#beowulf22121

Thank you for this.

If the latter, does this mean they did the dirty reconcilably?

I SEE WHAT U DID THERE AND I DO NOT APPROVE. :D

marmotsomsierost replied to your post “The night I have had, good lord.”

reconciliation dirty sounds like an excellent punk band name.

LOL YES it’s a band that covers only Beatles songs but like, in a punk way. 

lysapadin replied to your post “The night I have had, good lord.”

I would not be that age again for the world and everything in it

If I could be that age again but know then what I know now, I would, but even then I would need some kind of extra compensation. :D 

niennanir replied to your photoset “Breakfast is up!”

Let us know how this works out for you, this is one of the more sturdy looking rigs I've seen and I need one to recommend for hurricane season

It worked pretty well but it is godalmighty loud, and has no real setting other than “super fucking powerful”. Like, there’s a spigot you can turn to raise or lower the heat but even the low heat is very intense. 

For reference both the stove and the pan are GSI Outdoors brand -- the stove is the Glacier model, and the pan is the Pinnacle Solo. The Pinnacle comes with a cup, a collapsible spork, a strainer lid, and a “welded” fabric carrying case that doubles as a sink; it also has enough room in the pan that even with the cup and spork, you can also store a small fuel canister and a small stove inside it. Both the Pinnacle and the Glacier are super light and the Glacier was easy to set up.

The only real problem I encountered, which may not matter if you’re storing them for emergency use, is that the Glacier doesn’t quite fit inside the cup -- it’s just slightly too wide. On the other hand, the wideness contributes to the stability of it.   

memprime replied to your photoset “Breakfast is up!”

That looks top heavy...

It does look that way but the fuel canister is actually somewhat heavy, compared to the lightweight stove and cookpot (it’s aluminum). The broad base on the fuel helps a lot, too -- I wouldn’t want to light it or cook with it in high wind, but it was very stable on a still day. 

shazrolane replied to your photoset “Sadly not. Needed some kindling, I think…”

Agreeing with niennanir - you definitely need kindling. But hey, I think I see some scorching? So you got some decent heat

I did actually -- I was wondering for a good ten minutes if the logs were actually going to catch or not. Some kindling would have been ideal, but I think if you HAD TO and you had like four bags of Doritos you could probably get a decent fire going. 

winneganfake reblogged your photoset and added:

Nope, that’s the Doritos.

beowulf22121 reblogged your photoset and added:

Lads and Ladies, the voice of experience.

LOL I was going to say, @winneganfake​ sounds like they know whereof they speak. 

prairie-grass replied to your post “That was a MUCH LONGER HIKE”

'which I'm not but I said yes' sometimes I don't understand why you don't work for the cia.

I once had a conversation with my mother about that, where she asked if I didn’t REALLY work for the CIA because of the kind of work I do. I told her no, of course not, and she said, “Well, that’s something that someone who works for the CIA would say, isn’t it?”

rodiniaorzetalthepenquin replied to your post “That was a MUCH LONGER HIKE THAN EXPECTED. I didn’t misjudge the...”

I'm a teacher. I *never* have nice pants!

Yeah, I thought the pants thing was weird, but maybe like, teachers have nice CAMPING pants? I was wearing actual facts hiking pants made out of moisture-wicking synthetic rather than, say, jeans like most of the other people in the area. 

driedfrogpills4me replied to your photo “Well, the train isn’t moving yet”

I love that you do these. I haven't read one of these books for decades - fell out of the genre - but your posts bring it all back, for better and worse ��

Reading a Goldy story is always an....experience. :D I feel like mystery writers are often particularly proud of using their books as personal therapy, and not particularly subtle about it...

butterflyslinky replied to your photo “Well, the train isn’t moving yet...”

Considering both the priest and the groom vanished, I think the groom killed the priest and is now on the run. He will escape to Norway, grow a beard, and then return to marry his One True Love, Julian the Bisexual Poolboy. ...I've never read one of these books except through your posts.

