August 12 [Pancakes]
August 12
I woke up when the sad bird started singing outside Meghan's window, and it was light enough that I thought her alarm would sound pretty soon, and since now I knew that she wanted to snuggle in the morning I didn't think she'd be mad if I woke her up. So I reached over and nuzzled her cheek and then brushed her bangs back and she opened her eyes and I kissed her.
She rolled on her side and pulled me against her and kissed me back, then she started stroking my mane and we were all cuddled up when her alarm went off for the first time.
Meghan twisted onto her back to turn it off and I snuggled up against her breast and she scratched behind my ears until her alarm went off again, and we had to get out of bed.
I got out clothes for her and then went downstairs to set out breakfast and I saw that she had a box of Bisquick just like mine and for a minute I actually considered cooking pancakes for breakfast but it would take too long and I'd probably mess them up anyway, so I just got out the cereal and bowls so that we could have what we usually ate.
Then I got back upstairs just in time to brush her hair before she got dressed. She said that it was nice to have me do it in the morning because she could put on her makeup while I was doing it.
We had breakfast and washed the dishes, then her friend came to pick her up and I flew off to home. I was already thinking what I might do for the morning, 'cause I hadn't decided yet. If the farmer's market had been open, I would have gone there, but it wasn't open today.
It had been a little while since I'd just flown around Kalamazoo, and I thought that the airplane directors would be happy if I stayed low and didn't bother them, so I got on my flight gear and filled my camelback and flew around about a hundred feet above the streets, all the way around the downtown and then moving a little bit further.
Because it was fun, I raced some cars when I was downtown, but only for short stretches because I didn't want to tire myself out too much this early in the morning. I was still a little bit stiff from my long flight over Lake Michigan, and so I didn't want to push myself too hard.
When I got back to my apartment, I thought that maybe I'd try to make pancakes, 'cause I wanted to make them for Meghan tomorrow. And I know that she'd want to help, but I'd feel pretty proud if I could make them on my own.
I got out my ingredients and ran into problems right away. I didn't have any measuring cups, so I put on my saddlebags and put the Bisquick box in them and flew over to Aric's house and knocked on the door.
Angela was nice enough to loan me everything that I needed, as long as I promised to bring it back clean, and I said that I would, and she said that if I wanted to we could make them right here or she could come over and help me. But I really wanted to do it on my own, even though it was super-nice of her to offer.
So when I was back home I got out the box of Bisquick and measuring cups and spoons and then all the other ingredients that I needed, and I started mixing everything up in my bowl. Making pancakes was a lot like making waffles, really. Although the pancake recipe on the box was more complicated than the waffle recipe.
I wasn't sure exactly what medium-low heat was, but I figured that meant not too big a flame, so I stood on the counter and turned on the stove, making sure that I was away from the ring where the flames came out. And then once it was burning nicely, I turned the knob until it was just a short little flame and put the pan over it.
Once the pan got hot I sprayed it with butter and poured in my first pancake. A few would have fit in the pan at the same time, but I wanted to be sure I had figured out what I was doing before I wasted all my batter.
I took a bite out of each one when I was finished with it, just to see how it tasted. I cooked the first one too long, and then I didn't cook the second one long enough, 'cause it was still a bit raw inside. But after that I started to figure it out, and pretty soon they were all tasty pancakes.
My cooking experiment had left me with a dozen pancakes, each of which had one bite out of it. I couldn't eat them all, so I picked the worst two—the first two—and put some Nutella on them to make them taste better, and put the rest in the electric icebox so that they'd stay fresh for later.
I flew up after I was done eating and took a look at the sky. I didn't like the way it was looking and feeling—it was hot and the air was really saturated, but I couldn't see any stormclouds as far as I looked. And when I went back inside and turned on my computer and looked at the weather on it, there weren't any storms near Michigan, but the weather forecast still said that there were going to be evening thunderstorms, which meant that they might just start popping up.
I didn't like those at all—with a normal stormfront you could set up a good counterstorm if you had enough time, or at the very least work along the front to help break it up, but with weather like this you just had to deal with them as they showed up. You needed spotters stretched kinda thin across the sky, and you had to rely on them to give you an accurate assessment of how bad the storm was gonna be, because you didn't want to have your team fly off to deal with one and then be in the wrong place when a worse one came through.
And no matter what, somepony always complained about the one you did let through.
