Actively sweating in a pool
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cornerofmadnessSince this was the last day it wasn't supposed to rain while I'm housesitting, I went to Fort Steuben. It's a small recreated fort in Steubenville OH. It was created to protect surveyors while they were mapping out the Northwest territory. It was nothing much new for me but I'm glad I finally went. I mean I've lived like 20 miles away growing up and never once came here.
What was cool is they recently added a surveyor's building (and named it in honor of a local surveyor and army man who passed) and the cool thing was since this DOES get a lot of field trip kids to it, they had info on becoming a surveyor in there for them. I mean when was the last time you've heard someone talking about that?
The elderly lady volunteer almost didn't want to sell me a ticket because it was SO. Fucking. Hot. She wasn't wrong. I was happy to see the fort was honest in its history (something Maga has been threatening museums over) and I learned Washington was worse than I imagined. The British army used 39 lashes of a cat of nine tails as their upper limit. Washington thought that wasn't good enough. Got the government to raise it to 100 lashes (which is nuts) and this wasn't enough for Washington either (as men were still willing to risk it) and petitioned for 500 lashes (the gov said now but jesus....)
I got very hot and went into the pool but since it was 94 degrees that did not help.
I was too hot to do much but went to a restaurant for their a/c (figuring it would be cooler) it's an irish bar created by Franco Carapellotti (which would explain the mural of Dean Martin in there....) I liked my nutty monkey (it was the day to over pay for drinks 10$ cocktail 9$ chocolate covered strawberry latte) but skrewball's peanut butter whiskey a) tastes like the middle of a recesse's peanut butter cup and b) overpowers everything. This had banana liquor maple syrup and bitters. I could taste none of that (I had tried that PB whiskey myself with chocolate liquor and nothing but PB then too)
Also I sweated the frakking Dexcom off my arm. No lie, just fell right off.
What I Just Finished Reading:
War Child - a DS9 Bajor heavy book that somehow hinges on outdated earth gender hair/clothing norms. WHY
What I am Currently Reading:
The Wood - an urban fantasy so far so good
Dark and Dangerous Journey - WWII mystery arc
Monster Burger - urban fantasy (and ha both of the UF books are set in Columbus OH)
What I Plan to Read Next:
Pantomine - an LGBT (intersexed main character) fantasy, I like it but i'm shelving it for a bit
What was cool is they recently added a surveyor's building (and named it in honor of a local surveyor and army man who passed) and the cool thing was since this DOES get a lot of field trip kids to it, they had info on becoming a surveyor in there for them. I mean when was the last time you've heard someone talking about that?
The elderly lady volunteer almost didn't want to sell me a ticket because it was SO. Fucking. Hot. She wasn't wrong. I was happy to see the fort was honest in its history (something Maga has been threatening museums over) and I learned Washington was worse than I imagined. The British army used 39 lashes of a cat of nine tails as their upper limit. Washington thought that wasn't good enough. Got the government to raise it to 100 lashes (which is nuts) and this wasn't enough for Washington either (as men were still willing to risk it) and petitioned for 500 lashes (the gov said now but jesus....)
I got very hot and went into the pool but since it was 94 degrees that did not help.
I was too hot to do much but went to a restaurant for their a/c (figuring it would be cooler) it's an irish bar created by Franco Carapellotti (which would explain the mural of Dean Martin in there....) I liked my nutty monkey (it was the day to over pay for drinks 10$ cocktail 9$ chocolate covered strawberry latte) but skrewball's peanut butter whiskey a) tastes like the middle of a recesse's peanut butter cup and b) overpowers everything. This had banana liquor maple syrup and bitters. I could taste none of that (I had tried that PB whiskey myself with chocolate liquor and nothing but PB then too)
Also I sweated the frakking Dexcom off my arm. No lie, just fell right off.
What I Just Finished Reading:
War Child - a DS9 Bajor heavy book that somehow hinges on outdated earth gender hair/clothing norms. WHY
What I am Currently Reading:
The Wood - an urban fantasy so far so good
Dark and Dangerous Journey - WWII mystery arc
Monster Burger - urban fantasy (and ha both of the UF books are set in Columbus OH)
What I Plan to Read Next:
Pantomine - an LGBT (intersexed main character) fantasy, I like it but i'm shelving it for a bit
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Date: 2025-07-31 10:40 am (UTC)Hopefully the weather cools down for us all again soon. I know up here it's been terribly hot, too. :-/
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Date: 2025-07-31 03:19 pm (UTC)Yeah Washington was a winner
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Date: 2025-08-04 10:51 am (UTC)Oh I bet!!
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