#i also enjoy the nuc ones

[odysseys-blood]

cries a lil bit abt how quickly the mini comics lightened the skin of everyone who wasnt #ffffff already

[detectivenyx]

re: more yapping, this time about what i've seen of hundred line + one character in particular vs what she sort of represents

now to be clear my experience of hundred line is pretty much 'what my friend nuc played on stream' but someone reblogged a post of mine sort of adding an addenum to my point about why a lot of the big fangans do not work for me due to the fact they tend to almost resent their choice to be danganronpa fanfictions, by mentioning hundred line does it too to a lesser extent and limited to one character, darumi. it got me thinking, because i honestly did not find darumi anywhere near as egregious as the aforementioned examples after a bit.

darumi's nothing if not self-referencial and a bit side-eyeing towards danganronpa, very much an instance of turning to camera and going 'amirite?' but i think what made darumi work where fangans fail is two things. for one, hundred line, despite the setup of 'trapped in a high school at the whims of a cute yet unsettling mascot telling you to kill', hundred line is pretty different from danganronpa, so it doesn't feel like it's just taking the formula but going 'wow this formula's dumb' which is always going to be, y'know, annoying hipster shit. and for two, i think more importantly, darumi references the killing games as something she genuinely enjoys, where in fangans usually even the characters get all Marvel Buffy Quippy about it. darumi, despite being a stand-in for really annoying danganronpa fans who can't let the series go and demand a dr4, is sincere about it in a way where you can kind of examine her both ways - an affirmation if you're like her (or a prompt to think about it), and something to laugh at if you're not. fangans that point to a dr trope and go 'amirite' with a sarcastic quip can only be read one way - the authors disdain the fact this is a danganronpa fanfiction and thus it reads like a marvel movie (the theatrical treatment given to them also certainly doesn't help).

so to summarise: darumi works because she's not a danganronpa OC and her references are sincere to her, she's breaking the fourth wall while being unaware it's even there. also helps that she actually gets off her ass in the early game and actually fights

[resident-beekeeper]

Ok so. Beekeeper Witcher AU partially based off of some stuff @dinahdarling said here.

Lost of other stuff to add to that because my brain rambles a lot and I can’t stop thinking about this

Geralt is surprised by how excited Jaskier is to see a swarm of bees because often people incorrectly think that bees swarming are going to be angrier than normal (they couldn’t be more wrong but the number of people who get very worried when they see a swarm is ridiculous, speaking from experience)

Jaskier initially gets a bit mixed up between bumblebees and honey bees, which really exasperates Geralt. E.g. he thinks that honey bee queens hibernate during the winter when the rest of the bees die, which is bumblebees. This is part of why Jaskier doesn’t realise about how much honey needs to be left for bees, because why would a hibernating queen need lots of honey?

He’s very eager to learn all about it though so Geralt sort of forgives him.

Ciri frequently helps out with the bees and she’s got her own bee suit, which is a kid’s one. (You can buy some very small bee suits) Jaskier finds this unbelievably adorable.

Geralt is on the local bee helpline which he claims is because that way he gets even more bees. And it is definitely part of that, but it is also that if nobody gets the swarm they’ll probably end up going into the rafters of a house, or a chimney if there’s one nearby. And if happens theres no real way to remove them without just killing the entire colony.

And often Ciri comes along because an extra pair of hands is always very helpful when catching swarms, especially when this involves transporting the colony in a van, so Ciri is very helpful.

People are both impressed and worried that Geralt has a small child helping him with a lot of bees.

Impressed because she's very good at it and people are always surprised when small people are calm around bees.

Worried because what if she gets stung?

Geralt let's Ciri have the gauntlets when they catch swarms so that she isn't stung on the hand, but people still worry because they're fools.

One time she had to hold a cardboard box of bees closed because Geralt had ran out of nuc boxes. (Pronounced like nuke as in the bomb) (its basically a small hive that you can put a swarm in and then transport it easily)

The bee helpline is sort of the equivalent of fighting monsters only instead of money as a payment Geralt gets bees.

He gets really frustrated with people who call the help when

They call about wasps instead of bees because bees are brilliant whereas wasps are shit. They sting a lot more and don't produce honey. They also occasionally try to steal honey from bees.

They call about some colony of bumblebees or something that are in a hole in their house wall because there is precisely nothing anybody can do about that other than kill them, and they aren't harming anyone. And Geralt isn't pest control anyway.

People think that what they have is a swarm when instead what it is is a colony, because people are idiots who don't know the difference between them. (A colony is bees living somewhere, a swarm is bees looking for a new place to live.)

Because of all the new colonies Geralt gets through his own bees swarming and swarms he gets from elsewhere, he runs out of hives so you know what that means.

Family make a beehive time.

At this point Jaskier is also part of the family so he and Ciri make up frames together because that's relatively easy and is also very rewarding because each frame doesn't take too long to build.

Geralt and Yennefer make brood boxes and supers together with one of them holding the parts in place and the other hammering in nails. (The brood box is where the queen is and so where the brood (baby bees) is, the supers are shallower and only have honey in them.)

The brood boxes and supers need painting in order to waterproof them.

Normally this is something that Ciri would do with bits of help because she really enjoys painting.

But this year Jaskier is around.

And hes determined to make sure that Geralt has the best looking beehives in existence.

Geralt insists that there really is no need. Plain white paint works perfectly well and they already have lots of it. (I know a dark colour would probably fit better with his aesthetic but those make beehives too hot when the sun comes out)

Jaskier will not hear of such nonsense. Of course the hives need to look their best. It's a shame he can't fix the boring hives Geralt has at the moment but you can't really paint a hive with bees currently in it.

So one day he goes to B&Q and gets loads and loads of paint samples in lots of colours. And he draws a proper design on paper first because it has to be perfect.

It's an overly complicated design of various mythical creatures which all have absolutely nothing to do with bees but Jaskier thinks they look great.

He and Ciri spend a long time painting the beehive, which has a different setting for each part of it, with the most complicated (a wolf chasing after a group of kelpies) on the brood box because it's the biggest.

There's dragons on one of the supers, with a sky that isn't a consistent blue because paint samples aren't actually that big, but they're similar at least.

The other super has a Griffin flying at sunset (it looks nice and there isn't enough blue for daylight).

Of course it would be lovely to have the hive with one specific theme, but given hive parts are changes around fairly frequently depending on how much space the bees need, that it unfortunately not an option. Jaskier does fade each design out to white at the very edges so the jump between them isn't too jarring.

Suddenly Geralt minds a lot less because they are both clearly having a lot of fun, even if he won't admit it.

I'm definitely gonna write more for this, but I think that's enough for now

[daddykirbs]

I did one major thing different than what most beekeeping people recommend. One things that could make all the difference in the world in the success of splitting hives and making nucs. Potentially my method will prove that splitting hives doesn't have to be a time to travel 2 miles away from the original beeyard. Also potentially I could prove that I know how to lose bees. In this video I go through the process of splitting two hives to create 5 frame nucs. Along the way I show some beehive inspections and tid bits of interesting beekeeping information. Hopefully you enjoy your visit here to the Daddykirbs Farm for this beekeeping episode. Thanks for being a part of my story!

[kleinstar]

how did u get into this series? 👀 what's ur fav dynamic, and your fav character (probably apart from eiden)?

ASK ME ABOUT NU:C (NOT ACCEPTING)

Let's see... I'm like half convinced I saw a picture of Edmonds really stupid uniform (sorry nuc i cant take it seriously) in twitter which is when I took notice of it but I dont think I downloaded the game then... I faintly recall being like oh he which was Olivine like 'oh he looks nice' but didn't expect to really get into the game at all but boom Eiden drew me in pretty much immediately lol. Liked him from the start. Storywise speaking i think first chapter that i liked a lot was kuya's but i think the story didn't grab me until Garu's weirdly enough bc the dude's my least fave lol, Dante's chapter even more though.

Faves....Aside Eiden, Rei was just introduced but he's already a fave of mine, the pretty aloof personality (for now! he only met Eiden) paired with obvious underlying issues (reasons still a mystery) that he's got. Has a bit complicated relationship with sex where he seems to treat it more as a tool to achieve goals (get magical items etc, study essense... ) than something fun (to the point where he'll even go through unpleasant stuff for it) where its easy to see how Eiden will fit into that ! He's like this ....researcher type but his personality is very different from the usual archetype s so it's interesting for sure - ALSO FATHER IS REALLY CUTE It's still pretty interesting to see how it'll develop, I'm glad the main story's taking it's time with him bc i think nuc does a bit better when it slows things down rather than crams it up into one thing for sure. 'I've seen people complain about nothing happening these chapters but its like...time, atmosphere settling, wish the game did this more often. It doesn't work with events bc limited story space and all. His intimacy stories also expand on him pretty nice.

Kuya is other fave because apparently i like resident bastards but yeah, mr-im bored bc long life which is also why it's hard to open up. Youkai and humans also have a difficult relationship, have had for a long time so Eiden's attempts in patching things up piss him off a lot but also bring him that element of surprise he so enjoys when things dont go the way he expects - hope makes it painful when it goes wrong after all. I also like his dynamic with Eiden a lot - which is really just Eiden kinda trying to please him with best of his efforts. He finds it amusing ofc and with recent developments he even seems to like it when eiden just does his own thing - not that he'd admit - eiden 'owes' him so much now since he's let him close. He calls him a toy, it's amusing how he tries so much and brings so many surprises right.... It's cute dynamic.

Those two are pretty much faves but dynamicwise close come Dante, Quincy Olivine and Blade tho! I'm not running introduction on them though.

Dynamicswise... With Dante it's that fun bickering with Eiden but also the differences that flare things up, finding bridge between them and so on, I love his Kleinmas event intimacy story a lot. Also Olivine's got that fun serene horny vibes but also really calm, cute and sincere moments that also feel really fresh, I also love how he's just " : )" when eiden just horny stuff. It's actually cute.

Quincy too though, similar as with Kuya but also differently he's grown tired of the long life he's had but Eiden's opened him up and stuff. Also different (but not completely different) to kuya he likes when Eiden does his own thing, likes it when he's selfish too which balances out great since Eiden's very people pleaser type so that nice chill moments just work out very cute too.

I also like Eiden's dynamics with morvay though lmao fellow hornies exchanging tips with each other and stuff, it's fun.

[pinersmash]

Copyq for linux mint

Copyq for linux mint mac os x#

Copyq for linux mint driver#

Copyq for linux mint full#

Copyq for linux mint windows 10#

Although it wasn’t like stunningly fast but did a better job than than the built in tool (for the record: the speed reading in the screenshot is small but this is because it changes quite quickly and updates few times within a second.

Copyq for linux mint mac os x#

It also supports Windows and Mac OS X too. So if you’re looking for a free an open source utility that you can use in Ubuntu then try ‘UltraCopier’.

Copyq for linux mint full#

And in Ubuntu even if it couldn’t copy the full content of a file, it’ll still save the partially copied content where Windows would simply delete it.īut if you usually deal with a lot of mass file copying & moving operations then having a dedicated utility does makes sense as it lets you somewhat automate the task (by letting you add files to a queue for instance) and comes with additional features. So, I could say I'm quite happy now.When it comes with dealing with file copy & move operations in Ubuntu Linux the built in tool (Nautilus file manager) does a decent job. One can see the refreshes and dragging a window on a 2560x1440 display is a 1 FPS slideshow.

Copyq for linux mint driver#

One more performance note: performance of VirtIO driver over WAN (20/4 mbit / s) is close to useless.

Copyq for linux mint windows 10#

When working over Gb LAN, it's almost as good as RDP to Windows 10 host is.

Additional note: when working over WiFi, it's a bit more sluggish, but still quite usable.

Some minor banding while watching videos, but I'm not using these VMs for videos.

Changed gfx driver to VirtIO and now I'm enjoying smooth sailing.

Useless on WiFi (433Mbit/s), OK on Gb LAN. The bandwidth usage was constant regardless of happening on VM screen.

Video driver set to QXL resulted in MASSIVE bandwidth usage - 1Gbit/s and it was still somewhat sluggish.

Observations for people running into this: It seems the problem is only experienced if the host is at the same time also the viewer!Įdit2: HA!!!! I found it: the problem is only occurring on kubuntu hosts! Yesterday I accessed the computer from my home PC running kubuntu 18.04 and the problem was immediately apparent. It's an entry-level NUC with an i3/4GB/128GB inside. Yesterday the problem was so insanely severe that I decided to finally give up and go fetch the zero-client I have stashed away in the closet. It's not gone, but the issue now occurs in about one out of ten copies to clipboard.ĭisclaimer: this is a workaround, not a solution. I have found some old topics about a Remmina clipboard bug, but nothing recent.Įdit: I have changed the Video QXL setting from VirtIO to QXL and the problem has heavily subsided. Same when accessing the guest through RDP. I also tried virt-viewer, but it suffers from the same issue. I have noticed this with linux guests only, but not on Windows guests.

I'm using CopyQ for clipboard manager in the guest, but nothing changes if I remove it and use built-in clipboard.

Depending on the editor, it might just paste immediately after the item being copied (so I end up with a duplicate in the editor) This one is especially weird - just like there was a placeholder in the editor waiting for something to get to the clipboard.

Sometimes, on the second copy, the now finally copied item will immediately paste where I previously unsuccessfully attempted to paste it.

then I go copying / pasting again - with a > 80% chance for success.

since I don't know whether copying worked, I will notice this when it fails to paste.

See below for an example of extra weird behaviour

The client's clipboard will "know" something's wrong when a cut / copy doesn't work: it will not paste a previously successful item.

copying / cutting to clipboard usually doesn't work in first try.

Instead I will find it in the host's clipboard - not pastable on the client of course. More than half of clipboard copies get "eaten" by the host: when copying to the clipboard, the guest will not have copied the item. Guest is regular ubuntu 19.04, accessed through spice protocol. I have a kubuntu host running 19.04 and remmina installed from remmina-next.

