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I don't live on my own and when I get padding (usually Goodnites) it's from a physical store rather than ordering online. And I then sneak them in. Sometimes I leave them in the trunk of my car and wait until a better time. But I have avoided doing this during cold weather. I know some elastic materials lose their elasticity when they get cold, but I don't know if this has lasting effects after they've warmed up. I'm planning to restock soon, and my region has been having a bout of particularly cold weather (lows below 0°F some nights), but I don't know if the cold will affect the Goodnites, especially the elastic.

I'm looking for a few comprehensive opinions on them. I've only ordered the traditional ones, and had no problems. There might be a post on this, but I can't find it.   Stay padded my friends, MixerOp

By chance I happened to bump into the owner of the winery and my face brightened, relieved to find that my trek out here wasn't going to turn out to be a wasted journey, fearing the vineyard could be shut. Indeed it was a common enough mistake amongst tourists visiting my native France, not to be aware that some rural areas particularly, there were no such things a fixed opening and closing times, with the local consumers simply becoming familar with the habits local shopkeepers regarding what hours they choose to keep. The only constant seemed to be bread. You always rose early if you wanted quality fresh bread or you went to supermarket later and bought the second rate commercial stuff.  My relief at having encountered another human being quickly faltterd as we realised we didn't seem to understand one another. I lamely felt in a pocket for my tiny phrase book but I felt ill equipped for the quickly spoken string of Slovak words the man had greeted me with. In the end I didn't even bother taking the book out of my pocket.  The man helpfully gestured to a cellar and I understood immediately. "Oui. Très bien." I praised the gentleman as I followed him down some stone steps into the gloom. I was a tall man and broad in my shoulders, so I found myself having to stoop to avoid the vaulted ceiling until I was seated.  "Ah. Merci." I thanked the man as I was shown to the table and then I remembered that ought to be trying to speak Slovak, so I fished out my pocket phrase book and set it on thr table in front of me, flicking through the pages.  "Ďakujem..." my finger followed down the page "Volám sa Joseph Jerome" although my name had a direct Slovak equvilant, spelt the same, my accident might have made it sound unfamiliar. "Vino... Prosim." I smiled and then looked pointedly at the bottles resting on the racks and the caskets ageing. 

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This is technically done in one day shifts to make sure the workers don't make mistakes - and they cannot ever afford mistakes when it comes to the safety of the Dome because not only would it melt down like a nuclear powerplant and possibly kill everyone on the bottom floor, but it would open Teichon to the worst of the bombs. Two-day shifts are extraordinarily rare; three days in a row is considered impossible. I based this a lot on a combination of both deep-sea hyperbaric welding and pressured cave diving body recovery, except with blazing heat and fire rather than bitter cold and water. Both jobs are about as unforgiving as it gets in the worst conditions, and every engineer in the Dome is trained for such a thing; if you can't cut it in the engine, you're not going to be hired on, period. The confined space is only part of the problem. Axel mentioned dehydration and heat stroke, and that's a huge scare, being stuck in a heavy (for the size he is now) suit, helmet and tools. And it takes time to equalize the pressure from the decompression chamber to the actual outside. But as you've succinctly stated, it's the part where's he's still infant-sized and not working that's going to cause the most problems. Not just amongst the vast majority of the coworkers, but because Matilda is in the picture and because of what she hinted. That's all I'll say; I gotta get my padded butt going on Jyrgal's chapter (as well as other stories, XP).   There're a few decent people, though! Raven and Oriole may not be happy campers with how Axel's treated them, but they're good people, Austin is a very decent person (and I hope he survives the frontline fighting), and there may be someone at Jyrgal's work who is a decent person herself. Jyrgal's brothers and Axel's parents are definitely decent people. Eseld was a decent person until LES came into the fray. Heather is honestly even nicer than Jyrgal and Axel are, which is astonishing, given Matilda's cruelty. And yeah, it's a crazy job to do. Raven and Oriole deserve massive props, as well, more than Axel even; they've been alternating with each other doing this job for a very long time. Everyone at that work is capable of it, but nobody there really wants to be shrunk down to six-month-old size, for very obvious reasons. Thank you both for the reviews!