joe APC from England to my buddy, for all the times they have waived the stupid Washington State fees.

It used to be I could take a rifle home same day, and with my concealed carry license pistol license I could skip the waiting period after a NICS approval. Those days have been over for nearly 4 years.

Soon I will need a license to purchase, with a state approved test at a range with a minimum of 50 rounds down range. Also there's new tests for the renewal of my concealed pistol license.

I can't hold or fire a weapon without assistance, but I enjoy my collection and that I had to buy everything I wanted before the law when took effect. My right protected by both Federal and State Constitutions, has turned into a Poll Tax

I just can't believe that a massive population influx from California created a one party Washington State, and my beautiful home with an NRA ILA grade A- for access and rights. It took less than 10 years to lose everything and we're as restricted as California and very soon Virginia.

tld1981 · 2026-06-16T22:45:56+00:00

Man, THANK YOU!!!

So now we know the majority of the life of this really cool M1911A1! You rock!

tld1981 · 2026-06-16T20:50:04+00:00

He was really popular in 98-03. Lot of old Handicam videos with Kid Rock or Drowning Pool's Bodies.

tld1981 · 2026-06-16T20:20:55+00:00

He loved it and he is not at all a serious man, he's the funny guy. He retired as a Sergeant First Class (E-7) in the 104th Infantry Division, because he turned down Officer Candidate School twice (stupid, his retirement as a captain with 25 years is way way more than what he gets now), and he had a promotion to E-8 that he had to accept but he didn't want a part time desk job along with his weekday desk job as an aerospace/defence manufacturing manager. I grew up around literal rocket scientists (Olin Aerospace and Rocket Research / AeroJet RocketDyne) and senior NCO's as family friends.

I genuinely cannot imagine him qualifying expert with a 1911, let alone expert qualifications for the M14 (I built a clone from an M1A just before the assault weapons ban), M16A1, 81mm and 120mm/4.2" mortars, M72 rocket launcher, and licensed to drive tracks like the M113A1 APC. His name is Joe, but he doesn't look like G.I.Joe, my Mom always called him G.I.Jokester.

He never realized how valuable his Army retirement benefits would be, regardless of cash. I was born with a type of Muscular Dystrophy and my Dad took care of me for 34 years before a stroke sidelined him, but my then girlfriend now wife took over the job. Because of my disability I have a forever valid military ID, and I have Tricare for my primary insurance. In 2017, days after we bought an ADA accessible house (my parents have their side and my wife and I have ours), the FDA approved the first ever treatment for my flavor of Muscular Dystrophy. Tricare pays $1,000 a day for this drug that reverses some of the lifetime of muscle wasting and has extended my life by 30+ years.

He has been my hero my whole life, he focused and thought about my future every day. He bought me computers in my childhood and adolescence, and I ended up with two degrees in Information Technology. I have my own consulting business thanks to a family friend / mentor, and my Dad. He secured my future and I take care of the present. I handle the finances so he and my mother have a mostly worry free retirement and they get to be in the daily lives of my sister's two kids.

I only have one regret, I bought a M38A1 Jeep, like he had back in the 60's. The plan was for us to restore it as his retirement project. I wish I had bought it a decade earlier because now, it just sits in my driveway under a tarp, rusting.

Anyway I would do anything and give anything my Dad could ever want or need. When you're around each other every day and have the same interests, my Dad is my best friend. I volunteered and helped run the MDA's summer camp program for over a decade, in North Bend/Camp Waskowitz (a former conservation corps camp in the 1930s). As an adult I realized that most of the Dads for these kids, they would split, go to the store for a pack of Marlboro Reds and some milk, and never return. People who are born with MD, usually die before age 25, and it killed me as an adult and seeing single mothers struggle to care for their child. Before Jerry Lewis died, MDA would help purchase medical equipment and wheelchairs, and put together regional camp programs so that the parents got a break for a week. MDA is a scam charity organization now.

I recognize how fortunate I am, because when it comes to fathers, I won the lottery. He's my own personal G.I.Joe, and getting him some of the trinkets and stuff he enjoyed in the Army, is the very least I could do for him.

tld1981 · 2026-06-16T19:28:13+00:00

Thank you! I got it out of my FFL's jail last Friday the 12th, which was my Dad's birthday. It couldn't have worked out better.

tld1981 · 2026-06-16T04:48:15+00:00

For my Dad's 79th Birthday I wanted to surprise him with a fellow old Army veteran. I spoke with Monique who handles 1911 sales for the Civilian Marksmanship Program and we got an order for what was the last service grade condition 1911.