[guidevewor]

Fry vga to dvi converter

#Fry vga to dvi converter pro

#Fry vga to dvi converter tv

#Fry vga to dvi converter pro

Molded strain-relief prolongs it's service life īroad Compatibility: Compatible with Apple MacBook, MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro Microsoft Surface Pro 4, Pro 3, Pro 2, Surfacebook (NOT Surface for Windows RT) Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon, X230/X240s, L540, T540p, W540, Helix Dell XPS 13/14/15/17, Latitude E7240/E7440, Precision M3800 Alienware 14/17/18 Acer Aspire R7/S7/V5/V7 Intel NUC Asus Zenbook HP Envy 14/17 Google Chromebook Pixel Cyberpower Zeusbook Edge X6 Toshiba Satellite Pro S500, Tecra M11/A11.ġ x Ugreen Mini DP to HDMI/VGA/DVI converter 13. Triple Shielding for Best Signal Performance: Gold-plated connectors and triple shielding of this mini displayport to hdmi vga dvi converter ensures max conductivity and signal performance. It is ideal for business, home entertainment, conference rooms, and more With this adapter, you can easily add an external display to mirror or extend your computer, then you are free to enjoy favorite movies, YouTube clips, iTunes songs and movies on big screen. Mirror or Extend Laptop: this 3 in 1 mini dp adapter transmits both audio and video from computer or tablet to HD display via HDMI. Supports 4K Rresolution: mini dp to hdmi vga dvi adapter supports up to (HDMI), and 1920x1200 (DVI & VGA) display resolutions, and flawless audio pass-thru for uncompressed digital 7.1, 5.1 or 2 channels (Audio is NOT supported for DVI & VGA output) Don't fit with thunderbolt 3.0 or any USB C Port Device! Only one of them could be used at a time. IMPORTANT NOTES: HDMI, VGA and DVI port can't be used simultaneously. A separate HDMI/VGA/VGA cable(sold separately) is required. Ive been using it for 5+ years without single.

#Fry vga to dvi converter tv

UGREEN Mini DisplayPort to HDMI DVI VGA Adapter connects a Mini DisplayPort/Mini DP/Thunderbolt 2.0 Port compatible computer or MacBook to an HDTV, monitor, or projector with HDMI/VGA/DVI port. Also, I noticed a lot of complaints screwing up (frying) Macs USB ports or board components. 1 DVI cable for 1 monitor 1 VGA cable hooked up to a VGA to DVI adapter for 1 monitor 1 s-video cable for TV Extra cables I have laying around: RCA composite video cable VGA Cable Possible Solutions: Something that gives me a VGA port.

[backwards-pumpkin-blog]

Best Motherboard for Z270 Processor in 2018!

This past year was crazy with fresh processor launches from AMD and Intel. Intel got things began with a refresh of its on-going Skylake architecture, codenamed Kaby Lake, which brought faster clockspeeds and some brand-new facilities to the prevailing LGA1151 system. AMD countered using its Ryzen processors and the AM4 good, and Intel released its enthusiast Skylake-X/Kaby Lake-X parts with LGA2066 and AMD countered with Threadripper and socket TR4. With the new cpus, it could be difficult to learn how motherboards will be the best for every platform. Intel's new seventh Gen Espresso lake processor chips has gone out now, even though these types of people utilize the same LGA1151 tooth socket as Kaby Lake, of the processors need brand-new 300-series chipsets. But if you are thinking of create a new mainstream system with an Intel processor chip, where in fact the Core i7-7700K and Core i5-7600K remain respectable options at reasonable prices, you'll want to begin which includes a Z270 motherboard. The start features, style, and performance from Z97 to Z270 has been useful and dramatic to enthusiasts of most stripes, awry outstripping CPU advancements as Haswell. Many Z270 motherboards support multiple x4 Pci-e Gen3 M. 2 slot machine games, enough PCIe lanes dual-GPU configurations, changeable or subtle color schemes, Realtek’s new ALC1220 sound codec is commonplace, and as well , there are always a sponsor of refinements for overclocking. Mounts for 3D-imprinted add-ons are even beginning to appear. In the mean time, legacy ports are beginning to disappear. USB 2 . zero headers and back-panel fittings are receiving swapped for a few. 0 and 3. you counterparts. SATA interface counts are receiving shaved to free of charge space and assets for M. 2 and as well , U. 2 storage space. Every one of the boards right here feature at minimum a couple of M. 2 slot machines, and each is full- velocity, 32 Gb/s implementations. The times of SATA could be using (at least if indeed they will get prices on M. 8 SSDs right down to more sensible levels). The Z270 chipset (and other 200-series parts) take a position backwards appropriate for 6th Style Skylake CPUs, and 100-series chipsets may also use 7th Gen Kaby Lake processors. Nevertheless, Z270 provides four extra PCIe lanes, which explains why wish seeing even more M. a pair of slot machine games this round, and you will also want a 200-series chipset if you would like to make use of Intel's Optimus Storage engineering, technological innovation. While most motherboards will continue to work to tell the truth, enthusiasts will need more than the bottom level of efficiency and features often. After considerable research and testing, these are the very best Z270 motherboards.

ASUS Maximus IX Hero Review

The mid-range Maximus Hero IX reflected its name during testing, dealing with motherboards costing almost as very much and frequently pulling forward on performance or features twice, which makes it best overall elect for Z270.

Gunmetal grey heatsink designs and relatively restrained styling clothe this in any other case hardcore gaming item in upscale attire. Go home away the Aura light and you might presume a fresh workstation table. This unbiased color scheme is effective at extravagant rig builders as well; start the lights just, match your colours, and you’re all set, regardless of what neon-colored parts or court cases in store.

Hardware hobbyists will see plenty to experiment with also. Subtly included along the upper correct and simply lower plank edges happen to be control keys for power, program reboot, storage reset, and so BIOS access, which are nice additions when tinkering within a workbench. Extensive and well-placed lover headers are supported by features such a circulation tachometer for drinking water soothing loops and ASUS’s complex BIOS lover control.

In addition, all of this attention takes care of in addition to the best multiplier and mémoire figures among the boards examined right here. The Hero IX handled a stress- free of charge 5. 1 GHz and so pushed two-stick memory space styles beyond their rated 3600 MHz capacity. Further, post-benchmark BCLK testing elevated who to nearly 5. 2ghz without incident before the warmth became one factor. None of the various other boards right here came repair, with the Hero upstaging ASUS’s own even, more costly Formula IX.

ASUS ROG STRIX Z270I Review

Micro motherboards happen to be back business again because of the success of Intel’s NUC route and the evolution of on the internet streaming, with ITX large systems enjoying an upgraded relevance for DIY masters. These smaller sized boards offer features that significantly outstrip likewise priced ATX boards frequently, simply perfect for spending budget building workers who do not brain ltd expansion options later on.

ASUS’s new Strix items include things like basic level for the Republic of Gamers lineup, however the Z270I feels mainly because fine simply because the Maximus motherboards near the top of the stack. Posting the same dark grey, blown steel heatsinks and heavy PCB as the big chat rooms, it feels as though a discount at list price.

Like the majority of ITX boards, an B. 2 slot lives on all flipside within an inaccessible region after initial set up just ASUS includes another slit at the top of the Strix, concealed underneath what appears like that chipset shield in little channel that accommodates get sticks up to 80mm long.

Aura lighting helps it be onboard as well, with a type of LEDs beneath the motherboard's right part and an RGB header for exterior lighting pieces. Wi-Fi is usually provided via 2T2R Atheros wireless at approximately half gigabit speed, and the hardware handles Bluetooth 4. 1 works. New ALC 1220A CODEC can be used for sound realtek’s, backed with ASUS’s SupremeFX tweaks and a great up to date software program layer; advantageous additions because so many ITX platforms are destined for living space media use.

Shortcomings will be inevitable in that tiny bundle, and the Strix includes a couple of. While earlier ROG ITX boards from ASUS got no trouble reaching storage and simply multiplier limitations with Haswell and Skylake, the Z270i Strix struggled to attain 5GHz via multiplier and could not support 3600MHz DDR4 CORDIAL NIP.

As the true numbers were much better than MSI’s Z270I Gaming Pro Carbon ITX, there’s still area for improvement, specifically equipped with ASRock’s Fatality Z270 GAMING-ITX/AC offering extras like integrated Thunderbolt 3. In the event that's a gift you wish, ASRock's which provide is usually a close second.

MSI Z270 Tomahawk Review

While lots to like about Z270 there’s, additional dollars necessary for buy-in certainly are a drawback. Component producers have not been shy about walking prices for the previous few chipet generations, although the strike certainly is not as large as it had been from Z97 to Z170. An instant diagnostic at Newegg yields an absolute price basement around $105 for an entry-level Z270 board.MSI’s Tomahawk cable retails only a few dollars above this price flooring but provides a credible middle group of features and construction non-etheless. The dark teal and red colorization scheme uses crimson backlighting, an assessed design on the PCB, and simply an integral I/O shroud from illuminated logo design. The total result is handsome, of course, if potential element color choices clashes be concerned you, there’s an arctic white edition available that appears better and can match any style in store even.Don’t expect top-shelf storage CPU or functionality speeds with this spending budget board, however. The multiplier check came up brief at 4. 9 GHz and memory space was limited by 3200MHz. Benchmark figures reflected regarding, but didn’t affect considered video gaming performance too much. Exotic parts like pre-binned 5GHz CPUs and high-speed DDR4 aren’t usually on the menu with budget builds anyway.Rear We /O entails 8 USB ports, integrating 1 type C and so five type A UNIVERSAL SERIES BUS 3. 1 connectors. Ethernet, is dealt with via Intel’s low-latency V219 controller.One particular drawback well worth mentioning may be the aging Realtek ALC 892 sound codec. While flawlessly sufficient for standard duties, almost all of the additional boards right here sport the brand new ALC 1220, which includes around eight years of developments. Fortunately, MSI’s codec execution is a great a person, which means this isn’t an offer breaker, but if leading edge disturbance is component of your strategy, look elsewhere.For ultra-budget builds, MSI’s H270 Tomahawk variants provide practically identical looks and similar performance at even lower prices, although just forget about overclocking or memory space data above 2133.

[bestvideosconference]

Build Your Own Mini PC For Gaming

If you are on a budget and still want to play the latest games, you can build your own mini PC for gaming. The smallest of these computers is the Beelink GT-R, which is about the size of an external hard drive and offers the same power as a full-size PC. Its premium form factor and excellent performance make it a top choice for gamers. Moreover, it features impressive gaming capabilities and excellent emulation abilities. Here’s a good  read about  logitech group video conferencing, check it out! 

If you want to buy a gaming PC, you must check out its specs. The smallest one is the Intel NUC 11 Extreme Beast Canyon, which is super compact and has enough power to handle multiple tasks. If you're willing to spend more money, you can opt for the HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop, which is reasonably priced but can be upgraded later. A mini PC with 4GB of RAM and a 120GB hard drive should do the trick for most users. To gather more  awesome ideas on mini pc uae, click here to  get started. 

You can upgrade your mini PC just like you would upgrade your desktop PC. However, you should take note of the size of the components. The smaller components won't fit in a small case, while the larger ones might not fit in at all. Also, some mini PCs don't use the usual parts, so you may have to buy a brand-new one. It is best to buy a prebuilt computer to see how it performs. You can also check the specs of the hardware before making a final decision.

Mini PCs are great for light gaming, but they can't replace a desktop. To achieve the best performance, you need a machine with high graphics and plenty of I/O. For gaming, an Intel/AMD i5-core chip is best. This chip is good for most games, and you can even add an extra external graphics card. The best mini PC for gaming can handle games like Fortnite and World of Warcraft. Kindly visit this website    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaming_computer for more useful reference. 

Purchasing a mini PC for gaming is an essential purchase for gamers. They will not only help you play online games, but they can also be a great way to enjoy your favorite movies. With these PCs, you can enjoy your favorite shows, play music and games without worrying about your computer's performance. You can choose the right ones for your needs and budget by reading the specifications carefully and comparing them to the features of the competing models.

Choosing a mini PC for gaming is a crucial decision. While many models are ideal for basic tasks, a few key factors will ultimately determine whether you'll be satisfied with a particular model. A good mini PC should have a high-speed processor and plenty of RAM. An AMD i5 core is sufficient for most types of applications, but it won't be able to run games on a mini PC.

[chinad]

bliss in new Asus flip chromebook

Apr 10, 2018

dreamt with my Tibet artist friend, Benba Chungdak, and his friend. we together build a company. the enterprise grows with our ages. in handling developing issues we stepped into middle aged and each have child. I saw touching moment daughter with dad. This week quite boring, for I relentlessly need assured our ordered Asus chromebook smoothly delivering to us, evade PRC customs’ deter or domestic censorship. Life can be easier with help from our dorm canteen’s aid, the woman loaned me ￥700 to pay alipay credit debt yesterday. It not only remove the tension, also let my ability to handle something in failing prison of PRC economic winter. Yesterday I also seeking equip our usb-c reader a tf card for data transferring and storage. woz's coming Asus chromebook has 2 usb-c ports while normal usb only one port, so I preparing shifting my usb and usb-c reader stick to him, now that his Intel NUC shifted to me and equips me a build-in card reader. We are migrating from usb stick to sd card. I long time intending upgrade our backup card storage, but always felt economically unfit for it. Now I am almost assured worthily to invest it. I also intended shift our old Dell notebook to my son’s mom, the small man long time complained her notebook I left her without battery, even I told our notebooks’ battery were shits. I even guessing she brought Trojan horses from PRC surveillance into the dell notebook my son and I used to play steam games, for she insisted worked on the notebook even she already had an old Hasee notebook I left her, after all my warns not to mess with our dell notebook. Now she can has a taste of her own bait. I felt glad to rip off the dell notebook, for it frequently refused windows’ patches. It also lagging in booting up, even running programs OK. After move it away from my son’s bedroom, my son will has a new desk to work on. I long time preparing my son an office space, but the dell notebook always occupied one. So my son usually wrote homework on a cheap table his mom used for her profiting tutoring. Now with 2 light chromebooks, my son has 2 fix computer desks to work on. that’s I long time intended, against his cheap mom's efforts to put him and her students in slavery situation, where only main business is tutorials, like in Mideast or Islamic. God, dad, its a yellow morning now. Sandstorm more and more common scene now here. Looking into future, so many holy discipline including severe genocide ahead. Quite some races deserve no future but hell. God put the chosen breaks through hardship and wasteland, and deserted. Bring rest to breed racing. Bring me my Royal China, my Crown Queen from Japan, Asoh Yukiko, into tangible world. God, dad, bring me to top view of the canyon.

