{"id":2062,"date":"2014-11-21T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T14:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2014-11-21T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T14:55:44","slug":"friday-21-november-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2014\/11\/21\/friday-21-november-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 21 November 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:55 –<\/span> I still need to build some science kits. As of this morning, after shipping today’s orders we’ll be down to two biology kits and one forensic kit in stock. I have everything I need to build another couple dozen of each, but I need to bag the chemicals before I can build the kits. So after I get the outstanding orders queued up to ship, that’s what I’ll be doing today.
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I see that Mr. Obama has done what he himself said not long ago he was Constitutionally prohibited from doing. I’m sure he believes this is the right thing to do. That’s one clear difference between libertarians like me and progressives like Obama: libertarians try to do what they believe is the right thing, but only at their own expense; progressives try to do what they believe is the right thing, but only at other people’s expense.
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Work on the prepping book continues. Right now, I’m writing about keeping insulin cool as a short-term solution and about isolating insulin from animal pancreata as a long-term solution. The latter is surprisingly easy. The hardest part is identifying the pancreata in animal corpses. Using animal insulin does raise allergy issues, but it’s a hell of a lot better than nothing. The thought just crossed my mind that if I were writing a post-apocalyptic novel, as I originally intended to do, I’d probably have characters isolating insulin from the corpses of people who’d attacked them. In fact, I might have them keeping prisoners and killing one as necessary to produce more insulin. But then I’m a bloodthirsty kind of guy, at least when it comes to writing fiction.
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09:55 – I still need to build some science kits. As of this morning, after shipping today’s orders we’ll be down to two biology kits and one forensic kit in stock. I have everything I need to build another couple dozen of each, but I need to bag the chemicals before I can build the kits. So after I get the outstanding orders queued up to ship, that’s what I’ll be doing today.\n<\/p>\n

I see that Mr.<\/p>\n

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