Cool and clear?\u00a0 Yesterday was, with a gusting blustery wind.\u00a0\u00a0 In the afternoon it was 81F in the sun, with only 19%RH.\u00a0\u00a0 Gorgeous.\u00a0 I’d like some more of that please.<\/p>\n
I did my one pickup, missed the others.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll be getting those today.<\/p>\n
I heard back from the septic engineer finally, and he can’t meet this weekend, so I will not have to dash up to the BOL.\u00a0 It’s my non-prepping hobby meeting weekend so I’m really glad not to miss getting together with the guys.<\/p>\n
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It occurred to me that we move through time like a drunk lurching down a hallway.\u00a0\u00a0 The hallway is the constraints of what is possible.\u00a0\u00a0 Sometimes the hallway is wide and we don’t find the walls.\u00a0 Sometimes the hallway is narrow and the drunk walks straight down the center.\u00a0 Sometimes he slides down one wall or the other.\u00a0 Sometimes, he bounces off the edge of what’s possible and moves backward for a short period before moving on down the hall.\u00a0 Occasionally there is a doorway or an alcove and since the drunk is leaning on the wall as he moves, he gets stuck in the slight widening of the hall.\u00a0 Often as not, he’ll spin around eventually and lurch down the main part of the hallway again.<\/p>\n
Our hallway is very narrow at this moment.\u00a0\u00a0 We’re rushing down the hall, bouncing rapidly from wall to wall.\u00a0\u00a0 Some of us are spinning around with every bounce, trying to reorient on moving forward.\u00a0 Some are holding a hand against one side to steady us as we go, but we are all becoming more and more constrained as we go along.<\/p>\n
As a nation, a culture, a people, and as individuals, we are coming to a place where the hallway ends.\u00a0 Is it a door that we can pass through and then continue down the same hallway?\u00a0 Or is it a wall, and the door opens to our left or right and takes us in a different direction?\u00a0 Do the walls just squeeze us down, like a cattle chute, until we can only go forward, in single file, pushed by the mass behind us?<\/p>\n
I think I know where we are headed.\u00a0\u00a0 I don’t know how long the remaining hallway is, nor how we continue.\u00a0\u00a0 History says that “we” as a whole WILL continue, but not necessarily any specific one of the “we”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The mass of people behind us in the hallway pushes us forward, even if we’d prefer to stop.\u00a0 You can shelter in an alcove for a short while, but eventually the mass carries you on.\u00a0\u00a0 Just as I don’t know how long the hallway is, I don’t know how wide it still might be.<\/p>\n
It feels pretty narrow, with very little room to lurch around.\u00a0 It feels like we’re pretty close to the door, or the jog in the hall, or even the complete change of turning right or left.<\/p>\n
My plan is to get me and mine through to what comes next.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll move with the crowd down the hall, lurching a bit less, and focused on moving at my own pace, and not just getting carried by the force of the pushing masses, until we pass through and the door opens on a new hall, or the constraint of what is possible widens out again.<\/p>\n
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Stack the things you need, so that the crowd has fewer handles to grab as\u00a0 they pull you along.<\/p>\n
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Cool and clear?\u00a0 Yesterday was, with a gusting blustery wind.\u00a0\u00a0 In the afternoon it was 81F in the sun, with only 19%RH.\u00a0\u00a0 Gorgeous.\u00a0 I’d like some more of that please.<\/p>\n
I did my one pickup, missed the others.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll be getting those today.<\/p>\n
I heard back from the septic engineer finally, and he can’t meet this weekend, so I will not have to dash up to the BOL.\u00a0 It’s my non-prepping hobby meeting weekend so I’m really glad not to miss getting together with the guys.<\/p>\n