Apr 6, 2018

first dreamt kill a bear. I don't want to hunt but soon I slayed it in fear of prey. then dreamt in my hometown just after wedding. I enjoy enviable sexual life with my bride, each time I never anxious but just insatiable intercourses. yesterday is our monthly cinema time with my son, woz. we watched blockbuster "ready player one". we almost missed it with fake Russian product, snow queen 3 which mimics frozen 3. we watched frozen 1 and 2 and impressed, and without hesitation we chose the snow theme movie, till 2 days before the lunar Mourning day I found we cheated by the Russian title. my son soon accepted my suggestion of change. and that's rewarding. I think "ready player one" is quite impressive in visual presentation. before the movie, I told my son my decision to put investment before deposition, in risk of CCP tyrant seizure. we never felt unease upon saving woz some pocket money via alipay's yuebao, till last Sunday we found yuebao restricting our automatic deposit, delayed more than ￥800 in cash account without profit for months, due quota restriction new CCP puppet financial regulator setup aiming to disable or malfunction the world largest fund. then I saw PRC tyrant relentlessly constrains civilian's cash flow while under table covertly leaks into its underground reservoir. I felt threatened and need to take action rather than passive been robbed. also in past months, our intended purchase, convertible chromebook, turned more dearer and scarcer on amazon China. we need response swift. my son agreed. after movie we ate hotpot near the cinema. the peanut sausage ran short, and a neighbor cheap mid aged man occupied himself unnecessary a full bowl of it against shortage. we used groupon and additional cash for more mutton. after returned to my dorm, I felt the rich meal let me energetic and delayed to sleep. I checked my purchase target monitoring and amazed by new chromebook on sale. I at once ordered it and paid by my deposit money for woz in last half year, near 2000 CNY. its so satisfying that I watched lately another episode of "the office" for completion of the wonderful lunar Mourning holiday. now last night dream is so sweet that I never know aging. God dad, bring me sooner my Royal China. bring me my Crown Queen from Japan, Asoh Yukiko, for I waited decades. grant us one more child for prosperous Eastern Asia. thx God, in this sedative morning.

Apr 2, 2018

dreamt history creation by 2 pals in three kingdoms period Chinese well known. one of them is Yuwei, with his family ie. his mother and young wife, forging his southern China country from scratch. I witness his charisma, his conquer over territory he bestowed. another guy's expanding his national border near southeastern China also in details in dream. its a sandstormy morning. last week I ripped one of zhone cms, https://agarten.in ,replace it with a tool site, a project management site. even still in experimental phrase, I already felt satisfying. my son last week installed an old famous file explorer on his android. I deleted it at once, and warn him the dangers of PRC government overtaken tool softwares. the file manager was a wonderful tool, but now manipulated by PRC government for large scale surveillance, like it purchased hundred of once perfect software tools mostly created by individuals or small enterprises, esp rooting tools. my son nodded. in night we co-operated online to assure his google voice forwarding phone enabling. but it turns out his forwarding phone consistently working for I called his google voice last year more than once, unlike my google voice never received phone call in last year, hence google require to re-verify to enable it. I told my son we should soon seek a grocer near our public spa so as not to lack fruits on our diet. I pray God grant me budget for the delicious food. my son now a considerable smart teenage, but he still hijacked by his sinful mother, who relentlessly challenged me and my parenthood. I warned my son not to frequent hospital, but last sunday soon after we returned from spa, he was arbitrarily brought by his mom left their house, left me alone updating his linux. they likely haunted eye hospital for my son's sight, on which the small woman recently fantastically obsessed. I told my son I day by day upset by Chinese teachers. they killing creativeness and smother orthodoxy. what a low moral they wholely obtained! even worsen than PRC government employee! God, dad, a new month starts yesterday, when we enjoyed downtown hostel pork steak so much. this month my credit debt again near 600 CNY. help me clear our debt and deal our daily budget lightly. bring me sooner my Royal China, my Crown Queen from Japan, Asoh Yukiko, for spring 2018 just budding new life and hope of life. bring my son his enjoyed game and ready office space he will step in with affirmative. thx God dad.

Mar 23, 2018

dreamt tutoring a kid playing game, in which there is a scene of lofty gate, player has to climb up to get reward to continue the game. later dreamt of math exam, on which I always reluctant to touch while my son seemingly excels in dream. its a pale morning. after a busy week preparing migrate my work space from acer chromebook to dell chromebook, this week I mostly resting. the solution expanding chromeOS side by side with linux works perfectly for me, with installing a tool crouton under chromeOS dev mode, I now enjoy security of google ChromeOS and versatile open world of linux, which so powerful and robust. Reviewing my clumsy linux experience so far, I see clearly windows losing. Bill Gates in half century spend half world wealth to improve world health and poverty is invalid. Its no hatred, but discipline or natural giveup Holy spiritual glad to see. Now Trump sees it, and Gates persuading USA president to continue to adopt the fake savior. God, world at large, esp abnormal humans desperate for their abnormal world staged so many ugly shows including obesity, LGBT, anti-society, etc. there are so many abused food/drug eaters in developed countries while average people encounter hanger everyday. Killing in mid east mostly exchange for food, but so many unfair between healthier living and sick food/sex/drug addictive. God dad, the Earth citizen needs merit based cleanse, like Trump’s new migration law. If man can’t live a healthy life, lives him hell. So does to drug esp opium takers, and breed racers. US entertainment circle stealth too much applause and selling too much cheap and unhealthy idols. USA esp weak democrats promoted too much cheap democratic notion upon world among which quite some disqualifies, esp hate culture and competing in breed nations, like Africa and Mideast. World crisis now mostly due to cheap human cattle, which noway to preceding nor prioritize animal and grand nature. cheap hurts but decency nutritious. A society can’t self-rely nor self-sufficient, a nation wiped from its land like Mideast. But Europe and USA still missing rule Israel learns thousand years, they let enemies inside. God dad, its a new salary day now, but yet QRRS release my salary so far. Yesterday I review my near 2 decades in QRRS Dorm, my youth and loving among PRC most exciting era, so called open policy period when PRC penniless but polite peasants adopted to work mills by Capital American buyers, on the land my ancestor bestowed. I saw my old friends here and found their hidden gay. I found my seeking family esp offspring efforts in all my half life, on this fresh land I chosen to pick up and grow upon to polarize. God dad, bring me sooner my Royal China, bring me sooner my Crown Queen from Japan, Asoh Yukiko. Grant us offspring new to Royal China. Blessing me new monument to develop zhone web. After workday I will fetch my son visiting my dorm monthly, permits us joyful reuniting this afternoon. Thx God dad.

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From: Nick Winters Beekeeper, Bee Hive Builder

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Dear Backyard Beekeeper,

Imagine that you are sitting on your deck enjoying the sun on a summer afternoon. You can see the red and green of your tomato plants in your garden.

You can smell the perfume of your flowers in the flower beds just off the deck. And you can hear the buzzing and humming of the honeybees in your garden beehive.

As you watch, you see your honeybees flying from flower to flower, gathering nectar and pollinating your garden and backyard.

You see them take the nectar back to the hive where they are making honey to share with you and your family.

You see them fanning and dancing at the entrance of their beehive, basking in the sun and enjoying good food from the flowers and plants in your yard and garden.

You take out your hive tool and scrape some propolis from one of the frames, pop it into your mouth and begin chewing. It’s the sweetest gum you have ever tasted. The scent of honey in the air, it’s time to set the burdens of everyday life aside and tend to your bees.

Bees Are Self Sustaining and Only Require A Moderate Investment Of Your Time And Money

My grandfather was a beekeeper, but unfortunately he passed away before I could learn any of his secrets. Like you, I’ve had to learn from books and experience. Whether your goal is to become a backyard beekeeper or ultimately develop a commercial beekeeping operation, this eBook will give you the foundation of knowledge required to successfully keep you producing honey and growing your hives.

The truth is that producing your own honey is incredibly rewarding – and profitable – if you know what you’re doing! As a hobbyist you will enjoy the two best things about beekeeping; an escape from everyday life doing something you enjoy, and creating a very unique gift you can give to friends and family. Who wouldn’t be impressed by your skills in producing such a wonderfully sweet, nutritious delight? (And yes! Honey is very nutritious!)

“My Garden is Doing Better Than Ever”

Thank You! As an avid gardener I was most interested in using the bees to help my garden and, WOW, what a difference, my vegetable garden is doing better than ever and my flower beds look fantastic! I especially liked the chapter on stings, that onion trick worked great!

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Are you interested in developing more than just a hobby, perhaps something that will earn a little extra pocket change? Sidelining allows you to produce enough honey to sell for a profit, supplementing your income. Commercial beekeepers have large operations, selling bee and beekeeping related products as their primary source of income. (For example, they may focus on raising bee queens and bees to supply other beekeepers.)

Lets start off by addressing the most asked question by the beginner beekeeper. “Will I get stung”. If I had a nickel every time I heard this! The answer is; if you follow the safety guidelines outlined in Beekeeping 101 and wear the proper clothing then you can enjoy this very rewarding hobby without the worry of being stung.

Bee stings and allergic reactions are covered in beekeeping 101, although getting stung is not a normal part of beekeeping it is something that every beekeeper should know about. Here’s a bit of trivia for you: Did you know that some beekeepers get stung on purpose as a treatment for arthritis? It’s true!

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Everything you need to know to become a successful beekeeper is in these eBooks, let’s break it down and take a look at them one by one.

Beekeeping 101, A Beginner Beekeepers PDF Manual

A comprehensive beginner beekeeping course that covers everything you need to know about starting your own apiary. You will have many questions, this guide was developed to give you the foundation of knowledge that every beekeeper must have to successfully maintain their hives!

This ebook contains:

Beekeeping 101 is a detailed, illustrated training manual that covers the most important aspects of beekeeping such as the most popular type of bee and the ideal size and location for your colony. A list of the equipment needed to launch your beekeeping operation and the approximate cost is extensively covered in Beekeeping 101.

As a beekeeper myself, I have numerous books on the subject and I have found that there are many beekeeping books out there that are difficult to understand and may give only a portion of the information needed to start a successful beekeeping operation. For the aspiring new beekeeper it is essential to have a comprehensive manual that takes you by the hand and walks you through every phase of beekeeping.

Beekeeping 101 discusses the best time to set your hives, when to harvest the honey, various methods used to harvest honey, and how to prepare your bees for the cold winter months….and that is just a short list of what this eBook contains! Are you worried the information covered may not apply to your area? Don’t be! There are separate downloads for the USA as well as a European / Uk version to make sure you are getting the most current information for your area.

Pictures throughout the entire eBook illustrate ideas that make it even easier to understand! The anatomy of a bee and hive construction will no longer be a mystery with the included diagrams. It also includes the most common bee diseases and how to recognize and treat them. As a bonus you will also receive a truly fascinating crash course in hive behavior!

“Thanks For The Wonderful Help”

We were having a problem (we thought) and weren’t sure what to do so we emailed you guy’s. It turned out there wasn’t a problem at all, who knew bees would crowd around the front of a hive like that!

Kim, FL | Lifetime Member

What you are ordering here is an electronic book. After you order, you will arrive on a page where you can download this book in PDF form immediately, even if it’s 2:30 in the morning.

If for any reason you are not satisfied with this product, I will refund your money for up to 60 days after the purchase date.

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“We Needed Something Relaxing”

Just a quick thanks, we really enjoyed the eBooks. My wife and I both work long hours and stress levels can get pretty high. We were looking for something relaxing that we could do together and decided on beekeeping. We bought 2 nucs from a local beekeeper and they grew fast! Thanks for all your help!

Kenny, NY | Lifetime Member

This course is intended to champion your beekeeping venture past the learning curve and put you on the fast track to success! It takes you by the hand and walks you through EVERY phase of beekeeping, equipping you with the foundation of knowledge you need, to do what you’ve always wanted: Beekeeping! I am so confident that this eBook will provide you with all the information required (and more!), to start, grow, and run your very own backyard beekeeping business, that I have decided to remove all risk to you! You have a full 60 days to read it in the comfort of your own home, at your leisure, and if you find it lacking in pertinent information needed to begin beekeeping, just let me know and you will be refunded 100% of your money!

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Did I mention I’m also going to include internet links to websites where beekeepers new and old come together to share information? With a combined membership of over 10,000 beekeepers you’ll never be alone when it comes to questions about your bees! As if that wasn’t enough I’ll also include 3 additional links to award winning beekeeping books that you can read online for free. These books retail for over $50 at a bookstore But you’ll get the digital versions Absolutely Free!

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When you download Beekeeping 101 – a Beginners Guide you will receive:

Beekeeping 101: 109 pages of step by step, how-to content.

The Organic Gardener: A natural gardening bible.

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The Nutritional Benefits of Honey: Complete guide on the benefits of honey.

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Congratulations on your interest in beekeeping!

