Sure, feel a little helpless since I can't do much to help you feel better, but tell me how your day has been at least.
Well, I'm glad to see you still kicking, but sad to hear it took a turn for the worse.
If you were in the bible belt I'd say you should hunt down a church, but with you heading north dunno which way for you to turn. If you were an alcoholic I'd say find the local AA chapter, but don't know if there's an equivalent without substance abuse. You probably have a clearer idea of what's around you than I do rn, just keep an eye out for people who can help, I guess.
It's really shocking how much some things would be streamlined if I was an alcoholic or into hard drugs.
Uggh. I would kill for one full day at a motel…
No idea, but the damn things are everywhere I go. Massive, expensive, and luxurious. Huge envy.
It sounds cartoonish, but tbh you might be best off pretending to be an alcoholic and getting into AA.
The thought has occurred to me more than once.
Sometimes you've got to play the hand you're dealt. In your case that means being Edward Norton in Fight Club. Just don't become a terrorist
Isn't that sort of the plot of Squid Game?
I think so? Sorta?
Yeah, me too brother. I tell you what though, I have a new and bitter perspective on how much food waste goes on in America today. Hunger sure as hell can focus your attention on the basics of life. I don't think I'll ever take decent, regular meals for granted ever again no matter where I end up.
Supermarket dumpsters are basically full of edible but unsold food. Companies avoid giving it away for reasons(?) but if you dodge the produce for stuff that's still sealed you're good. Issue is they're sometimes locked. Gas stations (to some extent) do much the same thing when they've got to shift stock and will often just hand off a box of whatever to local homeless.
Liability concerns I imagine.
Exactly so.
We're also in the golden age of food availability as far as human history is concerned as well. In no other period in history has food been so abundant and cheap as it is right now, to the point that it's more economically viable for food producers to destroy vast quantities of food that may still be perfectly edible just to avoid a potential legal scuffle with some random person who had a tummy ache from eating a slice of cheese beyond its professed expiration date or something like that.
It's cheaper to throw it away than deal with the logistics necessary to give it away.
Problem is, there's a Good Samaritan food giveaway law that covers this.
From the USDA website;
I've had much the same in my area, it's apparently(?) this year's strain of the flu. You've got to get off the road for a week or two, hunker down somewhere warm/find a hospital. Cough/flu medication massively helped, but I've spent the last week still recovering (my immune system is kinda shit though).
Bro, you've got to ask them to call you an ambulance or something. If they've got mega RVs they might even get you airlifted out, idk.
Wait a heck. What band (assuming you're a status Native) are you part of? I thought walrus hunting was only allowed in the Territories, not Ontario?
I am glad to see you're still rolling mate, in spite of your illness. I shall add you to my prayers tonight.
I'm not too sure on the fine legal details, but we can generally hunt walrus. I won't say what my band name is, considering it's so regionally specific that I'd essentially be doxxing myself, but I am Swampy Cree if you're still curious. It's a long story for the walrus hunting on our part, best way I can compress it is my tribe's hunting grounds can sometimes extend north into the Hudson Bay, so far north that we can encounter Inuit (and the mentioned walrus.)
If your phone is on, it should have GPS functionality.
Oops, I meant to say tribe but my brain defaulted to band while I was typing the status part. I went to high school in a small town (father was in the military) and there was a rez (Mohawks) nearby. All the rez kids went to my high school and I became friends with some of them. Learned how crap of a deal you Natives got (and are still getting) from the gov and your own chiefs.
Bro, I can't even afford a full tank of gas, how can I get all that?
Tell him you're auditioning for the role of the Dilophosaurus in a Jurassic Park remake and ask if he'll play the part of Dennis Nedry.
Most walruses can get as big as a polar bear. While walruses seem like an easy meal to younger polar bears, most older ones don't bother with em from what I've heard. Yeah... those tusks can kill and their fat blubber acts like a natural armor which makes polar bears sometimes struggle with biting into them.
From the few times I've had it over the past years: a leaner, gamey veal/beef with hints of fishiness.
We have trout. And they get record size big too. There's pike - actually there's a lake that's famous in my tribe for producing crazy huge pike, like several feet long at least.
If you can afford it... garlic & onions, honey + ibuprofen. Should help you out if you try out a dollar store or budget friendly equivalent.
That's actually pretty similar to remedies I've used in the past.
Hmmmm . . . Have you tried looking at this site (assuming you're still in Florida)?
Interesting.
Alright, I'm putting walrus meat on my bucket list now.
What species of trout?
Aren't sturgeon strictly catch and release because they're endangered?
