Postal Dropbox Adventures: You People Scare Me (plus second (and last?) unboxing) · 9:12pm Jun 19th, 2021
...so it's been a couple of weeks, and -- the postcards I asked for in the previous blog are starting to come in: I've received three. (Two were from the same person.) There was also a greeting card with a personal message written within and since it was personal, it's going to stay that way. I'm not going to talk about what people write to me without their direct permission.
The postcard are appreciated. So is the greeting card with its short letter inside. There's something special about a paper message, especially in the current age. And as before, if you do want to send something, the dropbox address is pinned to the top of the #p-o-unboxing channel in my Discord server. (If you can't get into the server, I'll send the address via PM.)
It's about to get some company.
I recently learned that it is in fact possible to set up an anonymous Amazon wish list -- in the sense that it can put up under 'Estee' with the dropbox address, and it'll work normally from there. And I thought that doing so would be the height of misplaced ego, along with a hefty side dose of utter pointlessness. Not to mention that when it comes to my dealing with Amazon, my timing couldn't possibly be any worse.
But I'm going to do it.
I'll pin the link in the Discord server once it goes up. (This may be tomorrow, or possibly Tuesday.) I'll mention something here eventually. And I don't know what's going to be on it. A few minutes before I started this blog, I was talking about a rotating pool of 'two things I need, two things I want, and two things which no sane person would pay for.' Then I realized that those categories could become confused.
Also, today was the reminder that some of you may not be sane.
...of course you aren't. Look whose work you're reading...
...look. I said a few minutes ago too, and I'm going to say it again. Everything which eventually lands on my stoop is a burst of joy. I'm grateful to everyone. I appreciate all of you. I really do.
I don't necessarily understand any of you...
So I'm putting up the wish list, sometime in the next few days. Because it'll give people one more thing to ignore.
...you'll see in a few minutes.
Will you ever.
Okay. Before we start, if you're really thinking about sending something? Look at that first linked blog before you do, even if you've read it before. But I need to directly repeat something from that blog here and now.
This is not a contest. There is no oneupmanship in play.
After this day? I really needed to say that.
...and some of you are about to ignore that too.
So there were four packages. One envelope (from Canada -- first international) and three boxes. All of the boxes were sent by Amazon, which at least saved people some postage. And this time, each package had exactly one item within.
...so there was sort of a theme. Two categories, two things for each. And the first category? Was edibles.
...
...I reach into the packages blind most of the time. It's something which started on the server with the advent calendar. (We did an advent calendar through the hellscape that was December. I like to pretend my server has content.) When I got the envelope, I thought -- fabric? Because it was a soft envelope, and there was something soft and highly flexible within. But when I reached inside, it was a pouch. Something where the contents shifted fine under the pressure of my fingers.
I didn't know what it was.
Now I do.
There is no return address and the U.S./Canada border is closed.
I felt I had to mention that last part.
...
...please tell me these weren't anyone's pets...
Next up.
I can safely predict that this person is reading Daily Equestria Life With Monster Girl. There are certain signs.
There are also a number of running gags.
I should have locked everyone in.
...well, this wouldn't be the first person to sort of imply I needed a remedial writing course.
...really, really remedial.
And lastly...
...look, this all actually happened...
...just don't ask me to explain it...
Why not? The day had already flaked out.
So. One more time.
I am grateful for all of you, and all of this. Neither of those things means there won't be times when I just bury my face in my hands for a while and try really hard to think of something helpful to say.
The dropbox will remain open, because bookplate stickers will hopefully be requested. (The books are in progress.) The Amazon wish list, in the name of comedy, will go up soon. I will say something when that happens.
This is not a contest. No one here should be trying to top anyone else.
But this is my readership.
I'm not sure I can keep y'all from attempts to outweird.
I didn't know Bob's Red Mill made potato flakes. :O Is that like, for making instant mashed potatoes?
We're a weird but wonderful group. Although cricket powder....
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For making potato bread.
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...and that's his takeaway.
{Simmons}These are my readers.{/claiming it.}
Were the potatoes good?
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I also like the alphabet book!
On a completely unrelated note, you can also buy things like cricket protein bars on Amazon and even LIVE CRICKETS (and other insects).
One youtuber admitted to having a 'strong dislike' to insects and kept having people troll him with packages of live crickets in his dropbox.
Another question, If someone sends you a 'questionable' book on various types of chemistry or horticulture... do you both end up on some kind of watch list?
I would like to state for the record that any hypothetical references to equine genitalia that may or may not be contained in any postcards bearing my name would, in any case, be covered under both Art and History and would thus be exempt from any such mundane criticism.
Permission is given for my postcards, should you wish to. Even though they do reveal which part of which country I live in.
incidentally, feel free to show the front of any postcards i send, i dont really care if what i wrote gets quoted but i hate my handwriting and dont really want pictures of that to exist
Let's be honest here, you'll NEVER outrun armour maniacs. They train to win first plate
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Was it only me, or was anyone else half-way expecting the Tatooine Le Creuset to show up, given all the bold text?
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The live cricket suppliers are selling to people who have reptiles as pets (some won't eat dead food).
The cricket powder is intended for human consumption (I think). This dates from the 1970s when we were very worried about overpopulation and about running out of food; the idea was that the lower on the food chain we can get our protein, the better.
(Better agriculture techniques came along to solve the food problem, and population-wise the birth rate dropped enough that we're now worrying about having enough younger people to take care of the older people as they age.)
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It's still a very valid concern, although mostly for fresh water supply reasons. The amount of protein you get out of say, a cow, versus insects per gallon of water used is a substantial difference.
I'm also very interested in Estee's take on the Apple's agronomy lessons because of my background, haha.
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Sorry, you licked us, we're yours forever now.
Cricket powder?
If I were them I would have picked dried and/or roasted crickets.
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I understood that reference!
Jiminy!
You could probably add the cricket powder to the instant mashed potatoes.