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3 weeks ago this weekend, my neck of the woods was hit by a devastating ice storm. I was fortunate to only have been without power for 3 days. Some friends were without power for over a week, and some areas on the outskirts still are without. I spent a fair few hours (in jeans) on clean up in my yard and around town the last few weeks. Some of these photos are mine, some are borrowed. There definitely was a certain beauty even in the midst of the destruction. And it was interesting to see the way the community responded and came together, it reminded me of the early days of Covid in a sense.
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7 minutes ago, PartTimeBarista said:

3 weeks ago this weekend, my neck of the woods was hit by a devastating ice storm. I was fortunate to only have been without power for 3 days. Some friends were without power for over a week, and some areas on the outskirts still are without. I spent a fair few hours (in jeans) on clean up in my yard and around town the last few weeks. Some of these photos are mine, some are borrowed. There definitely was a certain beauty even in the midst of the destruction. And it was interesting to see the way the community responded and came together, it reminded me of the early days of Covid in a sense.
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This looks beautiful, where is it?

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^ Probably Upper Peninsula in Michigan? Beautiful indeed! 

But yea you guys got walloped @PartTimeBarista - glad you’re doing okay. I know it’s been really rough for some people. I’ve lived quite a few places in the US and the grid in Michigan is a level of shittiness only rivaled maybe by PG+E. That said this storm would have been a problem anywhere. 

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Busy weekend so far. 

Thursday night (basically Friday night cos of the holiday) my band played a benefit gig for a homie of our who got hit with some sever emergency medical expenses. Haven't rocked a gig since December so that felt good. 

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Then spent Friday (Saturday) and today (second Saturday) working on the bathroom at the new place with my dad. Got the old wall ripped out and lucky for us the pocket door frame fit perfectly into the void left by the wall. Got the frame installed, got a temporary floor where the shower used to be, and got the header installed above the door. Also borrowed a family friend's truck to get some of the bigger furniture out of my girlfriend's apartment. 

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The Big Move is next weekend and then I'll finish up the bathroom at some point. 

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1 hour ago, CSL said:

 Trees were long overdue for a trim so I've had to be ruthless. That's hard for me as I'm one of those hippies that feels the trimming causes pain to the tree.

I'm the same Carl.. the first 10mins of a tennis match is spent picking up the worms which have wandered onto the court and putting them back amongst the trees..

Before i left work on Friday, i washed my hands in the sink, I turned the tap on but there was a baby woodlice which had fallen into the sink getting washed down the plughole.. like a coiled spring, i err.. sprung into action and covered the plughole with my hand before he got washed away.. alas, i was a second too late.. when i looked under my hand he or maybe she? .. (you know how these woodlice are with their pronouns) was hanging onto the metal thingy which catches the debris.. "hold on little woodlice" i ran back into the workshop and got some tweezers and picked him out, i put him on a piece of kitchen roll to absorp the water.. his little anteni were still moving around so i thought he'd be ok after he got over the shock.

Then when you get home and put the news on.. 300 dead today in this war, 200 dead in that war and you think "what the fk, why do i even bother" ..

Sadly, when i got to work yesterday morning, the little woodlice had died.. he was all curled up so it was possibly too late to defibrillate him with the 9V battery from the smoke alarm and a couple of wires.

I thought giving him a decent burrial was going a bit too far so i just chucked him in the bin.. :D

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Took my jeans and my boy to see Dizzee Rascal. Was pretty a pretty cool show.

I listened to his first album . My boy sometimes hangs out in my shop and it’s on music. The other day I asked what cool song he was playing, dizzee rascal. And I just saw he was playing in our town. 
he was surprised his old man knew about the cool stuff and even joined him in the moshpit.

this type of moshpit was new to me. They open up some space in the crowd, and when the climax of a song starts everybody moshes in that space.

a lot friendlier than some pitts at hardcore shows

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