What timing!
I was working on my small water systems operations exam. 370 so odd open book questions. El horror!
I was working on my small water systems operations exam. 370 so odd open book questions. El horror!
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Remember, nobody actually enjoys roleplaying if there isn't at least five shameful fetishes uncovered by the 2nd page.
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Somebody stole my mood ring. I don't know how to feel about it.
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Let's be honest, it's far more satisfying and challenging to actually imagine what a character looks like than paste a hundred gifs of a celebrity and call it good.
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So, a team of players who are good at playing as a team in a team-based game are individually bad players. Seems kind of silly when you put it like that, no?
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My goal these days is to have an RP that can actually finish, or the very least, last a few years. I see way too many die on page one to take chances
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My mind is mush right now, I'll have to come back and try to write in a while. >_>
Most people in Canada are really nice! Like everywhere, however, there's assholes and I've run into a lot of horrible and intolerant people who I really hope don't represent what Canada's turning into. >_>; the internet's ruined a lot of things. But overall, I love it here and consider myself super fortunate I live here! I wouldn't trade it for the world. I really like the US, but I'm so glad I don't live there.. between the insanity that is health insurance, your incomprehensible political system that thrives off of bipartisan showboating, and a lot more extremist groups, it's definitely somewhere I know I'd feel very vulnerable living in.
I guess interdimentional beings would be akin to a god, for all intents and purposes. There's no way to say one way or another if parallel universes exist, although I am a fan of multiverse theory. I'm always up for being surprised or discovering something new, so if we start to see proof of this, it wouldn't take much to get me on board. There's biological reasons why humans are as intelligent and inventive as we are, and it's part of the reason that compared to other species we're smaller, have worse senses, are weaker and more frail, and aren't as fast, and our children take three years before they start really forming all their bones, their skulls fusing together, and so on. We have huge brains for our size, and we kind of put all of our chips on that table, speaking through evolution. It's the reason we're the only kind of human that exists; we outsmarted and destroyed all the others. I think as humans we're naturally curious and inventive, so for something like fire, all it would take is someone to see fire in nature to know it exists, and to put the ingredients together (you see that trees burn, especially when it's been dry, so you gather bark and twigs and shit. You know that rubbing your hands together keeps them warm through friction, so maybe it's friction that starts fires, and so on). Every single thing you see in our society and for us as a species was at one point just some idea somebody had, and they brought it to life. That to me is the coolest thing ever. I guess for me a big thing is I fully believe in the power of the human spirit, and our potential. Attributing our greatest characteristics and ideas to a higher power just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It's like when someone wins a major sporting event and they thank God for their success, and to me that's completely undermining their own contributions, all the pain, dedication, and skill they put into their craft to have won. It's also why I hate the idea of fate and karma and shit, it implies that everything's predetermined and meaningless. We're so much more than somebody's plaything, and we got here where we are because we didn't look at the world and accept it as it is, we looked at it and saw what it could be.
Nope! First I heard of it, but it's certainly possible it's a holdover from millions of years ago. o.o Hell, alligators and sharks have remained virtually unchanged since the Cretaceous period, and things like trilobites are among the earliest complex organisms in Earth's history and they're still around today! It would make sense that some plants reached an evolutionary apex and didn't need to adapt any further.
As for domestication, animals need to have certain traits they need to be domesticated. They need to have a quick birthing rate, they need to be largely docile, they need to require few resources, you need to be able to contain them, and so on. It's why in all of human history we've only found a few species that can be domesticated. You can tame a lot of other ones, but that's an individual more so than a species in general. Chickens are pretty easy to round up and contain, they can't jump or fly that high or far, so I imagine it was simply a matter of chasing them into an enclosure, and then feeding them, killing troublesome individuals while giving docile and high egg producing individuals more reproductive chances. Do that long enough and you're left with a pretty tame population that does exactly what you want. You promote the genes you want, and extinguish the ones you don't.
It's like how we turned wolves into dogs, we fed wolves scraps, they began to associate us with a source of easy food and it was more beneficial to let the humans feed you than to attack them, and if you protect them, they give you more food. We encourage behaviour in dogs the same way; do what we want, we give you a treat. Before long, the wolves are having cubs who grow up around humans as companions, and humans keep the wolves that are friendliest and have features they prefer around while driving away the bad ones, and fast forward tens of thousands of years and you have fucking pugs.