I left my computer on so that I could check on the weather later in the day and see what it was doing, and then I went and started cleaning up the hay that was scattered around the bedroom. I had to push it along with a hoof, 'cause I didn't have a broom. I knew that Meghan did, and I thought about sending her a telephone telegram so that she'd bring it when she came over tonight, but I didn't.
The one problem with haybales is once you start to pull them apart, they keep falling apart on their own. Someponies in town had baleboxes, but I didn't have one and I'd never seen one at Meijer, so if I wanted to have one made I'd have to find a carpenter.
Maybe the makers could build me one.
But I wasn't going to be in this apartment all that much longer, so it probably wasn't worth the hassle.
When Meghan came over, she told me that there was a storm coming, and I said that I knew because I'd looked at the weather forecast and seen it there.
She said that she hoped the weatherpeople were wrong about the storm coming tonight and I said that I didn't think that they were because every time I went outside it felt more and more like it was going to rain. And she took out her portable telephone and turned on her weather program which showed a map that didn't have much activity on it. But then she changed the map so that it showed what was going to come, and at first the map didn't change, but then it got some blotchy spots on it.
I asked her what that was and she said it was the futurecast, and that was kind of neat. So she showed me how to get it for my portable telephone, and after it had been put on I tried it.
So it was nice because it showed that there weren't going to be any storms for a couple of hours, which meant that we could have dinner with Jeff.
We walked to Tiffany's together to get some beer for the dinner, so that we'd have something to share, and I thought that we ought to get something that we hadn't had before. So we looked at everything that they had and so we got some Milkshake Stout and some Pine Knob Pilsner. Neither Meghan nor I had ever tried either, but the man at the counter said that they were good.
When we were going back, I thought that maybe we could invite David and Angela, too, but we'd have to ask Jeff first because it was really rude to invite your friends to someone else's party.
He said that it was okay, and so I said that I'd invite them next week.
I gave Trinity a ponyback ride around the backyard and Lindy asked me where I'd been because they hadn't seen me as much and they'd wanted to go hunting for Pokemons with me, so I said that I'd been in Canada. Lindy said that she'd been to Canada, too, and Trinity wanted to know when, and she said it was when Trinity was really small and she probably didn't remember it but they'd gone to Tobermory and looked at shipwrecks and they'd camped in the woods and that was all that she remembered.
I didn't think that I'd want to see that. It was sad seeing shipwrecks, even when you knew that everypony had survived. About an hour's flight from home, there was one that was a little ways out to sea but you could see the masts sticking up from the shore. It had scraped open its bottom and sank in a storm, and all the crew had held onto the rigging until the storm was over and somepony spotted their ship; now the seabirds liked to sit on it.
So I guess it made a good home for them, but it would have been better if it stayed a ship.
When we got home, Meghan checked her weather map again and it was showing more storms popping up as the evening went on.
Mel came to get me at nine, and Meghan came along, too. We weren't rushing this time, which was nice, and when we got to our watching spot I flew up and told him that I was seeing some storms off in the distance but there wasn't anything close. That also gave us plenty of time to test the radios and for me to set my watch so that it would remember where I was and give me directions back if I went off-course.
We set up a schedule where I went up every fifteen minutes to look around, and then came back down. And I kept that up for an hour and a half, and Meghan said that maybe it wasn't going to storm after all but I said that it was—each time I'd looked there were more storms.
It started to rain before eleven—by then it was too dark to clearly see the clouds off in the distance—and I went up and west a few miles, so that I could give Mel a warning in case something really bad was coming his way.
I got caught in heavy rain with almost no warning. I felt a little bit more of a chill in the air and then I heard the storm get louder and then it just poured on me. I had to yell into the radio to tell him that it was getting heavy, and I hope he heard me because if he said anything back I didn't hear him at all.
The storm kept on changing in intensity, and the winds were a bit confused, which made flying even more fun. I couldn't hold position very well, which I probably wouldn’t have known about since I couldn't always see the ground. Luckily, my watch knew, and I could see by my changing bearings and distances back to Mel's truck which way the storm was blowing me. I really wish that I'd had this watch all summer.
Right around midnight the storm calmed down and at first I thought that maybe it was ending, but as the rain lightened up and let me see further, I could see off in the distance another part of it coming that was just full of lightning.
