#organ procurement is very different from even general OR stuff which is itself very different from typical healthcare we learn

[llycaons]

I’m technically not supposed to study tomorrow since it’s the kind of test they say to take a day off from the day before, but I just didn’t have enough time to go over all my notes...I’ll run through the flashcards tomorrow, there’s not too many of those

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Out of curiosity what is Deep City’s culture like?

Sorry for the long wait!

This got quite long XD And it isn’t even all I have, but I decided to stop before I had a 3k ramble at my hands people most likely won’t slog through. If any of you have any more specific questions I’d be happy to answer them!

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For all that they are living in hiding, the citizens of Deep City are actually a pretty loud, colourful and dramatic bunch. They are a tight knit community where everybody knows everybody (or at least know someone who know someone, and so on and so on) and Noctis’ clinic is one of the social intersections.

(I can’t really write it because there are alreay so many OCs and other stuff happening to keep track of, but people don’t only go there to get treatment, but also for a hot meal, if they can’t procure one otherwise, and to gossip.)

Money as a currency fell out of favour quite early on. Favours and material goods are used as objects of trade instead. Most people not part of the Shadow Market have a ‘you pay what you can’ policy going on. The Shadow Market itself is a bit different.

Originally it was formed by merchants who would go out and buy stuff from outside Deep City and then sell it there. But the more secluded the Deep City people became, the less often those merchants ventured out. Instead they resorted to working together with the Insomnian black market (and theft), which is how it functions today. It became its own social construct within a social construct, with a leader and a police (sort of). Merchants who sell their wares there need to pay a fee for a stall.

Overall the society of Deep City is organized in castes, which function more like historical guilds than anything else. The Shadow Market is its own caste. Then there is one for farmers, for metal workers (the people of the Heap), one for public offices (which include priests, healers, teachers, nurses, any and all admin work, etc.), one for the people living in the old aqueducts, since they mainly trade in water, and one for builders (which include masonry, construction workers and most other heavy manual labour).

Creating a new caste is kind of a Big Deal, so new jobs get folded into existing ones most of the time. Because of this the castes have sub-divisions, so to speak, for the specific kinds of work. There is movement between the castes. If you change jobs, you change your caste, though it doesn’t happen very often.

As to what a caste acutally does: Well, they are a form of insurance. They make sure agreements are kept, that you have a roof over your head and enough to eat, they help footing medical bills and help taking care of family members should a person die. They also are part of ones retirement arrangement.

All offices needed to keep a caste running are elected, and they do that like the Senate in Ancient Rome. There are speaches for and against people that are put forth for elections (or put themselves forth), which can never last longer than 5mins.

Those six castes I named above? They are the biggest and most influential ones and form the Small Circle that is basically the government of Deep City. There’s a Big Circle as well, which encompasses all the castes, but the Small Circle is the fast response to crises.

Historically, Deep City was created during the Second Cultural Reformation under the 79th King of Lucis. (Who I named Lucius the Preserver.) The First Reformation already created a rift in the people, since it reinterpreted the Cosmogony in significant ways and discarded whole passages entirely.

The Second Reformation was essentially Bahamut putting his foot down. All temples but the big one for all six Astrals and the one for Bahamut were closed, books were burned, the Cosmogony was revised even more, the rank of the Senator was abolished as well as many old traditions. And to make sure it all stuck, the non-conformists were hunted down and killed.

So all who could, went to ground. Literally. Traditions transformed to fit the new circumstances, but the important part to the people was, that they kept them. They still burn all their dead, they still believe water is the medium through which a soul travels, they still know someone ferries the souls of the dead into the Beyond, even if they forgot who.

Most children generally learn how to read with the older versions of the Cosmogony, though there is no compulsory education, so it is not too uncommon to meet someone who is functionally illiterate. (Don’t know if it came through, but Fodio Lapis is in fact illiterate. He can read construction plans, but that’s it. But he’s amazing at math because of his job.)

So yeah, school is optional and many kids are homeschooled by their parents, relatives and/or a family friend. Kids are old enough to begin an apprenticeship at 13 and most get into the jobs their parents have, but not always.

Deep City also has a large slew of titles everybody has, that signify their standing in society. They are used when people are formal with each other and in official capacity. It’s considered a huge insult to call someone by the wrong title. So when you introduce yourself to someone new, you always use your title. (Yes, Cor unintentionally insulted Hiemi by calling her ‘Lady’ and not ‘Dame’, which is the title of a married working woman, who is also the female head of the family and/or has a business with employees.)

Fashion wise Deep City is a really mixed bag. Technically trousers are a practical thing for work and not worn anywhere else. But then you have the few people like Noctis who came to Deep City later and don’t really prescripe to the wearing tunics and togas thing.

Quite a large portion of their fashion is handmade from cloth or reworked second hand stuff from the upper parts of Insomnia. There’s this one silk maker in Deep City, who managed to make himself very wealthy.

Language wise it’s a bit chaotic. Technically Sol is the language in which they write down official documents, but it is rarely, if ever, spoken. What they speak is not quite its own language but also not quite a dialect of Lucian. Its this weird thing in between, but people from upper Insomnia wouldn’t understand someone going full tilt. The people living in the old aqueducts actually have their own language because they mostly keep to themselves. Other than that people are pretty much on a sliding scale on how much ‘proper’ Lucian they speak. Hiemi is actually very good at it from her people’s point of view.

[cruelfeline]

KH3: Reviewesque Thoughts

I don’t do formal reviews of... well, anything, really, but I do want to throw in my two cents on the general state of KH3. Namely regarding the general plot and gameplay. Spoilers abound, no shock.

So, first and foremost: I enjoyed this game.

I mean, I enjoyed it as much as I could enjoy something that made me sob uncontrollably every few hours. 

The game did what I wanted it to do: it took my favorite characters and gave them their happy endings. The Sea Salt Trio returned, hugged it out, and was able to move forward to live normal lives. I cried, I cried some more, and now I am at peace.

That said... man, does this game have severe pacing and plot issues. Like, hot damn. It is bad, and it is weird.

Now, I won’t pretend to remember how that pacing went in the other numbered KH games; it’s been a loooong time since I’ve played those. KH3, however... what an ungodly mess.

It’s almost as if the game is divided into two separate experiences: the Disney worlds and the actual KH story. It’s bizarre, and jarring, and honestly just shit pacing, in my opinion.

The initial twenty hours involve Sora traipsing about the Disney worlds, occasionally trading insults with Organization members, but otherwise just... bopping along. No forward story movement. No apparent connection between what he’s doing and what he should be doing (finding the power of waking... which he apparently has all along per Ventus, blah blah blah). No real impact of the main conflict on these worlds or vice versa.

I understand that Kingdom Hearts is based upon this mishmash of Disney worlds. I get that; I’m sure the development team has some sort of Disney quota they have to meet, or whatever, and that’s fine, but there are ways to do that and still integrate the story effectively. The way it was done... bleh. Just awful.

And it’s a shame. The Disney worlds were fun! They were beautiful, and interactive, and the combat was enjoyable. I just wish it felt more... meaningful. Instead, it felt like Sora was just dicking around for twenty hours of gameplay while the Real Story and Real Preparation was taking place offscreen.

You get these cutscenes with Lea and Kairi, or Mickey and Riku, and you can’t help but feel that all of the good stuff is happening somewhere else.

It’s especially disappointing because, to me, this game was to wrap up the stories of aaaaaall of these characters that we’d grown to know and love and cry over for the past 17 years. As such, I wanted to see those characters, interact with them, enjoy them. Instead, they’re relegated to the background while Sora does... stuff that just doesn’t seem to matter. It’s a bummer: I wanted to see Lea and Kairi train. I wanted to follow Riku and Mickey around, watch them explore the Realm of Darkness. Instead, I had to sit through Elsa singing Let It Go. All of it. All of that damned song for no reason.

well okay the reason probably has to do with Disney having everyone by the balls but narratively there is no reason okay? okay

Add to this the lack of purpose the Organization has in these worlds, and it’s just...disappointing.

Honestly, I feel like the way the plot for this game was set up just... doomed it to be unsatisfying. A good portion of this is due to the fact that the Organization/Guardians of Light conflict is... difficult to pull off well.

