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When you go on a hike and mostly take pictures of scat, and you find yourself trying to figure out "is this bobcat or coyote?" and googling comparison photographs.
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Travelling home from having seen the bandMagma live.
My life, was that a good gig.
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I took my dad out for lunch, we had a good time!
Otherwise a pretty low key day, which is how I like it.
Anyway, Happy Garfield the Cat Day everyone!
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As we're leaving for our big Vermont-Maine roadtrip a week from today, today I finally booked our outbound overnights/adventures.
Next Sunday, we drive from Dallas to Mammoth Caves NP, set up camp for the night, do the four hour "big tour" in the morning after we break camp, then drive six hours to Cleveland. One night in a crappy motel and then ten hours to Burlington, where we'll be camping with Dr. Darling's sister, Tiny-But-Fierce, and brother-in-law, Not-Charlie-Manson, and our five nephews on Grand Isle from Tues-Sat. Then we drive to Maine by way of the White Mountains and Franconia Notch SP in New Hampshire. (Mom and I hiked the flume gorge twelve years ago and it was lovely.)
Meanwhile, I made a bison shepherds pie for dinner tonight and it was really, really good. Bison is so much more flavorful than beef.
Also, it was free meat, yet another score from the friends who gave us the contents of their derp-freeze when they moved away.
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As we're leaving for our big Vermont-Maine roadtrip a week from today, today I finally booked our outbound overnights/adventures.
Next Sunday, we drive from Dallas to Mammoth Caves NP, set up camp for the night, do the four hour "big tour" in the morning after we break camp, then drive six hours to Cleveland. One night in a crappy motel and then ten hours to Burlington, where we'll be camping with Dr. Darling's sister, Tiny-But-Fierce, and brother-in-law, Not-Charlie-Manson, and our five nephews on Grand Isle from Tues-Sat. Then we drive to Maine by way of the White Mountains and Franconia Notch SP in New Hampshire. (Mom and I hiked the flume gorge twelve years ago and it was lovely.)
Meanwhile, I made a bison shepherds pie for dinner tonight and it was really, really good. Bison is so much more flavorful than beef.
Also, it was free meat, yet another score from the friends who gave us the contents of their derp-freeze when they moved away.Derp-freeze?
It's what they call those big giant freezers they're always stuffing bodies into on Fargo before they put them through the wood chipper.
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As we're leaving for our big Vermont-Maine roadtrip a week from today, today I finally booked our outbound overnights/adventures.
Next Sunday, we drive from Dallas to Mammoth Caves NP, set up camp for the night, do the four hour "big tour" in the morning after we break camp, then drive six hours to Cleveland. One night in a crappy motel and then ten hours to Burlington, where we'll be camping with Dr. Darling's sister, Tiny-But-Fierce, and brother-in-law, Not-Charlie-Manson, and our five nephews on Grand Isle from Tues-Sat. Then we drive to Maine by way of the White Mountains and Franconia Notch SP in New Hampshire. (Mom and I hiked the flume gorge twelve years ago and it was lovely.)
Meanwhile, I made a bison shepherds pie for dinner tonight and it was really, really good. Bison is so much more flavorful than beef.
Also, it was free meat, yet another score from the friends who gave us the contents of their derp-freeze when they moved away.Derp-freeze?
Lol, that was supposed to be deep-freeze.
Mine's only big enough for one dead body, and not even that if they're big, but the friends who moved had a two-body freezer.
It's what they call those big giant freezers they're always stuffing bodies into on Fargo before they put them through the wood chipper.As we're leaving for our big Vermont-Maine roadtrip a week from today, today I finally booked our outbound overnights/adventures.
Next Sunday, we drive from Dallas to Mammoth Caves NP, set up camp for the night, do the four hour "big tour" in the morning after we break camp, then drive six hours to Cleveland. One night in a crappy motel and then ten hours to Burlington, where we'll be camping with Dr. Darling's sister, Tiny-But-Fierce, and brother-in-law, Not-Charlie-Manson, and our five nephews on Grand Isle from Tues-Sat. Then we drive to Maine by way of the White Mountains and Franconia Notch SP in New Hampshire. (Mom and I hiked the flume gorge twelve years ago and it was lovely.)