TOM SCHULTZ (the groom) WOULD NEVER. He is a ridiculous ideal of a man -- he’s into gourmet cooking, antiques, and JUST LOVING GOLDY like he’ll DIE if he doesn’t. :D 

redshoesnblueskies reblogged your photo “Well, the train isn’t moving yet”

#...questioned for...the sake of her shoes?#as a gross offensce agaist wedding footwear?#TO PREVENT FURTHER GRIEF FOR THE STRICKEN AND CLEARLY INATTENTIVE BRIDE?#why? why should they have questioned the shoe thing Sam?#:D

LOL! I only meant, like, surely someone should have said “Hey your street clothes and walking shoes are right here in this room, maybe let’s have you change before you have to go hiking around an acre of wooded land in Colorado looking at a crime scene”. Like, later she looks at her ruined dress and is sad at the metaphor, but that doesn’t feel like a good enough reason to have made her wear her wedding dress to a crime-scene in the first place. 

There are often these moments in these books -- and I’m in the first few, so perhaps it’s a writerly learning curve -- where things happen not so much because they’re rational as because they’re clearly meant to forward some portion of the plot. Like going to the crime scene in a wedding dress, or catering a dinner she wasn’t even supposed to cater just because one of the pastors asked her, despite her having just been BEATEN WITH A STICK. Or how she keeps calling 911 to get in touch with a specific detective, which annoys him, but apparently it’s just for the sake of him being annoyed in the story, because at ANY TIME he could give her the precinct’s phone number or his desk number. 

janedrewfinally replied to your photoset “Breakfast is up! First time cooking on the camp stove was a measured...”

All of this reminds me if the super-cute slice-of-life anime “Laid-Back Camp” (pretty much what it says on the tin).

well I don’t have any skills that I learned because of my favorite characters but I do have skills that characters I like have

designing (graphic design, fashion design, interior design)

ballet

being completely silent when doing specific things (not baking I will always make a ruckus while baking)

oh also baking and cooking

building (cabinets, shelves, beds, Ive made all of them with my dad)

anything with a hammer

manipulation (both of my parents are assholes I had to have picked up at least one bad trait from them)

acting

aiming/shooting (whether with a bow and arrow or with a gun)

photography :)))

gaming

scaring people with just a glance

ignoring the fuck out of people

faking things (I like to do research about lots of things and for example I know how to perfectly imitate a sleeping person)

fitting into tight spaces

facial expressions

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“FML”

Do you have a union rep? Regardless of her police this is something to talk to them about

I feel like that has to be against a law. If nothing else, the amendment that says cruel and unusual punishment is not allowed.

No union, unfortunately.  I don’t think it’s against the law either.

pinetreelady

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“FML”

holy crap that's nuts

I posted mostly to vent but also I was curious as to how people would react because I certainly think this is strange and unusual but I’m obviously biased in my favor here. Plus, the supervisor who was in on the meeting didn’t seem to see any issue with it. So far what I’m mostly hearing from brickspace and virtual friends is some variant on your comment. Mostly the choice of profanity varies.

RSD is kicking my ass this week for obvious reasons so it’s good to have a sanity check.

beowulf22121

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“FML”

quit.

My cat and I have a bad habit of needing to eat and I have debts so a job would have to be found before I could quit. I’ve been with the company for 20 years and was moved into this job when my old job went away. You can only request a transfer to another job after you’ve worked in your current job for six months which will be in a couple of months I think. Today was interesting in that they haven’t met with my coworker yet so she’s been her usual chatty self and in the face of my short answers turned to the woman who shares our workspace who works for another department. They showed each other pictures on their phones, talked about pets, and kids, the usual.

I got drawn in to a response a couple of times before catching myself. Mostly because I don’t want them to think I’m pissed at them and giving them the silent treatment or something. 

is that what the “This post is not rebloggable” thing is about? Does it have to be OP or anyone in the chain of reblogs?