And of course! I think everyone and their dog knows what megalodon was! That was a big ass shark, I still find it kind of funny how some people think it's still out there. Granted, the ocean is an impossible huge and mysterious place we know little about, but when your main source of food is whales and there's no signs of whale populations being preyed upon by enormous sharks, I think it's safe to say it was too big for this world. Something that big requires a lot of food to keep going, and evolution crashed from making everything super huge to favouring smaller animals that needed less resources to survive when mammals started coming into play (fun fact; early mammals lived on the Earth alongside the dinosaurs!). Personally, I like the megathereum, a gigantic 12 foot tall ground sloth that was known to fight off sabertooth tigers and steal there food. I wish those things were still around lol.
And yup! I basically live in a provincial bonfire waiting to happen. :D It's a place where you really hope it rains once in a while because you know a fire's going to happen otherwise. We get like 5 months of snow, a month or two of fall, like 3 months of summer, and another couple months of spring.
Honestly, I was entertaining the idea of getting another cactus... >_> I like things that require zero upkeep.
I guess interdimentional beings would be akin to a god, for all intents and purposes. There's no way to say one way or another if parallel universes exist, although I am a fan of multiverse theory. I'm always up for being surprised or discovering something new, so if we start to see proof of this, it wouldn't take much to get me on board. There's biological reasons why humans are as intelligent and inventive as we are, and it's part of the reason that compared to other species we're smaller, have worse senses, are weaker and more frail, and aren't as fast, and our children take three years before they start really forming all their bones, their skulls fusing together, and so on. We have huge brains for our size, and we kind of put all of our chips on that table, speaking through evolution. It's the reason we're the only kind of human that exists; we outsmarted and destroyed all the others. I think as humans we're naturally curious and inventive, so for something like fire, all it would take is someone to see fire in nature to know it exists, and to put the ingredients together (you see that trees burn, especially when it's been dry, so you gather bark and twigs and shit. You know that rubbing your hands together keeps them warm through friction, so maybe it's friction that starts fires, and so on). Every single thing you see in our society and for us as a species was at one point just some idea somebody had, and they brought it to life. That to me is the coolest thing ever. I guess for me a big thing is I fully believe in the power of the human spirit, and our potential. Attributing our greatest characteristics and ideas to a higher power just leaves a sour taste in my mouth. It's like when someone wins a major sporting event and they thank God for their success, and to me that's completely undermining their own contributions, all the pain, dedication, and skill they put into their craft to have won. It's also why I hate the idea of fate and karma and shit, it implies that everything's predetermined and meaningless. We're so much more than somebody's plaything, and we got here where we are because we didn't look at the world and accept it as it is, we looked at it and saw what it could be.
Nope! First I heard of it, but it's certainly possible it's a holdover from millions of years ago. o.o Hell, alligators and sharks have remained virtually unchanged since the Cretaceous period, and things like trilobites are among the earliest complex organisms in Earth's history and they're still around today! It would make sense that some plants reached an evolutionary apex and didn't need to adapt any further.
As for domestication, animals need to have certain traits they need to be domesticated. They need to have a quick birthing rate, they need to be largely docile, they need to require few resources, you need to be able to contain them, and so on. It's why in all of human history we've only found a few species that can be domesticated. You can tame a lot of other ones, but that's an individual more so than a species in general. Chickens are pretty easy to round up and contain, they can't jump or fly that high or far, so I imagine it was simply a matter of chasing them into an enclosure, and then feeding them, killing troublesome individuals while giving docile and high egg producing individuals more reproductive chances. Do that long enough and you're left with a pretty tame population that does exactly what you want. You promote the genes you want, and extinguish the ones you don't.
It's like how we turned wolves into dogs, we fed wolves scraps, they began to associate us with a source of easy food and it was more beneficial to let the humans feed you than to attack them, and if you protect them, they give you more food. We encourage behaviour in dogs the same way; do what we want, we give you a treat. Before long, the wolves are having cubs who grow up around humans as companions, and humans keep the wolves that are friendliest and have features they prefer around while driving away the bad ones, and fast forward tens of thousands of years and you have fucking pugs.
And of course! I think everyone and their dog knows what megalodon was! That was a big ass shark, I still find it kind of funny how some people think it's still out there. Granted, the ocean is an impossible huge and mysterious place we know little about, but when your main source of food is whales and there's no signs of whale populations being preyed upon by enormous sharks, I think it's safe to say it was too big for this world. Something that big requires a lot of food to keep going, and evolution crashed from making everything super huge to favouring smaller animals that needed less resources to survive when mammals started coming into play (fun fact; early mammals lived on the Earth alongside the dinosaurs!). Personally, I like the megathereum, a gigantic 12 foot tall ground sloth that was known to fight off sabertooth tigers and steal there food. I wish those things were still around lol.
