Ah. The Fagor people are clever enough to sell it with a regular lid if you want to just use it as a pot. Glad you’re going to be OK. I’ve had close encounters with that sugary napalm, scariest is making Nuoc Mau, Vietnamese Caramel Sauce. You need to pour water into molten sugar. Terrifying every time.
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You poor bastard. Hoping you heal quickly.
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I had a good time at London Anarchist Bookfair right up until TERFs started handing out transphobic leaflets by the gender neutral toilets. Please note that where they say men/males they mean transwomen.
https://twitter.com/JacobElliman/status/924394952431464448
https://twitter.com/JacobElliman/status/924395042940309504
The aftermath was not fun, and people are still trying to work out exactly what happened.
what is known (confirmed by multiple sources):
TERFS were leafleting
LGBT activists started chanting “shame on you” at them
Helen Steel got involved defending the TERFs (she has sided with them before)
Other people who didn’t know what was going on got involved to defend Helen Steel
A transwoman was punched by someone.
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Of course. Fuck.
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I’ve been braving the cold to go out biking for weeks, and hit up spots on the lakefront to get into some of the fall salmon and trout. It’s getting quite cold for biking (~40 degrees), but I finally found where big groups of Brown and Rainbow trout hang out in one of the local harbors.
It’s a spot where no fishing is allowed, on account of all the expensive boats docked there. Goddammit.
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As I went walking, I saw a sign there
And on the sign, it said “No Trespassing.”
But on the other side, it didn’t say nothing,
That side was made for you and me.
–Woody Guthrie
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“Solvitur ambulando.”
– Diogenes of Sinope
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the planned name of my next dog, if it suits him.
It’s quite likely he’ll be in favor of walking.
I’m not sure I’d want a skeptical dog though.
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true, that sounds more like a cat.
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Time to get your exercise in a kayak rather than on a bike. I sometimes kayak fish near petroleum docks in Bayonne, only occasionally do they chase me off. You can even tow your kayak to the lake behind your bike.
https://goo.gl/images/dFeXrt
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I have a nifty folding kayak, and a nifty rubber suit to keep me from dying from hypothermia. I don’t mention the second bit without reason; I’ve tried this in the spring and every time, it’s been a very refreshing doggie paddle back to shore dragging my kayak behind me.
Anyways, in the harbors of the “Great Lake” I am fishing, it’s a common way in December to catch giant brown trout. I’d like to find a better way which doesn’t involve a car, or storing a rigid kayak in my closet. A lot of parameters to juggle here.
You’ll love the guys who are good at this, though. They know what they are doing, and have much more expensive kayaks they use:
I just dunno about it. The “Big Pond” as they call it has a reputation for rapidly changing weather in the best of times. Sure as hell looks awesome, though.
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I know exactly where you are. Harbors and Browns gave it away! Needing a folding or inflatable definitely ratchets up the logistics and cost of the appropriate kayak. I would not kayak fish in cold weather without a kayak that I could just climb right back on even though I have an excellent Eskimo Roll. I have a friend who fishes off a Hobie inflatable paddle board with the pedal drive. Heres one of his videos
There’s some other inflatable options out there too.
There’s at least 2 metro areas which this describes. 
Possibly 3–I haven’t looked into Traverse City fishing at all.
Yeah, I managed to install outriggers, but how they have performed in warm weather doesn’t instill confidence in that my rig is foolproof enough. In theory I should be able to just climb right back in now, but I’d feel better if I lost a little weight first, to swing the buoyancy more in my favor.
I did not know these existed! The guys who do well in winter have fixed hulled Hobies with the pedal drive. I am gonna have to check this out.
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Good luck but @$2300, they ain’t cheap!
I got a NEXT from old town. Good Boat.
I love a good canoe too, but i fish often rough & cold salt water conditions where hypothermia is a real possibility if you end up in the drink even in a drysuit. This means for me I have to have an unsinkable sit-on-top style boat that I can climb back aboard. I also have a waterproof floating VHF radio.
Weather is looking good for a Thursday outing!
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Well to be fair I had given two weeks notice already for the manager balking at being able to telecommute after being on site for 3 months and getting it in writing before taking this job.
So after 3 months of here get this complicated process done tomorrow with no training or documentation and I was told that my change record was good to go so I pushed out files to protect against the latest ransomware fun. Well nobody fixed the change to get out of draft much less approved.
Back to the job search full time.
ETA the account is a mess of the customer wanting everything to be a priority and we never had enough hours to get it all done and their windows domain is broken beyond repair because hey lets block the port DC’s use for replication till everything starts breaking and the new guy who got here after the fact notices things.
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I have no idea what you said, but it does sound frustrating. I think you said “got hired to solve problem but was sabotaged by entrenched morons.”
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close enough… between that and the fact that there is fuck all to do but go to the bar or the casino locally and the locals attitude of unless you have been here 7 generations we want nothing to do with you… I know why the guy previous to me bailed before showing up and the guy who I am replacing left. Oh look a better gig not in armpit Iowa.
ETA I will say the town is pretty but there really is fuck all to do unless you like drinking and/or gambling.
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