#laying track

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"RUSHING THE C. N. R. LINE FROM PEMBROKE," Ottawa Citizen. October 15, 1913. Page 1. --- Contractor Expects Steel to be Laid to Portage Du Fort This Fall. ---- J. P. Mullarkey, contractor for the construction of the section of the Canadian Northern transcontinental railway between Ottawa and Pembroke, began to lay steel easterly from Pembroke two days ago. Before the severely cold weather comes, he says, he will have the steel laid as far as Portage du Fort, a distance of 27 miles.

Before the middle of next month the rails will be laid from Ottawa as far as Chats Falls. Then work on the construction of the two bridges over the Ottawa river, one at Portage du Fort and the other at Chats Falls, will be rushed so that the bridges will be completed early next spring.

The entire section of the road in question has been graded and it is planned to have it ready for operation in the fall of next year. The contractors on the sections from Pembroke to North Bay and from North Bay to the C. N. R. line now in operation from Fort William westward are making good headway with their work. Early in 1915, perhaps before then, the whole line from east to west will be ready for traffic.

The length of the C. N. R. route to Pembroke from Ottawa is 86 miles, 36 shorter than the C. P. R. and 22 shorter than the Grand Trunk.

[barissoffee]

Star Wars: The Bad Batch 3.12 | Juggernaut

[wis-art]

only us and linger on type piece

[bleaksqueak]

She…

[lycheefruiit]

i love this group

[terezis]

ok. i just need to walk through this out loud.

ks creator says in an update "4-5 weeks for [kickstarter reward] to ship" at the end of july. okay, that's fine.

i look and see that they've been selling said reward on etsy this whole month, which review pics to prove it. annoying, but ok. i ask about this.

they reply by saying "sorry 4-5 more weeks, still being made!" i ask "but then why are they being sold on etsy?"

they message me privately and say apparently they HAVE shipped mine back in JULY (despite saying they were still preparing the item on the updates(?)) but i never got it, could i check with my neighbor or post office please?

i am never getting this doll am i

[samuelroukin]

hey don’t think about the fact that izzy literally dying in his arms is pretty much the only time he had ed’s full attention

[akkivee]

[keeps-ache]

skykids :D !!

[Eien belongs to my brother Leo, Pepeka belongs to @euclid-dragon !!]

[vroomvroomsposts]

Carlos after quali. 😭

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"UNKNOWN ASSAILANT CAUGHT," Edmonton Bulletin. March 7, 1913, Page 10. ---- The unknown Italian assailant of P. Blanc, the half-breed teamster from Lac St. Anne, was, late yesterday afternoon, captured by officers of the R.N.W,M.P. some miles north of the scene of the affray. He was brought into Lac St. Anne last night where he will come up for hearing today.

Tuesday afternoon Blanc drove a gang of railroad laborers from Lac St. Anne to a construction camp at the scene of track laying on the C. N.R. Peace River branch. While he was returning home another gang who demanded him to turn around and take them to the camp, which he refused, and in the argument following Blanc was badly cut with a knife and so seriously injured that fears for his recovery are held. Only a very meagre account of the arrest of the alleged assailant was received fast night and nothing is known of the many except that he is an Italian.

[queeraang]

speaking of how adhd steals your fucking dopamine. i keep meaning to share some tips for i manage it.

so obviously finishing a task doesn't make you feel good, like it does other people, but i've found that if you don't have the lingering dread of Task it's almost like feeling good. so the main thing i tell myself it "it won't be easier later"

because most of the tasks i put off are chores and realistically, the sooner you wash dishes/do your laundry the less shitty the actual task is. also i try to knock everything out at the same time, because i'm up and moving so it's kind of like tricking the executive dysfunction because i don't have to "start" more than one thing.

multitasking is also good for gameifying things, like can i wash these dishes before the oven's done? i also recommend a cleaning/cooking-sona (i put on an apron and play a specific playlist personally)

the other little tip is if you have multiple things to do, try and do the one you'll forget first. by that i mean whichever thing has the fewest natural reminders. so if i need to feed the cats AND take something out of the freezer to thaw, i try and do freezer first because my cats are going to yell at me until they get wet food so i can't really forget whereas the freezer thing could slip my mind until it's too late

(all of this comes with the caveat that i am also autistic so i do have a sort of 'we eat the worst part of the meal first to get the suffering over with' sort of nature that other people might not. also i don't have any like heavily debilitating physical issues where waiting a day to do a task might genuinely be easier because of pain or something)

[lucaonthropy]

Okay listen, I completely understand where the shippers are coming from but as an a-spec person I think it would be a hundred times funnier if LQG is aromantic and his loyalty to SQQ is completely platonic but it's so fucking intense that it bleeds to near-devotion. Like, that would be hilarious I think.

[andy-clutterbuck]

[xnewtiebooty]

I can't do this 😭

[burning-academia-if]

Also fair warning for the upcoming monthly update. I have, deleted more than I've written this month askldfja

Writing has been rough(tm)