Hot and humid.\u00a0 Probably overcast with a chance of storms.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I guess we’ll see.<\/p>\n
Yesterday was hot and humid.\u00a0 Not as terrible as Saturday but still unpleasant in the garage and outdoors.\u00a0 Wife and kids spent the whole day inside.\u00a0 I did some outdoors stuff and worked in the garage.\u00a0 I’m pretty much going to have to make time to put the A\/C into the garage.\u00a0 Otherwise, I won’t get much use during most of the year.\u00a0 I will tell myself it’s better for my food storage too.<\/p>\n
Projects.\u00a0 I got ’em.<\/p>\n
Did get some small progress done yesterday.\u00a0 Found some more stuff for the auction.\u00a0 Sold a speaker on ebay.\u00a0 Bought a bunch of stuff in the housewares amazon returns auction.\u00a0 Watching those bids took a lot of time in 15 minute slices.\u00a0 Did some small cleanup in the garage.\u00a0 Fixed a fan.\u00a0 Read a few chapters of a book.\u00a0 I was a\u00a0 bit wiped out after Saturday.<\/p>\n
Dinner was brats and fixin’s.\u00a0\u00a0 Brats were fresh from the last Costco supply drop, onions and potatoes from the one before that.\u00a0 Corn and ice cream were from the HEB grocery drop.\u00a0 I’ve said it before, but it’s a damn peculiar zombie apocalypse when you can have food delivered to your door.<\/p>\n
Another peculiar thing was transitioning from “prepping” to “using”.\u00a0\u00a0 After a while, I realized I need to go back to buying stuff to replace stores as they are used.\u00a0 I don’t NEED to get toilet paper right now, but if I don’t there will come a time when I’ve run out.\u00a0 Hoping to resupply at some future date is not a prudent or practical plan.\u00a0 So far, we’ve been mostly eating out of current shopping with additions from the long term stockpile.\u00a0 I’d like to build up some extra protein storage, and adjust some of my long term canned food.\u00a0 I’m heavy on canned corn, just as an example, and I’ve only used up one case so far.\u00a0 It’s going to be more expensive to replace the stuff I’ve used, as I bought it only when it was on sale, and there are few sales at the moment.\u00a0 I’ll call it ‘dollar cost averaging’ for food and stuff instead of investments.<\/p>\n
On the plus side, being well prepared for something that was nowhere on my wife’s radar has built up a nice store of goodwill toward prepping and some of my more ‘out there’ preps.\u00a0 Having the stuff and having it at hand has made a big difference.\u00a0 When you hit on a long shot, some of your other long shots look a little more reasonable.\u00a0 I’ve also gotten a nice bump in tolerance for auctions now that she’s figured out that I can buy the stuff SHE wants…\u00a0 now, if I can get my sales up, I’ll be golden.<\/p>\n
I’m going to advise accepting that this is the beginning of how things are going to be for a while, and that we’re probably not going back to “the way things were.”\u00a0 The sooner you accept that as reality, and start adjusting to it, the better off you’ll be.\u00a0\u00a0 A lot of the lost jobs aren’t coming back anytime soon.\u00a0 There is a glut of autos on the market, I’ve seen a local dealer using the dead mall parking lot as storage.\u00a0 He hasn’t even bothered to fence it in.\u00a0 I’m sure there are other areas of oversupply too.\u00a0 Air travel capacity comes to mind.\u00a0 Shopping malls.\u00a0 Theaters.\u00a0 Fitness centers.\u00a0 Party rental places.\u00a0 Foreign workers. *<\/p>\n
Start focusing on the basics.\u00a0 You’ll be ahead of the curve and the pack.<\/p>\n
Keep stacking.<\/p>\n
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*notice how quickly the furor over the H1B visas has died down? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hot and humid.\u00a0 Probably overcast with a chance of storms.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I guess we’ll see.<\/p>\n
Yesterday was hot and humid.\u00a0 Not as terrible as Saturday but still unpleasant in the garage and outdoors.\u00a0 Wife and kids spent the whole day inside.\u00a0 I did some outdoors stuff and worked in the garage.\u00a0 I’m pretty much going to have to make time to put the A\/C into the garage.\u00a0 Otherwise, I won’t get much use during most of the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n