Feinsteins_Ghost

Decided to go glamping of a sort this weekend. loaded up the back of my truck with shit i never take like a ginormous rotomolded cooler, and a mountainbike, and a cot and tent instead of my hammock and tarp. I even brought my fucking ipad to watch movies from. I brought aUSB powered fan to use in my tent. How bougie am i now? I even have 50 Amperes of 120vAC on tap approx 25' away if i choose to use them.

After dinner i went for a walk on a fishin pier. Ran across almost a dozen of these snakes and maybe five red eared sliders. Im fairly sure the snakes are Diamondback Watersnakes, but im not a snake guy so im going off of sesrching moreso than my own knowledge of snakes. This was the only photo i got of the two species in close proximity together. The lake i am at has Texas Rat Snake, Cottonmouth, Copperhead, Diamondback Watersnake, and maybe a half dozen rattlers of some sort but I'm fairly sure I'm right about the ID here.

The lake has these aluminum things someone welded and they dropped in to provide a habitst for panfish and larger to have somewhere to go. The lake is so low that what is typically 12+ feet below the surface has become a perch for surface life.

Anyway thanks for coming to mutual of omaha's wild kingdom

Look how they massacred my boy

Also fell asleep before switching work clothes from washer to dryer.

Goooooooooooood morning!

Mosquitos may have beat me today. They arent like Russian Taiga in the summertime bad but still, fifteen minutes is about all they need to bleed one dry.

I brought deet, picaridin, and a thermacell. I brought my hammock, which has a bug net built in. It has been treated with permethrin some weeks ago, is unwashed, and i figured the treatment would be current enough to provide protection. Boy am i wrong.

Deet applied to exposed skin to the point of being tingly. Picaridin on top. Thermacell chugging away. And still not quite enough. More of the fuckers are getting thru my defenses than im ok with. The bananas i had during my hike arent helping.

So i go get in my hammock, which is great mostly. Bugnet keeps them off my head, and the thing has been treated with permethrin so it should be helping some too. But it just isnt, really. I brought my spreader bar hammock because im a side sleeper, so the bug netting is only on the top half. Since it is in the 70s&80s im leaving my underquilt at home, which helps to keep things cool but the lack of under quilt means that wherever my body touches the hammock the mosquitoes have direct access to me. And they are biting me.

Im going to be a misshapen mass of hamburger before much longer. Im probably going to have to go sleep in my car. JFC.

Standing in line at will-call at Ferguson this afternoon, I called the office to get a PO number. Its a small plumbing shop so the business tyrants are involved with all things to some extent; since she is answering phones today, she answered when I called to get my PO number.

For some reason I said “OK I love you, bye” when I hung up, like a dumb ass.

I didnt have to call, or go back to the office before I finished my shift today, so I didnt have to hear about it yet. Nobody has texted me or called me either so maybe she didnt say anything. Or maybe she did and theyre all waiting to fuck with me tomorrow.

Anyway, thats my faux pas for the day.

Post some of your favorite noods you can find readily available in most grocery stores. I like instant noodles, and i know yall do too.

ETA or not readily available too. Ill try some good recs

I heard toothbrush joke today at work.

Hand me my basin wrench and come under here with me and watch what im doing - 'you mean our basin wrench'.

(At lunch today) Can you pass my water jug to me please? 'you mean out water jug, comrade?'

He's the new owner's 17 year old fail son.

I dont get paid enough for this shit.

Bottom text

When I'm lyin' in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever wanna be that way
I don't wanna grow up
Seems like folks turn into things
That they'd never want
The only thing to live for
Is today...
I'm gonna put a hole in my TV set
I don't wanna grow up
Open up the medicine chest
And I don't wanna grow up
I don't wanna have to shout it out
I don't want my hair to fall out
I don't wanna be filled with doubt
I don't wanna be a good boy scout
I don't wanna have to learn to count
I don't wanna have the biggest amount
I don't wanna grow up
Well when I see my parents fight
I don't wanna grow up
They all go out and drinking all night. And I don't wanna grow up
I'd rather stay here in my room
Nothin' out there but sad and gloom
I don't wanna live in a big old Tomb
On Grand Street
When I see the 5 o'clock news
I don't wanna grow up
Comb their hair and shine their shoes
I don't wanna grow up
Stay around in my old hometown
I don't wanna put no money down
I don't wanna get me a big old loan
Work them fingers to the bone
I don't wanna float a broom
Fall in love and get married then boom
How the hell did I get here so soon
I don't wanna grow up

• Tom Waits

This song came out the year before i hit highschool. Ive listen to TW off and on, he was a little out there for me during my teens but this song has always resonated with me.

Now, i am grown up. Im 46. I have children who are the age i was when this song came out. I have this overwhelming feeling like this is it. I have a home, and loans, and kids, and a medicine chest. Im floating the broom. Feeling like ive lost my way.

How the hell did i get here so soon?

Shit is hitting really hard this morning. Bricks on my chest. Anyway.

About an $1,800 kitchen faucet that doesnt interface with Alexa properly.

Im liable to take the faucet and beat him with it til his legs dont work any more. The disconnect here may as well be the Grand Canyon and im Evel Knievel.

What machine are you using? What mask do you use? Hows it going for you? Any OSCAR users? SleepHQ?

Solidarity with all my snorebois and snoregals.

Out on the beach for a while today, i ran across two people waving for attention; turns out they were stuck right past the '4wd only past this point' sign. I got them unstuck, made sure they didnt need anything else and was about to head on my way. One of the women offered me a couple road sodas, and i declined- i havent drank alcohol in about 13 years and have no inclination to start again. The other woman actually scoffed, and said 'what man isnt going to accept a beer from a couple women on the beach, are you a f-slur?'

So i left.

Why the fuck do people who drink alcohol act this way around people who dont drink?