Sincerely, Nick Winters Beekeeper, Beehive Builder

P.S. Don’t forget my guarantee! You’ll buy the product and download it within seconds. After you flip through the report…if you decide within the first 10 minutes that it might not be for you, contact me and I will login to my PayPal or Clickbank account and send you a full refund with my own money. You can also spend all day or all week to decide if you want your money back…even a full 2 months if you want!

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98 w/ Steve or Bucky I CAN FEEL THE ANGST ALREADY

I love me some fluffy angst haha enjoy love, and thanks for requesting! 

Prompt #98: “Why can’t you just believe me?” - “Because you’ve lied about it before.”

Pairing: Steve Rogers x Reader

{observe: a puppy that kicks his own damn self; i’m furious}

Rattling Those Perfect Teeth

Steve made an obnoxiously persistent point of reminding everyone and their mother that he did not, in fact, want a big deal to be made of his birthday. And since his birthday was on Fourth of July it was easy to hide behind the national holiday. But of course when Steve says white, Tony, by call of sass-master duty, must under all and any circumstances say black.

It took a long while for the Avengers to all forgive each other. A painful slow process of fixing hearts and stitching up souls. Everyone is fucked up, and when they all truly realized this they decided to be fucked up together rather than alone. Nothing is hunky-dory or anything, but they’re a family. And even though families are really good at fighting, they also know how to love each other despite all else.

What they had, what they were for each other was something to truly marvel at. You were jealous of them sometimes, of how they carefully and cautiously knit themselves back to each other one stitch at a time. The hold now stronger than ever.

But despite this new found kinship, Tony still has and frequently exercises his uncanny talent of pressing all of Steve’s buttons in a practiced and most effective order. You would have laughed more at their little banter battles if you weren’t Steve’s girlfriend and thus had to show some loyalty. Steve knew its who Tony is, to push and prod and poke, and that when push comes to flying through a space hole above Manhattan to blow up an alien army with a single nuc, Tony has his back.

So a week before the fourth Steve announces at dinner (yes they all have family dinner together at least once a week in the dining room at Avengers’ Tower), standing up formally from his seat at the head of the table, that he did not want a big birthday party, Tony sitting at the opposite end of the table got that look in his eye. Nat saw the ‘DANGER DANGER’ neon flashing sign in Stark’s eyes first, and silently rolled her eyes up to the heavens probably praying for strength while continuing to cut her steak. Bucky sitting at Steve’s right only watches Steve’s face knowing his friend is bracing to be fought on this, stuffing some mash potatoes in his mouth distractedly. Sam makes a weird affronted noise as he drops his silverware and they clatter against the china Pepper got in France. As you’re seated next to Sam, on Steve’s left, you quickly step on his foot under the table warning him to keep quiet. Sam feels your warning and only huffs out the air that was supposed to be a retort and pouts at his green beans.  

There are a variety of other reactions from Pepper, Thor, Wanda, Bruce, Clint, and nothing of course from Vision (he still came even if he didn’t eat anything), but Tony remains threateningly – unnervingly – quiet. Steve is staring him down from across the long whoville table spread, daring him to say something in rebellion against his wish.

Tony only pours himself some more red wine with a dramatic flourish and eyes Steve right back over the lip of his glass as he lifts it to take a sip.

You sigh and skull back the rest of your drink knowing that look from Tony only meant trouble.

It’s July 4th and Steve wakes up a total crank pot.

No one is normally all sunshine and giggles in the morning (or if they are you steer very clear of them), but when you wake up before Steve and bring him some homemade pancakes for a little birthday breakfast in bed, something small to show him you love him, and he practically sneers in your face that he’s not hungry you’re a little taken aback.

Steve is never purposefully rude. I mean you know he’s almost like Bruce in the sense he’s always angry (you get it; you’ve been with him a long while and you love all parts of him), and that he expresses his anger if he deems it necessary, but he’s never been nasty. Even when he’s been beside himself furious Steve Rogers isn’t nasty. His fury is direct, clear, straightforward, not instigating, manipulative, or downright mean.

He had swung himself out of bed, shoulders hunched, lip curled in a foreign snarl, and shoved on some clothes before storming out of the bedroom in your shared apartment in Brooklyn. You were sitting shocked-still on the bed when you heard the front door slam. Your frozen in surprise still staring at the indent in the pillow where his head had been not moments before. It takes your body and mind a second to reboot, and when you do you feel an overwhelming tidal wave of concern.

You knew Steve wouldn’t ever try to hurt you on purpose, so you easily brush off his actions and focus on what could really be bothering him. If its got him this twisted then its really bad. As you think, you absentmindedly – sadly – pick up the breakfast tray you arranged all sweet and cute like (you even had that day’s paper folded on it), and carry it back into the quaint kitchen. You keep your own feelings out of this knowing Steve needs you even if that is the last thing he’ll outright ask for right now.

You eat his breakfast slowly, digesting more than just the food you’re eating, and make a decision to go to the gym you got a membership at, like, a year ago. You never really went, but you felt the need to work off some of this tension. (You can’t help but notice how much Steve has rubbed off on you, he always likes to work out his frustration, punching things when he’s mad.) After cleaning up the dishes Steve’s present wrapped perfect and pristine on the island catches your eye. You were going to give it to him after breakfast. Sighing you grab it and slump into the bedroom.

Trying to continue the momentum of energy you had to work out, you tuck the box carefully under the bed incase he comes home and you’re not here (and he’ll have a cow if you’re not there to talk him into accepting the gift), and throw on some work out clothes.

Grabbing the keys out of the bowl on the little table in the foyer, you head out the door and down to the complex garage. You notice in the spot next to your car, Steve’s bike is gone.

When you get home around 3pm (you treated yourself to lunch because working out has to be rewarded with food) and Steve still isn’t back yet you huff pulling in to the parking spot. You spend the next hour lounging around, showering, shaving (in case he wanted birthday sex, although that is looking less and less likely), exfoliating, plucking, really any and every grooming activity you could think of waiting for Steve to get home. He hadn’t texted you which meant he didn’t want you charging after him. No one from the Tower had contacted you which meant he wasn’t there. You choked down the instinct to worry knowing Steve’s a big boy and he can watch after himself – even if he’ll get an earful from you about it when he gets back.

After wasting away another fucking hour, you snap. That’s it. You are not going to let Steve grump around all day, birthday or not. This is ridiculous. After an educated guess, you figure to try the Tower after all. You call Friday (which is still a little weird but you’re getting used to it),

“Miss Y/l/n, how may I be of assistance?” The female Scottish AI greets warmly barely after the first ring.

“Hi Friday, uh is Steve there?” You grunt as you hop on one foot trying to get into a pair of worn jean shorts one-handed, a soft casual shirt and bra already on (thank Christ).

“Yes Miss Y/l/n, Captain Rogers is here. He was on the gym floor but is currently making his way to the roof. Mr. Stark is hosting a party on the terrace.”

“A party?” You start in alarm, Tony wouldn’t.

“Yes, a Fourth of July party.” Friday responds with that patient curl to her voice.

You squint your eyes at this and trap your phone between your ear and shoulder as you use both hands to do up the front of your shorts.

“So its not a birthday party?” Comes your suspicious confirm.

“Yes, it is.”

Your heart jolts.

“Who’s birthday party is it Friday?” Your voice rises an octave and you clutch the phone to your ear with your hands, abandoning the stubborn buttons of your shorts.

Tony wouldn’t.

“America’s.” The AI answers in what you could have sworn was a slightly sarcastic tone.

You let out the world’s loudest and most annoyed sigh of relief before grumbling a little under your voice about stupid AI systems. With exceedingly less patience you tell Friday you’re coming over and will be there at 6.

When you walk in through the grand glass doors, you can practically hear Steve’s mental screaming from the lobby as you rush past the receptionist who knows you personally now, as you dutifully follow the scent of turmoil.

“Hello Ms. Y/l/n, what floor can I take you?” Friday announces herself as the elevator doors close.

“The roof, or which ever floor Steve’s on.” You sigh a bit flustered from rushing here, readjusting your purse under your arm and checking your phone quickly for the time – 6:02pm.

“I’ve been instructed to inform you that Captain Rogers does not wish to see you at this time.”

“Friday,” You warn as your hands ball at your sides. Sometimes Steve can really be a stubborn, bull-headed, thick skulled –

“Would you like me to pass on your request to see him?” Friday offers as you start to boil over like an overcooked pot of spaghetti in the grounded elevator.

“Tell him if he doesn’t let me see him then there is no sex for a month.” Comes your low-voiced threat as you speak through clenched teeth and a tight jaw.

“One moment,” Friday pleasantly informs as silence reigns in the elevator another minute before the smooth Scottish AI voice returns, “Captain Rogers has granted you access to follow him up, I’ll take you to the roof now.”

With a victorious huff you cross your arms over your chest as the elevator rises soundlessly and near motionlessly. Steve’s a sucker for intimacy and physical familiarity, having been starved of it for as long as he can remember. It seems he isn’t completely lost to reason then. You wonder how Friday contacted him when he was apparently on the roof with a terrace full of people. You fucking hope it made him blush, you don’t even try to quell the self satisfied smugness knowing he wouldn’t dare give up touching you and feeling you and being with you physically (and more so emotionally) for even a week let alone an entire month.

You could play dirty if you needed to.  

Knowing you two aren’t actually fighting, you understand why he is doing this, keeping you away. You know it has to do with something else. There is no reason for him to try and keep you away too long though, he always caves eventually but this time you’re gonna push him a little. Steve’s talked about how sometimes space is better for him than company, and you readily respected that. Steve learned though that if he wanted you there, all he had to do was ask. No reason needed.

It took him awhile to understand that he had you. Really had you. Even now he sometimes still needed to be reminded.

When you reach the roof floor with a ding, the well-oiled doors swing open in a woosh and you walk out onto the windy terrace. Stepping out you almost choke because when Friday said Fourth of July party you thought low-key barbecue, not a party in full fucking swing. A Stark party, then.

The red white and blue colored lights that hung low over the guests practically blinded you as you wove through the people and almost covered your ears at all the noise. People were chatting and laughing, the smell of barbecue polluting the air, and the push of bodies made you want to run all the way back to Brooklyn. You didn’t mind a good party, but you at least always prepared yourself before attending one this big and crowded. Eventually you found your Steve looking ready to explode, appropriately, like a firework as he loomed over Tony. Tony was standing cool and calm and collected, sipping on a festive looking cocktail, shades on, and souped up in Fourth of July colors.

They look like they have been arguing for awhile, shocker there, and you quickly pushed your way to their sides.

“I specifically asked not to have a big deal be made of my birthday.” Steve growled in a tone he usually reserved for Hydra agents he was about to murder. “And here I am, wanting to just come to enjoy a nice quiet afternoon in the gym, only to be informed that this is going on!” Steve waves his large hands generously wide at the commotion around them, all the voices and people drowning out the volume and menace in his voice.

Tony only blinks at him behind his shades (why was he still wearing them? It’s like 6:15pm?), catches the pink straw of his drink in the side of his mouth, before responding,

“Cap allow me to straighten the stripes in your flag, this is a Fourth of July party, this is America’s party, not yours.” Tony explained between loud obnoxious sips of his drink, “I remember you didn’t want a party but does that mean I can’t celebrate the birth of my country?”

For the first time today the anger rippling on Steve’s face drew back, hesitated, then completely swiped clean away, like an arm sweeping everything off a very crowded table. Guilt and slight embarrassment were the two main emotions that soon replaced it and shown clear through the pink blossoming quickly on his cheeks.

“Alright thanks Tony for clearing that up, well golly I’m starving Steve are you starving? Course you are you’re always starving! Let’s head over to the grill to grab some of those hot dogs Sam’s making!” You chirp when Steve remains standing silent before Tony, shrinking by the second. Snagging Steve’s tree-trunk thick forearm you promptly tug him away, happy when he lets you.

When you’re a few people deep in the crowd, far enough away from Tony, you hush at Steve knowing he can hear you with his enhanced ears, “You wanna tell me what’s really going on baby? Cause something has got your balls in a knot,”

“How delicate of you,” Steve snarks loud enough for you to hear in his usual sarcastic way, not nasty, that strangeness from this morning seems to be gone for now. You relax a little.

“Seriously, what’s up?” You respond not missing a beat as you scoot by Nat who squints her eyes questioningly. With a shake of your head you end the silent conversation between you, promising to tell her about it later, and continue to follow the smell of cooking meat.

“Can we go somewhere a little more private?” Steve is suddenly whispering right in your ear, having to bend down quite a ways to achieve this. You lick your lips when his mouth brushes the shell of your ear – reflexive habit.

“Yes, but first we’re getting those hot dogs. I wasn’t kidding that I was starving.” Comes your answer as you finally arrive at the grill, watching Sam boast of his skill to a very competitive looking Bucky.

When you both get your hot dogs, hot dog buns, and assorted dressings, you both sniff out a quiet corner on the outskirts of the terrace near the roof balcony railing. Together you decide wordlessly that this is where you’ll park and settle. With your hip cocked against the wall, you shake the hair out of your face and dive in to that hot dog teeth flashing. Steve usually finishes them in two bites but he picks at his wrappings now, staring down at it with that Steve Rogers Look of Inner Conflict. You chew your big bite, allowing him time to formulate whatever it is he’s trying to say. When he still hasn’t said anything (or even looked up from his now drooping hot dog) when you swallow the last bite of your meal, you clear your throat.

“Are you okay?” You ask the most basic question, hoping Steve will be honest with whatever version of his answer he chooses. You don’t mind him not telling you everything, there’s room for some personal secrets between you, just not lies. When Steve finally understood that about you, that you were giving him that privacy and not letting it effect your intimacy as a couple, he had said I love you for the first time.

Steve rolls his lips in and his eyebrows crease just a hair more (if that’s even possible) before he responds with the classic:

“Yeah, I’m fine.”

You stop dead from the cleaning escapade with your napkin, and lift your eyes up to him. Steve isn’t even watching you but he can feel the look you’re giving him and he honest to god flinches.