Well, the second round of the storm was a whole lot worse than the first round. The wind picked back up and started blowing me off-course, and the rain was just pouring down, and when I watched my altimeter reading it was constantly going up and down. I went almost a hundred meters up and down from the very top to the very bottom altitudes.
I lost the ground again, and just rode out the storm as best as I could.
I was so happy when it had finally passed on. I could have made my watch show me the time, but I really didn't want to know.
It had calmed down at the end, and when I saw that it was clearing I didn't try to get back to my forward position at all, but instead flew back until I was near Mel and Meghan, and then I sort of circled around there until I was sure that it was clear around us.
The moon was getting full, and as the clouds thinned some I could see it through them, but they were still much too thick for me to see any stars.
The ground looked different to me and I thought that maybe my watch had gotten confused in the storm and given me bad directions, but as I got lower I could see what looked like Mel's truck—it had the blinking light on top like his. And I realized that the electricity had gone off, so the gas station sign wasn't lighted any more, and none of the big lights in the parking lot were either.
That meant that I had to be more careful, because even though they weren't giving off light, they were still poking up and I could crash into them. So when I got down to two hundred feet according to my watch, I hovered for three blinks from my light, which reflected off them and let me know how close I was.
I didn't think it would matter now if I sparked off on one of them, so once I had it clearly in view I flew over it and dragged my hind hoof across the top, then circled down and landed next to Mel's truck.
Meghan helped me up and inside and turned off my blinking light and stripped my gear off, then she bundled me up in towels. The inside of the truck was already pretty warm, which was nice, and I fell asleep on her lap as we were driving back.
She woke me up when we got home and I stumbled out of the truck and to the front door, and I asked her what time it was because I'd forgotten to look at the clock in Mel's truck after all. She told me that it was three a.m.
I stumbled up the stairs to my apartment and Meghan and I helped unfold the futon. I flopped down on my side thinking that I was going to regret it in the morning but I was completely exhausted, and I tried to stay awake until Meghan came out of the bathroom but I couldn’t.
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When's Silver going to get a headset? Perhaps better hearing and speaking ability in high-noise environments, in addition to being hooves-free.
Interesting how people get thrown together as friends of friends. Meghan and Mel have now spent hours together.
Why? Couldn't she keep on using it even when she move into the college's dorm?
I always thought the bare minimum ingredients for good pancakes were flour, milk, egg, butter, and fire extinguisher.
Still those problems with the weather, electrical effects etc. Makes it even more annoying when thousands of years ago in the Indus valley they built houses in flood regions, but to deal with flooding they put the houses on platforms. And the next time someone asks where are we are going to get the megatons of material to do it, well, first theres quarrying and mining slack which makes entire unstable mountains, and then theres by definition landfill, which works even better if you rot it down for the gas first before building the mounds with the mineral rich inert remains.
Still, looks weird, all the cables underground, and the houses and electrical yards at least a story off the ground like steel and concrete versions of monsoon stilt houses.
Silver had to take extra care though she didnt realise it because a lot of the electrics have autotrips, which not only drop out with lighting, to prevent surges, but after a minute or so, depending on conditons, trip back in again.
If the mouse is enjoying the food in the garage, hanst it already moved into the haybale hotel?
7641453
Only if it's Sweetie Belle who's cooking
Well, one month done, seven and a half to go
She could probably keep using the apartment, but she sure as * couldn't use it without paying for it. Off campus housing is expensive in college towns, especially when school is in session. It partially depends on the exchange rate, but Silver gives off a lower middle class (what I think Europeans would call working class) vibe. We tend to be fairly tight with a buck about extra housing.
Thinking about table manners. In the beginning it was probably 'shove groceries down your neck as fast as possible without choking". Unicorn nobility probably invented silverware & table manners as a way of showing their superiority. They had the money to buy extra stuff, the time to memorize arbitrary rules, & the magic to make it easy -for them. Social climbers spread the rules downward.
I remember reading a 19th century insult about nouveau riche social climbers "They are the sort of people who have to BUY their silverware". (As opposed to inheriting it like a proper snob)
IMO, based on ease of use Unicorns have the most elaborate manners. Earth Ponies probably have the most basic, with Pegasi in-between. I'd also bet that some Ponies mock Earth Ponies for their table manneers. Remember how AJ was scared of eating the wrong way inBird In the Hoof? I bet she got teased during her time in Manehatten.
