Cool, wet, maybe rain.<\/p>\n
Yesterday got pretty wet late in the afternoon.\u00a0 The forecast called for about .2 inches, and I’m not sure what we ended up getting, but it was cats and dogs for a while.<\/p>\n
A couple of things conspired against me and my list.\u00a0 My wife had errands to run, which I didn’t expect.\u00a0 That kept me home until 2pm.\u00a0 I got one pickup and one drop off done.\u00a0 Didn’t get my settlement from last week’s auction, the auctioneer was having a company meeting.\u00a0 I should get a check in the mail from the industrial auction some time next week.\u00a0 That’s good news.<\/p>\n
The other thing was the rain.\u00a0 Pouring rain meant no Christmas decor went up.\u00a0 Stuff is slipping like Fox’s ratings.<\/p>\n
While I was waiting for my wife to get back I wasn’t UN-productive.\u00a0 I cut my hair.\u00a0 Went through some more stuff and put it in the auction box.\u00a0\u00a0 I pulled two parts and shipped them for an ebay sale.\u00a0 Tested some stuff with an eye toward listing it or sending it to auction.\u00a0 Tried to test an XBox360 and discovered I was missing the IEC cordset.\u00a0 M$ doesn’t use a normal cord, theirs has a ‘key’ at the bottom.\u00a0 I went through a box of cords and didn’t find one.\u00a0 But I just need to test it so I got out a gouge and made my own key slot.\u00a0 FTW!\u00a0 Didn’t get a chance to use it yet.\u00a0 I’m sure it will need some additional “adjusting”.<\/p>\n
Today is the monthly meeting of my non-prepping hobby.\u00a0 I think I would like to go.\u00a0\u00a0 I’m feeling ok, it’s probably raining so I can’t work outside, and I miss the club.\u00a0 Seems dumb to have waited until the numbers are all record high to finally break down and meet but that is the state of the state.\u00a0 Nothing makes sense or feels right.<\/p>\n
Later today I need to break down and vac seal and freeze all the meat I bought this week.\u00a0 Costco was out of turkeys by the time my shopper got there.\u00a0 They were showing stock when I ordered.\u00a0 The price was good so I guess they ‘flew’ out of the store.\u00a0 Instead, I got a lamb roast for Christmas dinner.\u00a0 I think I’ll cook the whole 6 pounds instead of breaking it down to halves.\u00a0 Then we’ll have yummy leftovers.\u00a0 Normally I’d be thinking about a ham, or maybe a ribeye roast, but my wife suggested the lamb.\u00a0 Since we all love it, it was a no-brainer.\u00a0 I think there are some traditions that involve lamb at Christmas, just not in our families.\u00a0\u00a0 Lamb is a good choice for economy- you can get very good lamb for the same price as mediocre beef, or at least we can get it here.\u00a0 If we were post-apocalyptic, lamb and sheep would be front and center on the farm, just as they were throughout history.\u00a0 Very useful animal, your sheep.<\/p>\n
Protein in the freezer.\u00a0 Veg in cans.\u00a0 Pasta, and the stuff to make bread in buckets.\u00a0 Ammo in cans.\u00a0 Gubs in the safe.\u00a0 That all feels pretty good, but I’m still anxious.\u00a0 I checked the ammo sales, and nobody had any.\u00a0 PSA had almost nothing at all in stock.\u00a0 What they had was really unusual calibers, big game rifle ammo, and blanks.\u00a0 Some was $5\/rnd, most was over $1\/rnd.\u00a0 They might have had one or two boxes of bastard stepchild pistol ammo- cowboy revolvers, and .32 cal.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s getting short out there.<\/p>\n
And time is getting short too.\u00a0 The holidays are keeping some stuff under control.\u00a0 The election stuff hasn’t played out yet, but it’s looking more like Sleepy Joe and the town bike every day.\u00a0 Legitimate election or not, his policies will not be good for you and I.\u00a0 That should be terrifying everyone much more than ‘Orangeman bad’.\u00a0 I can only hope that he’s stymied at every turn, but based on their RINO history and never Trump activism, I bet that ‘in the interest of healing our nation’ there is a flurry of cross aisle cooperation.\u00a0 If you think “it won’t be that bad, we’ll survive it like everything else”, I’d like to point out that we didn’t ‘survive’ it.\u00a0 Compare today to 20 years ago, 40, 60.\u00a0 Culturally and politically we are not living in the same country we were born to. *<\/p>\n
Maybe it’s because I’ve got young kids, but I’m appalled at what we’re building for them.\u00a0\u00a0 That deserves a whole long post of it’s own, and I’ve got other stuff higher on my list.<\/p>\n
Check your list.\u00a0 Check your assumptions.\u00a0 Check your stack.\u00a0 Check your gear.\u00a0 Check your friends and acquaintances.\u00a0 And keep stacking.<\/p>\n
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*for a perfect example, consider the band 2livecrew and the massive outcry and censorship of their album and song, ‘Me so horny’.\u00a0 Now consider the song WAP, for which Cardi B is widely lauded.\u00a0 The official video on youtube has 300 million views, the audio released first has 181 million.\u00a0 Dozens of other versions have 10s of millions of views.\u00a0 The song is flat out obscenity.\u00a0 There is a radio edit.\u00a0 It gets airplay<\/strong>.\u00a0 I’m not linking to the vids, it’s bad enough reading the lyrics.\u00a0 People think it’s FUNNY.\u00a0 If you feel compelled to listen to it, watch the vid of the girl signing it.\u00a0 ‘wap cardi b sign language’ None of it is SFW.\u00a0 Every aspect of our culture has been degraded.\u00a0 Every one of our freedoms has been limited.\u00a0 And it all happened a little bit at a time.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cool, wet, maybe rain.<\/p>\n Yesterday got pretty wet late in the afternoon.\u00a0 The forecast called for about .2 inches, and I’m not sure what we ended up getting, but it was cats and dogs for a while.<\/p>\n A couple of things conspired against me and my list.\u00a0 My wife had errands to run, which I didn’t expect.\u00a0 That kept me home until 2pm.\u00a0 I got one pickup and one drop off done.\u00a0<\/p>\n