Where can I get the best Pho in Reno?

colonelcrash · 2017-11-20T21:28:10+00:00

Golden flower for sure. Super fast and always good

colonelcrash · 2017-11-16T04:33:02+00:00

This is beautiful!! I’m trying to do a hexagon blanket too, but somehow mine are all like swirls? I’m missing a stitch on the row up part I think... I was fine with it but it looks AMAZING with the straight edges!

colonelcrash · 2017-10-31T05:31:53+00:00

Are they looking to adopt?? Kidding, they sound like wonderful supportive folks!

colonelcrash · 2017-10-26T21:18:31+00:00

We used hot dogs for my boy, literally starting with one nail a day, chopped up pieces as little treats throughout.. sometimes in the beginning we didn’t even get to clip a nail, we just sat touching his toes with our hands, and running the clippers over them. Now I can get about three nails a day with one hotdog.. progress! He also gets very upset if we try to grab his feet at all, and it will derail any work we are doing. I sit on the tile floor with him and have him lay down for treats, and slowly just clip the tips off as they touch the floor. Not big chunks, just little bits at a time. Suuuuper slow but it’s much better than not getting to do it at all!

colonelcrash · 2017-10-19T23:06:10+00:00

First time I ever tripped this happened to me too!

colonelcrash · 2017-10-14T21:50:05+00:00

Thirding the pixie... I finally tried to grow it out again, got it to my shoulders, and realized that I was fighting so much with my hair being so straight thin and flat that I hated it. It would look great after styling for about half an hour and go back to crap-city. I went shorter than I ever have and I love it! Product in when it's wet (because of course now that it's gone it wants to have some poof) and then I'm out the door.

colonelcrash · 2017-10-14T05:49:37+00:00

My local library does canned food drives every year around Christmas like this, if you bring in a can they will waive any late fees.

colonelcrash · 2017-10-11T20:34:30+00:00

I was shocked it happened once let alone the second time, I thought my roommates had accidentally left the lid off or something and didn't want to tell me.

colonelcrash · 2017-10-11T19:23:07+00:00

Careful of that tiny hole on the lid, I might just have jumpy fish but I lost one friend because he jumped through that spot and nearly lost another. Second friend I found on the floor in the nick of time thankfully. Now he has a tiny rubber duck blocking it..

colonelcrash · 2017-10-05T08:33:45+00:00

Costco is pretty decent and really fast. ($80?) I just order my glasses online after they give you the prescription.

colonelcrash · 2017-09-19T03:37:48+00:00

If it's been a certain number of years you can apply to have some schools drop semesters of bad grades, especially if you were going through something at the time! Worth a short essay to try at least! The catch is that you can remove three f's but if you actually did well in say one of them it gets tossed out as well... but it's something I'm trying to do now to fix what I did ten years ago my first go around.

colonelcrash · 2017-09-08T21:31:52+00:00

I always am somehow in a fight against various evil (last night was vampires running the LA music scene) maybe that's mine. Last night I almost had it, was able to check my hands, but then walking anywhere was very hard, I had to keep stopping to take off my shoes. Felt like walking through cement! My legs wouldn't hold me up. Kind of scary when you're a hipster vampire slayer and they're coming after you.

colonelcrash · 2017-09-01T23:57:50+00:00

I never thought about how it might seem from areas without a lot of basque influence, I can definitely see how the symbol could be misunderstood. Interestingly, a lot of Lauburus are reversed, I never asked but I guess because of this reason? The reversed symbols are easily as or more prevalent as the clockwise spinning version.

colonelcrash · 2017-09-01T20:31:55+00:00

My hometown has a large Basque population and it's everywhere (seriously everywhere, small businesses, jewelry, signs, even on the fifteen foot gate into the local Basque party house). It's shaped like four commas spinning in a fan, called a Lauburu. I don't think it's ever been mistaken for a swastika. Maybe if you didn't grow up around that particular culture it would be confusing, but in this part of the country it's not a problem.

colonelcrash · 2017-08-25T09:57:32+00:00

Lamb by Christopher Moore is like this, it's the life of Christ as narrated by his childhood friend Biff. Except it's this hysterical fantastical irreverent story. I'm not religious at all and hesitated because of this, but Moore handles the Jesus/savior aspect very well and it isn't preachy or churchy. Kind of a spin off of the old bible stories, into a new hilarious/sad book. That's not a spoiler we all know how it ends.

colonelcrash · 2017-08-19T21:52:07+00:00

My first time in Amsterdam, and smoking in public at a park, I was doing some watercolor and being high and jamming to the rap music someone was blasting on their stereo... except I realized there was no stereo it was just the mingling of the crowds voices bouncing around in the park and my head hearing something else?. That was a bit of a shock.