You know, for being roughly the middle of nowhere Tobermory comes up an aweful lot in conversation around me. One of these days I'll walk the trail from Niagara to Tobermory and find the train station. Apparently that's where my one grandfather started his life in Canada.
7641443
R.I.P. Mr. Yelchin. He left a lot of fangirls heartbroken with his boyish looks.
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The electricity went off? But Silver Glow was carrying around a surplus supply on her person. It's a shame she just wasted it by grounding herself on the light pole.
7641453
The mouse lives in Aric's garage, the haybales are in SG's apartment.
7641425 living off campus is a lot more expensive and less convenient. Plus it might just be nomadic Pegasus thinking.
7641473
Ugh, tell me about it. A 1 bedroom apartment where I go to school is more expensive than a 3 bedroom house where i grew up.
Talking about how expensive college housing is brought an old Aggie joke to mind (Texas A&M was originally an agricultural college. Thus, they are called Aggies & are supposed to be dumb)
Parents send their kid off to Texas A&M. After awhile they go up to see how their son is doing. They are horrified to find out that he is living in an outhouse. "How can you do this?!" they ask. He replied " It's not easy. Rents are so expensive, I had to sublet the basement."
7641467
What do you mean?
7641951
My parents pushed me to Texas A&M, i joined the Corps, then dropped out after one year because i learned the entirety of our family's college fund savings was eaten up by that one year of attendance.
I still haven't forgiven them from trying to hide that fact from me.
"Approximately 10,000 Coltvin. Trust me, I know exactly how to convert these complicated human units to Equestrian." - Brownie Bun.
I think I like Silver's recipe.
It's cute when Silver gets philosophical.
Now I want pancakes...
As far as Silver's cooking goes, has anyone ever told her about egg beaters? She has trouble breaking eggs, and that could eliminate the need for her to do so.
I've been seriously digging this story. Nobody does pony slice-of-life as well as you do.
Sounds like an IHOP Saturday morning.
I wonder how Silver would like grits? I know its a southern thing y'all wouldn't understand.
7641810 No, why not having the balebox in the dorm?
next time give them to the birds Silver !
7642009 I just got done with the month of January, now I've got the rest of the chapters to go through.
And it's not just the journal, but I like to read the comments after each chapter, too.
Plus, there're all the other stories I'm trying to wade through on my reading lists.
7642397 There wouldn't be enough room.
7641473
Is this the American allergy to admitting working class people exist in their country again?
I always see American politicians talk of concern of the middle class. It's really weird, because the people who need concern are the working class, the working poor. By definition the middle class can look after themselves. Otherwise they wouldn't be in the middle.
Imagine waking up before your pegasus because they're so tuckered out from flying themself ragged last night. So you decide to be nice and cook them breakfast in bed. In their fridge you find a stack of ten once-bitten pancakes.
Welcome to Meghan's world.
"Huh. I thought pegasi marked their territory by yawping."
7642853
The traditional working class professions are at middle class income in america.
The REAL working poor tend to be those raised and apprenticed within poor immigrated-culture family-network groups and as such never integrate into american society.
This means our blindness to the working poor is a product of our blindness to non-Americans!
The other kind of poor are the UNSKILLED poor, who tend to be born from immigrant-culture families but raised in such conditions that they assimilate the American cultural mindset before they are exposed to their parent's cultural network of contact; this cultural disconnect is what ruins any apprenticing opportunities through family friends and the incomplete and un-supporting and un-disciplined and malnourished family conditions that produced this separation also damn them to a hellish half-life of pitiless wage-slavery as they still have enough ingrained/inherited immigrant-culture mannerisms that the common white American will actively avoid emotionally or culturally connecting with these people.
I guess I still don't understand what Silver is actually achieving when she goes stormwatching. Like, what's the purpose to it other than just tiring her out?
7642853 I am considered lower middle class. I live in a 43 year old motorhome, half stuffed with my worldly posessions, and none of my three vehicles (one of which is the motorhome, their ages average to 33) are roadworthy. Even though all three of them run and drive. I work 35-80 hours a week, averaging about 40.
But at least I'm not poor, right?
7643183 has it mostly right(ETA: for areas like the one I live in). Another factor though, is that politicians want to look good, so the official definition of poor has been mostly unchanged for decades. Part of the problem, at least for me is that in the less-recent-than-they-think past, driving a school bus made you enough to own a house and raise a family.. Ironically, many of the poor are better off than me, on account of most of their welfare money not being considered as income. So there are poor families with three new Cadillacs, top tier cable TV and great big LCD sets to watch it on.
