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No idea where to buy them, though.Find companies selling rivet strap martin boots (google!). Send email. Eventually you'll find someone either willing to make them or aware of whoever makes 'em, and can proceed accordingly.
Something something have the means to replace. Doesn't mean you should if you can just fix it, damnit!That sounds frightening but awesome. I'm kinda fascinated by jellyfish.The few hundred smaller ones didn't help, ha. I didn't get stung, somehow, but being surrounded by hundreds and hundreds of dreadfully painful things is... unsettling. And somewhat psychologically lingering, heh. Not as badly as the boat thing, but eh.
You're in Florida, right? I admit, I'd be much more hesitant about swimming there.Yeah. And eeehhh, I think we only lose a couple people a year at the most. Mortality rate's not high, iirc. More afraid of you than you are of them, etc., etc., etc. Sometimes. Water moccasins'll chase yer arse down, occasionally.
I can understand the appeal of pools if you're into that kind of thing. I just can't do it. To be conscious and not actively engaged in something is infuriating to me. Hell, to be unconscious is infuriating to me, because it prevents me from being actively engaged in something. I hate sleep because I hate to stop doing things.Eh, was more or less a survival skill for me. Not being able to disconnect and shut the brain up for a while would have been worse for my sanity than, well, how things did go down. Took... probably a decade of somewhat intermittent, but fairly dedicated, practice to get the trick(s) to it. Occasionally irritation like you're talking about tries to rear its head, but I just ask myself, "Is being irritated going to help? Is it going to change the situation or improve my enjoyment of it? No? No." and that's that.
I get freaked out by it too, if I allow myself to think about it. It's so easy to imagine some kind of mega-gigantic mouth with a couple dozen 50 ft tentacles attached lurking below.Yeeaaah, I've got a bit of a thing about salt water these days. Comes from not really having to imagine something like that. Tide came in when I was young and out in the ocean, jellyfish bigger than I was (at the time) came with it. Seawater's never quite been the same since then
Natural water has currents and stuff that provide some challenge and an element of exploration, so it feels worth the effort to swallow down some irrational fears.Also occasionally alligators and snakes and various hi-ho infestation, awaaay things, and whatnot. You take the good with the bad. Spring water in midsummer is freakin' glorious, though. Almost feels like you could get bloody frostbite in that stuff.
its a federal law, for here in Utah i can still be in possession with one.Near as I can tell from some quick checking, th'federal law only applies to purchasing if you're under 21 (and then, only from federally licensed dealers or across state lines). You can still legally possess a handgun if you're 18 (actually younger, in certain circumstances, usually temporary) providing state law doesn't say otherwise.
In order to buy a handgun through a federally licensed dealer, yes 21. However some states, including my own, allow you to buy one at 18 from a private seller. It's not as simple as "Hey Jim, wanna buy my old Walther?" of course, there's a purchase permit process.Purchase permit process depending on the state. Florida, ferex, doesn't have one, even for handguns, unless the law's changed quite recently. Interesting thing down here is that so long as you're legally capable of possessing the firearm (which, in the case of handguns, is over 18 and the standard sanity checks -- no history of mental issues, no criminal record, etc.), so long as you don't specifically give someone money to go out and buy you a gun, any one and everyone can just hand the weapon over to you as a gift. No records, no permits, no nothing. And yeah, you could buy from a private (non-federally licensed) seller if you're 18 and up.
