#shazrolane

Planting some seeds. I have HORRIBLE luck with gardening but I keep trying. ::fingers crossed::

If you keep trying, eventually SOMETHING will sprout and then you’ll have succeeded! What have you planted? :D

crisis-response-specialist replied to your post “How are we doing on this fine Friday evening? <3”

Almost finished my Translation project! And got cuddles off two of my cats!

Yay for almost finishing! That’s a nice feeling to know you’re almost done. How many cats do you have on top of the two who have already hugged you and will the remaining hug you in time? :D

obishenshenobi replied to your post “How are we doing on this fine Friday evening? <3”

Anxious this morning about the prospect of having to go back into the office already, but after a phone call with my boss better and glad that I spoke up against it. I am now watching Person Of Interest and planning out the totebag I want to make tomorrow with some of the fabric I bought while I visited you a year ago �� hope you're doing well too! Miss you!

Good thing to speak up! That’s the best thing, I’ve found, even professionally (unless it’s retail, because Retail™ says fuck you). Are you working from home on Monday then?

And aahhhh! Which fabric is it? I can’t wait to see how it’s going to turn out!

iamnotyourmusebitch replied to your post “How are we doing on this fine Friday evening? <3”

Reading and listening to music

That sounds like a perfect Friday evening, honestly!

sirmagicbeard replied to your post “How are we doing on this fine Friday evening? <3”

Heading into work in my morning but I’m not sick so ��‍♂️

Hey Sam! Look what I found! https://66.media.tumblr.com/a1405c118a563161c7df7a94268fbeff/tumblr_pgu9u1vnLY1xjmuruo10_r1_1280.jpg

WHY WOULD YOU TAUNT ME LIKE THIS

WITHOUT LINKING TO THE POST

I am continously stunned at your skill

You might want to leave the carrier out now, if you aren't already, specifically so they can go in it and hopefully think of it as a nice, familiar place. I keep a folded up towel in our carriers so they're soft and hopefully inviting. If you can encourage them to go into the carriers when they're scared, it helps in case of an emergency.

Oh yeah -- they play in their cardboard carrier all the time, and the soft-sided carrier I bought sits in the hallway, they run and hide in it when they’re play-fighting. They didn’t seem at all freaked out about the cardboard carrier after I carried them around in it getting them home, so hopefully they won’t be afraid of the soft carrier after I take them to the vet in it. 

dorkilybeautiful replied to your photo “I’ve never had a cat that liked watching TV before, but Polk seemed to...”

Okay, I am now fully on board with these mammals, and hereby claim Distant Uncle status because I love them.

I have told them Distant Uncle sends his regards and love. They say, “Mew.” 

Also don’t mind Dearborn, she’s just damp ‘cause she likes to play in the bathtub. 

aylathebunny replied to your post “tienriu replied to your photo: Walking out the...”

Maybe get the cam for their birthday? That way they won't be dumb kittens any more and a lot of the new dad anxiety will be gone, and will hopefully be a fun toy instead of an anxiety inducer?

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).

It's perfectly fine to faff about, especially when you need a break! I hope your personal project is going well. ::shoves her WIP under the bed, hoping no one notices:: ;)

Hi there! Good to see you!