Meanwhile, I made a bison shepherds pie for dinner tonight and it was really, really good. Bison is so much more flavorful than beef.
Also, it was free meat, yet another score from the friends who gave us the contents of their derp-freeze when they moved away.Derp-freeze?
I call mine Bernie after Bernie Tiede.
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Hello, everyone.
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As we're leaving for our big Vermont-Maine roadtrip a week from today, today I finally booked our outbound overnights/adventures.
Next Sunday, we drive from Dallas to Mammoth Caves NP, set up camp for the night, do the four hour "big tour" in the morning after we break camp, then drive six hours to Cleveland. One night in a crappy motel and then ten hours to Burlington, where we'll be camping with Dr. Darling's sister, Tiny-But-Fierce, and brother-in-law, Not-Charlie-Manson, and our five nephews on Grand Isle from Tues-Sat. Then we drive to Maine by way of the White Mountains and Franconia Notch SP in New Hampshire. (Mom and I hiked the flume gorge twelve years ago and it was lovely.)
Meanwhile, I made a bison shepherds pie for dinner tonight and it was really, really good. Bison is so much more flavorful than beef.
Also, it was free meat, yet another score from the friends who gave us the contents of their derp-freeze when they moved away.Derp-freeze?
Lol, that was supposed to be deep-freeze.
Mine's only big enough for one dead body, and not even that if they're big, but the friends who moved had a two-body freezer.
They should totally advertise deep-freezers capacity in body sizes. "Come on down to Crazy Larry's Appliance Town! We got the brand new 4.5 body deep-freezes on sale this weekend only! Free delivery, so long as you promise not to kill our driver and stuff them in the freezer!! ($150 fee if driver is not returned unharmed.)"
And derp-freeze sounds like an alternative to Slurpee Tumor for when you chug your Slush Puppy too quickly.
They do! Technically, they're talking about how many butchered cows or pigs you can fit in one, but we all know what they're actually talking about (this is still the land of Gein and Dahmer after all).
When you go on a hike and mostly take pictures of scat, and you find yourself trying to figure out "is this bobcat or coyote?" and googling comparison photographs.
the nudity is the least of my questions here.
As we're leaving for our big Vermont-Maine roadtrip a week from today, today I finally booked our outbound overnights/adventures.
Next Sunday, we drive from Dallas to Mammoth Caves NP, set up camp for the night, do the four hour "big tour" in the morning after we break camp, then drive six hours to Cleveland. One night in a crappy motel and then ten hours to Burlington, where we'll be camping with Dr. Darling's sister, Tiny-But-Fierce, and brother-in-law, Not-Charlie-Manson, and our five nephews on Grand Isle from Tues-Sat. Then we drive to Maine by way of the White Mountains and Franconia Notch SP in New Hampshire. (Mom and I hiked the flume gorge twelve years ago and it was lovely.)
Meanwhile, I made a bison shepherds pie for dinner tonight and it was really, really good. Bison is so much more flavorful than beef.
Also, it was free meat, yet another score from the friends who gave us the contents of their derp-freeze when they moved away.
Freehold loves shepherds pie. Even the derp freeze variety.
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I've managed to get Teensy Valeros hooked on Roger Zelazny.
Fritz Lieber is next.
the nudity is the least of my questions here.When you go on a hike and mostly take pictures of scat, and you find yourself trying to figure out "is this bobcat or coyote?" and googling comparison photographs.
I am fully dressed.
Granted, I'm still in Wonder Woman pajamas, because I don't go back to work until August and I've been reading a silly detective procedural on the couch since I woke up, but I am fully dressed.I don't really do naked. Ever. If I ever slim down again, I might not be so hung up about it, but for now, even at the top of the thread, you may justifiably assume that I am completely clothed.
I've managed to get Teensy Valeros hooked on Roger Zelazny.
Which books?
