This just kinda makes me sad that I don’t have anyone who likes to go on adventures like this, so I just usually end up going hiking alone. ☹️

I could come up with a list, but I’d just say pack with what seems right, be okay being wrong, and start of with short hikes, and go longer (leaving an itinerary and estimated return time with a trusted friend). You’ll soon find what you do/don’t need and come to an equilibrium. Do research based on what you found works/doesn’t work. For example, you might find hiking blogs say bringing a camping stove is a must, but you and your wife can do just fine eating nothing but trail mix for a 5 day excursion, or you might find freak rain showers absolutely ruin hikes and a small tarp is a must no matter what the weather says…that kind of thing.

If you have android, Osmand~ lists hiking trails, even some of the lesser known ones AllTrails doesn’t have.

You can download topo maps offline, too. If you’re into hiking I highly recommend Osmand~

Yeah, most online stores don’t accept gift cards, unfortunately. 🙁 Especially Amazon…tried to order some much needed products with Amazon cards, and they require a bank card.

IME, (on Amazon at least…and a few others I’ve tried) masked cards are usually accepted as bank cards. Gift cards are not.

I’d love to build myself a privacy-respecting online store that accepts everything from Monero to cash to Apple pay (for the general populous that doesn’t care), but I sort of lack the capital. 😅

I mean, yeah, it would be great if Amazon took Monero, but I don’t see them ever even considering that.

Was it ever for jobs?

Been an active user for well over 5 years and not one interaction has resulted in a job.

A bunch of people acting like they were hiring, sure.

They basically want more data points on people to sell to advertisers.

It’s big tech. That’s how big tech works.

Thanks! Sorry to hear you don’t get any weather action. It rains a lot where I live, but rarely thunders. And they’re typically “blink it and you miss” type storms.

Thanks!

Story telling 10/10! It’s almost like I can hear the person’s accent, hear them telling me a story, all the while lighting the lantern. I can hear the bustling of the crowd. All with a single image.

Lighting, focus, and details is magnificent.

What did you use for editing?

Nice! Keep it up! I love the vignette around the edges and the hint of color in the foliage (I mean, besides the obvious green). One thing I often like to do is have a dominant color (or gray) and have a hint of a color in the image to give it some intrigue. Good job.

Exactly.

“I’m ready to start Monday. Just need to restart my health insurance with–”

“Oh, we already chose that for you.”

“Um…okay…well, at least I can go back to my gym on Tues–”

“No worries, through our wellness plan we’ve already selected a gym for you. We even pre-signed you up to a spin class.”

“I’m more of a bench-press person any–”

“We’ve started your retirement account, too.”

“Um…thanks?”

I had a hero of a physics professor who figured out that new editions of textbooks just mixed up the number of the exercises, so he advised students that they could just order previous versions of the textbooks and he’d provide the “key” for how the questions were shuffled.

Toilets.

I just use your neighbor’s garden and blame it on my cat.

Probably gonna anger both sides here, but I see both private insurance and single-payer healthcare as equally-evil scams. Why not focus on driving down costs of healthcare (i.e. EVERYTHING) so that you throw a couple bucks at the receptionist to cover your surgery then check to see if you have enough for a post-surgery soda?

Yup, BandCamp all the way. Once you buy a song you own it, you can play it anywhere you darn well please. Even if BandCamp goes under, no worries, still got my music.

Same with DVDs. Yeah, I’ve definitely gotten movies I regret purchasing, but I think long-term it’s more economical.

Workplace benefits.

Really? What’s the benefit? You’re taking money out of my paycheck to restrict my choices?

And aren’t you a business anyway–you know, an organization whose purpose is to MAKE MONEY, not coddle people.

News headline, October 2078

Google finds users are covering their ears and closing their eyes; releases nanobots to force eyes open and lock hands behind back.