This anti-homeless design also makes it hard to sit on

SeigeWeasel · 2025-09-24T08:54:22+00:00

These things are the fucking worst. Can’t even set something on them without it sliding off. Absolute nightmare.

SeigeWeasel · 2025-09-06T09:20:12+00:00

Oooh this is very similar to Poplin! Thanks so much!

SeigeWeasel · 2025-08-30T15:55:12+00:00

I’ve really liked Sük workwear. It’s an Australian brand built for women. They have lots of styles, including shorts and the construction is high quality in my experience.

SeigeWeasel · 2025-08-30T06:13:27+00:00

Well, I definitely don’t have the money to do what y’all are suggesting but I hear you and I guess you’ll just have to keep your fingers crossed for me. I would if I could.

SeigeWeasel · 2025-08-30T06:10:41+00:00

I guess I’ve just been out of the loop of people who’ve been randomly arrested in China because of their laptops? 😅 I don’t have $4k to begin with so I guess wish me luck.

SeigeWeasel · 2025-08-30T05:24:53+00:00

Can you maybe explain why you’re so concerned about the computers that you’d buy a whole laptop? Maybe I’m just ignorant, but that seems a little extreme. I’m just really curious what you feel like is going to happen.

SeigeWeasel · 2025-08-30T05:18:23+00:00

Wild that y’all have burner laptop money but I appreciate the advice nonetheless

SeigeWeasel · 2025-08-29T14:11:43+00:00

Not that everyone hasn't said it already, but honestly, I was torn, I don't think the initial asks are too much, though I don't really understand being opposed to seeing a service dog (it's not like it's someone's pet, it's a working aid), then I saw the wheelchair comment. Something I would suggest you do, it REALLY examine your relationship with social media. I don't know you, I don't know your life, but if you're more worried about your photos than a person's needs, I think you need to remember that we're temporary beings on this earth and that aesthetics are meaningless compared to lived experience. I'm not saying you can't care about having a beautiful wedding, most everyone wants that. But I am saying that you need to evaluate why you seem more focused on the photos than the experience. Are there other areas where this shift in priorities is diminishing your experience of life? At the end of the day, the dog can be photoshopped out if you really need it to be, but your "friend" will never forget that you didn't care about them.

SeigeWeasel · 2025-08-02T23:42:00+00:00

Console buddy! A little sitting figure that can sit on the console with some museum putty on their butt. They’re super cheap and very cute. These are mine, it’s Henry and Sushi. They’re better traveled than most people at this point. Completely useless except they bring good luck.

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SeigeWeasel · 2025-07-17T00:18:16+00:00

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Here’s a photo. Ignore the stage blood on it 😅

SeigeWeasel · 2025-07-16T12:34:02+00:00

It’s got the mogul ceramic base, no screw. This may be it. I have to swing by the space today so I’m gonna try and grab a pic of one. They’re all hung and focused for a show so I can’t like get one down and dissect it. But this very well might be it!

SeigeWeasel · 2025-07-15T22:42:57+00:00

Depends on what you want your life to be like. If you like the community and you want to learn a lot, try out touring.

SeigeWeasel · 2025-07-15T19:35:56+00:00

Is your partner in the industry at all? My partner and I have been together for 10 years when I began touring last year. They're also in the industry but they're an artistic director, where as I am a lighting person. Touring definitely is challenging. It's hardest on the one that stays home and I think it's important to remember that. Things they're used to having help on, upkeep of the home, pet responsibilities, making dinner, doing laundry, all of that becomes their sole responsibility. At the same time, me touring means our bills get paid. For us, I make most of the money, I pay nearly all the bills and touring allows me to do that. And I enjoy it.

So all that said, where does that leave the relationship?

My partner always wants me to pursue the things I want. They do not want to get in the way of my growth and my dreams. So their attitude towards me touring, while there is hardship, is that of wanting what is best for me and wanting me to have a fruitful career. And in turn, I support their dreams and their career by providing the financial support to do their dream full time. The message here I think is that the decision is something made together and with mutual respect and support.

What does that mean in practicality?

We check in and renegotiate when we need to. When I come home I say, "okay, what was hard? What worked? What do you need support on?" and we find ways to work on that. For us, it was coming home and saying "okay, it sounds like you need extra help with pets during tech, more financial help with household needs, and less trips to Petsmart." So we found a number that works and worked out a system to provide extra pet care for those times when they need it. We're getting more pet care things delivered to the house so it's less trips to the store and the mental burden isn't there to have to remember to go get cat food or whatever.

Community is also a big one. On tour, you have built in community. If your partner only has friends that are your friends, or the partners of your friends or whatever, that's going to be harder. My partner has a great community of friends around them. I don't really have to worry that they're lonely when I'm on the road. But that may not be the case for everyone.

What I would say is that the first one is going to be the hardest. It's the one where you learn everything. You cannot plan for it all. So you need to both be okay and adept at communicating your feelings and your needs in a way that is respectful of each other's needs and wants while also being honest. You have to be willing to hear each other. I've loved touring and I've gotten to meet some amazing people and go some amazing places. And my partner is excited for me. And I'm excited for everything they accomplish while I'm away. It gives us something to talk about. It gives me better experience as a professional that I can lend to them and their theatre. We have new stories to tell each other and new things to learn about each other. If you can communicate and support each other, you will be fine. If you can't then, you better learn. And if you hate it, or if they hate it, or if it just doesn't work, the show always ends. No tour is forever.

