Hot and humid.\u00a0 Sweaty like a fat guy’s thighs.<\/p>\n
I did move some stuff from the house to storage yesterday.\u00a0 Not enough.\u00a0 Not nearly enough.\u00a0 I’ve got so much loose stuff laying around that I can only hope we don’t actually get high winds, or whale oil beef hooked.<\/p>\n
Both of my auction contacts pushed me off on taking them loads of stuff.\u00a0 Jeez.\u00a0 I can’t get rid of this stuff.<\/p>\n
I did spend some time in meatspace chatting with my buddy and his wife at the gu–\u00a0 toy store.\u00a0\u00a0 He’s gonna consign a couple of things for me.\u00a0 He’s still doing a brisk business in transfers, but what happens when ALL the inventory is gone and no one can buy anything that needs transferring, and there is no new inventory?\u00a0 Other people have commented elsewhere that in the short and medium run, gu— toy stores are in economic trouble, despite high demand and prices.<\/p>\n
There was a steady stream of people looking for ammo, and not finding it.\u00a0 I’ll drop a small box by today if I get a chance to sweeten the deal on one of my items.<\/p>\n
School is cancelled for today and tomorrow, with Friday still up in the air.\u00a0 It all depends on Laura, and what she leaves in her wake here in Texas.\u00a0 I’m hoping for a non-event.\u00a0 Prepping for a big one, but hoping for small.<\/p>\n
And I’m watching the insurgency spread.<\/p>\n
At some point in the not too distance past, the move toward ‘officer safety’ started.\u00a0 Cops began training to avoid going ‘hands on’ to prevent them from being injured*.\u00a0 At the same time, someone decided that it didn’t look good for cops to be hitting The Usual Suspects(tm) with their fists or ESPECIALLY with sticks.\u00a0\u00a0 So someone made a change to policy, and the end state of that is cops are trained to shoot rather than grapple or fight.\u00a0 Guns are stand off weapons.\u00a0 Nightsticks, batons, etc, are close in weapons.\u00a0 The cops can now keep their distance, but changes in doctrine let to changes in tactics. \u00a0 Policy changes led to us being where we are today.\u00a0 The same people that don’t want to see a cop with a stick hitting a suspect now cry out when the cop uses the tools and tactics he’s been trained to use, and shoots instead of strikes.\u00a0 How’s that working out?\u00a0 Ripples turning into waves….<\/p>\n