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Road trips are hard. I planned 270 miles to Eureka the first day. 6 hours in, we'd made it 90 miles to Bodega bay. We had to abandon highway 1 (the famous coastal highway) in favor of 101 ("not as boring as I-5") and still didn't get in 'til 9 pm. And there were SOOOOOOOO many places we wanted to stop but couldn't because of time. So now on our "bucket list" is a weeklong trip to the northern California border and back.
In the hotel we watched Hitchcock's The Birds. Not only was it a lot of fun to see all the places we'd visited that day (we stopped by the schoolhouse and the church, ate at the Tides, and saw the ubiquitous powder blue pickup driving around town), but Impus Major couldn't stop gushing about the cinematography. "Look how long the camera stays in one place! If this were a modern movie the camera would be a shaking handheld mess with lots of cuts every second or two. And it would be pitch black."
He is so right. Watching two people converse from a fixed camera angle while three more go about their lives in the background is a lost art.
Impus Minor's first day of housesitting? He spent the night at a friend's.
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How is my post 6 minutes ago?!
I posted it a minute or two... When Nobodyshome post was already there.
Damn variable time speed Shadows.
Hmmm, that thunderbolt that hit within half a kilometer was definitely of hint of a storm.
Come on! What the hell is wrong with Paizo forums?
I posted the note about thunderbolt a minute after the post about rain...
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Rain. With hints of storm. Good I don't have the session today (GM came back from gaming convention and is out, I think another player can't either). Bad I wanted to go and get some groceries because I am seriously lacking things to eat after yesterday chicken fiasko.
Well, I have two one pound boxes of potato-in-garlic-sauce salad so I won't starve (and yesterday I ate one box of potato-with-bacon-and-probably-horseradish salad).
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I've managed to get Teensy Valeros hooked on Roger Zelazny.Which books?
Now I am thinking of Amber, but instead of distant and aloof Oberon, the family is headed by Queen Lisamarlene.
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And now, thank you Kevin Hearne, I can't hear or see the name "Oberon" without thinking of a talking dog.
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I swear, the conversations on this trip are so epic I wish we had a transcriber.
NobodysHome: Do you really want to see your grandmother on steroids?
Impus Major: What kind of question is that? That's like asking, "Does a bear (defecate) in the woods?" It's not a real question!
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Now I am thinking of Amber, but instead of distant and aloof Oberon, the family is headed by Queen Lisamarlene.I've managed to get Teensy Valeros hooked on Roger Zelazny.Which books?
With her brilliant but chaotic neutral offspring, constantly at each other's throats.
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I swear, the conversations on this trip are so epic I wish we had a transcriber.
NobodysHome: Do you really want to see your grandmother on steroids?
Impus Major: What kind of question is that? That's like asking, "Does a bear (defecate) in the woods?" It's not a real question!
That happened last summer in Oregon, when my second cousin complained that "this vacation needs a glossary" because Eve and I were planning beignets and bellinis for breakfast, and not only did he not know what either thing was, when we explained that a bellini is peach puree and prosecco, he confused prosecco with prosciutto and was revolted.
"And you DRINK that?!"He still asks Eve if she's going to make the "grilled asparagus wrapped in prosecco appetizer".
Sounds yummy.
And to you, John!
Fritz Leiber is the stuff alright, but the Fafhrd and the Grey Mouser books can get a wee bit sweaty-palmed later in the series...
LM has all these jokes and natural studies. Perhaps I can convince her to study how to eradicate poison oak/ivy/sumac from the planet.
Or at least my property.
Yes, I have poison oak. Again. And this time, even after 11 days, I'm still finding new blisters. Steroid shot time.
I lived through the day!
Considering it was 96 degrees today that's no small feat!
LM has all these jokes and natural studies. Perhaps I can convince her to study how to eradicate poison oak/ivy/sumac from the planet.
Or at least my property.
Yes, I have poison oak. Again. And this time, even after 11 days, I'm still finding new blisters. Steroid shot time.
You're on your own there, the last time I was exposed to poison sumac it ended up spreading to 70% of my body and I ended up taking oatmeal baths every day for a week and a half.
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It's what they call those big giant freezers they're always stuffing bodies into on Fargo before they put them through the wood chipper.