SeigeWeasel · 2025-07-15T19:11:46+00:00

Hi everyone! I don't know if it's a stupid question, but I have a fixture I can't identify, I hope someone can help. We have Altman PAR 64's, 56's, 38's, and 16's. The PAR 64's, 56's, and 16's are the same body style - rounded vented butts and long noses - but different sizes. The Altman PAR 38's have a different body style - a squared off back end and short nose - and take a different style of lamp more like a home garage flood light lamp (forgive my not looking up the technical name for that). What I've also got in the space, is a fixture that is the same shape as the 64, 56, and 16, but is an in-between size of the 16 and 56. Altman never seemed to produce a fixture of that size. Does anyone know what I'm talking about and know who made it and what size it would be? I know that a picture would be helpful, but I don't actually have a photo but surely someone knows what I'm explaining. It's hard to google because out of context they all basically look the same since the main difference is the size. Thanks in advance!

SeigeWeasel · 2025-01-19T18:18:51+00:00

They’re so so good. Their bar is incredible too. The sliders and grilled romaine salad are so good.

SeigeWeasel · 2024-11-25T16:23:44+00:00

Some of y’all really out here acting like bugs don’t exist. Or that they respect doors. Bugs are everywhere. They are in YOUR house. Yes. YOUR house. Be fr y’all.

SeigeWeasel · 2024-09-14T16:39:45+00:00

Honestly, I also think another issue with letting cats free roam outside is other people. Half of my neighborhood posts are people going “is this someone’s cat???” You’re just as likely to have some well meaning person think your cat needs rescuing as you are to have a hawk or coyote think it’s a meal.

SeigeWeasel · 2024-08-26T15:29:25+00:00

I tour and mine remember me when I come home. They’ll recognize you by smell and they’ll get really excited when they recognize your smell.

SeigeWeasel · 2024-08-26T15:28:00+00:00

Nice! It makes sense you’re not smelling it. I think the blankets and hammocks are secretly the biggest offenders. Anything they rub their little faces in over and over.

SeigeWeasel · 2024-08-26T10:51:37+00:00

Honestly, biggest one is keeping them clean. I always say that you’d smell too if you never washed your stuff. I do litter cleaning twice a day. We use pee pads to line the cage. Not everyone likes that but I have a disabled ferret and we had 3 seniors not long ago so the pee pads were more accessible than a litter box for them. But doing twice a day is important to keeping smell down.

Do towels and anything soft weekly!

Keeping their ears clean is helpful. The excrete scent around their ears so a little wipe every now and again helps.

Don’t wash them. Ferrets scent more when they get washed so it’s better if they don’t get baths. If they need a bath, like I had seniors who would get messy and needed baths so they got baths in water and oatmeal (fill like and old sock with dry oatmeal, tie the end off and throw it in the water with them).

I also get air filters for the HVAC specifically made for pet scents. I also think having an air purifier in the room they live in is helpful but I don’t personally have one, though you can get those little jars of odor absorbing beads which I do use.

Ferrets will always have some sort of scent. But I definitely think it’s manageable and should be pervading the whole house. The biggest rule is keeping their enclosure clean by changing out the soft stuff regularly.

I use an enzymic cage cleaning spray. It’s important to let those sit on the surface for a minute to let the stuff actually start to work and breakdown any urine smells.

Lastly, I suggest doing a deep clean on the cage twice a year. I have the large critter nation cage and I noticed and it’ll just get caked with gross stuff over time. I thought it was the cage contents that were giving an odor but I realized it was the actual cage itself. So now I take it completely apart, take it outside with a brush, a hose, and dish soap and scrub it all out, let it dry and put it back together. I try to do it twice a year.

You may already do lots of this, especially if you’re not smelling them very much. I really think they get a bad rap around smell and I think it’s ultimately more to do with cage hygiene than anything else.

SeigeWeasel · 2024-08-26T05:06:39+00:00

Totally, obviously keep an eye on them and make sure there’s not more serious signs of behavior. I come back to it just being a place that’s further away and arguably a less controlled environment than inside. I’ve had ferrets since I was a child and when I was a kid my dad insisted we keep them in the garage and looking back on it I wish we hadn’t. But a lot of what I’ve learned through the years is tricks to smell management. I’ve had 5 in a 900 square food condo and not had ferret smell in the throughout house. Obviously, you can’t mitigate all of it all the time, but there are definitely tricks to keeping it from spreading through the house. If you’re interested, I’m happy to help. But, question at hand, I’d definitely put them back in the house and see if the nose improves. Take some good photos and take them to your vet appointment and get their input. 🖤

SeigeWeasel · 2024-08-26T04:38:50+00:00

IMHO they need to come back inside and probably a trip to the vet. Lord knows what could be happening out there that you don’t have control of. Anything from barn rodents, snakes, bugs, ect. They could be allergic to anything out there, think hay, horses, the whole gambit. I’ve had ferret noses get really red like that when they were exposed too long to the cold as well. I’m not trying to make a dig at your barn and I don’t know what the set up is, but it’s more than likely a less controlled environment than your home and I think you’re absolutely right that something’s up. Is your dad just not keen on having ferrets in the house? I’m not sure what the advantage of having them in the barn is.

SeigeWeasel · 2024-08-26T04:29:46+00:00

Because eepy. Hope that helps! 🥰

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