The whole endgame of this installment rests upon this battle between the seven Lights and the thirteen Darknesses. This climactic battle has to happen for the sake of the cool endgame fight, but... it makes the conflict weak.

Xehanort wants this to happen. In order to be in logical opposition, Sora and friends would have to try to keep it from happening, but they don’t. Because of the desired meta endgame, they’re forced to essentially play into Xehanort’s hands. Just them prepping for this battle, training for it, gathering teammates results in the End of the World nearly occurring. 

Because of this, the idea of Sora traveling through the Disney worlds in order to protect them from or stop the Organization just doesn’t work, because he can’t do either. Endgame dictates that what the Organization wants to happen will happen. It’s inevitable. Sora can’t really fight it because fighting itself is what Xehanort wants; it just doesn’t work well. 

That said, I do think that altering the focus of the plot would... well, maybe not fix this completely, but at least make the game more satisfying in terms of character interaction and purpose.

Instead of traveling aimlessly through Disney worlds, I feel that the story would have been better served by having Sora’s focus be preparing with his friends. Start the game off with him training with Lea and Kairi. Continue on with him helping Riku and Mickey. 

Spread out the reunions of the characters throughout the game, instead of shoving them all within the last ten hours. After training with Lea and Kairi, focus on getting Roxas back. Insert character moments for Lea in the process because he is my son and I love him very much. Follow with trying to properly remember who Xion is and get her back; this could provide character moments between Sora/Lea/Kairi that are otherwise missing.

Rescue Aqua next. Have a whole section of game involving playing through Castle Oblivion to wake Ventus. Have another section involving finding Terra.

Disney worlds can be the settings for some of these events. The Organization could... I don’t know, try to stop the gathering of the desired Lights in favor of ones of their own procurement, to make the battle easier on them? Maybe? 

I have no idea; I’m not a game designer. Or a writer. But I do think that the game’s story would have vastly benefited from having all of these character reunions peppered throughout the story with Sora’s gameplay directly impacting the events.

A “get the band back together” plot, if you will. Instead of... whatever the hell the first twenty hours actually were. Disney Tour of Pointlessness? Yes.

Might also help to give Sora a different character arc in this installment. Maybe something about learning to trust his friends. To depend on them? To help them gain skill and confidence in themselves? To help them work through the ungodly trauma that the last installments put them through?

Sure. Better than “find the power of waking you already have by listening to Let It Go.”

ANYWAY.

A quick tl;dr rundown:

Pros:

my son and his adopted siblings get to reunite and eat ice cream and even Isa is okay and I didn’t know I needed that but I did and I love it

Disney worlds were fun and pretty

combat was enjoyable; I’m not super into this genre, but I had fun

Cons:

pacing was bullshit, and someone out there should be ashamed

instead of focusing on everyone’s beloved characters, the majority of the game was just utter Disney pandering

overarching conflict was just... clumsily handled

And that’s all I’ve got. 

[mysticsparklewings]

Lore Olympus (Mermaid Marker Test)‪

So my IRL friend introduced me to this AMAZING comic the other night, called "Lore Olympus," which is sort of a retelling of the Greek Myth of Persephone being kidnapped by Hades: www.webtoons.com/en/romance/lo… I read the whole thing in about two hours.   If you like Greek Mythology or even just rom-com comics with super pretty art styles, please go check it out and support it! It updates on Saturdays and is still on-going! So since my friend was fangirling, and then I was fangirling, and we had to wait a whole week for the new chapter/installment, I sketched up a piece of fanart of Persephone and Hades just looking at each other cutely, in outfits from a couple of later chapters. I didn't color it right away because I had just ordered the entire collection of 32 Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers off eBay (For $30 after a $10 off coupon, I might add; had I purchased the individual sets off of Amazon that same night it would've been about $60!) and I was half-waiting for them to come in, half testing my patience to see if I could wait or if I would just cave and color it with colored pencils or alcohol markers before then.  Luckily, I held out and they came in that Thursday. So I got to priming and swatching as quickly as possible! Calling them Mermaid "Markers" is a bit misleading; as they're essentially water brushes pre-filled with water-soluble ink. But I kind of understand why they're called that, as the "Mermaid" part insinuates their relationship with water, and they are more like markers that straight-up watercolors, in the sense that you don't technically need water to use them. Still, I think a more accurate name might've been helpful to people that have never heard of these before and have no idea what they're actually going to be like. Fortunately, I had seen these floating around and in a video before considering purchasing them, so I knew pretty much what I was getting, how to prep them, and what to do with them already, and at that point I wasn't even sure I'd want them. But after getting a set of Viviva watercolor sheets back in December and then the Arteza Woodless Watercolor pencils for my Birthday last month, the Mermaid Markers finally piqued my interest enough to want to buy them. I actually felt very lucky to find the eBay listing that I did, as $40 for the whole lot, in new condition (all the boxes still had their little round tapes intact and undisturbed, as well as their sealing rings, which I'll talk more about in a second) was already a great deal compared to buying the individual sets, before I even knew that I had the $10 coupon. Honestly, I was so sure someone was going to buy it before I had the funds, but luckily I was able to buckle down on some commissions and took the opportunity when it presented itself.   The only issue I had straight out of the box was that, for some reason, my "Byron Bay" in the 12 set is miraculously missing its label.  The best I can figure is it was just a factory oversight, as, like I said before, the boxes were still sealed and the sealing rings on each individual "marker," totally undisturbed, and there is no evidence there ever was one on the marker at all (no lingering bits of adhesive, etc.). It's not a huge deal as it was only one marker, the color names are all available online, and the solution is just as simple as either writing the name on the marker (which is what I've done for now) or printing out a new label. It'd be different if it had been multiple markers, making it difficult to tell which was which. It did take a little while to properly prime each marker; each one had a yellowy-green sealing ring between the screw-on brush tip and the squeezable ink cartridge that had to be removed and some gunk in the brush tip to preserve the shape during shipping, which you just gently wash off in water. And I will note here that it is important to make sure you screw the brush tip portion all the way back on! I had done quite a few and been left with a slight gap between the two sections before one went all the way down with less effort, so I had to go back and use a gripper like you would use to open jars to be able to turn the others the rest of the way down. I think this is important to mention because the one complaint I've seen over, and over, and over again in the Amazon Reviews is about them leaking, and I think in some (but not all) cases this might have been the problem! If one of them hadn't gone on with less effort, I wouldn't have known the difference! The other thing of note, the instructions/tips in each box specifically mention to store them with the brush tip up! Because I'm paranoid, I'm being extra cautious about this, but I suspect in a few cases this may have also been a problem causing leaks--as in people were storing them horizontally or with the brush tip down. I'm not a huge fan of the thin plastic boxes, but it's not a huge deal (as Copic markers use the exact same packaging). I think I would like to procure a case or stand to keep them all together in, though. I've been looking, but I want the case to naturally fit with keeping them upright and be able to sort them in whatever order I like. (Because I have to keep my art supplies organized or my entire world will fall apart). Now, when it comes to the drawing itself, I almost immediately ran into an issue with the line art. I didn't want to do just black, but the watercolor nature of the Mermaid Markers means that water-based ink will run when they touch. The only guaranteed water-proof liners I have are Copic multiliners in black or cobalt. That would've worked for Hades, but not Persephone. (The comic is very color-oriented for the character designs, so it just seemed more natural to do it this way; And besides, I use black lines all. the. time.) So I had to figure something else out. Originally, I tested both my Prismacolor and Polychromos pencils to see what water did to them (as I did plan on using a regular water brush with these to help with blending and stuff), and either one would've worked, as you had to be trying to pull the pigment out like I was to really get noticeable results, especially with the Polychromos, which are advertised as being water-resistant. I almost used them, but then I looked over and remembered: I have Dr. Ph Martin inks! In a variety of colors, that are supposed to be water-proof and lightfast (not that that means that much in this situation since most watercolors aren't lightfast anyway) when dry! So I got really crazy and broke out my dip pen and did the lines with that in red-violet, blue, and violet. Veeeeeeery carefully. Then I set it aside to dry for a couple of hours. (For the record, the red-violet lines are a couple shades darker IRL, the scan lightened them and seemingly them alone for some reason.) In hindsight, I might have done better to let it dry for a full 24+ hours. I say that because, while the ink was definitely dry enough to open and close the sketchbook with no issue, there were a few spots, particularly with the blue, that did bloat/bleed a little after I started going in with the Mermaid Markers and some water. Mind you, I wasn't like, drowning those spots with water or anything. Fortunately, I was able to sort of "push" and move the color around so that it didn't ruin anything. Beyond that, the pigment just willingly pulled out about as much as the colored pencils did when I was testing those, but that wasn't a huge issue since the characters are monochromatic and I was able to use it to my advantage. However, that definitely would've been an issue if I had lined with a color that didn't blend with the fill-in colors. So I will be more cautious of that sort of thing going forward. The Mermaid Markers themselves were actually kind of fun to work with, aside from the slight learning curve, since watercolors, in general, are mostly unfamiliar territory for me. The biggest issue I had was just trying to blend the right purple for the background, but that has more to do with my inexperience and the overall color selection. In general and just swatched out, the entire color collection of all 32 Mermaid Markers has a really interesting color family, with a number of shades that I think are fairly unique. (Or at least they seem unique to my eyes that are more familiar with color pencil palettes). The tradeoff is that there are some shades that are pretty, but might be a little "off" from the colors I'm used to working with. In this case, there is a muted lavender color called "Jellyfish" that I was using primarily to fill in the heart. However, it was a bit on the warm/pink side for my liking, including pairing with the "Deep Sea" darker purple, which was more of a neutral, maybe slightly blueish purple. It turned out okay with my attempts to "cool it down," but I still have some things to learn with watercolor, and until I really get the hang of it, I know the slightly unusual color choices with these might be a bit of a challenge to work through. The other thing is there are two "specialty" sets of the Mermaid Markers; one called "Celestial Sky" and one called "Shimmering Sky," which are metallic and glitter effects, respectively, and meant to be shaken up before use a bit like paint pens. The effects for both sets are really beautiful, I just wish there were more colors! There are only 4 of each; the Celestial Sky is more neutral/traditional metallic colors, and the Shimmering Sky colors are two pinkish and two blueish colors that look like they would pair well with the "Shipwrecked" set of 6. This isn't necessarily a bag thing--I want more colors of a product I like. I just thought I'd point it out while I was on the color thing. Still, they blended really nice and smoothly, and fortunately, they didn't argue too much with me when I made a mistake and tried to take some off/lighten it, etc.   Once I was done coloring, I obviously went back and did Persephone's little leaf crown and outlined the butterflies on either side of her head with gel pens. Surprisingly, the pens went over this noticeably easier than the Arteza Woodless Watercolor Pencils, which I found odd. I did have to do a bit of tapping, but I pretty much always expect that no matter what I'm working with. Not sure what to make of that.  (Though if I had to guess I suspect it had something to do with the fillers used in the pencils). I tried to use the glittery Mermaid Markers to give Hades a bit of pink blush and Persephone a bit of blue blush, but while Hades' worked out pretty okay, I think the blue was just too dark for Persephone as it didn't really blend out properly and, as you can see, to keep it from looking like she was bruised or I'd made a massive mistake, I ended up lifting most of it off entirely. But, at the very least, some of the glitter is still there so when you see it in the light it still sparkles a bit to tie in with the glittery gel pen I used for the crown. The only real thing I'm truly not happy about is that between the sketch and inking, Persephone's face slimmed down/got a little more angular than what I wanted. In the comic, she usually has a very round face to me. But it's not the end of the world; the art style is pretty fluid most of the time (which ends up adding to its charm and really lends itself to the characters' expressiveness) anyway, so drawing the characters "accurately" can only go so far, I think. (Compared to something where the characters are pretty much always 100% on-model, anyway). I think it did turn out very sweet though   And now if you'll excuse me, I'll be waiting with bated breath for the next chapter to go up.  The second-to-last one was a major plot doozy! ____ Artwork (c) me, MysticSparkleWings Lore Olympus & Characters belong to Rachel Smythe ____ Where to find me & my artwork: My Website | Commission Info + Prices | Ko-Fi | dA Print Shop | RedBubble |   Twitter | Tumblr | Instagram 

