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Rest Day, so have a Random Doctor Who Picture

Cover for the Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventure The Eleventh Tiger by David A. McIntee. The first doctor stands between two Chinese Lions in front of a temple.

Cover for the Doctor Who Past Doctor Adventure The Eleventh Tiger by David A. McIntee. The first doctor stands between two Chinese Lions in front of a temple.

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About the bit at the end...

Yeah, surveillance pricing isn't about charging more money to those who can afford it, it's screwing people with less options. A person living in a rich person looking at doordash probably has other ready to eat food in the kitchen, a car, etc.

Before internet shopping took off, a major issue of poverty was people who lived in inner cities being charged prices for diapers that the rich people out in the burbs would never, ever pay. Internet shopping took hold because it disrupted that system, and now it's recreated it.

People who ~~don't understand rich people~~ only see rich people on TV who are there to feel like a fantasy, wish fulfillment, they think rich people aren't price sensitive. They fucking are (in general). Yes, the same people who will eat croissants flown in from France that morning for breakfast, will tell you to fuck off if you try to make then pay an inflated price for a McDonald's Combo Meal. The idea of 'not caring about all that', dropping that mental load, is the fantasy version of rich people from the TV shows that have no relation to reality.

It's not the rich people are frugal, it's more complicated than that.

This is one of many reasons why I can't discuss capitalism or why rich people do the things they do with most people. Or how horny rich people can be for free things (accurately portrayed in Crazy Rich Asians, the movie at least I didn't read the book)

Okay, the end of that video was going to make me bring out one of a few dozen soap boxes, guess I went with that one.

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Reading: No change. (Still working on Ruffage and The Gate of the Feral Gods.)

Watching: A few more episodes of Widow's Bay. Three to go!

Foodstuffs: Farmshare, week 3: 1 green cabbage, 2 cucumbers (1 unagi, 1 Demeter), garlic scapes, fennel, carrots, and cherries. It turns out that'll be our final visit to that location; the farm/market we're supporting is about to finish their 700-meter move and will hopefully be back to business as usual in the new space as of Wednesday. (I say "finishing" their move because they already moved a bunch of fridge/freezer stuff sometime in the last couple of weeks.)

We cooked a couple of veggies via How to Cook Everything (tenth anniversary edition) this week.

scruloose used the oven-braised celery recipe for the celeriac root, and then yesterday I (I!) baked individually foil-wrapped beets in the toaster oven.

The beets had gotten a bit sprouty and rooty, but were still nice and firm and looked fine; they also may have been slightly overcooked, as the recipe was for medium or large beets with a time range of 45 to 90 minutes, and these got about 40 minutes. I mention all these details because I hated them, so I was hoping I'd gotten something wrong, but when

scruloose got home and tried one, they reported liking it fine and that it was about what they would've expected. (They got a sweet note that I didn't. Different taste detection? Difference between individual beets? Different because the one I tried was still warm and

scruloose's was out of the fridge?)

I'll still take it as successfully cooking, however basic the recipe.

Materialism: I don't think I've remembered to mention that I FINALLY (on the fourth try, I think, over several years) managed to spend my store credit with Fluevog. I've been eyeing these boots for a good couple of years now and the current sale is, I think, the first time they've ever gone on sale, so I risked it. I'm trying not to buy shoes with any heel to speak of anymore (and also, I basically never go out? So getting these is really kind of ridiculous? But look at them), but I was hoping that they'd work out since the actual rise between parts of the foot is relatively minimal...and they fit and I love them. I haven't actually worn them out of the house yet, and I think they'll take some breaking in (I really hope that works well), but it's hard to say for sure since my feet find basically all footwear uncomfortable these days.

I love them. If they ever get released in an amazing purple, I will be so screwed. (The only colorways they've had besides the orange are the pink you can still see and black. The fact that the black isn't there anymore makes me wonder if they're being phased out.)

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olivermoss

Remember when I was supposed to go for an event like a month ago? Train was literally boarding when I had to cancel. The one thing the agent could do for me was to switch my ticket to today, and only today. I said sure. So, I just random had a round trip ticket for today.

My plans for the trip were: Finally see Gas Works Park, go to Gas Works Brewing, wander areas far from like Pike's Market and all that.

There is a lot of Seattle, and tragically I've seen very little of it.

Photo post and general DW catch up later, I am exhausted. But, I did go to the steampunky park:

Then I sat in an adirondack chair drinking citrus sours, watching sea planes land and writing werewolf porn in a brewpub partially owned by a Kraken goalie.

Okay, I am going to go fall over dead.

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A man stands proudly behind a sign that reads The Line Behind is the Exact Border between Wales and England. Please Place your feet in two Separate Countries.

This was pretty confusing since we were heading West at the time but, whatever, borders wiggle.

"This is the toughest part of the whole route" warned the guidebook ominously, speaking of the path going "against the grain" of the countryside. It was honestly not too bad until just past the halfway point, but then there were a series of steep ups followed by steep downs. We looked enviously at various side paths that zig-zagged in a sensible way up and down the hills but the Dyke went straight across in the manner of a Roman road and so, so did we. Strava has congratulated me on my longest day walking, despite having definitely walked further in terms of mileage in the past.

Anyway, we are now ensconced in a fancy room* in a fancy hotel with rubbish internet. We have a rest day tomorrow where our plans amount to walking to the nearby village/town to buy B. a new hat (having left his in a Thai restaurant in Kington) and see if we can find good enough internet for "Family Zoom".

( Not much picspam below the cut because I stopped taking photos when we hit the relentless up and down. )
* B thinks I booked the Bridal Suite - we certainly have a four-poster prominently in the centre of the room and a jacuzzi bath.

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I caught a snake today.

I caught a snake today.

At a little local swimming lake, some kids were talking about “water snakes” and I figured those might be actual snakes but they might be plant leaves, they could even be sticks...

Then I saw the snake. Real, living, swimming snake. What I now know was most likely a northern water snake, swimming along the rope at the edge of the swimming area.

I checked it wasn’t a rattlesnake, and I picked it up. Just like that.

One hand just behind the head, one in the middle of the body, the last bits and the tail curled up around my arm. I didn’t squeeze or pinch, holding firm and gentle. I told the kids to pet it gently on the side, and one lived the joke to touch its head and got a hiss right after the warning not to do that. But no harm done to anyone.

After shocking the pants off everyone, I let it back into the water a good way away from where I’d picked it up. No need to keep it around people.

I’m pretty sure that with that high the rest of The vacation’s all downhill from here.

But oh, what. A. High.

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August will be a Flashback round where we revisit a classic theme from the early years of the comm.

Poll #34840 round 189 theme poll

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: Just the Poll Creator, participants: 78

Pick the next theme of fancake:

Epistolary
23 (29.5%)

Pining
30 (38.5%)

Worldbuilding
25 (32.1%)

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Theme Prompt: #307 – A Good Day
Title: Better Days
Fandom: The Fantastic Journey
Rating/Warnings: PG
Bonus: Yes.
Word Count: 1000
Summary: Every so often, there’s a day when it feels like everything is going their way.

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