7642884 Yep! And Celestia's job to get them into orbit.
7643342 Ahh, trailer parks. America's motto should be "Slum clearance is for other countries"
Don't come at me with that welfare Cadillac shit though, that's a myth, and one of the most harmful ones in terms of how it's been used by your politicians to destroy the welfare system through "reform".
7643183 The difference between "The traditional working class professions" and the "real working poor" seems poorly defined. American working poor that I've personally met were people working in McDonalds, or Janitors etc, and those jobs are about as working class as you're going to get.
What I noticed staying in LA is that different job roles have an extremely strict but unspoken racial segregation going on, with the really shitty jobs like mopping floors or flipping burgers being almost entirely nonwhite. The working class "lower middle class" likewise looked like a bunch of milk bottles on legs.
This ties in well with your observation. Political "Concern for the middle class" and the idea of "lower middle class" seems to just be a dogwhistle, a rhetorical trick that lets them confuse the interests of penniless white working class people with that of the actual middle class. That way the penniless white hears what sounds like promises to help him, when they're actually promises to help that asshole that owns two brand new cars and a paid off house.
It's a shame the civil rights movement got suppressed before it could make a difference in economic relations. As soon as leaders started talking about uniting white and nonwhite working class people, they'd always get assassinated.
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7643965
I went looking for information on how welfare works in my state, Washington (not to be confused with Washington D.C.). While you're looking at the below, keep in mind that Washington is a blue state:
Basic Food is Washington's food stamp program. Plugging a family of three with no income and no household bills into the food stamp calculator gave me $511.00 of food stamps per month. Saying I had other income made that go down. Saying I had bills gave me small increases if I had also said I had income already; it wouldn't go above $511.00. It seems your net worth isn't checked.
Aged, Blind, or Disabled Cash Assistance provides $197.00 a month and Medicaid if you are very old or are medically disabled. It looks like there's a net worth limit of $2,000 for a single person or $3,000 for a married couple. It's supposed to be for people who are waiting to get on the Supplemental Security Income program, which gives $733.00 a month for a single person or $1,100 a month for a married couple.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families is for adults (married or single) with children. The example monthly income on that page is for a family of three who has no other income, who would get $478.00 a month. There's a net worth limit of $1,000.00; things counted towards your net worth includes cash in the bank and (part of the worth of) your car. I recall hearing that they don't count your house. You can only get 60 months (5 years) worth of TANF over your lifetime. I don't think you can get this at the same time as ABD.
Refugee cash assistance gives refugees up to $420.00 a month for the first 8 months they're in the US. The net worth limit sounds similar to TANF.
Housing and Essential Needs is for people who have medical problems and need help finding a place to live. Apparently exactly what you get depends on what county you're in. The HEN King County website says that they only provide for people who have a medical disability and don't have any income. (I guess that means if you're on TANF or ABD you don't get HEN.) If you show them your rent or utility bill they mail a check for the amount directly to the landlord or utility company (so the person getting HEN doesn't actually handle any money). (For non-Washington residents, King County is where Seattle is.)
The Child Care Subsidy Program helps people who are working, and have childcare expenses they need help with. (It seems the children need to be US citizens.) The exact amount you get depends on your income. Eligibility depends on your monthly income compared to the federal poverty level. For a single person, the federal poverty level is $981.00 a month. Going over twice the federal poverty level (for the single person that's $1,962.00) makes you ineligible.
Apple Health for Workers with Disabilities (HWD) Program is for people with medical problems and have taken jobs to help pay medical expenses. For this one you can't have income above 220% of the federal poverty level. So for the single person we talked about in the paragraph above that would be $2,158.20. It does mention that this program doesn't check your net worth.
Unemployment benefits can give you up to $681.00 a month. If you were earning more at your last job you get more. You need to have worked for a substantial amount of time and put money into the unemployment benefit system before you can draw from it. Their manual mentions on page 12 that you need to have put 680 hours worth of work in. There's a requirement that you show that your last job ending wasn't your fault (page 13 of the manual). You're required to be looking for work while you're getting unemployment. You can't be on unemployment for over one year.