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My Heart-Warming Thanksgiving Story of the Flubbed-Up Pie

I want to tell you about the flubbed-up Thanksgiving pie I just made. First you should know that “flubbed-up” is a euphemism. It’s a substitute for my grandchildren’s sake of another term that means messed-up and also starts with an F.

My son, JD, is a stellar son most all the time. He is a stalwart eco-warrior who is a mechanic that provides biodegradable motor oil and other green automotive stuff to his customers. He keeps the family cars running for only the price of parts. He is sweet and generous and I love him like the dickens, whatever exactly that means – I’m using it to mean what a good guy JD is.

JD is a vegan, and not just your ordinary vegan, but a vegan who will spend his last dime to eat only organic food that has not been contaminated by pesticides, herbicides, or even by suicides or matricides or fratricides committed by a person in the extended families or ancestry of anyone who ever touched or thought about touching his food, or anyone who has been associated in the history of each of his food’s components with any kind of “-cide” whatsoever.  If this food even sat across, and at the opposite end of a long aisle from a side of beef in the grocery store, JD will not eat it, and if he catches you starting to eat it, he will do his best to convince you not to. If I’m in a bad mood, as I sometimes am, trying to cook something for JD that he will eat is enough to make me want to commit some kind of “-cide” against this son of mine whom I love so much.

We have Thanksgiving every year in November, right? And JD has been into his organic, anti-GMO, locally-grown vegan thing for a number of those recent years. One would think that by now I would have figured out that I need to start planning Thanksgiving with JD in July, maybe even March. But, true to form, this particular year, I waited until a couple of weeks before JD’s big turkey-less, Tofurkey Day to start discussing with JD what I should cook that he might possibly consider eating if I tweak my nose in the right direction while I am cooking it.

I am getting old. I have very little patience left for complicated Thanksgiving family dinners that involve special dishes for each particular person in this ever-expanding group of people. I mean, I love these people more than my own life, but I have reached my limit. I need to make Thanksgiving infinitely less complicated than it’s always been for us. Between our various food intolerances, adamant ideals, outright dislikes, and other peccadillos, there is very little food on this earth that I and my trooper of a husband, Doug – who is also getting old by the way, but who seems to be handling it much better than I am – can cook for this passel of people to share.

My idea for this year is to make as much of the food be organic as possible and for everyone to share it, so that I don’t have to make a regular option, a vegetarian option (for my other son Aaron), and a vegan option of every dish. Sounds reasonable enough. I mean this idea of mine is great if you have an infinite supply of time to figure it all out and scads of money to pay through the nose for organic food – or I should say for organic components of all our family’s traditional Thanksgiving dishes.

I’m about to tell you about the flubbed-up pie. I promise.

So this year JD and I go painstakingly through what he will need to scrounge up for me from the mysterious places he buys his supplies of organic wonder food.  He has no earthly idea of the sizes that are available for any of these components or the prices for anything at all, especially for each unit. So first I have to give him a list of things to look for and to price for me, to get me sizes for – the number of fluid ounces, the net weight, how many cherries per can of organic pie filling, how many organic whole-wheat rolls per pan and what is the square footage of each pan – you know, the stuff I need to know so JD can buy what I need to cook for an army of people on Thanksgiving Day, to send everyone home with leftovers, to eat leftovers and nothing else at home for a week, and to throw out some leftovers at the end of said week while being sure to have some good stuff to share with the compost pile.

I decide that there are certain things I will be cooking knowing full well that JD will not eat them – turkey, for instance, celery (because JD is a vegan who hates celery. I have nothing to add to this. It speaks for itself).  Since I have JD so occupied in buying organic food for everyone, I assign bringing the vegan entrée to Aaron, because he is a vegetarian anyway and he can damned well be a vegan for one day so that he and his brother can share a Thanksgiving entrée.

We will have dressing with chicken stock in it and vegan dressing, that kind of thing. Then, for the sake of at least some simplicity, we will have a few totally vegan organic dishes for everyone – sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, green bean casserole (yes, this can be vegan if you’re rich enough), rolls.