Good, You think, so he knows he just shat out of the wrong hole.

You don’t even respond to that, just sigh loudly and wait, wiping your mouth thoroughly of any stray sauce. Waiting Steve out has proved to be the most effective way to get him talking. He really can’t stand the silent interrogation tactic. Put him in a fight, get him yelling and punching and he’s all set, but the minute the silence sets in his minutes are numbered.

Steve lasts another five minutes under your silent as the grave gaze (a new personal best) before he breaks. He tries to wrangle his anger up like a replacement for his shield, you can almost physically see him gathering it to himself, arm muscles bunching, preparing for a fight even if the only weapons allowed are words.

“Why can’t you just believe me?” The blonde spitfire shoots at you, adjusting his tone to be hard and spiky. He’s looking to provoke you. He’s trying to start a fight. It’s a habit of his if he wants to avoid a serious topic.

Nice try soldier, you smart in your head as you dead ass stare him in the eye and retort with a cold dousing of:

“Because you’ve lied to me about it before.” You make sure to emphasize the word ‘lied’. Steve knows how much you detest being lied to, its one of the reasons you both make such a great couple. Steve hates being lied to almost as much as you do. It goes against all that he believes in really.

You see Steve’s anger waiver on his face as he was never really good at hiding his feelings (thank fuck) but just as you’re experienced with handling him, he knows how to handle you. And Steve Rogers never went down without a fight.

“You’re the one who said I could have emotional privacy,” He hisses over his forgotten hot dog that’s getting reduced to questionable mush as his fist closes around it, “I’m starting to think you didn’t mean it because all you seem to do is push and push and push, ask and ask and ask, poke and poke and poke.” Steve is leaning closer to you with each third repeated word and you’ve never felt in any actual physical danger from Steve, but you still step back, its instinct with someone so obviously physically superior. “You better remember that I allow you into my life, I allow you into my thoughts, you don’t own them. You don’t have automatic rights to them their mine! Mine!”

Steve had begun raising his voice and while you were glad to be getting something out of him, something real that with each word was being stripped of all its layers, you couldn’t deny that Steve’s words hurt. You knew he wasn’t really talking about you, that he was deflecting because he was too scared to say it naked and raw out in the open, even to you. This feeling that he doesn’t have rights to himself, that he doesn’t have privacy, doesn’t have a sense of self outside of Captain America, are all demons you know he fights. He tries to fight them alone, but you’re working on that.

Today, on his birthday, on the fourth, you know Steve’s a bit weaker (and you realize that some of the anger is at himself for being weak, because apparently Steve Rogers isn’t allowed to be weak, ever), and that they easily scratch to the surface and win the battle against his better judgment. After all, he is human despite the government’s opinion that he’s more a weapon than anything else.

You know people at the party have started to notice you both but are pretending not to out of courtesy. Tony definetly has picked up on it and is currently trying to distract everyone with some sort of announcement out of the corner of your eye. He knows, Stark knows…..Stark knew. You had to hand it to him, he really was a genius.

“And if you plan on continuing to be allowed to be apart of my life then I suggest you stop demanding to know everything that goes on in my head!” Steve’s voice rips your attention back sharply to him, a bit of emotional whip lash occurring as you were listening to Steve but also grateful for Tony turning everyone away from Steve. Your eyes never left his but now he seems to be so crystal clear, so diamond edge sharp, that you realize he’s closer than he was a minute ago.

He had continued to lean in and you had stopped leaning back. Your faces were inches apart now and the wrath of those neptune irises of his is directed solely on you. It feels like liquid iron is filling your veins and you get heavier and smaller under that unforgiving gaze. You know you don’t deserve it and that that fury is meant for the unmanifested demons Steve can’t physically punch to death, but you still feel a responsibility to burden it. It might be messed up, but you would rather Steve take it out on you than someone else who didn’t know him as well as you do. The only reason you weren’t mad is because you knew that none of this was meant for you.

And Steve is really fucked up and not by his volitions. He gets a pass, everyone needs a pass sometimes and this is definitely one of those times since Steve is usually so careful, so so fucking careful about how he expresses his true feelings. You’re about to say something, to reach out to touch him because Steve is a very tactile person (gathers strength, comfort, and reassurance from physical touch), when the sound of a fuze being lit sizzles distantly behind you before a soft whistling sound echos followed closely by a huge exploding boom.

You nearly jump out of your skin as fireworks are being set off in a rehearsed and timed fashion. This was Tony’s distraction.

Fizzle, whistle, BOOM!

Steve had frozen after the first firework went off, the side of his face being lit up with reds and blues against the backdrop of the Manhattan evening city scape. Your eyebrows furrow into worry as panic bubbles up in your gut, shards of glass digging into your lungs every time you try to breathe as you watch Steve descend into a full fledged panic attack.

The noise of the fireworks caught him off guard – triggered him.

Steve starts shaking, expression thrown into the disciplined terror of a soldier, before his knees buckle under his own weight and he collapses to the ground, head spinning, chest heaving like a rhino is sitting on it, as reality slips sharply from his grasp.

Fizzle, whistle, BOOM!

“Get down!” Steve shouts hoarsely as he reaches for you and tucks you tightly under the thick curl of his body as he presses his forehead to the floor, hands shaking as they knit behind his head to protect his neck, elbows boxing your upper body beneath him. “It’ll be over soon,” Steve whispers to the soldier under him, the body feels small and soft…a boy’s body…they sent a boy to fight Nazis with Captain America…he can’t let that boy die…that boy needs to live…Stevie’s dead…they killed Stevie…

‘Steve!’ A distant voice calls, one of his men probably, he hopes they’ve taken cover.  

Steve shakes his head against the noise of explosions and huddles down on the boy beneath him harder.

‘Steve!’ That sounded like Bucky, he prays to Holy Jesus, Mary, and Joseph that Bucky is safe.

“GET DOWN!” Steve yells with all the force his throat can handle, forehead smashed against the concrete of the ground, hoping Bucky hears him over the noise and takes cover. He wants to look up and move to protect Bucky, but the boy is beneath him…he can’t abandon the boy….the boy can’t die….

‘Steve!’

Rogers here’s his name again but is not going to let his subconscious fool him, the bombs seemed to have stopped but it’s likely that his ear drums have blown. He won’t risk moving, he has to protect the boy…

‘Captain Rogers!’ The voice calls louder this time, sounding right by his ear. Steve doesn’t even flinch and holds steady like he himself is the bomb bunker.

The boy beneath him is squirming. Steve panics before quickly being comforted by the fact that the boy is not squirming out from under him but is in in fact worming closer, wrapping their arms around him actually, holding him closer to them.

Good, Steve thinks shakily, I need to protect the boy…can’t let them kill him too…

His mind is a jumble of his worst memories, some of them sharp and stabbing, others falsely lulling and poisonous. Steve can’t grab hold of anything and he’s falling falling falling in his own goddamn mind. Or its not his mind, Steve’s mind, but their mind, America’s mind, Captain America’s mind, the fucking world’s mind –

“Steve! My love, you’re crushing me!”

My love…

Sarah called him that.

Steven, my boy, my love…

“Ma?” Steve thinks he says it out loud, his ears feel like they have cotton in them and his lungs are clogged. “Ma is that you?”

Suddenly Steve’s over come with the most unbearable fear.

“Ma!” He yells, no longer aware of anything other than the boy he still readily clutches to his person as he sits up – he has to sit up, the bombs might not be done but his mother is here! “Ma you gotta go home! It ain’t safe here! Don’ care how you managed to get yourself to the front, but you can’t be here Ma! Get some where safe! They’ll kill ya too like they killed me! I’m sorry I let them kill your boy, your Steven, but please Ma, Ma please, please! RUN!”

Steve can’t see and he feels wetness on his cheeks and the boy – he has to protect the boy – now still as a corpse in his arms. He keeps shouting for his mother to run! Run Ma! Before they get ya! and holds the boy – Oh God he feels dead! – in his arms tighter and tighter and tighter and tighter. The boy can’t be dead, he can’t die, not him too…not him too!

‘Steve you’re killing her! Let her go!’

Bucky’s voice rattles loud and echoy in his ears as strong forceful hands start trying to pry Steve’s arms off of the boy –

“NO!” Steve feels himself roar, “NOT HIM TOO! NOT THE BOY, SPARE THE BOY!”

‘Steve this is the year 2017. You’re in Avengers’ Tower in Manhattan. It’s the Fourth of July. The war is over. My name is Bucky, pal, remember me? Yeah that’s it, look at me, come right back to me, there you go, you’re safe. You’re safe. Your Ma is safe, Sarah is safe.’

Steve slowly starts to blur back to reality as the fear and panic that grips him loosens its claws tick by tick as that voice continues talking, repeating those words, those sentences, over and over again. Pieces of his body blur into his conscious awareness slowly, like the static in the TVs. The first sense to regain itself is his hearing. The voice continues talking and Steve realizes he’s been hushing at him this whole time when earlier he could have sworn the voice was screaming at him. His vision turns into a Pollack painting of black spots, the world yawning into color through multiple circles before widening into a single picture. Touch and body awareness is the last thing that Steve shivers into reality with.

“There ya are pal, now just gimme Y/n, slowly now,” Bucky, that’s Bucky’s voice and Bucky’s face in front of him. Steve is shaking like he use to when he caught pneumonia before the war. He realizes there is a very still body in his arms – the boy.

“N-no!” Steve redoubles his efforts in holding the boy to his chest, pulling back from Bucky, “B-buck – buck, we gotta protect the boy, he’s only a boy, we can’t let them kill ‘em –,”

“Steve,” Bucky says, his eyes cutting through the last of Steve’s haze with a sharp tender slice. “That ain’t a boy, that’s Y/n. Look down, you’re crushin’ her,”

Steve doesn’t know what expression he’s making, his face feels numb, but he does look down and finds not a young boy but a girl – a woman, in fact. It takes Steve all of a second of not knowing who you are before he gasps and quakes ever more violently. Your eyes are closed to let your lashes rest sickeningly dainty against your skin, face leached of blood and emotion, body limp and feeling extraordinarily frail in his enhanced grip.

“Oh God,” Steve sobs, a horrid wet sound – he killed you, “Oh GOD!”

“Steve!” Bucky quickly interjects sensing the new wave of panic, “She’s alright pal you just squeezed her so tight she passed out,” He gently transfers your dead weight out of Steve’s violently shaking arms and cradles you to his chest, trying not to rush to check your pulse when he can hear your heart beat. “Her heart’s beatin’ strong Stevie, strong and true and just for you.” Bucky turns back to Steve, offering a weak smile, feeling shaky himself and thoroughly disturbed but keeping it together for Steve.

The terrace is clear. Party and strangers are gone. Only family are here now hovering worriedly in a tight half-circle a few yards away to give Steve space. They all know what a panic attack feels like, and this one was really bad. Steve went so far under, none of them have ever witnessed him get pulled out of his mind so violently like this before.

Tony is no where to be found.

Steve watches Bucky’s fingers against your pulse point in your neck like a life-line, dragging his eyes up to look at his second in command in a desperate way he’s only ever let show a total of three times in his entire life. Bucky recognizes that desperation, saw it in Steve’s eyes, heard it inSteve’s cry of his name as he fell down down down through the whirling snow.Bucky’s mood shifts into dangerous emotional territory so he softly motionsSteve over, shoving the frosted memories away.

“Here put your fingers right here, you’ll feel her pulse pumpin’good,” Barnes encourages shakily, trying to sound as reassuring as he can asSteve scoots closer to him. Steve leans over you in Bucky’s arms and slowlybring his fingers to replace Bucky’s at your neck. Thud-thud Bucky hears and Steve feels, “There it is, told ya punk,”

Steve still shakes but not as uncontrollably at the confirmation that you weren’t…dead. The fact that you easily could have been quickly steals what semblance of stability Steve had managed to bargain from his demons, and loses ground again fast.

“God I could have killed her–,”

“I’ll be hearin’ noneof that now,” Bucky interrupts sternly knowing Steve’s first instinct is tobeat himself into the grave. He knew the instinct well. “Y/n knew what she wassignin’ up for when she hitched her wagon to yours, and she’ll tell ya that thedamned second she regains consciousness, but until then I’ll be makin’ sure youdon’ think up anythin’ stupid.” 

Hearing Bucky talk like they were back in 1934, just two kids roughing it before the war, makes Steve sob again. He presses the quivering heel of one hand into his forehead to steady himself, not daring to move the other one from the grace of your pulse point. Bucky doesn’t say anything, knowing what caused Steve’s sob this time. It wasn’t a panicked sob but a sad one, a mourning one, a nostalgic one. Bucky knows Steve’s panic attack took him back to that time; Barnes doesn’t envy the weight Steve is baring at this moment.

“Hey pal, ain’tnothin’ ever gonna be easy for us,” Bucky attempts to ease mostly for Steve buta little for himself as well, “But we gotta make it through. You got yourself asweet lass here and a family, we got ourselves a chance at another family. Weare the luckiest bastards on this planet for bein’ blessed with the chance atredemption and love –,”

“After gettin’ unjustfully punished like we was it’s the leastthis shit universe could do, it owes us.” Steve adds on vehemently, fallinginto his easy Brooklyn home tongue with Bucky as he regains his sense of selfand the constant stream of his usual anger breaks through the dam of hissorrow.

“Damn right!” Buckydeclares for the both of them.

“Damn right,” Steverepeats quietly, petting your face now with such tenderness and care saidaccused universe feels rightfully guilty.  

When you wake your head feels a little dizzy but everything seems to be in order. Without opening your eyes you register you’re laying down in an unfamiliar bed and it smells like a hospital. The med-wing of the Tower then. The last coherent thought you had before the forced black, was the panic and horrified second-hand pain you felt for Steve. He had been calling for his mother…

You squish your eyes tighter and try to deny the tears slipping from the corners of your shut eyes and down your cheeks to drip into your ears.