I'm not sure what you're supposed to do if you're a single adult with no children and no disabilities, and are not working or looking for work (or if you've been unemployed long enough for the unemployment benefits to run out).
Anyway, the point of all that is to show that welfare in Washington state is not going to give you luxury goods.
7643965 Hey, man. I don't live in no trailer park. Can't afford it, and most of them don't accept motorhomes, anyway. Only actual trailers, of the type designed for permanent installation after being towed from the manufacturer. AKA manufactured homes. If you can go camping in it, it's not getting in. In my case, I am renting a parking space in a back yard.
As for the Caddillac crap, I know it isn't universally true, because each state administers it differently. But it is true often enough to piss me off.
Nothing like being in line at the grocery store, with a few basic staples, like rice, beans, and flour, worried about whether you'll have enough money to afford it, and the person in front of you is buying lobster with food stamps, and hundreds of dollars worth of prepared food.
Judging by what 7644423 said, Washington state should not have this problem. That said, there may be those who know how to game that system. We shouldn't be having those problems either, after all.
As to the racial division between economic classes, it's way less of a thing than a visit to LA (my home city) would suggest. The economic classes exist nationwide, even in areas where there are no racial divisions.
Hopefully Silver will be able to balance this weather spotter job and her schooling once college starts up. All these late afternoon storm watching endeavors are going to put a strain on her school work.
7644700 Too say the least...
7645115
...fish lasanga. Now there's an idea. Hmmmm.
7644899 Ehhhh, maybe and then again maybe not. Socrates him self didn't leave any legacy except for the writings of Plato and at least on other student, Plato was almost as bad if you dig into much of what he wrote. Like his perfect state having the kind of secret police that brutal dictators use and a ivory tower philosopher king as the absolute ruler as well as the idea that there could be a utterly absolutely perfect one size fit all feet (both right and left foot) shoe with all others being pale reflections. Also Plato was is our main source of info on Socrates and what he thought and in his dialogs Socrates was always turning what ever was being discussed into a argument of exactly definitions that he would by saying basically 'well i don't know either and since none of us know anything we should all go back to school'.
The real legacy guy is Aristotle who helped create science and the scientific method, he was the son of a doctor while Socrates and Plato were the sons of a Stone worker and a Aristocrat respectively.
Also no one forced Socrates to drink hemlock, his actually punishment was ostracism (banishment from Athens for ten years decided by popular vote) he chose to drink the hemlock over the objections of his students as one final F. U. to Athens democratic system.
7641421
Despite all the adorable fanart of ponies wearing headsets, I'm not sure they'd actually be practical with how their ears can move.
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Isn't it weird how that works? I mean, yesterday I had a philosophical argument with my co-worker's son, who'd happened to stop by work.
7641425
She could, however one of the things that K prides itself on is that nearly all students live in the dorms. And that's an environment which I think suits a pony better anyway.If Peggy's okay with it, no reason why she can't. K's rules prohibit certain types of cooking appliances but as far as I know they didn't prohibit haybales.
7641453
I'm currently lacking all those ingredients except for the fire extinguisher. Right next to the stove, it is. Just in case.
I guess a lot of houses that got hit by Superstorm Sandy got rebuilt on stilts, basically. The ground floor was covered up with frangible walls, so if there's another storm surge, it'll just knock down the cosmetic walls and then flow through.
I think one of the problems with landfill is that it's often not stable enough, which is a problem in earthquake-prone areas.
We actually wore out one of the circuit breakers on our floor scrubber at work. It needed new brushes but the boss didn't want to buy them, so we were trying to use it with the stumps of brushes that it had left.
7641467
Possibly the only pony who can burn water. That's why she should have a match in her cutie mark.
7641473
She could afford it if needed (it's probably comparable to on-campus housing, since it's a fairly crappy apartment.
Yeah, the unicorns would definitely be the ones to have done that. Pegasi probably don't take too much to possessions anyway, since a lot of them would be pretty nomadic at heart. And Earth ponies don't have the time for that sort of foolishness. Snack on some pasture grass while you're out in the field working, and when you're done for the day you're too tired to be polite.
For me it's a tossup between earth ponies and pegasi. 'Cause you've got towns like Manehattan that have a lot of upper-class earth ponies, while there doesn't seem to be a similar equivalent with the pegasi--at least not that I can remember.