And then there will be pies. Pies are my holiday thing. When I was younger, I made two or three kinds of pie with several pies per type for both Thanksgiving AND Christmas. Now I’m more of a one type of pie per holiday person. I want these pies to be cherry for this year’s Thanksgiving, because cherry pies are easy to make and everyone loves them. The grandkids are crazy for cherry pie and they are who I am most interested in pleasing with pie.

I should add in here somewhere that this year my hubby Doug has to work on Thanksgiving so it will be my first time to cook Thanksgiving without him in twenty three years. Not to worry. I have enlisted Doug’s son, my stepson Matt, to help me lift things and stir things and toast things and juggle the moving of things from one oven rack to another over and over all day long. We’ve got this, me and Matt. And Doug teaches Matt how to prep the turkey the night before the big day and it’s ready and in the fridge so that Matt and I just have to stick it into the warm oven on TG morning and leave it there for hours and hours while we cook all the other stuff.

Back to the pies. JD has informed me that of all foods that exist in the universe, the worst foods to eat if they are NOT organic are cherries and berries, because all the pesticides and herbicides and other kinds of “-cides” concentrate in the cherries and berries in an attempt to murder us – just kill us outright dead.

So even though JD has always lapped up cherry pies in the past, even after he went vegan-organic, this year he will not eat them unless the cherries are organic. Not only that, he wants organic vegan crusts as well. All right. I can do this.

But JD cannot find organic cherries at all in his favorite haunts. So we agree that I will make a couple of organic peach pies for him (and for some of us too), with regular cherry for the rest of us – because we are addicted to pesticide-riddled food and we don’t give a flip anymore. I do feel a little guilty about this on account of grandchildren though. I mean, I don’t want to feed poison cherries to children. They can eat peach pie, although I know they love cherry pie the most.

As Thanksgiving draws nearer, I make a list out of the scraps of information JD has obtained for me, telling him how many cans, and pans, and cases, and barrels of each food I need. I tell him I simply cannot afford all this organic sh—“stuff” (I’m just going to call this “shtuff”) and JD kindly offers to pay the difference in the extra price of organic items over the price of “normal” more poisonous All-American food. I tell JD that this grocery store he plans to buy the food from is growing faster than they can keep up with, and chances are extremely good that the store will run out of TG food components many days before the big event.  

Undaunted, JD waits until the last possible minute to buy the food and only then after I insist that he get his vegan behind to the store and buy it, like NOW, or I won’t be cooking one single damned organic or vegan anything for him or anyone else. I mean we have to get the other groceries for TG when we’re not working, and this is the last day we have time for that. I have no idea what to buy in terms of other groceries until I see what JD has managed to procure at the health food store after it’s been cleared out by more forward-thinking customers. I may not have mentioned that JD is not a planning type of organic-vegan.

I won’t say, “I told you so,” but I will mention, because I am passive-aggressive sometimes, that JD’s favorite grocery store has no organic fruit pie filling of any sort whatsoever. All he has managed to buy in terms of pie filling is two cans of organic peaches, which is only barely related to peach pie filling at all. JD does have two sets of organic pie crusts. Okay, fine, I say. We’ll have one peach pie then, and we’ll use the other organic pie crusts for non-organic cherry pie.

Meanwhile, the hubby goes to the regular grocery store for regular cherry pie filling amongst many other things, and doesn’t realize until he returns home that he’s bought only two cans of regular cherry pie filling and three cans of organic cherry pie filling. So the regular grocery store had the filing that JD could not find at his organic vegan store, and Doug has accidentally purchased it. Man, the kismet of this, the ass-backwards synchronicity of it, is simply stunning.

Trying to rally, I say, “Great. I’ll use these other organic pie shells – the ones I won’t be using for organic peach pie – to make an organic cherry pie too.” It seems like all our pie problems are solved. Except on the night I start making pies in advance of TG Day like I always do, I just run out of time to make cherry pies while also boiling down canned peaches for hours on end to try to turn them into pie filling.

So when JD comes home later (Oh, did I mention that he lives with us “temporarily”? Do not get me started about the gnat problem he has started with organic food rotting in his bedroom). When JD comes home, I tell him I need for him to please boil down the peaches for me to make his peach pie with. I’ll be around doing other important shtuff, and I can advise him on how to boil down the peaches. He doesn’t have time, he says. He has tons of work to do this week, he says, because in his mind I don’t have anything at all to do this week except make his freaking pie.

Suggesting that JD cook the peaches, like now, while he’s hanging out grazing on food he has spread all over the living room and while he’s watching TV (and murderous TV, not any kind of flower-childy organic vegan TV) has no effect on JD in any sort of way. I might as well not exist.

All right, either I’ll make the danged peach pie or I won’t. I’ve got an organic cherry pie made already. It’s even got a criss-crossed top pie crust so it can be easily distinguished from the more deadly cherry pies. Whatever.

So now it’s the Wednesday evening before TG day. Doug has to get up on TG morning at 3:30-ish, long before oh-dark-thirty, so that Doug can work while the rest of America watches football and TG parades on TV. Doug will be going to bed at 8:00 p.m. this evening or as soon thereafter as he can possibly get there. I ask Doug to please open JD’s canned peaches for me, because the can-opener and I have “issues”, and JD is nowhere to be found, no doubt staying out as late as possible to avoid helping me make his blankety-blank peach pie.

Doug opens the two peach cans, and there are like eight or nine tiny peach slices in each can. They are basically cans of peach juice with a few scraps of peach thrown in. I seriously doubt there are the components of even two small peaches between both cans, and this peach pie I’m trying to make is going to be scanty on the peach side. But I am making this organic peach pie come hell or high water, so I drain off all the juice except a little dab, I save the juice for JD because I’m such a good mother of a busy forty-year-old organic-vegan with important shtuff to do elsewhere tonight, and I plop the pot containing a few teaspoons full of peaches onto a low fire on the stovetop.

It takes almost no time for the little juice I’ve left in the pot to boil off. I’ve got a half-ton of peach juice here, so I add just a little more peach juice to the pot – we’re talking a quarter cup at the most. I look away from the pot for a minute or two, and the next thing I know the pot is overloaded with peach juice – like way too overloaded because apparently these few scraps of peaches, scrawny as they are, have about a gallon of peach juice in each of them and this juice is cooking out of those peaches at an alarming rate. Oh man. All right I’ll just have to boil these peaches for a very long time. Maybe they’ll be ready by next Thanksgiving.

But then the peach juice is not cooking away and this pot seems to be full of peach cider with some peach slices in it for a garnish. If I was a smart woman, which I am not at this moment, I would drain some peach juice off right this instant. But do I do this? What do you think? Instead I decide, with Doug’s help, that perhaps I should just add some of this organic sugar JD has so kindly provided, in the hope this organic sugar will contribute to the thickening and cooking down of this mass quantity of boiling peach juice.

The peach pot is boiling. Doug is making us grilled cheese sandwiches because who’s got time for making dinner, much less eating it, when it’s the night before Thanksgiving? And I am in Doug’s way trying to watch over this peach pot, so I hover around just outside the kitchen so that I can dash in from time to time and check the peach syrup mess in the peach pot. We eat sandwiches. Doug goes to bed, but just before he goes we decide there may be hope for these peaches after all as the organic-sugary peach juice appears to be slightly thicker.

I keep watching the peach pot. I do other shtuff and come back and watch it some more. My office is in our converted garage just off the kitchen and I need to do some shtuff out there, so I adjust the fire lower on the peach pot and I go to garage office for about ten minutes – it can’t be one second more than twelve minutes. Suddenly I think, uh-oh, the peaches! I go running into the kitchen to greet a foamy pot of peach goo that is partially burnt. But do I handle this sensibly? Of course I don’t. Before I have thought a single thought, I have stirred this pot of peach goop a little bit, just enough to spread at least some of the burnt shtuff throughout the pot. I have contaminated this alleged peach pie filling in other words. I wonder how toxic this burned shtuff is but I simply do not care anymore.

There has got to be something salvageable here, because I want this to be true and I am proceeding as though it is so. So while the peach goop cools into some sort of peach fudge or taffy or peach peanut brittle without peanuts, I patiently poke holes in an organic pie shell and set it to pre-bake while I make a crumble pie topping out of the other organic pie shell by adding more of JD’s organic sugar and his organic cinnamon too. I am determined for this shtuff to be good, damned good.

