Over at 2AMusing, Exodus is making lemonade.

I spent today drinking of that lemonade.

He sold me his reloading setup and I got quite a deal. It’s been on my plate to start reloading, but a very low priority. Well, this came along and it was too good a deal to pass up. I’m not sure when I’ll actually start reloading, but obviously sooner rather than later. Cool!

Thing is, I intended this to be about a 3 hour effort: drive up, load up, drive home, unload, done. Instead, it turned into an all day affair. When I got there, we talked for a long time about all manner of things. One great thing was that Exodus has a history in martial arts, including western boxing. We spent a long time talking about that, or rather, him talking and me listening. I just soaked it up. I could tell from how he was talking that he is fond of it and has much information to share. I just soaked it all in. Good good stuff.

But then I drove home (stopped at foo.c‘s place to get my cooler and give him a bunch of .45 ACP bullets; he gave me a bunch of 9mm and .308 brass and whenever I set up the reloading stuff he’ll be coming down to help), unloaded, and realized I was missing a box of stuff. So, I called him back and lo… yes one box got moved behind some stuff so we didn’t see it. I had to drive all the way back to his place (about 45-60 minutes) to pick up the box. But that was OK. I got to learn a new route that will be handy for getting to that area in the future. Plus, he took me to this little tamale place near his house. OMG!!!11!11!1!111  $8 for a dozen, and they are huge, probably twice the size of the typical tamales you get. Bought 3 dozen (pork, beef barbacoa, chicken with green chilies) to bring home to the family.

Got home, ate some tamales, had a beer, life is good.

Exodus is a great guy. Just a joy talking with him, and if we didn’t have things to do I’m sure we’d have kept talking for hours. So the day didn’t quite turn out as I wanted, in terms of time spent, but like Exodus is doing… let’s make lemonade. I got to talk with him for a while, which was great. Got to get some excellent tamales. All in all, life’s good. Exodus is about to embark on a new leg of his life journey, and I wish him well in it. I think he’ll do great.