Images from a sleepless life.

[Reefering1]

This is exactly what I expected from the vendor!

Asd?

 

[Dom]

So what's an "Othet"? ;)

 

[KrisReef]

Asd?

I can pick up from them if I feel like driving in SD traffic. They were not responsible for the bagging error in this instance.

This order was made from another highly respected vendor, and they were shipping a bunch of orders from their recent sale and I expect they were/are crazy busy.

I have learnt to not get to upset at these kinds of situations. If I order from them again down the road I may send them a link to this thread and ask them if they have anymore snails for sale and see how they respond?

If the baggers were sloppy, maybe they were tired, so maybe these 11 snails fell in a crack in the bagging table? That could spell a horrible death for livestock and could create a horrific dead snail stench so thick they will taste dead snails for a week after the initial whiff.

:cool:

 

[GoAskAlice]

Palisades wildfire

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[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

I just got a call to go 80 miles away to investigate a 3 gallon gasoline overfill on the other side of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area. The sun set hours ago but the evaporation rate of gasoline will have removed all traces of the fuel spilled unless someone ignited it so I can find the impact area?

Saturday I went to the beach to investigate smuggling boats but they also evaporated before I arrived?

Tonight I was trying to sleep when dispatch rang with tonight’s nonsense that has me awake and wondering;

Do you know someone who works on call with their job?

Before I retired (mostly), I was a public aquarium curator. I was on call 24/7. Two things would happen: our security staff would call me with "something doesn't look right" or the computerized system would ping my phone with an alert for some parameter being out of range. I would get up to 10 calls per week. Trouble is, the facility was an hour's drive away and the vast majority of the calls were false or non-important alarms. My option was to go in and check and then get no sleep, or decide to risk not going in and then have insomnia worrying about it for the rest of the night. That was the main reason I retired at 62.

 

[KrisReef]

Before I retired (mostly), I was a public aquarium curator. I was on call 24/7. Two things would happen: our security staff would call me with "something doesn't look right" or the computerized system would ping my phone with an alert for some parameter being out of range. I would get up to 10 calls per week. Trouble is, the facility was an hour's drive away and the vast majority of the calls were false or non-important alarms. My option was to go in and check and then get no sleep, or decide to risk not going in and then have insomnia worrying about it for the rest of the night. That was the main reason I retired at 62.

Irony Jay, for I’m getting ready for a field response exercise 5 hours from now. We are supposed to simulate a safe response but I’m fairly certain that we did not perform a proper, environmental risk analysis for the Snowy Plovers that have shown up early to nest on the beaches we are planning to stomp around on.

I should be asleep but I’m responding to an alarm, probably false, that has stolen much of my sleep this evening/morning.
Life is messy.

 

[Jay Hemdal Verified Community Expert]

Irony Jay, for I’m getting ready for a field response exercise 5 hours from now. We are supposed to simulate a safe response but I’m fairly certain that we did not perform a proper, environmental risk analysis for the Snowy Plovers that have shown up early to nest on the beaches we are planning to stomp around on.

I should be asleep but I’m responding to an alarm, probably false, that has stolen much of my sleep this evening/morning.
Life is messy.

Our staff goes yearly to Lake Michigan for a few weeks to monitor piping plovers. I've never gone with them, but they live on site during that time (nesting time?)

 

[GoAskAlice]

Interesting! When standing still, these little birds can literally hide in plain sight!

 

[KrisReef]

Interesting! When standing still, these little birds can literally hide in plain sight! Kind of like the truth sometimes.

The truth doesn't have to hide. People have to have the eyes and look hard to see it, and after seeing it they have to believe their eyes. The latter part seems to be the frequent failing point, most people dismiss what seems impossible or unlikely. It's right where the Devil works most effectively.