I go away for like five minutes, and come back to find that the pre-baking pie shell is a convex mound of inflated pie crust inside the oven. There’s a Super Dome all up inside my oven. Evidently the holes I have poked in this pie shell are not sufficiently doing their jobs. So I reach into the dangerously hot oven with a fork in hand, and I poke bigger holes in the shell until it starts to deflate. I tamp down the pie shell edges inside the pie pan with the fork until the pie shell again resembles an actual pie shell instead of a flying saucer.

By now the peach goop in the pot looks pitifully small and brown. It looks kind of stretchy even, definitely gloppy. Oh well, it’s made of lovely organic peach slices – however few of them are left at this point – plus organic sugar. How bad could it be? It will be a super-organic peach candy pie that’s only a tiny bit burnt.

I slap the peach goop into the pie shell. It doesn’t even cover the whole bottom of the pie shell at its lowest and narrowest level. I scrape out every drop of syrupy goop from the pot to the pie shell, any goop that’s not too shtuck to the pot to require a hammer and chisel to get it out of this bleeping pot.

Even though the peach pie innards are only about an inch thick and sparse – extremely sparse – I throw on the crumble pie topping, and spread it to cover the peach filling –which is easy-peasy since there’s so little peach filling to cover. I stick this whole concoction into the oven, set the timer and disappear back to my office, stage left.

I am playing a computer game, tweeting, and other shtuff out in the office when I suddenly realize that a beeping noise in the background I’ve been managing to subconsciously ignore must be coming from the kitchen timer. I rush into the kitchen, throw open the oven door, grab some pot holders and pull out an overly baked peach pie that is too brown. But it is not burnt. It is NOT freaking burnt!

This is fine. This is totally and completely fine. I will serve flubbed-up (don’t forget that flubbed-up stands for something else) organic, much too brown, overly sweet, nearly peachless, candified peach pie for Thanksgiving dinner and nobody, I mean nobody, especially JD, better say a mother-flubbing word about it.

I leave this thing I have created to cool in the kitchen and return to my noodling in the garage office. JD at last comes home. He has his normal grazing palate of munchie-type organic vegan food spread across the coffee table before him in front of the television in the living room when I finally come back inside. I sit down and tell JD the whole story of the flubbed up pie, and I am not saying flubbed, I promise you that. JD and I start laughing, and we keep laughing, and we’re trying to be quiet because Doug is upstairs right above us trying to sleep – I mean the poor man has to get up at 3:30 on flubbing Thanksgiving morning to go to flubbing work.

But trying hard to keep from laughing too loudly just makes JD and I laugh more and harder. Come on. This is hilarious. We have concocted delirious stories of what the insides of that so-called pie might actually look like now that it’s cooled – how far will it stretch, will it be fudgy or so hard that we break a few teeth trying to chew it, that kind of thing. We are doubled-over crying and laughing and shushing each other to laugh quieter.

Finally we run out of steam, and I head back out to my office. I am an extreme night-owl. I make no apologies for it because such apologies would be pointless and would not stop me from being an extreme night-owl anyway.  JD has inherited this annoying trait from me, and I am a little bit sorry for him about that.

Before I leave JD, with his organic vegan food and other shtuff spread before him in the living room so he can keep binging on food and this murderous TV show he’s watching, I ask him to please cover the pie with decidedly un-organic tin foil and stick it in the fridge before he goes to bed. I’ve got a heartwarming Thanksgiving story to write and I have no more time for taking care of this so-called pie.

I am out here writing for way too long because, as everyone who knows me at all understands, I am wordy. Suddenly I realize it’s 3:00 a.m., which is a little too late even for me. I mean, Doug will be getting up any second. I have to get inside and pretend to be sleeping before he stumbles past me to get his coffee so he can get ready for flubbing work. I abandon this unfinished story and make haste to pretend to sleep.

But Doug, naturally, because this is already a flubbed up Thanksgiving, has forgotten to make his coffee and set the timer so the coffee will be ready to drink when he stumbles over to get it. So Doug is banging around in the kitchen half-asleep making coffee and I just give up on this pretending to sleep idea and start talking to Doug, giving him lots of sympathy for his coffee-less predicament, and he just laps this sympathy up.

Doug schlepps off to work, I sleep for a little while, and then I get up to finish this never-ending Thanksgiving story. Now it’s a little past time to start the turkey baking, Matt has just pulled up to help me, and I’m still in my pj’s having completely forgotten to even drink my coffee. This is already a flubbed-up flubbing Thanksgiving. I have more flubbing shtuff to bake and burn and destroy. I’ve got to get moving.

Have a happy Thanksgiving, one and all. If we live through today, I will let you know. Organic peach vegan flubbed-up pie or whatever the flub it turns out to be, can just be flubbing damned. Happy Holiday!

P.S. I love JD so flubbing much and I have said all this shtuff I’ve said about him with infinite quantities of mother-flubbing love.

P.S.S.  Doug just came home at noon, hours earlier than expected. We are saved! Maybe Thanksgiving won’t be completely flubbed up after all.

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How you can Make Your Sensible Way Bets To produce When

In case you are planning a serious trip, think about opening a whole new credit card to finance it that gives benefits. A lot of vacation playing cards are even affiliated which has a lodge chain or airline, this means which you get additional bonuses for using these organizations. The rewards you rack up can protect a resort remain as well as an entire domestic flight.

Make your property additional eco-friendly by switching many of the mild bulbs in your household to compact fluorescent lights.  They'll prevent income in your month to month ability or energy bill and also very last a lot longer than regular bulbs, meaning you will not really need to expend just as much dollars, or time changing them.  

You can save on electrical power expenses by utilizing electricity economical appliances. Swap out those people aged light bulbs and replace them with Energy Star compliant types. This will likely conserve on your strength invoice and give your lamps a longer lifespan. Applying energy successful toasters, fridges and washing devices, can also help you preserve a good deal of cash from the lengthy haul. 

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Preserve a every day checklist.  Reward your self when you have concluded anything around the list with the 7 days.  Occasionally it is really much easier to see anything you really have to do, than to count on the memory.  Whether or not it is planning your meals to the week, prepping your treats or just generating your bed, place it on your list.

Cash administration is vital to accomplishment. Revenue needs to be guarded and money invested. Allocating gains into money to develop a bigger basis for development is appropriate, nonetheless, handling people gains properly enables you to definitely see return from your investments. Set a normal for that which you keep as financial gain and what's reallocated into money.

If just one wishes to give them selves greater chances of protecting their investments they need to make programs to get a safe and sound place that is currency charge stays solid or is susceptible to resist unexpected drops. Exploring and locating a nation that has these vital traits can offer an area to maintain kinds property secure in uncertain times.

Train your youthful kid about finances by supplying him an allowance that he can use for toys. In this way, it'll instruct him that if he spends income in his piggy bank on a person toy, he'll have less money to spend on something else. This could instruct him being selective about what he desires to get.

To discover the place your hard earned money is going document all your paying. For a minimum of a month, compose down every single time you spend revenue, and anything you are shelling out the cash on. After you have carried out this for your thirty day period, review your investing routines and make modifications as important. 

As a way to keep along with your personal funds, use one on the lots of site and applications around which permit you file and keep track of your investing. This means that you're going to be able to discover plainly and easily wherever the largest money drains are, and modify your spending behavior accordingly.

A better education can be sure that you can get an improved posture in personalized finance. Census details reveals that people that have a bachelor's diploma can receive practically double the money that somebody with simply a diploma earns. While there are expenditures to go to faculty, within the finish it'll pay out for itself plus more.

Nurture your job, for optimum performance with private finance. Since your operate is exactly where you deliver your hard earned money, it should be your range one particular priority to deal with. When your profession is suffering, then everything down the chain will experience likewise. So make certain that you happen to be keeping your occupation rated over all other investments.

Make the shift to regional financial institutions and credit unions.  Your local financial institution and lending institutions can have much more management above how they lend cash ensuing in superior fees on bank cards and discounts accounts, which could then be reinvested within your very own neighborhood. All of this, with excellent old-fashioned particular provider!  