How did you not see this coming? An attack that bad had to have displayed signs. Yes you knew something was bothering Steve, but you tried so hard to respect his privacy you were most of the time afraid to ask. You usually let Steve bring it up. And not asking what was wrong sooner resulted in him nearly losing his mind to fear and anguish. A thought flashes suddenly in your mind and your eyes flash open – Tony.

He had set off the fireworks to distract everyone from Steve and your argument. If you know anything about Stark, it’s that he will be trying to take the blame for all this. With a start you realize that’s what you’re trying to do too. Blame yourself for not helping Steve sooner. You swallow against an ash-dry throat, feeling suddenly thirsty, and are crushed with the need to see Steve. Your fingers itch to touch him, your eyes burn with hot tears to look at him, your arms shake to embrace him, and your soul weeps to connect with his. You should feel weary of returning to Steve’s embrace after he almost crushed you alive (turned out you had a broken rib or two, you could feel the ache even lying down and not moving, no biggie though) but you couldn’t even try to convince yourself to be anything but desperate for it.

Steve is your home. And even if that home is broken, it still keeps you safe and warm and loved. Quickly you search the obnoxiously bright room having to squint like a motherfucker to see anything against the light. You turn your head to find exactly who you’re looking for sitting in an extremely uncomfortable looking plastic chair even though there’s a nice cushioned one placed against the wall behind him.

What a martyr.

Your home is looking down at his too-big hands folded messily in his lap, golden lashes sweeping long and soft over his high cheekbones as he blinks slowly. You know he knows you’re awake, probably listened to your heart come out of its sleep rhythm before you even gained full consciousness. Biting your lip, you stare at him knowing it’ll take months to get Steve to even consider the idea of forgiving himself for hurting you.

“Steve,” Comes your sleep hoarse voice.

He doesn’t do anything but blink slowly again. His shoulders are hunched and his body sags in the small chair you’re actually impressed he’s fit himself into and that it hasn’t collapsed under all that supersoldier. His hair is disheveled like he’s been pushing his bangs up – a nervous habit, a worried habit, a frustrated habit, an angry habit. Bucky told you privately one time, that to him that’s when Steve seems most like his old self. Steve before Captain America always pushed his hair out his face and fidgeted like he had ants in his pants. And as you watch Steve sitting so still, you can’t help but notice that how he’s holding himself is out of place on his big body. He’s sitting how a smaller person would sit, how his former body would sit. You’ve seen him do that before, in the privacy of your apartment, in the rare vulnerable moments he allows himself. And it breaks your heart to see it now.

“Steve,” You try again, this time with much more emotion in your voice.

His name curls out into the space between you like a tendril of smoke, fragile but fragrant – asking. Steve still doesn’t look up but he readjusts himself slightly in the chair with a quiet sigh. His shoulders rest unevenly on the back of the chair, his torso curled and squished into the opposite of its usual formal erectness, his hips crooked against the seat, one thigh is higher than the other, his hands still mangled in the rocky terrain of his lap, and the long long line of strong legs tangle on the way to the floor.

You gingerly shift your arm across the bed, not lifting it so you don’t tweak your broken ribs, but slide along the fabric of the sheets reaching for him. You’re so focused on Steve’s downturned face you missed that there is an IV in the vein on the back of your hand. You didn’t particularly like needles (I mean who does) but you refrained from wincing in favor of sparing yourself some pain. Steve watches your hand work its way slowly towards him and when your fingers reach the halfway mark between your side and the edge of the bed, Steve breaks.

He lurches out of his seat and ducks to your side, delicately swooping your hand into both of his enormous ones. You feel him kneel, although it doesn’t deny him any lack of height with those long enhanced femurs of his. If he looked up he could catch your eye but he only cups your hand in his, cradling your appendage like it’ll explode if he holds to fiercely – or holds on at all really. You want to chide him for treating you like you’ll break, but you hold your tongue when you realize that you really could…break.

“Hey,” You whisper as your fingers climb the canyon of his cupped hands to grip his wrist, wanting to hold on to him even if he won’t hold on to you.

He did hold on to you, Your mind interjects quietly, and he broke you.

A flare of anger at yourself heats your gut, how dare you not be strong enough to take care of Steve.

“Steve please look at me.” Steve didn’t look at anything but your fragile fingers latched on his thick wrist.

“You’re so weak,” His voice startles you not because he was loud, actually quite the contrary, he sounded so defeated, “You’re so breakable. I warned you not to trust me, I warned you that I wasn’t strong enough to watch myself. I told you this would happen and you didn’t listen. Hopefully this puts some perspective on our relationship and gives you the reality check you didn’t want.”

He keeps his eyes down – ashamed – as a couple strands of his golden hair fall into his eyes (it had gotten a little long you offhandedly note, like how it was before he cut it short after waking up – how it was in 1944). You let his words have weight, let them settle in the air and be respected and considered, making sure Steve understood you really heard him. With matching graveness you respond in the only way you could ever want to,

“I love you Steven.”

And with those words you break Steve’s feeble angry front line of defense he always scrambles to put up; his face crumples. He oh so gently lowers his forehead to your hand still shakily clutching his wrists, careful not to disturb the IV. You feel him practically vibrating with the effort not to cry or make a single sound of anguish. Internally you sigh with frustration at not being able to reach with your other hand across your body to cup his face. Instead you hold on to his wrist with as much strength as you dare, not wanting to engage any muscles in your torso that could aggravate your ribs. Broken ribs were really a bitch but they were worth it if it meant you could love Steve Rogers.

“You could snap me in half and I’d still love you, broken body and all.” Comes your second attempt at a confession.

Steve’s body heaves at the imagery and this time he does sob out loud. You bite your tongue – what the fuck were you thinking?!

“Okay yeah b-bad example, but you – you know what I mean.” You pause momentarily watching this great man sagging over your hand and think maybe he doesn’t, “Well you better know what I mean Steve Rogers, because sometimes you can be so thick in the head I wanna shake you till all those perfect teeth Tony’s always going on about rattle.”

A weird suffocated watery noise emits from Steve’s throat and you grin knowing you got him to laugh, even if you feel wetness on the back of your hand. So you eagerly push on, simply dying with the need to see him smile and those dark seafloor eyes shin into bright cerulean.

“Yeah, and if you think that’s the only thing that’ll rattle you’ve got another thing coming! That brain of yours could use a healthy swirl or two in that pretty blonde head, maybe stir in some common sense. Because if you think for one fucking second that I don’t love you with every stupid weak breakable bone – every fucking non-enhanced cell – in my body, then we need to get you a head x-ray.”

Steve chokes on another wet laugh and his fingers twitch to hold your hand but force themselves to relax again. Progress. You press determinedly on, all fucks thrown to the wind.

“You’re my home Steve, you big dolt,” You start with a little less humor this time, the tenderness in your voice is so thick its almost a texture you could physically touch, “We’re end game. I mean for me at least, and I’ve never said that out loud before because I didn’t want to scare you off. I realize I risk doing that right now,” You gulp down air for lack of saliva but force yourself to continue despite you’re flaming cheeks and your doubts shouting over the sound of your own breath, “Seeing as I’m shackled to the bed with an IV and you could up and run and I wouldn’t be able to chase after you. Because I would, chase after you even if I couldn’t catch you. But I’ve tried to communicate this through my touch, how I hold you, when I tell you I love you, but apparently I have to be as subtle as Tony expressing his dislike for capers on his damn baked salmon in order to get it through your thick skull.”

You feel absolutely breathless like you’ve just run a mile even though you’re laying down and have barely been talking for more than ten minutes. Steve still refuses to look at you, say anything, or give any indication to what he could be feeling or thinking. It’s making you nervous as every worst possible reaction runs rampant across the stage of your brain. You feel like you need to say more, but your throat is tight and your brain shrugs dumbly as your tongue frantically requests more words to shove out. Your hand clutching Steve’s wrists starts to shake with its effort to hold on to him, God you feel so weak. The vulnerability you just exposed yourself to admittedly wasn’t helping either.

Maybe you should have saved this conversation for a time when you were well enough to actually run like you said half-jokingly half-actually dead serious. You’re literally about to save face and deny all of what you just said, blame it on the pain meds they probably put you on, but Steve finally responds.

“I’ve,” Steve’s voice cracks under the pressure of his emotion, he clears it a couple times before starting again, head raised off your hand but still faced down and hidden from your searching gaze, “I’ve never been loved this way before.”

A heart beat and a half goes by.

“You frickin’ idiot!” You shout after you digest Steve’s words, wincing when the force of your shout punches at your ribs.

Steve jumps like he was just electrocuted in the butt as his eyes wrench wide open, overflowing saucers of churning ocean, stormy currents making a mess of his irises as he finally locks gazes with you.

“What do you mean you’ve never been loved this way before?!” You chastise huffily as your eyes burn with fierce intent.

“I –,”

“Your Mother?!” You interrupt Steve, “Bucky?! Tony?! Natasha?! Basically the complete entirety of the Aveng –,”

“Y/n!” Steve yells over you as he carefully but quickly places the thick fingers of one hand over your lips to shush you.

You can only retaliate by glaring fiercely at him so you do so with gusto. This outburst hopefully convinces Steve that the blush on your cheeks has nothing to do with your recent confession and everything to do with Steve’s incompetence. Steve sighs and shakes his head fondly as he removes his fingers from your lips only to drag them up your jaw, into your hair line, big thumb tracing one of your brows. He’s looking at you like one would look at pictures of the galaxy, all wonder and awe and endless possibility. Nobody had ever looked at you like that before.

“No one has loved me like you have,” Steve starts when your face falls from its glare, “You love me. Romantically. I, I haven’t had this with anyone. I didn’t have enough time with…with Peggy to develop the connection to this level.” You watch his thick throat work as he swallows and his eyes stray shyly away from yours for a moment before snapping back, “I know people love me, I’m not completely oblivious, I just – I’m just not good at this whole declarations of love stuff.”

Your lips part when you realize he’s going to reciprocate your feelings. In fact your heart blasts off in your chest and gets stuck in your throat as you wait in petrifying suspense. Steve clears his throat again and softly brings his hand away from the side of your face to gently hold your hand still clutching his other wrist. He holds your hand now, really holds it, with both his hands.

“You might as well have been Shakespeare over there, while I’m wrackin’ my brain for ways to tell ya I love you too and that ya basically own my soul.” He offers with that familiar charming sheepish smile of his as he cocks his head to the side a little while his shoulders go up in a mini shrug.

“I’m pretty sure some famous poet said that, you’re doing great.” You whisper so sincerely the universe swoons. Steve swoons too as his cheeks turn an envious shade of pink and his eyes flutter under the intensity of the moment.

“I’m pretty sure no famous poet said that,” Steve counters in a hush of his own once he recovers as he draws closer and closer to you, his eyes gazing longingly down at your gently parted – inviting – lips.

“Maybe….not….exactly….that,” You breathe and eye his full lips as he leans over you since you can’t sit up, your noses brushing now, “Close….enough…thou–,”

And you’re kissing.

Steve’s hands have abandoned your hand in favor of cupping your face like it’s the last real treasure on this planet. He’s careful not to move you too much but his caution doesn’t steal from the unbridled passion of your kiss. It’s bold and subtle and powerful. It’s simple and complex and real. It’s naked and secret and yours. You both sigh through your noses because: home –

“Friday are you getting this?”

You both startle at Tony’s voice booming unapologetically as always in the room, clacking your teeth together a little as Steve jumps.

“No sir,” The female Scottish AI responds smoothly, “I don’t find it moral to record such a private moment.”

Steve lifts his head and slowly closes his eyes with a comical wave of expressions washing over his features. You can’t help but bite the grand smile growing on your lips as you watch Steve above you. Tony continues on, uncaring of the effect his presence has on people per usual.

“But I felt like I was just watching the tear-jerking finale of a romantic drama when the lovers break that last wall between them, and their souls become eternally bound to live on forever in ever-lasting love or something.” You giggle but cut yourself off because ribs, ow. Steve’s eyes flash open to check that you’re okay and then zip to rest with familial tolerance on Tony in the doorway, “I don’t think I’m capable of such emotion so I wanted to have it on file to remind myself that true love is real, Disney doesn’t hold a candle to this.”

“That’s nice sir.” Friday adds with a slight curl to her voice like an amused mother.

“Tony please –,” Steve starts but is promptly interrupted.

“I love you too Cap.” Tony quips, almost interrupting himself with a sharp sniff, before pivoting on his heel and strutting out of the room calling ‘Relationship goals as fuck!’ as the door swings closed behind him.

You’re both sitting on your bed back in your guys’ apartment. Steve has your gift sitting innocently on his lap where you placed it oh about a century ago. He’s just been staring down at it like it’ll explode in his face if he breathes. You know he doesn’t like gifts, but its not technically his birthday anymore, its the day after. Your ribs still hurt but you’re sitting up, waiting for Steve to do anything at this point. All you want is Steve to smile. 

“Alright!” Steve grumbles and side eyes you practically staring holes into his ridiculously perfect profile, “I can hear ya thinkin’ all the way from here.” 

“Well open the damn thing and I’ll stop trying to give you a telepathic migraine!” You try to scold around a smile as you gesture animatedly to the box in his lap. “It’s not even your birthday anymore so you have absolutely no excuses.”  

Steve huffs, realizing he’s defeated, and turns to glare at you as his hands start tearing the paper like steel through butter. You giggle at his usual dramatics and bounce a little in your seat as he opens the cardboard box and looks down. Steve’s barely had a second to take in whats peaking out from under the tissue paper before you jump in,

“I had them custom made!” You burst as you clap your hands together and bring both sets of fingers to your mouth, nibbling on them as Steve delicately rifles through the paper and really gets a clear look at what rests at the bottom of the box.

