After 2 day with the pump action Nerf gun, my mother asked me if there was one that didn't require pumping? Cause WZ was constantly asking grandma to shoot darts on the  glass door, and it was tiring for my mother to have to pump it a few times before shooting the thing.

So I got the errr.. standard entry level Nerf dart gun.

It's a simple gun, stick dart in front, pull level on back, pull trigger. The interesting thing about this is that the trigger is soft, not hard so WZ can actually pull the trigger and fire the gun, now I just need to teach him to AIM instead of just pulling the trigger once I pass him the gun!

The performance of the gun is impressive I must say, I'm thinking back to toy guns I used to play with which use a spring to push a heavy plastic dart out the chamber the dart usually didn't go too far, where as now the spring is use to push a plunger which forces the air out of the chamber propelling the soft, light foam dart across long distances!

And everything was fine, other than the fact that there was a constant possibility that the darts would get lost since WZ kept firing them all over the place, and there was only 3 included with the gun.

So today while taking WZ out for a stroll, mommy asked "So would you like anything for father's day?" Oh... plenty... but that would never be possible but then I remember seeing something the other day while getting the gun...

This is the Nerf Maverick, it would be just any other dart gun if not for one big difference.

It has a revolving barrel that holds 6 darts in it's chamber, so it's basically the revoinstead of a crossbow.

The cool thing about the Maverick is that if you're fast and use to how the gun works, you can basically pump, fire, pump, fire six times in quick succession like an old style western revolver. And I'm not sure if it's because it's still a new gun but when you're hit by the rubber tipped darts that the gun came with. It stings like hell! I know first hand cause I was telling mommy to shoot me so I can see how much it hurts if I shoot WZ with it, and from half a living room distance away she plants a dart right below my nose! After the incident THEN she reads the warning on the gun that says Do Not Aim At Eyes Or Face.

After I returned the favour by pelting her with a mixture barrage of rubber tip and suction tip darts we came to the conclusion that the suction tip darts hurt less. Which was great cause...

I kinda bought some extra darts!

With the Maverick I pretty much understand why Nerf guns are considered the weaponary of choice for office warfare. In fact with all this escalation of Nerf force increasing in the household, sooner or later I'm gonna arrive at the end game... The Vulcan...

Anyway WZ also seems to have figured out that.

Suction cups FTW!

After a full days of photo shooting, you pop the memory card out from your camera, insert it into your PC, browse to the card's folder and.. "ERROR READING FILES!!!"

Worse case scenario time, while writing to the card your camera must have choked, or worse! The camera or card is defective! But you want to try and get back at those files so you need to get one of them file recovery tools! But there's so many which promises so much, and costs just as much.

Before you give any of those apps a try, why don't you give PhotoRec a try? It's a FREE file recover that attempts to recover files from disks. Recovery here means either deleted files, or files that are in the disk but orphaned by the corrupted file table.

Sure, it basically runs via a command line interface and would prove daunting to any novice user, but there's documentation available on the site for those users and also did I mention that it's FREE?

I tried it out and well.. it pulled up a lot of files I deleted previously so... it works... and it's FREE!

Well... it's a small gun... it shoots foam darts. Yes... it's a bit dangerous because instead of being spring powered this thing uses an air pressure tank to hold the air which you pump using the lower shaft and then when you press the top release valve button all the air is let out with a POP! So if you want to hurt someone pump more air.

Obviously the toy manufacturer thought of people over pumping the gun, hurt someone with it and then suing the toy manufacturer's ass off. So they built in some sort of pressure valve. Basically if you pump too much air and the pressure build up is too high it releases on it's own.

WZ still can't press the firing button himself cause the air pressure is just too strong for his little hands. So I get to shoot it around for him to fetch. Seems like these darts are stronger than the chapalang branded gun I bought, cause WZ can yank it off the glass door without the heads ripping out... YET!

And of course.. SUCTION CUPS FTW!!

It would seems that an operation for a miscarriage is not covered by insurance since that’s counted as a pregnancy complication. Interesting... all the more reason to avoid private medical centers when you have an emergency like this.

With the miracle of birth, or the devastation of lost. And lost was what we got last Friday, it would seem that natural selection deemed that the fetus was not developing well and called for it to be terminated. Which just sent us through a whirlwind of a day.

Luckily the wife's spirits seem ok, she was more focused at being angry at being triaged to be less than emergency and ended waiting about 3 hours for her 20 minute procedure.

Seeing the bill for the procedure was also scary considering that it almost costs as much as delivering a baby as it is to handling a miscarriage! Time to talk to my insurance agent on how to handle this.