7641500
For sailors, it's a pretty important place. Not sure why landlubbers would find it all that interesting, though. When my parents and their friends go sailing on Lake Huron, they usually wind up in Tobermory.
7641600
2016's been a bad year for celiberties.
7641648
If you had some way to store it, pegasus-power could totally be a thing. Fly up, pick up a charge, carry it back down and bottle it, repeat.
7641810
Yeah, and K College likes having nearly everyone live in the dorms. I had an apartment my senior year, but lived in the dorms the other three years I attended.
My mortgage payments on my current house is about the same as what I paid for a crappy one-bedroom apartment in Kalamazoo.
7641951
MSU also is/was, and as a University of Michigan fan, I often refer to it as Moo-U or Michigan Ag (which was its original name). Still, if you're interested in getting a veterinary degree, for example, that's a very good college for it.
7642145
I would absolutely trust Brownie Bun in somebody else's kitchen.
It's the best recipe.
7642161
Now she knows about them. Thanks!
Thank you!
7642182
I don't understand grits. I'm not sure that I've ever had them. I've had Cream of Wheat before and that's just weird.
7642560
Probably having an apartment infested with seagulls would cause her to lose her security deposit, and result in Mister Salvatore having some interesting conversations with the landlord.
7642779
It would probably fit, as long as it was sized for only one haybale. While the rooms at K weren't exactly luxurious, there was enough room for a couple of extra pieces of furniture if you chose carefully.
7642853
I dunno, man. I guess it depends on where you consider 'middle class' starting, and whether or not you factor in cost of living based on where you live.
7642862
It would be so weird to share an apartment with an actual alien, because some parts of their thought process would be so different than yours.
7643183
It's more complicated than that, IMHO. One of the factors which is a big deal in rural America is where the good paying jobs are. If I lose the mechanic job I have in this town, odds are that to find another job I'm going to have to drive at least 20 miles to get another, and that cuts into both my free time and my spending money . . . and I'm lucky; while I live in the country, I'm less than an hour away from three large cities. It's not always just a case of lack of integration, but putting up the money to move to a new town is an issue. Security deposits, etc. I almost went broke after I moved to Lafayette, and I had to really work to scrape together enough money to move back to Michigan. So it's not just our blindness to non-Americans, trust me.
7643223
She's reporting the actual weather conditions, in the air, which are useful to the National Weather Service and to the Kalamazoo airport. Also, should she see a tornado forming or anything like that, her early warning could save lives. As far as I know, actual tornado warnings are generally called in by ground spotters who see the tornado.
Plus, she's got an insight into the weather that no groundspotter can match.
7643523
"I just aim for the moon and stop the spell halfway."
7643342
Sometimes it depends on when/how you had to start collecting welfare. By some metrics, I was collecting it (unemployment) while I owned a home, a decent truck, $50,000 worth of tools, a smartphone, etc. But I had all those things before I lost my job, and selling them would have only been a last resort, since I would have then lost both my home and livelihood.
Yes, there are certainly cases of people collecting welfare who are abusing the system, but that's the exception rather than the rule.
7644423
Thank you! I'm so tired of this myth. Yes, there are people who abuse the system, but for the most part the people who are collecting welfare aren't driving around in new Cadillacs and watching football games on their big-screen TVs.
7645260
To her benefit, thunderstorm activity starts dropping off in September, and they're not too common by October. So she should be good, hopefully.
7645338
My gut tells me that's a terrible idea, but then I never liked seafood, so. . . .
7645385
I've always thought that was a problem with philosophy. It's a good thought exercise, but does it apply to a real world? I mean, a perfect philosopher king would be the best ruler, but how likely are you to actually find one?
Couldn't one argue, though, that Socrates and Plato built the foundations of Western Philosophy, and then Aristotle built on top of that?
Huh, didn't know that. Well, that's one other legacy of Socrates, then--there's a society called The Hemlock Society which offers advice on the best ways to commit suicide.
7642560
What did the birds do to deserve that?
You know, I'm kinda surprised that Silver never learned this character's name, not even in passing.
11334336
In hindsight, it's obvious that she would have, and I'm surprised I didn't think of that.
7716906
Basis of the 1970s sitcom Mork and Mindy. Starring Pam Dawber, Robin Williams, Johnathan Winters (S3). 1st season was hilarious. If you watch it, my advice is to skip season 4.
I've heard of that, but I've never watched it.