And yup! I basically live in a provincial bonfire waiting to happen. :D It's a place where you really hope it rains once in a while because you know a fire's going to happen otherwise. We get like 5 months of snow, a month or two of fall, like 3 months of summer, and another couple months of spring.
Honestly, I was entertaining the idea of getting another cactus... >_> I like things that require zero upkeep.
I wouldn't recommend tasting lake water. XD That's a great way to get sick.
I've also wanted to go up to the Yukon at some point! I really want to see the arctic in the summer. About 90% of our total population lives within 200 kilometers of the US border. Sounds like you'd even given the thought of moving up here some consideration!
I don't think it was the sun that fucked Venus over, I think it was (from what I remember hearing, I could be totally wrong) a super volcanic event that trapped all the heat and utterly changed the climate. I also think Mars used to have oceans. I'm firmly in the camp that life on Earth started here and evolved here. There'd be traces of civilization on Mars if there were anything like that, and our solar system is only 4 billion years old, and humans as a species have only been around for I think around 100-200 thousand years. We've only been able to go into space for around half a century now. I can't imagine other life evolving elsewhere in that time frame faster. The main issue with the ancient astronaut theory is it discounts the paleontological evidence of the evolution of our species and how utterly long it takes to travel from solar system to solar system; so far, they've pinpointed about 11 billion planets that are in Earth-like orbits and have similar chemical compositions, but the closest one is 12 light years away. Without actually visiting the planet, you have no idea if it can support human life or not, and for the amount of technology that would be required to make that journey (be able to provide food and recycle water for 12 years minimum, assuming a one way trip, as well as a sizable colony population which would have to be in the thousands to have a sustainable population, with enough genetic diversity to minimize the health concerns, and so on), as well as being able to know how to work the new land, decide what's safe to eat, establishing infrastructure, and so on. Assuming all of that lined up, why did we start off in the stone age instead of advancing from whatever we came to Earth with? If we go off of other aliens dumping us off to save our species and letting us evolve, you're still dealing with the same logistical problems and the insane costs in both time, resources, and maybe even crew member's lives to seed a planet that likely is hundreds, if not thousands of years away at light speed where the resource drain and maintenance requirements are prohibitive and likely to the point of impossibility? You also have to make sure that humans would survive and not just go extinct in a couple generations because they didn't know how to cope with this strange new planet. o_o
Sorry, I'm not ranting or lecturing, I'm just thinking aloud. >_> I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade. I just think about this stuff a lot. I'm a very skeptical person who is utterly fascinated by scientific stuff.
BACK TO FOSSILS!
Oh yeah, Earth had a stage where pretty much everything was supersized, the megafauna stage. Even Dragonflies were the size of dogs! If you want more evolution hilarity, the T-Rex's closest direct descendant is the fucking chicken. I am not even making that up. And absolutely! It's got the blues, greens, reds, and yellows! I have it under some bright overhead lights so it catches it nicely. I'm a friggin' magpie; I love shiny things.
Ocean currents and wind patterns play a big role in it, too. British Columbia is a very rainy and temperate province in the South, and that gets carried over the Rockies. However, Alberta's also the province that gets the most annual sunshine of all of them. Sometimes it gets so dry wildfires break out semi-frequently. It's kinda bad.
It's too late for that cactus, that was when I lived with my parents. It was really soft, though...
I've also wanted to go up to the Yukon at some point! I really want to see the arctic in the summer. About 90% of our total population lives within 200 kilometers of the US border. Sounds like you'd even given the thought of moving up here some consideration!