If you are acquiring problems spending off a bank card, you must end charging it. Reduce your charges just as much as you can and find a different way of payment so that you never max out your credit card. Pay back your regular monthly equilibrium prior to deciding to start off applying your bank card once again.

Seek out skilled assistance if you're about to invest in stocks for private money gains. Employing an expert advisor is really a certain strategy to be sure that you will get returns back again. They have got the awareness and knowledge from the field that can help you triumph. In case you go at it on your own, you would need to shell out times studying, and that can eat substantially within your time.

Before you head out into the supermarket to purchase foodstuff in your household, produce a list of every one of the issues that you need to have.  This can enhance your degree of firm and permit you to definitely persist with a approach, as an alternative to randomly getting meals that will contribute to fat obtain.

To better retain your finances, it is actually a fantastic plan to get two separate lender accounts. Use 1 to your monthly expenses like rent, costs and food stuff, and also the other to save for emergencies or key purchases. It is actually also practical to place money absent within an account you hardly ever contact this means you can develop your savings.

Thrift purchasing and consignment procuring have become additional common inside the present-day financial state.  Try out buying your dresses, residence decor, and kitchen area products next hand.  You can save quite a bit of money around the factors you have to buy anyway that you simply can then put to your price savings or retirement accounts. 

Should you have fallen behind on your mortgage loan payments and possess no hope of getting present, see if you qualify to get a limited sale before letting your own home go into foreclosure.  Whilst a short sale will even now negatively affect your credit rating ranking and keep on being on your own credit score report for seven many years, a foreclosure has a additional drastic impact on your credit score and will even bring about an employer to reject your position application.

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Starting a Mobile Locksmith Business

Probably the best choice I at any point made in my 62 years of life on this planet was to turn into my very own manager in a field that is rarely dull, continually testing, and characteristically fascinating. It was anything but an early choice. Truth be told it didn't strike me to enter this field until after I'd effectively gone through ten years as an expert picture taker. It came to fruition in an odd manner, the same number of fortunate things do. In any case, paying little mind to how it became, I think about that choice the one that prepared for me to spend the remainder of my working life in solace and with a decent proportion of security 24 hour locksmith brooklyn

I've since found that numerous individuals pursue a comparable course, going to locksmithing simply in the wake of getting themselves despondent in different employments. I don't know how or why such a large number of find this specific business when searching for an intriguing profession. For my situation it was a characteristic movement from a somewhat one of a kind low maintenance profession I had molded for myself: That of introducing basic entryway watchers and doing this entryway to entryway. Ordinarily my clients would approach on the off chance that I could introduce deadbolts for them while I was grinding away, and in the wake of turning down cash twelve or so times I at last got shrewd and visited a nearby locksmith provider who sold me an introduce pack and a book of guidelines. From what I can tell, others run over this thought by doing Internet looks for home organizations, in light of the fact that at last this qualifies accordingly on the off chance that you, as I do, run it out of your home and structure it as a Sole Proprietorship. Regardless, clearly locksmithing has turned into a prevalent decision for a shot at independent work.

In the wake of feeling burnt out on entryway to entryway selling (which didn't take long to do) I hit upon the possibility of cold pitching. I was all the while thinking excessively little, however at the time I didn't have any acquaintance with it. Exercise Number One: Don't do this. I was doing it in 1981 or so when the disgrace connected to such attempts wasn't exactly so solid. I'm worried about the possibility that that getting individuals out of the telephone directory and inquiring as to whether they'd like to have deadbolts introduced just would not fly in the present period of fear mongering and business shams.

All things considered, I owe to this time of harsh times a decent bargain. I ended up proficient at introducing locks, rekeying locks, and copying keys. It was during this one year time frame that I rummaged together enough cash to buy a little key duplicator and furthermore a lock rekeying unit. I conveyed these things in the storage compartment of my vehicle and conveyed them into my client's home when required. I additionally bought a few boxes of the most widely recognized household key spaces and when I'd amassed so much stuff my vehicle's trunk was packed and I was wanting for more space. Likewise, and most significant, I came to understand that driving around in a plain vehicle and working out of the storage compartment was not loaning itself well to my validity.

Exercise Number Two: Start out with believability. Buy a little work van, or a huge one on the off chance that you can bear the cost of it. Purchase signs or have signs painted on it. Utilize whatever loaning power you have, may it be with banks or with family, to find a trade-in vehicle and have signage made up, regardless of whether this is as attractive signs. Obviously this recommends you begin as an authentic business, and this is only my point. Make a name for your business (take some time to consider this, as you'll lose any believability you may at first gain on the off chance that you continue evolving it), have signs and structures and letterheads made up, and make a plunge.

There is, as well, the topic of legitimateness. This is a hard subject to field, on the grounds that the legitimateness of working together starting with one locale then onto the next can contrast generally, and even fiercely. It is occupant upon you to do the examination and decide if your locale requires a locksmith be guaranteed, fortified, as well as authorized. You'll very likely find that authorizing is the basic obstacle, and that is typically dealt with the marking of a couple of structures and the installment of a little yearly charge. Accreditation is something different. Not all wards require this. For my situation I found that the state where I was then living - Utah - did not require it. Nor was I required to be fortified, however I did as such for the additional security (it is broadly and erroneously felt that holding ensures the locksmith's client, while in certainty the locksmith is secured by the bond).

Exercise Number Three: Do the schoolwork required to decide whether procuring a business permit is all that is expected to build up your locksmith administration. One telephone call to your state's Attorney General office will probably address that question.

When you have arranged a moderate vehicle and put a sensibly expert sign on it, you should start furnishing it. This should, and should, be done before you start publicizing your administrations in such a case that you resemble I was now you know alongside nothing about the business and very little progressively about the work. We will try now to teach ourselves. Locksmithing is in purpose of reality one of only a handful couple of callings left in this world in which formal training is completely UNnecessary. I have addressed not many experts during my vocation who got the chance to be that route through setting off to a 'locksmith school' or a school. This is unquestionably not to say that a formal training isn't alluring. On the off chance that you can manage the cost of it, in the event that you have the methods, at that point by all methods take that course. This article is for those of you who can't.

The vehicle you buy will in huge part decide how it is to be prepared. I've constantly favored a full-size van (I've possessed Ford, Chevy and GMC models during my vocation), yet there are numerous locksmiths who simply love the Astro Van or Safari Van made by GM. These minivans are prominent with a wide range of callings and are omnipresent. You can without a doubt discover one in your value run. In any case, the main request of business is to raise a work seat that will give you however much space as could reasonably be expected. Best to have the seat on one side of the van and leave the contrary side for racks or capacity receptacles. Make it solid! There is nothing more regrettable than an unstable seat when you're attempting to rekey locks. Make it level for a similar reason.

You'll require a power source. It is forgivable to string electrical lines until you can manage the cost of something better, yet remember this cheapens your polished methodology. A definitive is likely having a RediLine Generator that keeps running off your van's 12V power. This isn't a power inverter, it is really a generator and it kicks out 110-115V power. They are magnificent wellsprings of AC power and you can even run a bank of fluorescent lights off one of these for your inside shop lighting. There are a few models to look over with fluctuating yields, however they are costly. In the event that you can find a modified, that would be preferable. A decent inverter may work on the off chance that you can't manage the cost of a RediLine, yet be cautious. Some key machines (and you will must have one) won't keep running with an inverter.

Power now accessible, you have to begin with at any rate a key duplicator on your seat and ideally, too, a great code cutting machine. The last is attractive however redundant before all else except if you intend to dispatch straightforwardly into car locksmithing, in which case you'll see it difficult to get along without one. We'll address that in a minute. Key machines are practically difficult to discover utilized. You'll likely wind up purchasing a little HPC Speedex in light of the fact that they're essentially the most affordable great key duplicator around. Hope to pay around $500. Best in the event that you incorporate this in your underlying credit. A key duplicator is bread and butter for any locksmith, portable or something else, so don't consider firing up until you have one.