Oddly enough fargo is cold enough that a fridge is keeping a body WARM....
Probably so it won't damage the chipper blades as it goes through.
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And now, thank you Kevin Hearne, I can't hear or see the name "Oberon" without thinking of a talking dog.
That was supposed to say hikes, not jokes. No idea of that was me or autocorrect. I choose to blame gran.
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Another 270 miles, another, “Oh, carp! It’s 4:30 pm and we’ve only made it 90 miles!!” followed up by a 4-hour marathon drive passing by all kinds of interesting places we didn’t have time to stop for.
On the bright side, we visited a mansion famous for being used as a haunted house (the Carson Mansion), then took a horse carriage tour of old town Eureka by an old English expat who rambled on about anything and everything you brought to his mind (we got to hear of his childhood visits to Belfast during The Troubles and his decision to go with rubber slip-ons for Pearl (his draft horse) and how much they cost by size, and his opinions on those who considered having a horse pull people in a cart “animal abuse” (he blamed Disney’s use of anthropomorphized animals), very little of which seemed in any way related to old town Eureka. But holy cow it was interesting!)
Then we spent a couple of hours wandering around Paul Bunyan’s Trees of Mystery, and mysteriously enough we could have spent another hour there. They did a great job of making it interesting.
So yeah, too much stuff then a long drive. Not my favorite thing, but the mornings and afternoons are a blast.
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The General now works for the UW system and one of the perks of that is every time there's a crime reported on campus she gets an alert about it.
Yesterday she got an alert that someone was attacked with a banana (a banana?!).
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My friend was living in the U.C. Berkeley dorms when a woman had her arm broken by a banana.
(Some idiot threw a frozen banana out of a top-story window and it hit her.)
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NobodyHome: Well, at least today we can’t have an urgent last-minute 4-hour drive; there’s nothing we’re doing in Florence and it’s only 4 hours and 9 minutes to Astoria. It’s not like we’re going to find something 9 minutes out of Florence and spend the entire day there.
Hi: Just watch us!
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NobodyHome: Well, at least today we can’t have an urgent last-minute 4-hour drive; there’s nothing we’re doing in Florence and it’s only 4 hours and 9 minutes to Astoria. It’s not like we’re going to find something 9 minutes out of Florence and spend the entire day there.
Hi: Just watch us!
The Lost Coast. Head west from Florence and you get to a stretch of coastline with beautiful black sand beaches. And there's cows on the hillside. It's Brigafrickindoon.
LOL. Ouch.
EDIT: Hmm… Google Maps shows the Lost Coast as being 265 miles south of us back in California. But 101 runs along the beaches of the Oregon coast for many miles, then we’re passing through Tillamook and Hi says we could easily lose a day there.
We’ll be getting to Astoria late, I’m sure, but I think we’ll make it at least an hour north before we do any really long stops.
And sunburn? Really? While traveling north, wearing a hat, and covering up? Grr…
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Feh.
The series ended at 6 for me.
That said X-2 was fun. But it needed more Lulu.
I am in FFXIV right now dressed like Lulu.
Or at least my toon is.
Imagine Lulu in fish pants.
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Imagine Lulu in fish pants.Feh.
The series ended at 6 for me.
That said X-2 was fun. But it needed more Lulu.
I am in FFXIV right now dressed like Lulu.
Or at least my toon is.
....
Now I can't not see it.
LOL. Ouch.
EDIT: Hmm… Google Maps shows the Lost Coast as being 265 miles south of us back in California. But 101 runs along the beaches of the Oregon coast for many miles, then we’re passing through Tillamook and Hi says we could easily lose a day there.
We’ll be getting to Astoria late, I’m sure, but I think we’ll make it at least an hour north before we do any really long stops.
And sunburn? Really? While traveling north, wearing a hat, and covering up? Grr…
Sorry, I was thinking Ferndale, not Florence. It's between Ferndale and Petrolia. Haven't been there in years.
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It's OK. The nice lady at the front desk asked where we were headed, and when I said Astoria she laughed at me and said, "Good luck!"
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Imagine Lulu in fish pants.
Like.. pants made out of carp?