I don't think it was the sun that fucked Venus over, I think it was (from what I remember hearing, I could be totally wrong) a super volcanic event that trapped all the heat and utterly changed the climate. I also think Mars used to have oceans. I'm firmly in the camp that life on Earth started here and evolved here. There'd be traces of civilization on Mars if there were anything like that, and our solar system is only 4 billion years old, and humans as a species have only been around for I think around 100-200 thousand years. We've only been able to go into space for around half a century now. I can't imagine other life evolving elsewhere in that time frame faster. The main issue with the ancient astronaut theory is it discounts the paleontological evidence of the evolution of our species and how utterly long it takes to travel from solar system to solar system; so far, they've pinpointed about 11 billion planets that are in Earth-like orbits and have similar chemical compositions, but the closest one is 12 light years away. Without actually visiting the planet, you have no idea if it can support human life or not, and for the amount of technology that would be required to make that journey (be able to provide food and recycle water for 12 years minimum, assuming a one way trip, as well as a sizable colony population which would have to be in the thousands to have a sustainable population, with enough genetic diversity to minimize the health concerns, and so on), as well as being able to know how to work the new land, decide what's safe to eat, establishing infrastructure, and so on. Assuming all of that lined up, why did we start off in the stone age instead of advancing from whatever we came to Earth with? If we go off of other aliens dumping us off to save our species and letting us evolve, you're still dealing with the same logistical problems and the insane costs in both time, resources, and maybe even crew member's lives to seed a planet that likely is hundreds, if not thousands of years away at light speed where the resource drain and maintenance requirements are prohibitive and likely to the point of impossibility? You also have to make sure that humans would survive and not just go extinct in a couple generations because they didn't know how to cope with this strange new planet. o_o
Sorry, I'm not ranting or lecturing, I'm just thinking aloud. >_> I'm not trying to rain on anyone's parade. I just think about this stuff a lot. I'm a very skeptical person who is utterly fascinated by scientific stuff.
BACK TO FOSSILS!
Oh yeah, Earth had a stage where pretty much everything was supersized, the megafauna stage. Even Dragonflies were the size of dogs! If you want more evolution hilarity, the T-Rex's closest direct descendant is the fucking chicken. I am not even making that up. And absolutely! It's got the blues, greens, reds, and yellows! I have it under some bright overhead lights so it catches it nicely. I'm a friggin' magpie; I love shiny things.
Ocean currents and wind patterns play a big role in it, too. British Columbia is a very rainy and temperate province in the South, and that gets carried over the Rockies. However, Alberta's also the province that gets the most annual sunshine of all of them. Sometimes it gets so dry wildfires break out semi-frequently. It's kinda bad.
It's too late for that cactus, that was when I lived with my parents. It was really soft, though...
Yeah man! It's only an hour drive. I'd go every weekend I have off if I were feeling well. I've heard of Flathead Lake! Isn't it that clear because it's so acidic? I may be thinking of another one. I want to visit Montana sometime, it's only a few hours South. :)
I hope you get a chance to go, too! I see people from around the world there all the time, and it's super close to Calgary so it's not far after a plane flight. :D
I have seen the Martian, but I've loooong held those views about Mars. Lots of respect to anyone willing to go knowing they'll never come back to Earth and what they'll have to endure, but I literally couldn't imagine moving there. Apparently they think that the first few missions are very likely to have pretty much 100% fatality rates because of how lethal the environment is and the fact that there's no real proper medical facilities. The problem with terraforming is it would take literally tens of thousands of years to make the air breathable. Mars does have an atmosphere, just its composition isn't sustainable to life as we know it. Apparently it used to be a lot like Earth... as was Venus until it had an environmental catastrophe that gave it runaway greenhouse gas effects and turned it into a giant pressure cooker.
Creepy squid demon beasts are my biffles, ruuuuuuuuude! Haha, but yeah, I absolutely love ammolite. I have a raw chunk of it on my mantle place.
o.o And I thought I was at a high elevation. I'm at 3800 feet and I'm in the Rocky Mountain foothills.
I used to have a cactus (I should elaborate, never saw one in the wild), and it had like soft fuzzy bristles that were like a brush. I gave it pats all the time. >_>
I hope you get a chance to go, too! I see people from around the world there all the time, and it's super close to Calgary so it's not far after a plane flight. :D
I have seen the Martian, but I've loooong held those views about Mars. Lots of respect to anyone willing to go knowing they'll never come back to Earth and what they'll have to endure, but I literally couldn't imagine moving there. Apparently they think that the first few missions are very likely to have pretty much 100% fatality rates because of how lethal the environment is and the fact that there's no real proper medical facilities. The problem with terraforming is it would take literally tens of thousands of years to make the air breathable. Mars does have an atmosphere, just its composition isn't sustainable to life as we know it. Apparently it used to be a lot like Earth... as was Venus until it had an environmental catastrophe that gave it runaway greenhouse gas effects and turned it into a giant pressure cooker.