Crisp dark tan suspenders lay folded neatly before him, shiny bronze buckles winking humbly in the dim light of the bedroom. 

Steve’s face goes through a myriad of emotions you can’t keep up with as he reaches two fingers down and gently strokes the tailored fabric, almost like he was petting a wild animal. For a second you wonder if this only made Steve sad, brought back memories of a time lost to history books and old film reels. You had been so excited because you had done your research, went to Bucky for advice on what Steve used to like and everything. 

“Do you…do you like them?” You wanted to wait for Steve to say something first, but you’ve been keeping this a secret for so long and you’re desperate to make him happy. 

When he stays silent, just staring, face unreadable, your nervous blabbering habit kicks in full throttle.

“We can return them if you don’t like them, I asked Bucky about the style you liked and stuff and he helped, I asked Tony for your measurements because I wanted to get some that fit you just right, so you could wear them and be proud, but I, I know – I know that this was a bit of a risk because it’s such a tender spot for you and I –,”

You were promptly shut up by a fierce kiss that made angels blush and demons smirk. 

“I am never going to deserve you.” Steve murmurs lovingly against the pillows of your lips as he shakes his head in disbelief, your foreheads touching and grinding a little at the movement. 

And before you could retort because um no what the fresh hell is he talking about? Steve overwhelms you once more with the press of his lips. This time he numbs your brain so thoroughly with his touch that you forget your own goddamn name. 

Yahtzee! Writing angst then fixing it with fluff is so satisfying tbh, lemme know what ya think :) THAT WAS MY FIRST TIME WRITING STEVE PLS TELL ME IF HE’S WELL CHARACTERIZED xxx

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Bee Bucks – The Cost of Beekeeping

By Josh Vaisman – Keeping bees isn’t free and so I’m often asked, “What is the cost of beekeeping? If I’m looking to start a honey bee farm, what is the expected initial investment?” Let’s find out together!

Over the past few years, I’ve enjoyed the honor of teaching fresh-eyed beginning beekeepers as they embark on the fulfilling adventure of caring for honey bees. Beginning beekeepers (aka Beeks) tend to be excited and nervous, curious and tentative, and I’ve been touched by how genuine their concern is for our buzzing buddies. With people like this committing to their wellbeing, the future for honey bees looks bright!

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What Do We Need? What Does It Cost?

1) Bees

Of course, we can’t keep bees if we don’t actually HAVE bees! Acquiring bees isn’t quite as simple as a trip to the pet store, but it isn’t too complicated either. There are FOUR common ways to get some bees. I’ll list them and the range of typical costs below:

Bee Package: Every year, late winter to early spring, large-scale beekeeping operations (primarily in California and Georgia) create packaged bees to sell to beekeepers around the country. These packages consist of (typically) 3 pounds of bees in a box with a young, mated queen hanging in a smaller box inside. Packages tend to become available in or around April and are sold in a variety of ways; local pick-up direct from the provider, local pick-up from the bee club who obtains several packages for their members to buy or purchased online and shipped to the beekeeper. This is the most common method of obtaining bees as a beginning beekeeper.

COST: $100 – $135

Package bees.

Nucleus Hive: A nucleus hive (or Nuc) is essentially a mini-colony of bees. They typically come in a box with five frames of bees, brood, pollen, nectar/honey, and a fertile, laying queen bee. These tend to be available in or around April unless they are obtained from a local, established beekeeper in which case they may not be available until May or June.

COST: $125 – $175

Split or Full Hive: A split is made when several frames from an existing, thriving colony are taken and put into a new hive box. The old queen is included, the bees are allowed to make a new queen, or a new mated queen is introduced. Sometimes beekeepers will sell an entire hive setup including an existing colony.

COST: $150 – $350

Swarm: Of course, you could always catch a wild swarm of bees! Of course, you have to FIND them first.

COST: FREE!

2) The Hive

We tend to think of a beehive as a bunch of stacked boxes but it’s a bit more complicated than that. The most common hive setup, known as the Langstroth hive, consists of a bottom board, two deep boxes including frames and foundation, an inner cover, an outer cover, an entrance reducer, and some sort of stand. You’ll also want to have some honey supers around in case you get a good nectar flow and these will need frames and foundation as well. I typically recommend beginning beekeepers buy one medium super their first year in Colorado. Lastly, every beginning beekeeper should have some sort of feeding device for their new colony in case they need to receive supplemental sugar-water.

COST: $150 – $300

You can find some great beginning kits sold by Dadant, including the entire hive at https://www.dadant.com/catalog/beginners-kits.

3) Accessory Equipment

Unless you’re planning on being a Bee-Haver instead of Bee-Keeper you’ll need some accessory equipment to help you care for your bees. There’s a great article here listing 11 Essential Beekeeping Supplies you can check out. At the very least, you’ll want to have protective equipment (such as a veil, suit, and gloves), a hive tool, a bee brush, and possibly a smoker. Beyond that, there are myriad ancillary tools and gadgets to help enhance your beekeeping experience. You can find many of them at places like Dadant or Miller Bee Supply.

COST: $100 – $300

4) Mite Treatments(s)

I firmly believe EVERY beekeeper is eventually a mite-keeper. Even in your first year. I strongly encourage you to learn all about the varroa mite, options for mite control, and settle on a system of mite control that works for you. This may (should) include some sort of active mite treatment as part of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) plan.

COST: $20 – $200

Total Expected Initial Investment

What I’ve listed above is what I consider to be the basic essentials to start. You’ll notice the cost of beekeeping equipment varies as there are copious options for many different supplies. For example, do you want your hive woodenware to come painted or “raw”? Would you like a simple veil or a full body bee suit? Will you buy a smoker? What type of mite control will you buy and use?

In the end, when someone just wants to know the average start-up costs for a beginning beekeeper who is buying bees (in lieu of catching a swarm) I tell them to expect to pay approximately $500 for the first hive and roughly $300 for each additional hive.

Where Do We Get Our Supplies?

I’m a huge proponent of Buy Local. In Colorado, we have some excellent local options for buying bees and bee supplies. Most of the regional bee clubs procure large amounts of packages and nucs each spring to sell to their and we have some mid-to-large scale beekeepers around the state who sell packages and nucs from their bees (some of which were actually over-wintered locally and bred from local genetics). We are also fortunate to have a few well-stocked beekeeping supply stores throughout the state, some of which sell woodenware made in Colorado. If you have these options in your area I encourage you to take advantage of them.

Complete hive wrapped for winter.

For some of us, the online shopping experience is the way to go. If that’s the case for you, here is a list of some great suppliers:

1) Dadant (www.dadant.com) 2) Miller Bee Supply (www.millerbeesupply.com) 3) Mann Lake (www.mannlakeltd.com) 4) Brushy Mountain Bee Farm (www.brushymountainbeefarm.com)

Are There Any Cost Saving Options For a Frugal Beginning Beekeeper?

Yes there are! We already discussed one above — catch a swarm! Catching a swarm has a couple of benefits; the bees are FREE, which greatly reduces your total cost of beekeeping, and you’re getting bees who came from a local colony strong enough to send off a swarm. Some bee clubs maintain a “swarm hotline.” These hotlines consist of a phone number the public can call when they spot a swarm in their area. The bee club member takes the call, gathers the information, and consults a list of beekeepers in the area willing to catch the said swarm. If your club maintains such a hotline find out how to get your name on that list!

You could also look into buying used beekeeping equipment. For a variety of reasons, local beekeepers may be selling (or giving away) some or all of their used equipment at a discounted rate. A word of caution about this approach — some diseases transfer with equipment, especially woodenware. If you acquire used equipment do all you can to be certain it isn’t bringing a nasty bug along with it.

What other items would you add to the cost of beekeeping?

Bee Bucks – The Cost of Beekeeping was originally posted by All About Chickens

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Windows : Plex Media Server for Windows

After completing this guide, you will be able to build a media server that meets the following criteria:

Transcoding: Transcode media to portable devices

Meta data: Automatically scrape movies, music, and TV series meta data

Music: Play music on all devices from a shared library

Storage: Store and backup media files with RAID capability

Streaming: Stream media to HTPC using SMB and other protocols

Reliability: Provide peace of mind with minimal amount of maintenance

Energy efficiency: Consume as little power as possible

Price: Reasonably priced

Choose Media Server Hardware

Either your current or spare PC :

When building your own media server, it is good to keep these basic recommendations in mind:

3 GHz dual-core processor (2.4 GHz is a minimum for 1080p transcoding)

4 GB RAM (minimum 2 GB)

3 TB hard drives

Gigabit Ethernet recommended for HD streaming

or 

On a smaller pc – the Intel NUC [Celeron Processor]

get the set here :

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Set Up Windows Storage Spaces

You may be surprised to learn that Windows allows you to organize hard disks into storage pools, which use RAID-style mirroring and parity techniques to keep your media files safe.

This new capability is called Storage Spaces that is included by default in Windows.

I was positively surprised how easy it was to set up storage spaces. In fact, after installing 2 x 1TB spare hard drives to the media server case, it took me only a couple of minutes to configure the system. Configure storage spaces

In this section, you will learn in practice the steps you need to take to keep your data safe with Windows storage spaces.

First, go to Control Panel and select administration options under System and Security. Select the “create a new pool and storage space” option, and you will be prompted to create your first storage space. You will see a list of available hard drives that can be incorporated into your pool. In order to be able to utilize RAID-style resiliency features, you should use at least two hard drives. Next, enter a name, drive letter, and resiliency type for your storage space. I decided to use two-way mirroring resiliency type to protect my data from a single drive failure.

Finally, click “Create storage space”, and your storage pool will be created. Now, set up is completed and you can start copying media files to the storage space. Set Up Plex Media Server

Plex Media Server is a back-end application that you have running all the time at home on various platforms such as Windows, Mac OSX and Linux. The Plex Media Center is actually a fork of the open-source project, XBMC, but particularly the Plex Media Server is closed-code and actively developed by the Plex team.

In addition to it’s own front-end software, Plex Media Center, the back-end server application is compatible with many other front-ends such as XBMC (with Plexbmc add-on). There are also mobile front-end apps available on iOS, Android and Windows Phone operating system.

Plex consist of three main components: Media Server that runs on your Windows, Mac OSX, or Linux computer Media Manager that points Media Server to media folders and automatically scrapes the meta data and organizes them into a beautiful media library Plex clients that provides a simple front-end user interface to access media

The most interesting feature of Plex Media Server is the ability to transcode your videos depending on your device and network. In practice, this means that it will dynamically squish videos so that they still play smoothly on your mobile phone or your iPad over wireless network.

Another great feature of the Plex is that you can continue the video file from where you left off on any device.

Setting up the Plex Media Server is easy. Simply follow these steps, and you will have it set up in less than an hour. These instructions are for Windows, but you can also find instructions to set up Plex Media Server on unRAID Linux OS. Install and Configure Plex Media Server Download the Plex Media Server here. Install the server application on your computer Open the Plex Media Server by right clicking the application icon on your start bar and selecting “Media Manager” In order to create a new folder, click “Add a section” under “My Library”, and select the folder where the media files are located Repeat step four to link all your media folders into Plex Media Server Allow the PMS to go through your media files and scrape the meta data

Now you are ready to add some online content. Configure myPlex Service

MyPlex is a free service that allows you to watch your media over the Internet, share it with friends, or bookmark interesting videos for later viewing. First, go to plex.tv, and setup your free account.

While setting up myPlex service is easy, many people are facing technical issues when attempting to get the connection working over the Internet. A common error message with myPlex is, “myPlex was unable to connect to your server”. Usually, this connection problem relates to the firewall port forwarding issues. You will need to allow the TCP 32400 port through your router’s firewall to enable access for the Plex Media Server. The specific steps to allow port forwarding depends on your router model, so you should check the instructions from portforward.com.

I was not able to get the myPlex service working even after configuring the port forwarding properly. In my particular case, the issue was my router’s firewall settings. After disabling the active firewall in the routers security settings, I was able to get the myPlex working. Add Channels

You can find and install approved channels by going to the “Channel Directory” section.

There are Hulu and Netflix channels available as well. Unfortunately, on Plex, you can forget Hulu and Netflix channels as they do not work (at least according to my experience).

Fortunately, there is an easy way to get Hulu, Netflix and other premium content channels working with PlayOn Media Server.

That’s it; you have completed setting up your own media server. Set Up Plex Clients

Now, you are ready to set up one of the Plex Clients, such as Plex Home Theater (they have rebranded the Plex Media Center desktop app), PleXBMC add-on for XBMC, Plex app for iOS, Plex app for Windows, or other Plex compatible devices. You can also simply use the Plex Web Browser to access and play media files.

However, the most comprehensive Plex client is the Plex Home Theater (a.k.a Media Center) software that is available on Windows, Mac OS X, Apple TV2, and Raspberry Pi. Just download the front-end application here, install it, and you are ready to enjoy your media with Plex.

By the way, if you want to make your Plex client look even cooler, you should download a custom skin called PlexAeon, which is a port from the popular Aeon skin on XBMC.

Download the latest version of the PlexAeon skin here.

Unzip the PlexAeon-master.zip, and copy the content of the PlexAeon-master folder into Program FilesPlexPlex Media Centeraddonsskin.plexaeon (you will need to create the skin.plexaeon folder yourself).

Launch Plex Home Theater (a.k.a Media Center), and go to Preferences > Appearance > Skin > PlexAeon to select the custom skin. Summary

In this article, you have learned how to set up Plex Media Server with Windows 8 Storage Spaces in order to build a media server box to rule them all.

Plex’s strengths are in finding all of your movie and music metadata without any problem, while the channel app store is simple and easy to use. Plex really shines when you need to have your media collection available and in sync in multiple rooms with TVs, and you want to access media files with your table or Roku type media streaming devices.

If your main consideration is to stream online content channels instead of local media files, then you should consider trying PlayOn Media Serverinstead of Plex, as it is much more capable to stream premium content channels.