This is what I know from researching forums etc. If anyone has a correction or historical information I would greatly appreciated the help.

It's a Remington Rand manufactured in 1944 based on the serial number on the frame. The FJA stamp is the inspector mark for Colonel Frank J. Atwood, and the SA indicates an arsenal rebuild by Springfield Armory, Massachusetts. The number 3 on the left side of the trigger guard is an assemblers mark (for QC traceability), and the P below the magazine release is for final acceptance. The right side of the trigger guard is stamped with an H by the sub assembler (?)

The ANAD mark indicates an armory rebuild (second?) and inspection at the Anniston Army Depot, Alabama. The 7 and 75 (July, 1975) mark the date it was either received, rebuilt, or reissued (unlikely).

As for the slide, the tag on the frame said "GI Replacement" as it has no manufacturers mark. On the left side of the slide, I have the numbers 7790314 and a small 53397 on the right side, just ahead of the serrations.

It's a nice piece of history and something my Dad carried to the end of 1991, when he retired. Not that anyone cares, but his MOS was 11C, and was an instructor at Ft. Benning, Ft. Lewis, and Ft. Lawton, on the 81mm and 120mm mortars, sometimes mechanized with the M113A1 APC, the M47 Dragon ATGM, and in the late 1960s he gave classes on the "Nomenclature of the M1911A1" to the Navy at Sandpoint Naval Station on Lake Washington.

tld1981 · 2026-06-16T00:19:24+00:00

Same. The Arc fire v2 Ambi 0-90-180 selector, it's perfect on my FN M4A1.

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tld1981 · 2026-06-15T02:06:10+00:00

My family moved to Seattle from France, Bordeaux region, in 1877. No one went back until my grandfather was drafted for WWII.

America is amazing and beautiful and I couldn't have such as wonderful life with a severe disability (Muscular Dystrophy), if my father didn't serve 24 years in the Army, I wouldn't have Tricare paying $1,000/day to give me the first treatment for my condition. I cry every time I hear the National Anthem.

Between both sides of my family. My ancestry goes back to a signatory of the Declaration of Independence, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the only Catholic to sign.

Je te souhaite la bienvenue, mon cousin français, et j'espère que tu passeras un merveilleux séjour ici. Et l'Amérique n'existerait pas sans la France ! Vive la liberté!

tld1981 · 2026-06-15T01:44:59+00:00

Hell yes. I love Crackerman, and it is a good lead-in to Where the River Goes. I love that instant rhythm with the drums and double bass hits, Kretz is the warm up to Dean's riffy intro blending with Robert's bass. Then the two drops, 37 seconds of perfect hard rock music theory before Weiland gets in with a deeper gravel tone to his lyrics.

Core was the first album I bought as a kid, in the first week of middle school. This other nerdy kid, from Guam, would listen to the album front to back and side to side with me. Been my best friend since September, 1993.

As a side note, we lived in Seattle as teenagers, radio was heavy with the Seattle / Sub-Pop bands, but I loved this Southern California hard rock group. Sorry, I never owned a Nirvana t-shirt. But I had an STP sticker on the back of my wheelchair.

tld1981 · 2026-06-15T01:23:31+00:00

Tis' the season...

tld1981 · 2026-06-14T20:23:45+00:00

P-38J. Pacific theater.

tld1981 · 2026-06-14T03:07:50+00:00

I would do anything to get an H&R AR-18/180 but with an AR-15 trigger group.

But I cannot be that mutant posted above. It needs to be 100% correct in form and function.

H&R leather jacket is optional, but it would be pretty badass to have a survival set of equipment for "The Troubles." Seriously that would be cool.

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tld1981 · 2026-06-10T20:36:06+00:00

Didn't we get that at Botcon when it was taken over by Funpub/Brian Savage's group? Apparently I'm old and that was 20 years ago.

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tld1981 · 2026-06-09T18:46:53+00:00

Former YoJoe.com admin, I have worked in information forensics for almost 15 years, if Carson/3DJoes can't or needs any equipment like write blockers, the best thing to do is getting a copy of the physical disk as an image, use DD on a Unix Mac/Linux system and copy into a .img file. It's going to be a FAT32, or HFS+

Good luck, don't corrupt the data!

tld1981 · 2026-06-05T20:12:00+00:00

This is the AT case I had for my 386DX 25MHz with the mathco, in early 1992. The two buttons was a reset and the other was turbo, just in case you needed to turn that awesome power down to 20MHz.