Creepy squid demon beasts are my biffles, ruuuuuuuuude! Haha, but yeah, I absolutely love ammolite. I have a raw chunk of it on my mantle place.
o.o And I thought I was at a high elevation. I'm at 3800 feet and I'm in the Rocky Mountain foothills.
I used to have a cactus (I should elaborate, never saw one in the wild), and it had like soft fuzzy bristles that were like a brush. I gave it pats all the time. >_>
I always assumed Banff was named after the guy who founded the town, but after a quick Google search,
"The town was named Banff after "Banffshire", the district in Scotland which was the birthplace of two CPR directors, Lord Strathcona and George Stephen. 1888- The original log framed Banff Springs Hotel was opened for business by Canadian Pacific Railways."
I thought I had some pictures uploaded on a photo site, but alas, I do not. There's some pretty pictures I took, the water is incredible! Man, I want to go back now and it's only been two weeks. D:
I think I'd stay with Earth until the bitter end. Even with nuclear winter, there's a chance at surviving... on Mars, if a piece of technology breaks, you might be toast, and you'd be living in the same small habitation for the rest of your life, and you can never leave to go on a trip anywhere, and there would be nothing beautiful to see, limited and no variety of food, very little in the way of entertainment, and it would just be an utterly lethal environment that could kill you dead for looking at it wrong. There's just so many negatives.
I really want to see the Grand Canyon! I keep hearing the pictures don't do it justice, and I believe it. It's humid in Arizona? I always figured it would be dry, being largely desert. The giant cacti sound awesome! I've never seen a cactus. Alberta's apparently a huge hotbed for dinosaur fossils (and fossils in general, go Google ammolite and you'll see something that's uniquely from Alberta and absolutely beautiful), there's a town called Drumheller that's got a giant dinosaur museum and the largest collection of fossils in Canada. :D
"The town was named Banff after "Banffshire", the district in Scotland which was the birthplace of two CPR directors, Lord Strathcona and George Stephen. 1888- The original log framed Banff Springs Hotel was opened for business by Canadian Pacific Railways."
I thought I had some pictures uploaded on a photo site, but alas, I do not. There's some pretty pictures I took, the water is incredible! Man, I want to go back now and it's only been two weeks. D:
I think I'd stay with Earth until the bitter end. Even with nuclear winter, there's a chance at surviving... on Mars, if a piece of technology breaks, you might be toast, and you'd be living in the same small habitation for the rest of your life, and you can never leave to go on a trip anywhere, and there would be nothing beautiful to see, limited and no variety of food, very little in the way of entertainment, and it would just be an utterly lethal environment that could kill you dead for looking at it wrong. There's just so many negatives.
I really want to see the Grand Canyon! I keep hearing the pictures don't do it justice, and I believe it. It's humid in Arizona? I always figured it would be dry, being largely desert. The giant cacti sound awesome! I've never seen a cactus. Alberta's apparently a huge hotbed for dinosaur fossils (and fossils in general, go Google ammolite and you'll see something that's uniquely from Alberta and absolutely beautiful), there's a town called Drumheller that's got a giant dinosaur museum and the largest collection of fossils in Canada. :D
"I'm sorry about your father, truly, I am." Shay said, finally having an opportunity to overtake the buggy and continue on their way. He kept straight on the street and watched the pedestrians carefully; automobiles were still a relatively new thing, and people just loved to jump out without looking. Last thing Shay needed to do was run some old lady or child over and be accused of being too drunk, too irresponsible. The law would be merciless. "My own father was a hard man to love, I find comfort in anyone who finds love in their own." he sighed, his lips burrowing into a frown. "The war destroyed about every man, either in body or soul. I know I'm not the man I once was, either. Sam and I see a lot of each other in ourselves, and I suppose it's reassuring to know we're not alone in the toll we paid. I won't bore you with what you already know, but I know for myself I have to be very cautious about everything, very calculating. I'm still afraid to smoke at night, and every time I hear a car backfire, or a tire blow out, or somebody shout, it's like I'm back there, back in the fight."