Outfit yourself with a decent rekeying pack. I've constantly favored 'all inclusive' units since they take the necessary steps of many other keyway-explicit packs and they are anything but difficult to utilize. LAB makes the best of these, without a doubt. On the off chance that you have the space, attempt to get a metal Classic Kit. In the event that you don't, you can begin with one of LAB's Mini-Durex units or, better, the smaller than normal rendition of the Universal Kit (LMK-005 or LMK-003). You just can't rekey locks without one, and in the event that you get a Universal you won't be limited to keying up a couple of brands . . . you'll have the option to deal with them all. Don't have the foggiest idea how to rekey locks? Get a guidance manual on the Internet or at Amazon.com. They are accessible and this is one of the speediest locksmith abilities to get. While you're busy, purchase in any event one fitting supporter, a couple of stick tweezers, and in a perfect world a couple of TruArc pincers. After some time you'll gather more rekeying apparatuses yet these basics are almost fundamental.

Indeed, even before I was profiting rekeying locks, I was being called to open vehicles. On the off chance that you expect to promote yourself as a crisis administration, you will need to take in this sort of rewarding work. Give me a chance to disclose to you now, this will be the most effortless cash you've at any point made. It is well worth learning the aptitudes required to open vehicles regardless of whether it means putting in two or three hundred dollars on devices and a decent manual. Lockouts, in any event for my situation, for all intents and purposes upheld me for a considerable length of time. In the event that you live in a medium to huge city, depend on getting lockout calls day and night regardless of whether you have just a small advertisement some place (a subject for some other time). There are numerous great lockout units accessible on the web, to suit any financial limit, and the equivalent goes for lockout manuals. Do a Google scan for 'vehicle opening instruments' or 'lockout apparatuses' and you'll experience no difficulty discovering providers. It is safe to say that they are legitimate where you live? Again . . . this is dependent upon you to decide. The provider can't and won't try to police this part of advertising, as it is basically unrealistic. I'm not pushing the buy of whatever isn't lawful where you dwell!

House and business lockouts are in like manner rewarding wellsprings of salary for the locksmith, yet these require various abilities, various apparatuses. Here is the place it ends up important to become familiar with the aptitude of lock picking - presumably the most essential

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The Greatest Fee Gateway for Your eCommerce Website

There are such a lot of choices you must make as an internet designer and it may well generally be a difficult steadiness making an attempt to place all the proper components into place. Whenever you add the ecommerce piece, it will get much more sophisticated.

In keeping with this infographic by Subscriptionly.internet, shoppers have very excessive expectations for ecommerce web sites. However in case you design it proper, there’s loads of up cash up for grabs:

We’re speaking trillions of {dollars} in gross sales that ecommerce brings in yearly. That’s why the selections you make to your purchasers’ web sites are so necessary.

Even because the way forward for ecommerce platforms introduces extra superior and clever methods to promote on-line, one factor will at all times stay the identical:

The necessity for a powerful, safe, and quick ecommerce cost gateway.

The next isn’t going to be your typical information to studying about main ecommerce cost gateways. You already know which of them I’m speaking about:

Stripe

PayPal

Amazon Pay

Braintree

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For probably the most half, all of them do the identical factor and supply simply as safe and steady cost processing as each other.

As a substitute, this information will present you what sorts of choices you must work with primarily based on the ecommerce platforms you employ to construct web sites.

  The Greatest Fee Gateway for Your eCommerce Platform

Relying on which web site builder answer you employ, your alternative of cost gateway could differ. So, to be able to enable you discover the perfect ecommerce cost processing answer, I’m going to interrupt this down primarily based on ecommerce platforms and the choices you must select from inside every.

Let’s begin by defining that are the main ecommerce platforms. Primarily based on market share information from BuiltWith, these are the most well-liked:

Let’s discover the cost gateway choices for the three commonest ecommerce platforms:

WooCommerce

WooCommerce just isn’t a standalone answer just like the others because it requires WordPress to perform. Due to this, you’re going to have an unlimited variety of third-party cost processor integrations to select from.

WooCommerce, a plugin integration for WordPress itself, comes with quite a few cost choices upon setup:

As you may see, there are a selection of in-person cost strategies WooCommerce means that you can use in addition to PayPal.

Whereas PayPal is a good cost processing useful resource, this feature doesn’t really mean you can settle for funds in your web site. As a substitute, buyers shall be shuttled over to PayPal to make their funds. That may not be a nasty factor, for a few causes.

For one, in case your consumer’s enterprise is new, it will be useful to leverage the identify of an organization like PayPal. Quite than go away clients questioning whether or not it’s protected to buy there, PayPal’s recognizability may also help instill belief at checkout.

Secondly, there’s server processing to think about, too. An ecommerce retailer is already fairly sizable and can devour a bunch of bandwidth out of your consumer’s internet server. If you happen to attempt to add a distinct cost gateway by means of a plugin to WooCommerce, you can doubtlessly decelerate the loading instances of your web site even additional (which may be problematic in WordPress).

Plus, PayPal is a superb possibility no matter which ecommerce platform you employ. Processing charges are low. You possibly can settle for bank cards and PayPal funds. It’s tremendous fortified and comes with fraud safety. Plus, it accepts funds from dozens of nations and currencies.

Greatest Fee Gateway for WooCommerce: PayPal

In case your purchasers are okay with funds being dealt with on PayPal’s web site and servers, then your greatest wager is to go together with the built-in possibility.

Shopify

Shopify is a hosted retailer builder answer that’s not solely simple to make use of, however helps customers construct very spectacular ecommerce web sites in little time. If all of your consumer wants is a retailer — they usually’re not serious about including further web site options (like a day by day weblog, social media feeds, e-mail advertising and marketing automation, and so forth.) — Shopify is a stable alternative.

Whilst you can add extra “stuff” to a Shopify retailer, it’ll value you. And the identical goes for its cost gateway choices.

Whenever you first set up Shopify, you’ll discover that your retailer is mechanically geared up with the Shopify Funds cost gateway. Though it’s labeled as “Shopify”, this cost gateway is powered by Stripe, a number one cost gateway answer in its personal proper.

In case your consumer is insistent on utilizing a distinct cost gateway apart from Shopify Funds, level this out to them:

Along with paying the processing charges from the gateway of their alternative, they’ll additionally get hit with an further charge from Shopify. In some circumstances, this may successfully double what they must pay simply to simply accept orders by means of their Shopify retailer.

However there’s loads of good that comes from utilizing Shopify Funds. As an example:

Decrease processing charges

Fraud safety

Computerized cost processing integration

Fast deposit of funds into your account (typically, a pair days)

A Stripe partnership backing the platform

Greatest Fee Gateway for Shopify: Shopify Funds / Stripe

Your greatest wager with Shopify is to make use of Shopify Funds. In all honesty, there’s no cause to not, except your consumer is conducting enterprise from a rustic the cost gateway doesn’t assist.

You could find that info right here.

Magento

Magento is the third hottest ecommerce platform. It additionally occurs to be a part of the Adobe Commerce and Expertise Clouds, which makes it rather more than an ecommerce platform. It’s an all-in-one ecommerce enterprise answer the place issues like design, advertising and marketing, enterprise administration, CRM, analytics, and extra collide.

For bigger ecommerce purchasers, this can be a nice answer.

Now, since you’re going to be designing a premium procuring expertise for a premium consumer, you actually must be sure you get the cost processing factor proper.

Out of the field, Magento offers you three cost processing choices:

Until your consumer’s clients are all in North America, you received’t wish to use Braintree. It simply doesn’t present a world attain like the opposite two choices do.

Right here’s what it’d seem like in case you had been to make use of Magento’s PayPal integration:

PayPal could look like the logical answer. It’s a recognizable cost processor. It offers you quite a few choices for accepting funds — on web site or by means of the Payflow cost gateway on PayPal’s web site. And processing charges are cheap. In all honesty, although, it’s probably not constructed for bigger ecommerce outlets.

In keeping with this Fundera comparability between PayPal and Authorize.internet, Authorize.internet is clearly the only option for purchasers that promote over $500,000 in items.

Simply remember the fact that your consumer’s enterprise should be primarily based within the U.S., U.Ok., Canada, Australia, or Europe. Prospects pays for items from all all over the world, although, and use a big assortment of cost sorts — bank cards, digital funds like Apple Pay, e-checks, and extra.

As well as, you get rather more management over cost processing and safety than you’d with different cost gateways.

