This would be a great weekend getaway
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“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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There are a couple of fire watch shelters on the AT like that. Not furnished or insulated though, of course.
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Good place to stay when the zombies come.
Yes, I fully expect @Aqua-Letifer to destroy the functionality of that idea.
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@jon-nyc said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
@Mik said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
Beer runs would suck.
You'd have to bring a case of wine and hope it's enough.
You'd need a sherpa to carry it up those stairs.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
There are a couple of fire watch shelters on the AT like that. Not furnished or insulated though, of course.
Do they still have those on the West side of the US? I met someone who was applying to spend a summer as a "fire watcher" in the West. Basically, his job would be to live in one of those shelters for the summer and scan for fires.
Dont know if the humans have been replaced with satellite or not.
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Yes, I believe they do @taiwan_girl - I saw a story about it recently. Some lady spends 9 months a year there and gets a LOT of reading done.
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Education is extremely important.
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@Horace said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
There is an interesting game on Steam called Firewatch where you play a fire watcher in one of those things, and you solve a mystery. Recommended.
Yeah, that was a weird one, but a rare example of an indie game actually being fun to play.
Please love yourself.
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@Aqua-Letifer said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
@Horace said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
There is an interesting game on Steam called Firewatch where you play a fire watcher in one of those things, and you solve a mystery. Recommended.
Yeah, that was a weird one, but a rare example of an indie game actually being fun to play.
I agree it's rare for a concept, artsy game to be fun to play, but genre indie games are often good. FTL for instance started out as a two week mini-game created by two people for a competition, then got fleshed out after being well received.
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@Horace said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
@Aqua-Letifer said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
@Horace said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
There is an interesting game on Steam called Firewatch where you play a fire watcher in one of those things, and you solve a mystery. Recommended.
Yeah, that was a weird one, but a rare example of an indie game actually being fun to play.
I agree it's rare for a concept, artsy game to be fun to play, but genre indie games are often good. FTL for instance started out as a two week mini-game created by two people for a competition, then got fleshed out after being well received.
My son would probably say there are a ton of good indie games. I go to him to see what the young folk are doing. It keeps me fab and groovy.
The Stanley Parable was excellent - a while back, now, but started as a Half Life mod. So did Portal, one of my favourite games of all time.
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How the hell do you guys find time for games? And you can’t say it’s because we don’t have toddler’s because Aqua does…
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@LuFins-Dad said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
How the hell do you guys find time for games? And you can’t say it’s because we don’t have toddler’s because Aqua does…
My kids are 18 and 20, so less demanding in some ways, more in others. One of them even cooks my dinner. I don't have that much time TBH, but I try to fit in an hour here and there. It's either that, or tinker about with music, and sadly music mostly loses out. It's good for my mental health, -admittedly music is better, just more difficult.
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@LuFins-Dad said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
How the hell do you guys find time for games? And you can’t say it’s because we don’t have toddler’s because Aqua does…
Yeah I have basically zero time for games, golf, movies. Have kids they say... it'll be fun they say... Seriously though, right now I usually have 9-10pm to try and watch a show, otherwise all my other time is spent (sleeping, getting up 2-3x a night with the toddler, working from about 5am-2pm, helping kids, house projects, dinner, bath time, bed time... and then back to the 9-10pm window of freedom.)
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@Doctor-Phibes said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
@LuFins-Dad said in This would be a great weekend getaway:
How the hell do you guys find time for games? And you can’t say it’s because we don’t have toddler’s because Aqua does…
My kids are 18 and 20, so less demanding in some ways, more in others. One of them even cooks my dinner. I don't have that much time TBH, but I try to fit in an hour here and there. It's either that, or tinker about with music, and sadly music mostly loses out. It's good for my mental health, -admittedly music is better, just more difficult.
How does that explain Aqua, though?
Seriously? Man, do I miss time… between the big one (and even though he’s at college, he is taking up more of my time than in hs… Multiple calls and texts, helping to set up and manage his applications, searching for a car, etc…) and the little one (who is on a kick where he won’t lay down unless someone lays down with him, which results with Karla coming home at 9:30 and finding me asleep on the edge of the toddler bed, try being productive after waking up at 9:30 having slept for 45 minutes…) and work (which is unbelievably good right now, but I don’t dare let up because the whole squirreling away for winter thing…
TV and movies? Doesn’t happen… Still haven’t finished The Expanse. Reading? No time, Audible while driving or on my walks. TNCR? 10 minute breaks here and there…
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@LuFins-Dad Yeah I can empathize. It really supports the cliché of "the days are long but the years are short"
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The years when the kids were very young are nothing but a blur for me now - it was just nuts. Then suddenly, they're no longer little kids, and it feels more than a bit like being in mourning for something.
I really miss those days - everything was a lot busier, but also a lot simpler.
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Education is extremely important.
