Your Flat Tire Is More Likely To Happen During Difficult Conditions, When It’s Harder To See The Road

On Halloween, I’m happy to give candy to trick-or-treaters, regardless of their age, as long as they’re wearing costumes.  I don’t care if they’re little kids, teenagers, babies being carried by their parents, or the parents themselves.  If you come to my door on Halloween in costume, I’ll offer you whatever treats I have.

However, if you don’t have an obvious costume, be prepared to justify what you’re wearing.  This isn’t begging strangers for candy, it’s trick-or-treating -- some sort of costume is required at my house.  Now, if you can come up with a creative explanation of why your costume is a T-shirt and jeans, that’s great!  If your “costume” is “um, uh, I’m a high school student?” then you’re out of luck.  That’s not a costume; that’s your clothes.  I don’t care how old you are, either come up with something to wear or come up with a creative idea -- I’m good either way.

if a teenager is at your door and they are wearing a costume!! please give them candy!! they are still in it for the halloween spirit and it honestly no different from a little kid in a costume. they are just as excited and happy as all the other lil tykes and dont you dare tell them they are “too old for trick-or-treating” because that will literally break their hearts and that’s not cool.

I better support poly relationships -- I’ve been in them for years!

Reblog if you support poly relationships

I need to convince one of my friends they exist

Eli Bosnick absolutely has the best response.  That image “says it all” only if you don’t think human lives are worth more than candy.

lmao😂/smh🙄

Ace-pacas!!

I drew some alpaca’s for pride month

speedpaint

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Also, I’ve been seeing more FedEx/UPS shipments where the final leg is actually done by USPS.  Apparently, it is more cost effective for FedEx/UPS to outsource part of their shipping to a competitor, even if they can do most of the distance more cheaply themselves.  So if the Postal Service goes under, would we have to pay even more for shipping, or would we just have to pick it up in a centralized location instead of actually getting packages delivered to our doors?

I would love to see a Wild West version of the Scottish play!  That sounds like it could work extremely well.

Cowboys are witches and horses are their familiars

Thank you!

Thanks to the person who sent me The Patriarchy Isn't Going to Smash Itself from TeePublic!  (Hooray for geeky, nerdy goodness with strong females!!)  Unfortunately, the package arrived without any indication of the sender. :(  If you let me know who you are, I will happily shower you with direct appreciation as well as indirect.

Ace cupcakes!

this took forever, but I think it’s worth it

for all of my ace folks out there <3

Wow!  This has expanded considerably since I saw it last.

“A house I pass on the way to work has this sculpture in its yard. Its about 8 feet tall.”

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This explains the situation of e-books in libraries much better than I did.  It’s incredibly frustrating for librarians, most of whom just want to connect people with books!

It’s been an increasing source of frustration for many library users: waiting weeks, sometimes months to get to the top of the waiting list for a popular eBook or e-Audiobook.

Why does it take so long? After all, it’s not a physical object, it’s a digital file that lives in the “cloud”, why can’t multiple people access it simultaneously instead of only one at a time? Barring that, why doesn’t the library just buy more copies so that the waiting list is shorter? Getting people access to books and information is what libraries are all about, but the struggle for acquiring lendable e-content is very real, and it’s getting harder all the time. Why? What’s the big hairy deal? For that answer, you have to look to the “Big 5” Publishers, who are responsible for close to 80% of trade book sales. 

Publishers have been extremely wary about allowing library users virtual access to their books. After all, digital copies of books never wear out or have to be replaced, and are more vulnerable to unauthorized copying (“pirating”). Publshers were afraid if they allowed libraries access to their books digitally, they would be losing money. Individual publishers came up with their own sets of rules for libraries to access their e-content, and they have been tweaked many times since 2006.

In addition, the prices libraries must pay for ebooks and e-audiobooks is very high. Libraries must pay up to 4X the retail price for digital versions of books (which only one user can have access to at a time).  Meeting the library patron’s needs for downloadable content is a very expensive enterprise, indeed! Take a look at this comparison of the prices for various versions of the same book:

It becomes easy to see that acquiring ebooks for public use is a very expensive endeavor…

Read more on The Cheshire Library Blog.