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Fic of the Day:Beetlejuice
Ahh. Pick-axing. Good exercise and therapeutic too. And if I keep at it, I might not have to mountain goat so much on my way to the truck. (The packed snowdrift I've been walking over for the last six, seven months has developed an incline that is coming dangerously close to sliding me right under the truck.) I don’t have a metal shovel, you see, just a plastic one, which is a shame, because I can do some serious damage with a good metal shovel. The bright side is that I’m getting the hang of the pick-axe, too.
It only took me a few swings to figure out that power is not the issue. Swing it as hard as you want and just get it stuck. Angle is much more important. A tap here, a tap there. Hit the encrusted snow bank just right and big chunks of it shatter off. Kinda like Dim Mak for packed snow.
I was trying to be careful since I was pick-axing in such close proximity to a) the truck, and b) my own legs. I’ve seen enough episodes of America’s Funniest Videos to know that that’s $100 waiting to happen.
Ahh. Pick-axing. Good exercise and therapeutic too. And if I keep at it, I might not have to mountain goat so much on my way to the truck. (The packed snowdrift I've been walking over for the last six, seven months has developed an incline that is coming dangerously close to sliding me right under the truck.) I don’t have a metal shovel, you see, just a plastic one, which is a shame, because I can do some serious damage with a good metal shovel. The bright side is that I’m getting the hang of the pick-axe, too.
It only took me a few swings to figure out that power is not the issue. Swing it as hard as you want and just get it stuck. Angle is much more important. A tap here, a tap there. Hit the encrusted snow bank just right and big chunks of it shatter off. Kinda like Dim Mak for packed snow.
I was trying to be careful since I was pick-axing in such close proximity to a) the truck, and b) my own legs. I’ve seen enough episodes of America’s Funniest Videos to know that that’s $100 waiting to happen.
