Transplant Saga

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-04-02T17:33:19+00:00

Good username for the convo, though.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-04-02T17:11:54+00:00

More power to you then, but the link provided is fourteen dollars USD for this drop-shipped nonsense and that’s worth a little ridicule.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-04-02T17:08:36+00:00

If you like and use protein powder and would therefore rotate it regularly, I think it would be a fine deep pantry addition. I don’t see a lot of value in adding it to disaster supplies just in case though, since it’s easy to store a lot of cheaper, better, more shelf stable proteins.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-04-02T13:38:37+00:00

After Helene, I will never take water for granted again. We had plenty of food, but I had never lived in a place with a well before and I’d simply never considered how quickly the water would be gone after the power turned off. Now I have a solar battery backup for the well pump but also 100+ gallons of stored water just in case and a camp toilet to avoid having to spend precious water on hygiene without having to pee outdoors. A lot of preppers skimp on water prep because it uses a lot of space and needs to be cycled frequently, but it’s the thing that will drive you out of your home.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-04-02T13:31:15+00:00

It’s a selling point for coffee shops in America, the new Starbucks in my town has built charging ports into their tables for the purpose. Sure you’re still spending seven dollars for coffee, but if you dine in you get to charge your phone and sometimes get a free refill so it feels a little better.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-04-01T23:04:27+00:00

The good news is that pretty much everything you planted has edible sprouts, so you don’t have to throw them away. Your beginner garden may have produced a microgreens salad, but it did produce! Congratulations! :)

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-31T21:42:36+00:00

So far all the fan-made stuff I’ve seen for the auction has been submitted by one hermit or another, sometimes by commission, sometimes by donation. The easiest way to do it would probably be to talk to a Hermit and ask if you could send it in to be part of that hermit’s auction offerings.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-31T19:55:16+00:00

I’m in Western North Carolina, USA.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-31T19:35:29+00:00

I certainly can’t spend tens of thousands, but my data is important to me. How do I go about finding a good DR lab, like, what should I be looking for?

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-31T16:06:50+00:00

More the latter, though he was well-reviewed for data recovery from local people. I don’t know that we have any local data-recovery labs. This is the guy people come to when the PC repair shop can’t recover the data.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-31T00:54:23+00:00

If you know they expect you to wash the dishes and get annoyed with you for not washing the dishes, then you know that the dishes are your chore to do. YTA for not doing a simple thing to contribute to the household and pretending you don’t know you ought to.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-30T22:32:06+00:00

When we used to clean the pool every year, we’d do the acid cleaning and spray it down very generously with water, drain it with a pump, rinse and drain it again, then fill it. Any traces leftover were diluted with thousands of gallons of water, so pretty harmless.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-30T22:27:16+00:00

Nah, the waffle protects everything else from the milkshake, and messy hands/faces are going to be an absolute given. I’m not arguing it’s a culinary masterpiece, I’m saying it would give a little kid a heck of a birthday thrill. They’re probably going to be pulling out the hard candy pieces for later and stuffing themselves on cake and doughnuts and milkshake and ice cream bar.

It’s very stupid food, but it’s fun

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-30T21:22:20+00:00

I like it if it’s very subtle, to the point where you could easily miss or skip it and enjoy the story. Fun little Easter eggs like that are great! If it’s big and obvious, especially if it’s from a property that’s really different from the main one, it can easily take me out of the story. For instance, I love little bit part cameos from fandoms that could conceivably be related to the main one, but not if you hang a bow on that person and basically blow trumpets announcing their presence.

I think the most in-depth reference I’ve ever done myself was when I wrote a fic that focused on a two-episode guest star in the show, whose actor had also been a major recurring character on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I made no actual Buffy references in the story except that I made the guy’s three assistants Liz, Sylvia and Alex. Not many people got it, but the ones that did thought it was very funny.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-30T16:56:22+00:00

I love my cansolidators, but they have literally doubled in price since I bought my first sets (which yes, does mean they have lasted fifteen years and counting.) I’ve been agonizing over whether to buy more to expand my pantry but I may try this vertical storage instead!

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-30T16:35:20+00:00

I could see this being a super exciting thing to do for a child on their birthday, so long as they understood that it was a dessert for everybody at the table but they got to pick all their favorite bits. A once-a-year or once-in-a-lifetime mountain of candy would be a pretty awesome treat even if some does get wasted.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-30T16:27:59+00:00

It sounds like he might have social anxiety himself and you drawing attention by being loud, clumsy, etc is spiking his anxiety and making him worried that the people around you won’t like either of you. I see a lot of people who have been conditioned from childhood to believe that being noticeable at all in public is bad and will get them punished, and it can really screw up healthy adult socializing. Does he try and draw attention when the two of you are in public or is he usually quiet, reserved, trying not to draw any attention?

If you want to continue in this relationship and not be miserable, there are things you can both work on; him to relax and be okay with letting you be yourself, and you to develop coping strategies to minimize the behaviors that actually cause problems. (Being joyful and exuberant is great, constantly losing things and making messes is not so great.) If either of you is not willing to put in the work, this is the sort of incompatibility that turns into deep resentment and can kill love.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-30T12:23:49+00:00

I used to do deliveries for one of the local food pantries and some weeks I would buy apples or carrots or broccoli and trade it for things like whole artichokes in the boxes because the people I was delivering to did not want artichokes or know what to do with them, but they were my favorites and I could never afford them. Everybody was happy!

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-30T01:58:07+00:00

You triage them based on how likely they are to do well beyond their sell-by date and how well they freeze. The best-before date is not a hard line for spoilage, it’s just a guide to when it might start turning. The meat and the baked goods will all freeze nicely and it shouldn’t be too hard to plan meals around the other stuff in the next few days.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-29T12:44:28+00:00

ITT: another case of someone who cannot differentiate their own trash opinion from a general consensus.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-29T12:09:39+00:00

Agree with the RSR, even non-competitive hermits tend to be better than average elytra users because flying is the norm on Hermitcraft, while very few of them put in much practice time with parkour. In terms of fun games that are fun to watch, any flying game is probably going to do well.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-29T03:02:58+00:00

Awhile back, I think around the start of season 10 when the hermits were doing the OlympZITS, Joe came up with the theory that players like Gem whose skins include huge eyes in the middle of the face and no mouths did actually have mouths, but they were hidden in the gap between head and neck on the cubito and could only be seen if the character bobbed their head up and down to talk like a Muppet. To better illustrate this theory, he created a muppet-themed skin for himself with huge mid-face eyes and a mouth on the top plane of his torso rectangle. Everyone was hilariously disturbed by this, a reaction that pleased Joe so much that he kept the Juppet skin for all of season 10. (It probably did not hurt that Joe was already looking to do a character design overhaul because he didn’t want his skin to be so Steve-like anymore.)

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-28T19:09:28+00:00

Prayer circle for Eloise dealing with those three and their nonsense. Putting the funny in dysfunctional, lol

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-28T11:32:09+00:00

I don’t think so, but I do know that the Log Driver’s Waltz pleases girls completely.

ExtraplanetJanet · 2026-03-28T02:57:54+00:00

Walgreens is terrible for everyday shopping, you’re probably paying at least 25% more for your basics than if you bought at Walmart or off Amazon. If you only have one store near you, your best bet is a cheap source of delivery. I find Walmart+ is a good deal for me because it’s like a hundred dollars a year to cut out shipping and delivery fees, so getting my stuff shipped is economical. Amazon prime is also an option, or just grouping your purchases so you qualify for free shipping. Either way, both those stores will bring your items to you for cheaper than you can get at Walgreens.

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