Greatest Fee Gateway for Magento: Authorize.internet

Due to the character of the Magento ecommerce platform, Authorize.internet is the clear alternative for thriving ecommerce companies.

  Wrap-Up

It might sound odd that I’m recommending you employ the cost gateways that your ecommerce platform comes with out of the field when there are such a lot of different choices to select from.

Nonetheless, there’s a superb cause why these gateways had been hand-picked and built-in into your ecommerce platform. Along with having the proper of options, safety, and efficiency, the deep integration along with your store-building software program will pace up your workflow.

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Andraste’s Witch - Chapter 72 - SFW

Pairings: Slowburn Cullen x F!Witch!Inquisitor

Rating: M for later chapters which will include violence, PTSD, withdrawal,  angst, body horror (think red templars), and possibly other stuff that I will be sure to tag. This is not actually a grimdark story, but I just wanna give people a heads up for stuff that will happen. There will also be fluff and friendship and magic (though to be fair, this is Thedas, so magic will not always be positive and very rarely as adorable as that last statement implied).

Genre: Action/Adventure with elements of romance  

Summary: Back at Skyhold, Vivienne is let in on a rather unpleasant secret.

I realized it’s been over a month since I updated this fic, so I thought I would go ahead and put up the next chapter today, to take a bit of a break from my book.

Thank you to everyone who reads and puts up with the long stretches between chapters <3 Ya’ll are great!

Andraste’s Witch

Chapter 72 - Complications

Vivienne’s day started with a note slipped under her door as she applied her eyeshadow in the mirror she’d managed to procure. It was smaller than she would have liked, but it was just about the only piece of glass in Skyhold that hadn’t been cracked, and so she’d accepted it, most graciously.

Already, she’d sent for better furniture, for the main hall, the inquisitor’s chambers, and her own, of course. After all, it was hardly selfish to take care of herself while she handled other matters around the castle.

A few of her seamstresses had already made the trip out, though none of them seemed to enjoy working with Herald Finley. It was a problem that would need to be dealt with, though now was hardly the time, seeing as Finley was off trying to form an allegiance with the least influential country in Thedas.

It would be an important stepping stone, but Vivienne still wished they could have found a way to start with Orlais or even a few cities in the Free Marches.

While Ferelden itself wasn’t so terrible a country to ally with, the fact that their king was rumored to be so against magic was…tricky.

Vivienne would have liked to go with Finley, but seeing as she was the Orlesian Court’s enchantress, she was two things that King Cousland couldn’t stand, and Josephine had been such a dear in navigating how to tell that without using any of the king’s words for her.

In truth, she’d already known she wouldn’t be going.

Solas, Dorian, Grand Enchanter Fiona, all of them had been left behind in an attempt to minimize the influence mages might have in the inquisition. It was cheap and felt more like a sellout than anything else, but Vivienne recognized that with the recent chaos that her fellow mages had been wreaking, it was probably best to give the illusion that the Inquisition had a few less mages than they did, if only to put the public at ease.

Especially considering that word was spreading that mages were most welcome there, to be treated as equals instead of locked away as the general public wished.

She also wondered if they hadn’t done this—minimized the mages present in their party—because of the fact that sometimes help was required from unsavory individuals, and if that meant playing up to their comforts to make sure they could be of use, well. It would hardly be the first time she’d had to deal with that.

Most of the time she put said individuals in their place, but even she had to admit that she’d never been up against a king.

Regardless, she’d continued to do her part, sending letters to the appropriate people in a country that mattered, requesting aid and an audience in the court.

Every letter had the same response, even if the flowery words were clumped in different phrases:

With the civil war, it is impossible to sit down with any foreign organizations.

That was the response from both her people on the empress’ and grand duke’s sides.

She understood it well enough. Even if they did gain an audience with one side, they would have to deal with the fallout from the other.

And so she’d turned to trying to find a way to move things along, feeling for where people stood on the civil war, where weaknesses might be in the sides and how she might be able to sway either side into a way that could benefit her.

And the inquisition of course.

Still, it had been years since someone had slipped a letter under her door—in fact, it hadn’t been since she was a young girl in the Circles, working her way up to make sure that no one ever held her back or down.

And so, with no one there to witness, she set aside her makeup and wandered over quietly, picking up the paper to see it wasn’t even in an envelope.

The letter was written in Tevene.

Brow pinching together for but a second, Vivienne finished preparing her face and then slipped out of the room, going about her day as usual, though she kept an eye out for anyone who might be watching her, checking to see what she might do with what she’d been given.

She found the time to go to the library, though to her disappointment, the Tevinter mage had apparently left to rid the world of bandits or some such heroism that sounded more like an excuse to get away from the tranquil than anything else. The man was so wholly unnerved by them.

Vivienne pitied them more than anything.

However, regardless of how she felt, when she turned to find one of the tranquil standing directly behind her, blank gaze focused so completely upon her, she couldn’t help but stand a little taller.

“Do you need something, my dear?”

“You are Lady Vivienne.”

She tilted her head slightly, appraising the woman and pushing aside her desire to react to that eerie monotone. “I am.”

“I can translate your letter.”

At that, Vivienne’s brow arched. “What makes you think I have need for your skills?”

“This morning I found a letter where I work. It said you would need assistance.” The tranquil’s voice was so dead, her expression so lifeless. “I had tasks to complete, of course, but I intended to come find you when they were finished.”

Vivienne stared at the tranquil for what couldn’t have been more than a second, though it felt far too long for her as she gathered herself and made sure that her mask never slipped. Someone had given her a message they knew she couldn’t read and then set one of the tranquil up to translate for her?

Who would do this?

It felt more like a trap of some sort than anything else, and so Vivienne gave the tranquil a pointed smile and shook her head. “I’m afraid whoever left you that note was mistaken. I’m in no need of services.”

Before the tranquil could ask any further questions, she slipped away.

The next day, another note found its way under her door.

Vivienne didn’t bother to go to it until she was ready to leave the room this time, leaning down to pick it up in one quick motion and then frowning as she noticed that this note was similar to the last.

Maker preserve her, it was the same note.

How had someone gotten it out of her room?

After finding no clues about what was going on in her room, she settled for finally inspecting the note itself.

A translation had already been written at the bottom.

Maker help them, but if the words scrawled across the page were true, then the venatori were already in Skyhold, working their way in with the rebel mages as they awaited orders. To do what, it didn’t say, though she could easily imagine.

Even if there were only a few of them, if they started a riot with magic, the templars would lash out and the mages who weren’t involved would fight back. The entire valley would erupt in fighting.

Of course this would be happening when the heads of the organization were away.

Opening the door, she cut her stride short as she found the same tranquil from before waiting for her.

“I translated your note.”

“It is not mine if you need to slip it under the door.”

“The instructions said I was to do so.”

Vivienne frowned. “What instructions?”

The tranquil reached into her sleeve and pulled out a small piece of paper, her motion so smooth, not a single bit of energy wasted.

Were it not for the years she’d spent learning not to let signs of discomfort or unease into her body language, she might have snatched the little paper. Instead, she took it as though she were receiving any other letter, allowing herself to read over the paper without any sign of worry on her face.

Translate this and slip it under Lady Vivienne de Fer’s door. She will need this.

The handwriting was simple, yet clear.

“Who gave this to you?”

“It was at my work station.”

“So you’ve no idea who might want me to read this? Templar? Mage? Other?”

“Do you need anything else of me?” The woman asked in that pitiful monotone, expression blank as ever. “I was told to bring the note, but not what to do after.”

Taking in a slow breath, Vivienne gave the tranquil a practiced smile. “No, my dear. You may go.”

“Goodbye.”

And with that, the tranquil turned on her heels and headed off to whatever part of the library she worked in.

Vivienne stood outside her door a moment longer, glancing down to compare the notes. None of the handwritings matched, which made sense, if the first note really was intercepted from some plot afoot.

But what if it wasn’t?

Who would benefit from a witch hunt, so to speak, now of all times?

Could the templars be behind this? Were they coming to her because they knew she would be loyal to the Chantry and they thought she would easily toss her fellow mages to the wolves?

No sooner had her door closed, she was en route to see someone she’d dearly hoped she could avoid for the rest of her days.

Grand Enchanter Fiona.