u/Sharp_Wishbone_9362

Hello all. Just found out about this group, so hopefully I am in the right place. I've been reading the series The Kingmaker by Toby Clements super slowly, as it isn't available in Canada. Looking to listen to an audiobook version of the last two books. Divided Souls and Kingdom Come.

I have an ontario card to share with anyone who would let me use their account for these audiobooks, and these ones only! I read the first book about 5 years ago and would really LOVE to know how the series ends. Many thanks!

Looking for a bit of input. I bought some biltong to take on a canoe trip. It’s a bit wetter than I think is smart to pack in a camping barrel for a few days. It’s otherwise a vegan trip and this will be my only animal products so I’m counting on them to be edible. I don’t have access to a biltong box or anywhere it could hang to dry sadly.

Do I cut it into more manageable strips and use a dehydrator OR attempt to use the oven fan and light. I know neither is ideal but what is the better approach.

My husband is going in for a consult about a vasectomy tomorrow. Tonight while I was cooking dinner he came in to show me a stand up comedy short, a man detailing his experience getting a vasectomy. The comedian was uncomfortable that he was asked to undress from the waist down put on a paper sheet and sit in an office waiting like that, that a man wasn't the doctor came in and had to clean the ‘area’. I think my this point my face was showing that I was supremely unimpressed. He says he’s nervous about the doctor’s appointment and I am trying to be sympathetic. I may of snapped at him and told him to look up IUD insertion or a Pap smear. That a grown man doing a comedy routine about something I’ve experienced yearly since I was 18 isn‘t something I find funny. More enraged that this would be his first time experiencing the medical vulnerability, how did men get so lucky?On top of the fact that I know as a man will be numbed, while I get told the cervix doesn’t have nerves. Not my finest moment

Little background. I am 32 and have been asking to get my tubes tied since I was 18. I live in an area where doctors won’t do this procedure unless you’ve had kids, I’m on a waiting list but have been told it pretty much a non starter. My husband in the other hand was able to make his consultation over the phone. I think this is where a lot of the frustration comes out. I suffer from PMDD and probable endometriosis, truly horrendous periods, suffered on the pill so switched to hormonal iud. I’ve have had 2 IUDs and get a yearly pap smear. For 5 years I‘ve been in charge of our family planning (or very pointed lack thereof) I am trying to gather up sympathy and failing

When he goes in for the procedure I know he gets numbing and several days off. The fact that he’s been able to go five years without visiting the doctor because doctor’s visits honestly pisses me off. I don’t particularly enough being ratcheted open and internally prodded at but I’ve done it because it’s part of being a sexually active adult. I think he wants points for going to the doctor, like welcome to adulthood. I’m aware I’m more angry with the state of reproductive medical care discrepancy between genders but grrrr