Yeah I’ve had the tent I was sleeping in broken by a bear while solo backpacking. I didn’t end up needing to shoot it but I always carry bear spray and a gun when I’m solo camping in bear country.

That’s really stupid. I owe about $65k on my home and it’s worth about $225k. I have four paid off vehicles too. But all they would see are my debts and whatever money is in my accounts. My net worth is actually about $190k but it would show I’m negative $55k.

Prostitute enthusiasts (a group of Johns)

I moved three Win 10 boxes to linux mint cinnamon this week. Twenty more and I’ll have made good progress on my little nonprofit. But I’m probably at least a decade from being able to go 100% away from windows and Mac’s. Fuck em both.

It’s easy at least. I just got my wife set up with it on a laptop that was running Windows 10 previously. Even the banking app she has been using in Windows has a Ubuntu release that worked pretty easily. She wasn’t even put off by having to use the terminal to install it. I’m calling it a win.

I don’t mind seeing people. I don’t want to be seen.

Damn, I didn’t realize I was ska until just now. I in fact have a trumpet and a coronet. And the first live show I ever got high at was Skankin Pickle touring Skafunkrastapunk. Somehow completely unrelated I ended up with their bass drum kick pedal about a year and a half later. I don’t even listen to ska though. But the attitude is all mine!

There are tons of nonreligious expressions of it.

I would, but then I’d probably make them learn while we were camping and give them some practice on fire roads etc

Man out in the wilds we can cover 10 times that distance in that time and not even have to worry about the law man.

Everyone else laughs at you, you might as well get to join in.

We should only question those who don’t regularly carry knives. Are they even trying to be contributing members of society at that point?

There’s no expectation of privacy in public places.

For dogs that are bred for snow, no question. My last dog was a rescue who was cold on cold summer days. He hated snow, he’d shit inside rather than go out.

My last dog wouldn’t wear them. He was a rescue so I didn’t know his background, but if you touched his paws he freaked out!

Yeah I’m a cat person and when I go outside in the snow I want to go alone. No brown or yellow snow, no wimpering because their paws are too cold. Just me and some crisp solitude.

It’s called the Whodat because that’s what everyone asks after it has maimed your corpse beyond recognition.

Needs more beans. Bean-cooled!

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I go snowshoeing during the day, or maybe drive around in the snow, my car is very capable. We don’t have mountains nearby to ski or snowboard, and I don’t care for cross country skiing.

Sometimes I’ll drive to town for a meal in a local diner, or I’ll spend some time cooking a nice meal at my camp. I don’t spend time in my tent except to sleep or change my clothes, maybe roll a joint away from the wind.

I can sit comfortably outside in a chair for hours at -20C without getting cold. I like to stand by the fire sometimes, maybe listen to some music, there’s never anyone right next to me it will bother. And yes a fire is nice, but I don’t need it to stay warm. I do like to cook over the fire also. A campstove is efficient, but cooking some meat over a fire in the snow is a vibe.

Sometimes I have data coverage where I camp, and I might spend a little time on my phone or on a tablet. They don’t mind bitter cold, although batteries don’t perform quite as well. I have lots of options for power sources if needed. But honestly I prefer when I’m outside of data range and no one can reach me.

I don’t like cold rain, so Spring is out for me. Fall is DRY here. Like the only temporary drought we ever get. Summers are a mixed bag, mostly unbearably hot and humid, but we do occasionally get strangely cool and dry days where it is too chilly to be standing outside wet in a swimsuit. Winter is great as long as it’s below freezing, which it mostly has been. It’s not even winter yet and we’ve had four good snows. It was -19c yesterday morning, and we’re at the same latitude as Portugal. Sometimes we get a warm winter day with that 2 or 3c rain and that can fuck right off.