On the other hand, if you have only one room and will be using a HTPC, then Kodi Media Center should be your main consideration.

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Apr 10, 2018

dreamt with my Tibet artist friend, Benba Chungdak, and his friend. we together build a company. the enterprise grows with our ages. in handling developing issues we stepped into middle aged and each have child. I saw touching moment daughter with dad. This week quite boring, for I relentlessly need assured our ordered Asus chromebook smoothly delivering to us, evade PRC customs’ deter or domestic censorship. Life can be easier with help from our dorm canteen’s aid, the woman loaned me ￥700 to pay alipay credit debt yesterday. It not only remove the tension, also let my ability to handle something in failing prison of PRC economic winter. Yesterday I also seeking equip our usb-c reader a tf card for data transferring and storage. woz's coming Asus chromebook has 2 usb-c ports while normal usb only one port, so I preparing shifting my usb and usb-c reader stick to him, now that his Intel NUC shifted to me and equips me a build-in card reader. We are migrating from usb stick to sd card. I long time intending upgrade our backup card storage, but always felt economically unfit for it. Now I am almost assured worthily to invest it. I also intended shift our old Dell notebook to my son’s mom, the small man long time complained her notebook I left her without battery, even I told our notebooks’ battery were shits. I even guessing she brought Trojan horses from PRC surveillance into the dell notebook my son and I used to play steam games, for she insisted worked on the notebook even she already had an old Hasee notebook I left her, after all my warns not to mess with our dell notebook. Now she can has a taste of her own bait. I felt glad to rip off the dell notebook, for it frequently refused windows’ patches. It also lagging in booting up, even running programs OK. After move it away from my son’s bedroom, my son will has a new desk to work on. I long time preparing my son an office space, but the dell notebook always occupied one. So my son usually wrote homework on a cheap table his mom used for her profiting tutoring. Now with 2 light chromebooks, my son has 2 fix computer desks to work on. that’s I long time intended, against his cheap mom's efforts to put him and her students in slavery situation, where only main business is tutorials, like in Mideast or Islamic. God, dad, its a yellow morning now. Sandstorm more and more common scene now here. Looking into future, so many holy discipline including severe genocide ahead. Quite some races deserve no future but hell. God put the chosen breaks through hardship and wasteland, and deserted. Bring rest to breed racing. Bring me my Royal China, my Crown Queen from Japan, Asoh Yukiko, into tangible world. God, dad, bring me to top view of the canyon.

Apr 6, 2018

first dreamt kill a bear. I don't want to hunt but soon I slayed it in fear of prey. then dreamt in my hometown just after wedding. I enjoy enviable sexual life with my bride, each time I never anxious but just insatiable intercourses. yesterday is our monthly cinema time with my son, woz. we watched blockbuster "ready player one". we almost missed it with fake Russian product, snow queen 3 which mimics frozen 3. we watched frozen 1 and 2 and impressed, and without hesitation we chose the snow theme movie, till 2 days before the lunar Mourning day I found we cheated by the Russian title. my son soon accepted my suggestion of change. and that's rewarding. I think "ready player one" is quite impressive in visual presentation. before the movie, I told my son my decision to put investment before deposition, in risk of CCP tyrant seizure. we never felt unease upon saving woz some pocket money via alipay's yuebao, till last Sunday we found yuebao restricting our automatic deposit, delayed more than ￥800 in cash account without profit for months, due quota restriction new CCP puppet financial regulator setup aiming to disable or malfunction the world largest fund. then I saw PRC tyrant relentlessly constrains civilian's cash flow while under table covertly leaks into its underground reservoir. I felt threatened and need to take action rather than passive been robbed. also in past months, our intended purchase, convertible chromebook, turned more dearer and scarcer on amazon China. we need response swift. my son agreed. after movie we ate hotpot near the cinema. the peanut sausage ran short, and a neighbor cheap mid aged man occupied himself unnecessary a full bowl of it against shortage. we used groupon and additional cash for more mutton. after returned to my dorm, I felt the rich meal let me energetic and delayed to sleep. I checked my purchase target monitoring and amazed by new chromebook on sale. I at once ordered it and paid by my deposit money for woz in last half year, near 2000 CNY. its so satisfying that I watched lately another episode of "the office" for completion of the wonderful lunar Mourning holiday. now last night dream is so sweet that I never know aging. God dad, bring me sooner my Royal China. bring me my Crown Queen from Japan, Asoh Yukiko, for I waited decades. grant us one more child for prosperous Eastern Asia. thx God, in this sedative morning.

Apr 2, 2018

dreamt history creation by 2 pals in three kingdoms period Chinese well known. one of them is Yuwei, with his family ie. his mother and young wife, forging his southern China country from scratch. I witness his charisma, his conquer over territory he bestowed. another guy's expanding his national border near southeastern China also in details in dream. its a sandstormy morning. last week I ripped one of zhone cms, https://agarten.in ,replace it with a tool site, a project management site. even still in experimental phrase, I already felt satisfying. my son last week installed an old famous file explorer on his android. I deleted it at once, and warn him the dangers of PRC government overtaken tool softwares. the file manager was a wonderful tool, but now manipulated by PRC government for large scale surveillance, like it purchased hundred of once perfect software tools mostly created by individuals or small enterprises, esp rooting tools. my son nodded. in night we co-operated online to assure his google voice forwarding phone enabling. but it turns out his forwarding phone consistently working for I called his google voice last year more than once, unlike my google voice never received phone call in last year, hence google require to re-verify to enable it. I told my son we should soon seek a grocer near our public spa so as not to lack fruits on our diet. I pray God grant me budget for the delicious food. my son now a considerable smart teenage, but he still hijacked by his sinful mother, who relentlessly challenged me and my parenthood. I warned my son not to frequent hospital, but last sunday soon after we returned from spa, he was arbitrarily brought by his mom left their house, left me alone updating his linux. they likely haunted eye hospital for my son's sight, on which the small woman recently fantastically obsessed. I told my son I day by day upset by Chinese teachers. they killing creativeness and smother orthodoxy. what a low moral they wholely obtained! even worsen than PRC government employee! God, dad, a new month starts yesterday, when we enjoyed downtown hostel pork steak so much. this month my credit debt again near 600 CNY. help me clear our debt and deal our daily budget lightly. bring me sooner my Royal China, my Crown Queen from Japan, Asoh Yukiko, for spring 2018 just budding new life and hope of life. bring my son his enjoyed game and ready office space he will step in with affirmative. thx God dad.

Mar 23, 2018

dreamt tutoring a kid playing game, in which there is a scene of lofty gate, player has to climb up to get reward to continue the game. later dreamt of math exam, on which I always reluctant to touch while my son seemingly excels in dream. its a pale morning. after a busy week preparing migrate my work space from acer chromebook to dell chromebook, this week I mostly resting. the solution expanding chromeOS side by side with linux works perfectly for me, with installing a tool crouton under chromeOS dev mode, I now enjoy security of google ChromeOS and versatile open world of linux, which so powerful and robust. Reviewing my clumsy linux experience so far, I see clearly windows losing. Bill Gates in half century spend half world wealth to improve world health and poverty is invalid. Its no hatred, but discipline or natural giveup Holy spiritual glad to see. Now Trump sees it, and Gates persuading USA president to continue to adopt the fake savior. God, world at large, esp abnormal humans desperate for their abnormal world staged so many ugly shows including obesity, LGBT, anti-society, etc. there are so many abused food/drug eaters in developed countries while average people encounter hanger everyday. Killing in mid east mostly exchange for food, but so many unfair between healthier living and sick food/sex/drug addictive. God dad, the Earth citizen needs merit based cleanse, like Trump’s new migration law. If man can’t live a healthy life, lives him hell. So does to drug esp opium takers, and breed racers. US entertainment circle stealth too much applause and selling too much cheap and unhealthy idols. USA esp weak democrats promoted too much cheap democratic notion upon world among which quite some disqualifies, esp hate culture and competing in breed nations, like Africa and Mideast. World crisis now mostly due to cheap human cattle, which noway to preceding nor prioritize animal and grand nature. cheap hurts but decency nutritious. A society can’t self-rely nor self-sufficient, a nation wiped from its land like Mideast. But Europe and USA still missing rule Israel learns thousand years, they let enemies inside. God dad, its a new salary day now, but yet QRRS release my salary so far. Yesterday I review my near 2 decades in QRRS Dorm, my youth and loving among PRC most exciting era, so called open policy period when PRC penniless but polite peasants adopted to work mills by Capital American buyers, on the land my ancestor bestowed. I saw my old friends here and found their hidden gay. I found my seeking family esp offspring efforts in all my half life, on this fresh land I chosen to pick up and grow upon to polarize. God dad, bring me sooner my Royal China, bring me sooner my Crown Queen from Japan, Asoh Yukiko. Grant us offspring new to Royal China. Blessing me new monument to develop zhone web. After workday I will fetch my son visiting my dorm monthly, permits us joyful reuniting this afternoon. Thx God dad.

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Assuming an Apiary - Bees at SPARK Elementary School

When I give talks about bees, I always begin by saying that if you ask ten beekeepers a question, you'll get at least twelve answers. Beekeeping is as much an art as it is a science, and so there are many ways to keep them. I was asked to become the beekeeper at SPARK Elementary school - the school where my oldest grandkids have been students. So absolutely I wanted to do it. They have had bees for about three years at SPARK - and the beekeeper was an interested volunteer - not a parent or a grandparent. He just wanted to do it. But he was leaving for Army training and needed to give up his bees there. I knew there would be differences in how we kept bees, and I agreed to meet him and the PTA president at the school in late May to get introduced to the bees there. He had two hives and a homemade observation hive. The school hives are on the rooftop of the building. It's extremely hot up there - in the 90s at least every summer day. And the sun beats down onto the hives. Here's how they looked: Hive #1:

Hive #2:

Note: this is from my second trip - on my first trip the hive had four boxes on it. It also had four foot tall weeds directly in front of it and a mountainous fire ant hive diagonally in front of it. The PTA worked hard between my visits to take care of the weeds and fire ants.

Hive #3:

This is a homemade "observation hive." In reality, this is a nuc hive with two deep boxes. On each side of the nuc is glass and there is no cover for the hive.

I keep my bees up off of the ground on cinder blocks, so I didn't say anything critical to him, but I knew that if I were going to be in charge of the hives, one of the first things I would do is raise the hives. They also are on solid bottom boards. 

So I went back on my own and really looked at everything. If you go back and look at Hive #1, I'd be interested in what you observe. SPOILER ALERT: I'm going to put some space in here so as not to reveal anything until you scroll back up to see what you see.

There are three things of note in Hive #1:

1. The bees are obviously in need of ventilation because they are spilled out in a dinner plate sized circle which would have been a beard if they were not on the ground.

2. The top box is coming apart, so the bees are guarding the large opening just under the top cover.

3. The top box has NO handles or cut-ins or grips of any kind to lift it.

HORRORS! 

Note also that I use only 8 frame mediums and these hives are in 10 frame deeps and shallows.

So I went alone on my second trip and realized all of the above. I couldn't get the top box which was full of honey off of the hive. All I was able to do on the second trip was to put beer caps under the top cover to give the hive a little ventilation. I also took a completely empty top box off of Hive #2 and put it on Hive #1 to give them some more circulation.

I also noticed that probably in response to my gasping comment about the observation hive: "They don't have any cover?" that the former beekeeper had draped a beach towel over the hive.

So on visit three I took Jeff, my son-in-law and strong beekeeper, the MABA hive lifter, a screened bottom board, a slatted rack, and a ten frame medium (the only one I own) which, of course, does have hand grips.

This is how the bees looked when we arrived. You can see the extra box I added and can see that it really helped with ventilation since now, although there is still a beard, the bees are not spilled all over the ground. You can see the handle-less box is splitting at each corner.

Jeff lit the smoker. You can see the extensive rooftop garden behind him.

We took the empty box off of the top and covered the exposed second box with a hive drape. We set up the metal hive lifter (on ground surrounding the hive) and moved the hive to one side. You can see the empty dirt where the hive was sitting.

Roaches were enjoying life under the hive.

 We set up the cinder blocks and put the screened bottom board (in photo) and the slatted rack (not in photo) on the cinder blocks. We returned the old hive to its elevated position. Now to deal with the falling apart hive box.

We removed the hive frames one at a time to the yellow box I had brought. They were all filled with honey - which is great for the bees. And the box was equipped with spacers which spaced the frames so we didn't have to pry up propolis. I've never worked with a box with these spacers and it was a pleasure. I wanted to find a photo of one to show you, but the commercial companies don't appear to carry them any more. You can see the spacer (I thought it was called a rabbet) on the end of the hive box in the photo below if you click on it to enlarge it.

Actually I finally found these on Pigeon Mountain Trading Company. They are frame spacers and turn a 10 frame hive into a 9 frame one by spacing out the frames, allowing the bees to make thicker combs. 

 The former beekeeper had queen excluders on both of the full-sized hives and since the bees are used to that, I left them for now. Next year, I may remove them.

Then we put the yellow 10 frame box on top of the hive and returned the empty third box to the hive.

We walked away from the hive and suddenly I realized that the leaning board was the former bottom board. The bees were not moving into the hive - what if the queen were there? I didn't photograph, but did lean the bottom board against the hive so the nurse bees could walk in, but not before checking well to assure myself that the queen was not outside.

The next day I returned to remove the rotten bottom board and falling apart top box and the bees looked as happy as bees can look.

We'll return next week to put Hive #2 on cinder blocks with a screened bottom board and a slatted rack (if I have 10 frame stuff in my basement). And I'll put an oil cloth cover over the observation hive. There are bees in that hive but none on the outside frames which are totally exposed to light every single day.

from Nature's Incredible! http://ift.tt/2hnkNjc via Nature & Insects