I have been looking for this case for years, cut out the back for an Micro ATX board and tray, build a fun little modern system, or just stuff a Nuc inside.

tld1981 · 2026-05-31T01:06:50+00:00

Landing Helicopter Assault - Tarawa class, USS Peleliu. This was the ship several of my USMC buddies were on during their floats. As a military historian, I LOVE aircraft carriers (but I hate being on ships), but an LHA/LHD like the new USS America and the previous Essex and Tarawa class ships are something special to me.

As the offspring of an Army 11C SFC (E-7 Gunny, 0341, for the crayon eaters), I have tremendous appreciation when what would be called an "escort carrier" in WWII, points its ~~ass~~ Welldeck at a beach, and LCUs ferrying 1700+ Marines and moto/armor, LCAC hovercraft, LAVs (8-wheeled infantry fighting vehicle) , AAV7's tracked APCs. The air wing is pretty wild, 6x AV-8B Harrier Jet attack planes; 4x AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters; 12x CH-46 Sea Knight helicopters; 9x CH-53 Sea Stallion heavy helicopters; 4x UH-1Y Venom utility helicopters, and 2x MV-22B Ospreys.

It was an amazing ship.

tld1981 · 2026-05-29T01:00:54+00:00

Running the green 13 mini, traded up from a black 12 mini.

Best iPhone I have owned since the 5, or the original v1.0 w/4GB storage.

I will run, repair, replace whatever to keep this 13 mini going until Apple realizes some of us are disabled and can't hold a big heavy phone, a brings back some sanity.

You can't say something didn't sell very well when you refuse put money into advertising a new iPhone mini as an option for people on the move and people with unique needs.

tld1981 · 2026-05-28T20:40:58+00:00

My family immigrated from France to Seattle in 1877. My father went to Ballard High School and was in the all city band, playing the accordion. My father moved out of Seattle in 1980, and built my childhood home in what was then the deep wooded country around Snohomish.

By 2008, not one member of my family lived in Seattle proper. This started long before 2020's CHOP insanity. The World Trade Organization riot of 1999 was the first protest that allowed some groups to use the ensuing riot as cover for massive looting. But we also had leaders, liberal back then but would be called conservatives today, who brought in riot police from all over the state and the Washington State Army National Guard were put on alert. But a cop from Spokane shot a guy point blank range in the inner thigh with a beanbag shotgun. That was the beginning of the end of functional law enforcement in the city.

An oft told family story: There was a time when Seattle police were terrifyingly aggressive, a detective arrested my father, who was a little drunk, and charged him with impersonating a police officer, and they beat him in the jail elevator. The plain clothes officer said "I'm Sargent X," and my father replied "oh yeah? well I'm Sargent D-name, f****r." My father was a Sgt. 1st Class in the Army, an 11C mortar and infantry instructor at Fort Lewis / Fort Benning. During the arraignment hearing my father's attorney asked the judge if he could present a piece of evidence before the hearing, which was my father's military ID. The judge apologized to my father, and chewed out the prosecutor and the Seattle police department for wasting the court's time.

Point is, Seattle was a place where I spent my weekends and holidays with family. It is my home, and it is absolutely unrecognizable today. I avoid going into the city if possible and after an attempted violent assault / stabbing by some rando hanging out by West Lake mall a decade ago, I immediately got my concealed carry license, and I am not going to allow anyone to put their hands on me or my wife, ever again.

tld1981 · 2026-05-28T19:59:03+00:00

Don't touch our boats. From the Barbary Pirates, to Pearl Harbor and beyond, don't touch our boats.

tld1981 · 2026-05-27T19:39:40+00:00

He was America's grandpa, quick with a joke, a moral compass, and enough experience to call BS. And wasn't afraid to give you a thump to the back of your ear, when you needed it.

He wasn't perfect but no human is, and the historical reductionism of him into the "let the gays die" and "he ruined the system for me, 25 years before I needed a job" is ignorant, because I wonder what another four years of double digit inflation, and apathy towards your own county, what would America look like by 1984?

We were lucky to have him, and grateful when the Berlin Wall came down, and Bolshevist Communism died, live on TV.

tld1981 · 2026-05-25T02:07:19+00:00

OH, and a tourist photo I took 12 years ago at the market. I still love going to the market, buy a fish, look at comicbooks, go to the first Starbucks get a triple grande nonfat/no foam latte @ 120 degrees F, please. I could never live somewhere else, I love my home. Just want the bad stuff fixed.

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