He followed Vera's directions and turned onto the street as instructed, and started to count the signs. Having Vera thank Shay felt like he had a weight lifted off of his soul, and while part of him felt he didn't deserve it, the person who mattered felt he did the right thing and that counted for quite a bit. A smile crept upon his face, one that was born out of relief and gratitude. "Had I known you would have been in real danger, I would have done it regardless if Sam asked. You're a good lass, miss Vera. I'm just damned glad I was in the right place at the right time. I don't even feel anything for the men I killed and wounded, I was more worried about what you'd think after all was said and done. But trust me, miss Vera, I know all about needing to cope with your demons. I won't pry for why you needed opium, but myself, I smoke and drink entirely too much, all because of the things I've seen and done. I harbour no ill judgement of you, you do what you need to do to keep going. I just want you to know that whatever you need from me, I'll do my damnest to provide. So don't feel guilty for needing help, as it were. There's no shame in having vices to cope, it takes strength just to carry on to the next day, and I understand that better than most."
The Peugeot pulled off in front of Hobbs & Pollard Threads, and Shay killed the ignition. Looking out the window at the store front with its immaculate suits in the window, he let out a low whistle.
"I've never owned clothing anywhere half as nice as that in my life. I'm going to be one awkward Irishman tomorrow. People are going to wonder how in the hell I afforded a suit." he opened the door, and a rush of cool air entered the cab. Stepping out and walking around to the other side of the car, he opened the door and offered a hand for Vera.
He followed Vera's directions and turned onto the street as instructed, and started to count the signs. Having Vera thank Shay felt like he had a weight lifted off of his soul, and while part of him felt he didn't deserve it, the person who mattered felt he did the right thing and that counted for quite a bit. A smile crept upon his face, one that was born out of relief and gratitude. "Had I known you would have been in real danger, I would have done it regardless if Sam asked. You're a good lass, miss Vera. I'm just damned glad I was in the right place at the right time. I don't even feel anything for the men I killed and wounded, I was more worried about what you'd think after all was said and done. But trust me, miss Vera, I know all about needing to cope with your demons. I won't pry for why you needed opium, but myself, I smoke and drink entirely too much, all because of the things I've seen and done. I harbour no ill judgement of you, you do what you need to do to keep going. I just want you to know that whatever you need from me, I'll do my damnest to provide. So don't feel guilty for needing help, as it were. There's no shame in having vices to cope, it takes strength just to carry on to the next day, and I understand that better than most."
The Peugeot pulled off in front of Hobbs & Pollard Threads, and Shay killed the ignition. Looking out the window at the store front with its immaculate suits in the window, he let out a low whistle.
"I've never owned clothing anywhere half as nice as that in my life. I'm going to be one awkward Irishman tomorrow. People are going to wonder how in the hell I afforded a suit." he opened the door, and a rush of cool air entered the cab. Stepping out and walking around to the other side of the car, he opened the door and offered a hand for Vera.
I DOOOOO!
And yo, if you guys ever head up that way, lemme know! It's a magical place that I love to death, and then you get to meet le Dervs in person. :'D Double date that shit yo.
I find it amazing you know what Banff is. Most Americans I talk to are like "What the fuck is a Banff?"
Yeah, usually there's enough rain to keep things nice... but it's the good thing about having such a big province, Alberta's like the size of 3 states, so one incident doesn't effect the whole province for the most part. o_o I hate not seeing the sky or breathing fresh air. Those people going to Mars, I sincerely hope they understand they'll never get to do that again. >_>
I actually totally want to visit Arizona. People keep making it sound suuuper appealing.
And yo, if you guys ever head up that way, lemme know! It's a magical place that I love to death, and then you get to meet le Dervs in person. :'D Double date that shit yo.
I find it amazing you know what Banff is. Most Americans I talk to are like "What the fuck is a Banff?"
Yeah, usually there's enough rain to keep things nice... but it's the good thing about having such a big province, Alberta's like the size of 3 states, so one incident doesn't effect the whole province for the most part. o_o I hate not seeing the sky or breathing fresh air. Those people going to Mars, I sincerely hope they understand they'll never get to do that again. >_>
I actually totally want to visit Arizona. People keep making it sound suuuper appealing.
Fort McMurray, it's way Northeast, near the Saskatchewan border. From where I am, it's probably like a 10-12 hour drive to get there, so way away from where I am. I'd say once or twice a year, there's usually a forest fire going on somewhere around the province. I'm pretty close to the mountains; last year, there was one in Banff national park, which is about an hour from where I live. Sky was smokey and hard to breathe for about a month with that one, and the year before that, up West of Edmonton where I used to live, there was actually an evacuation of one of the hamlets I did my work in because there was a fire about 5 kilometers away. It's a constant thing around here. o_o
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