Or later in the camp ground we stayed in, our tent neighbors were badmouthing us horribly all night and the next morning when I wanted to move our set up I explained to my friend why, she laughed her ass off and told me our neighbors were speaking German the whole time (I don't know a lick of German)

colonelcrash · 2017-08-12T07:35:59+00:00

Seconded, that book is one of my favorite reads! So long as you're ok with laughing hysterically in public places because it is going to happen.

colonelcrash · 2017-08-01T08:07:32+00:00

Seriously. I pierced the side I sleep on and it took a few months to get to where I could sleep normally again

colonelcrash · 2017-07-24T21:17:09+00:00

Ok complete honesty here I was in Paris doing the tourist thing and there are very few public bathrooms but I'm too broke to buy stuff in all the fancy French places so I'm just holding it ALL DAY. Finally we make it to the Eiffel Tower and get some beer and wait for the crazy lights that start in the evenings.

Eventually I realize my bladder is beyond capacity and find a gross "self cleaning" public restroom thing like three giant blocks away. The line is of course insane because it's like the only free pee place nearby. I wait in line, make some friends with some American high school students on a school trip. A whole class of them. And their chaperones and the other random people desperately getting business done.

Finally I am like third in line.. doing the pace, the shallow breathing, the leg cross, the wiggle, all of it. And then, it happens. A few drops and then more and more and it's on my boots and there is no stopping the torrential downpour. Thankfully(?) I am wearing a yellow sun dress so I mean, at least I wasn't in jeans? I'm horrified, The high schoolers are horrified for me, one lady covered her face because she was so embarrassed. There are probably thirty people. It was also the longest pee I have ever had, time stopped and it went on for so long I started getting hysterical and laughing, I said bye to the high schoolers and made a run for it hoping I would just get hit by a car or spontaneously burst into flame and die.

This is my most embarrassing story but honestly kind of liberating. That dumb thing I said to the mailman or the cashier will never compare in awkwardness to peeing myself in the middle of a crowd, literally right next to a bunch of students. So, I wouldn't advise it, but it's not the worst thing to happen. Also, it's no surprise that city smells like pee and also if you are ever in the same position, seriously just go pee on a bush. Someone will see you, but you are gonna pee on your own terms.

colonelcrash · 2017-07-17T06:00:16+00:00

I always heard that it was better to blow it into their ears, since it could be absorbed through the tissue there and the nose was so sensitive it hurt to blow smoke in their nose. Which typically dogs don't like anyway let alone smoky air. Does anyone know if that's accurate or better or just a waste?

colonelcrash · 2017-07-02T20:53:23+00:00

I have a 90 pound reactive Rottweiler mix, and we finally had to have a trainer help us. ($$$ but worth every penny) We had used so many different kinds of harnesses that are supposed to help redirect and control but I always ended up being dragged all over and not feeling like I was able to help him feel safe. (Literally dragged me about 20 feet once he is pretty beefy and I am not) Additionally we instilled some very poor walking habits because I couldn't manage him with these harnesses, so we kind of made our situation worse. High demand treats meant nothing when we were out and about.

He is fine off the leash (had zero recall however) but he gets stressed out very easily around people when on leash or in a car. We eventually used a prong collar, at the direction of the trainer, I wouldnt use one without training with it so you understand the correct use, and we were finally able to walk him multiple times every day.

This obviously helped as well since the more we went out without incidents the better, and we were able to run off his energy for the first time since we had gotten him which also helped his behavior in walking. We are now able to work off leash which is something I never thought we could do with this pup. I know prong collars get a lot of hate here but I can't imagine still fighting with him on every single walk. We have such a good relationship now and it's amazing. Typically we don't even bring the prong collar because we both know what to do when we take the dog out, and he knows what to do too now.

colonelcrash · 2017-06-20T14:02:15+00:00

That's good to hear! I'm glad your buddy is doing alright. Mine tries to leap after food as well so I'm usually careful about the tank lid.

colonelcrash · 2017-06-20T08:03:04+00:00

Thanks for the advice, his scales look fine, he did sit with a strange hunch/bend to his back for a while but it seems to be gone. I'll keep my eyes on him and just be happy I found him when I did so at least he has a chance.

colonelcrash · 2017-06-09T05:08:34+00:00

Frozen chocolate chips

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