It never gets old and starting the fire is one of my favorite things. And chopping wood can be meditative or therapeutic. But it certainly isn't exciting.
And around here once the December fires are going it really doesn't go out until March. So not a lot of meditative fire lighting sessions.
In my defense - The 3000th night doing it is rather dull
Yup.
I smoked a pack a day for roughly 30 years. My night time breathing was getting ugly and my wife would sometimes get woken up by the sound of my wheezing.
Every method of quitting failed me except vaping. I started as most do with a high nicotine vape juice that tasted like tobacco, but after about a month I swapped and started going lower and lower nicotine and change the flavor from tobacco to a custardy type.
2 months of that got me off the cigs. Two more months got me down to zero nicotine. Two or three more months after that I was done.
I have been off cigs for 7 years.
My breathing no longer feels wet or difficult at night. And My yearly health tests all come back the same as a non-smoker.
Relevant, and good, song by apes of the state.
Do you happen to know the brand? I've been looking for plugs to reduce wind noise without also cancelling out the sound of my motorcycle.
We live in the forest so our cats can only ever go outside on a harness or in one of those backpacks to save the lives of all our forest friends.
This is literally me. We've been out here three years - One more year of putting up with the tech world during the day, and building our solace nights and weekends and this place will be close enough to self-sufficient that I can check out of the workday forever.
Don't get me wrong - building a place in the forest yourself, from nothing, is a lot of work. But it is the kind of work that leaves your body tired and your brain energized. Not the soul sucking every day of dealing with 'business' types.
And every year life gets a bit easier here, while it gets harder every day in the tech industry.
It feels like selfish and stupid is winning everywhere. But Alberta is definitely trying to stay at the front of the pack.
All of you writing cogent arguments and being philosophical should step back and realize this whole thread is an unpaid advertisement for amazon subscription groceries written by someone who thinks they were saved by a job there.
Batman, Skeeter, and Eddie Boots, in a rare moment of shared calm.
Believing this tripe is what causes some people to not bother trying to improve the only actual life we have here on this planet. Comforting lies do not help.
I feel this - I'm often on the other end working with data from clinicians in the field for massive studies. The forms that come in can have an infinite number of possibilities just for noting sex. Enough so that our semantic layer needs a human reviewer because we keep finding new ways field clinicians have of noting this. Now imagine that over the whole gamut of identifiers.
tl:dr - Humans are almost always the problem in data harmonization.
Lol. Fuck off.
Signed, A Canadian who has to work all over the US. Sure, if you happen to be really rich, your quality of life might be better there than here. But for the vast majority of people, that is a fucking laughable statement.
So obviously I spent half an hour in a generative ai tool.
This doozy was shot just two days ago. I never thought I'd have a use for it on lemmy!
Location: Canada
Background: When I first started wearing glasses the optometrist would just give me a piece of paper that I could take to any shop to get my lenses made. Then they started refusing that paper and insisting I either leave my frames with them for two weeks, or that I buy new frames.
And now it seems like even asking for the script, or the measurements, is 'against policy'.
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I recently went in for an eye exam and some new glasses, and the optician said something I have never been told before.
I had asked if they could give me the prescription for my sunglass lenses since they don't deal with the brand that I prefer, and he said that I would have to schedule another appointment at a shop that deals with that brand, because the prescription was not enough, and I would also need the measurements he took.
I asked if I could have those measurements and he said it was against policy.
Is he lying to try to get me to buy new frames from his shop? Or is there something to what he is saying?
Confession - When he walked away I took a picture of the measuring app he had used which seems to show all the measurements.
Would this be useful to another shop? I'm just trying to buy lenses without spending a fortune on yet another frame.
It all feels like a scam.
There are four from the most recent batch. But they are never all in one spot. And the parents don't come around much during the summer.
This mullein is now over 6 feet tall. It is my favorite wild plant by far.
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The private servers have been up a while. But it is always hard for fan projects to gain traction for devs, players, or donations, when the IP could be yanked at any time. NCSoft granting a license should provide one heck of a shot in the arm for this cult classic game.
Go. Hunt. KILL Skul!
I thought this growth pattern was weird, and on inspection it seems like it pushed up past a tiny root that is now choking it.
I was thinking of going out his morning to cut the root out.
What do the pros think?
Is there any way to be be 100% certain?
Taken this morning near Danford Lake, Quebec. I'm no mycologist, so I have no idea what these are. But I do enjoy taking their picture :)