Because I managed to pick up a lovely little cold/flu, I've been going through the xkcd.com backcatalog and I found one that really just made me stop and stare at it for a long time. Ya.
Well, I don't mind some of the earlier stuff for being kind of less focused, though some of the later stuff certainly has felt much more pertinent and applicable to me because of how much more polished he got at it.
It's too bad that lighthouse operation is pretty much all automated these days, and that the job of lighthouse keeper has vanished. :(
For a long time, though, I've wanted to spend a summer working as a forest fire lookout ... living all alone in one of those tiny little towers on a remote forest mountaintop. Almost the same experience, I think, and it would be great. (Of course, I'd have to sign up for a satellite wifi service, first ... :)
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Get unflued soon pls.
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Hoping to get unflued soon - danke!
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Yeah, XKCD is many a splendored thing. I read all of it on one sitting when I first found it. Heh.
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Also, raptors rock.
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For a long time, though, I've wanted to spend a summer working as a forest fire lookout ... living all alone in one of those tiny little towers on a remote forest mountaintop. Almost the same experience, I think, and it would be great. (Of course, I'd have to sign up for a satellite wifi service, first ... :)
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unfortunately, I don't have a friend with a lighthouse. Guess I"ll have to find other places to go.
Sorry you're feeling blechy. I'm finally getting over a sinus infection myself (yay antibiotics!), so I feel your pain.
oh, and only 10 more days till I visit Chicago! woo!
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