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    Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

    I'm thinking about how can I make people buy my band's album lol. Getting it out there is fairly easy, efficiently promoting it is like UGH

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      Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

      Originally posted by Prickly Pear View Post
      I woke up to the whole house shaking, loud engines above. It was weird to realize that I immediately recognized it as planes flying low and slow as they line up to dump water on a nearby wildfire that is threatening a town near us. Guess I've heard it before.

      Also, I guess my husband was right when he didn't want to buy a house there because the mountainside was prone to fire. This is the second time in 5 years that approximately the same spot has been on fire--- lots of newer subdivisions there. Well, new by my standards.

      Volcaniclastic- I bet the mountain skills will come back to him pretty quickly and he will be fine. Not that you won't worry anyway. That kind of worrying is torture. I think it has gotten worse in situations like this since we have so many communication options now. When we don't have them, it is really disconcerting. In the past a situation like this was still worrisome, but we coped with the lack of communication better.

      On another note, it is kind of funny that your friend lost her GPS tracking device. It seems like the one thing that should be really hard to lose. Not that I couldn't manage losing one.
      Where do you live that you're still getting forest fires? We got snow today.

      We do sometimes go a few days at a time without communication, that's not really the issue. It's more that he's gone off into the wilderness with no emergency backup communication device. You can plan for everything, but a broken leg is a broken leg, and not being able to call for a medivac out is the difference between life and death.

      I am needlessly worrying, but I just don't like how remote he is without some sort of emergency device.

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      Originally posted by SeanRave View Post
      I'm thinking about how can I make people buy my band's album lol. Getting it out there is fairly easy, efficiently promoting it is like UGH
      Have you tried Bandcamp? I buy random music from there all the time. If you put yourselves up on bandcamp, I'll give it a listen and a review!


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        Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

        Originally posted by volcaniclastic View Post
        Where do you live that you're still getting forest fires? We got snow today.

        We do sometimes go a few days at a time without communication, that's not really the issue. It's more that he's gone off into the wilderness with no emergency backup communication device. You can plan for everything, but a broken leg is a broken leg, and not being able to call for a medivac out is the difference between life and death.

        I am needlessly worrying, but I just don't like how remote he is without some sort of emergency device.

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        Have you tried Bandcamp? I buy random music from there all the time. If you put yourselves up on bandcamp, I'll give it a listen and a review!
        Oh, yeah we do have a bandcamp, but not getting many sales from it unfortunately Garden of Sinners' Bandcamp Page
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          Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

          Originally posted by volcaniclastic View Post
          Where do you live that you're still getting forest fires? We got snow today.
          I'm not sure where Prickly lives, but we still have fires in Oregon and there are still some in WA as well. It's very saddening

          During fire season, the fire situation map will show active large fires ODF is tracking in the state and the locations of year-to-date lightning and human-caused fires (statistical fires where ODF is the primary protection agency).

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            Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

            Originally posted by volcaniclastic View Post
            Where do you live that you're still getting forest fires? We got snow today.

            We do sometimes go a few days at a time without communication, that's not really the issue. It's more that he's gone off into the wilderness with no emergency backup communication device. You can plan for everything, but a broken leg is a broken leg, and not being able to call for a medivac out is the difference between life and death.

            I am needlessly worrying, but I just don't like how remote he is without some sort of emergency device.

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            It's 87F, breezy, and 16% humidity here today. We still have fires. We will possibly get a light flurry sometime in October, but I don't expect snow until Halloween or later. We should be moving into optimal warm sunny days and cool nights right about now, but everything seems to be about 2-3 weeks late this year. I'm interested to see if we get blasted by snow this winter, or if it is particularly warm. This is at about 5000 feet in the western US.

            Oh, I understand perfectly what you are worrying about. It is just that I have become reliant on reassuring myself that I will get a phone call, even from emergency services, if my nearest and dearest are in danger. It is how I manage to sleep sometimes. When I don't have that, I worry like crazy. For example, my daughter lives with us right now, and she just had a major break-up. Her phone was on a plan with her ex, so she gave that up and is phoneless for the moment. Friday night the ex showed up at the house and they left together and did not tell me where, as they are adults. A few hours later I was deeply worried, as the ex is basically decent but very insecure and there was some very controlling behavior going on that prompted my daughter to split with them. The ex is not happy about the break up, and I figured there was about a 10% chance that my daughter was in a dangerous situation without transportation or a means of communication. If she had had a phone, I could have texted or called, but no phone. I did not sleep until she got home. She was fine. The ex was fine. I just worried more because I couldn't know that they were fine.

            My original point was more that I guess we had a bit more of a fatalistic attitude before. If someone went off into the wilderness or some sort of equivalent ( I'm thinking of a few trips into the Alaskan interior, and a lot of trips into the Utah desert.), we definitely worried, but I think it was a little easier to resign yourself to the fact that there was nothing you could do about it. If someone decided to backpack around Europe or South America, you were essentially out of contact most of the time. You were reliant on them to communicate to you, which could mean mail sent two weeks ago, or an occasional expensive phone call that sounded kind of funny. Possibly I was just younger and more foolish, but I was better at resigning myself to that loss of assurance. Now in that situation, I would be concerned if I didn't get an Instagram of their lunch.

            I don't think you are wrong for worrying, I was just making an observation about changes in culture and technology. I love love love having the reassurance that I can contact my loved ones almost instantly, and vice versa.

            I hope you are okay. I hope he is having a safe, wonderful adventure.
            Last edited by Prickly Pear; 16 Sep 2018, 14:56. Reason: to add that I am very in favor of satellite locating devices in the wilderness

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              Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

              Today I went to the Autism Walk. My female friend (who's not my girlfriend) didn't come to the Autism Walk with me because her older sister got sick. So she took care of her. But other than that I have a great time today.

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                Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

                Originally posted by SeanRave View Post
                Getting it out there is fairly easy, efficiently promoting it is like UGH
                That's why the middle man makes the money. Grunt work.
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                  Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

                  Google is irritating me.
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                  "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

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                    Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

                    It seems like my university has suddenly decided to block Pf. I can't fathom why given we can access actual pornography without issue.
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                      Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

                      Don't ya know?
                      Paganism < Porn
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                        Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

                        Originally posted by Juniper View Post
                        Don't ya know?
                        Paganism < Porn
                        Really? I didn't know that.

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                          Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

                          Originally posted by Bartmanhomer View Post
                          Really? I didn't know that.

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                            Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

                            So glad that my work week is over. I've worked for five days and am now off for three days. Am feeling so crappy. Ugh. Can't wait to rest.
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                              Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

                              Originally posted by Juniper View Post
                              I cannot watch Supernatural anymore since my break-up I love this show so much but it was like our before-sleep ritual to watch an episode or two together. Aw man.

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                                Re: Whatcha thinking about now? (v2)

                                Originally posted by SeanRave View Post
                                I cannot watch Supernatural anymore since my break-up I love this show so much but it was like our before-sleep ritual to watch an episode or two together. Aw man.
                                Weirdly enough, this wasn't even my first pick. I meant to use a Rocket Raccoon gif from Guardians of the Galaxy 2, about using the sarcastic voice... but I couldn't find a gif of that. This was the runner up.
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