Warm and wet again.\u00a0\u00a0 It did rain on the plain in Spain yesterday, for values of ‘rain’ and ‘spain’ that are closer to ‘houston’ and ‘misty drizzle’.\u00a0\u00a0 Rounding error.\u00a0 Yeah, that’s the ticket.\u00a0\u00a0 Today should be more of\u00a0 the same, overcast, humid, rain in places.<\/p>\n
Did my ‘south’ pickups.\u00a0 Stuff for the BOL and gub accessories mostly.\u00a0 “Why, no sir, I don’t have a single complete gub in the house….”\u00a0\u00a0 I might <\/em> have a “few” parts in a box somewhere…<\/p>\n I’ve got my ‘north’ pickups to do today and tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 Looking at the map, I may not combine them with my trip to the BOL to meet the engineer.\u00a0\u00a0 One is WAY off the path.\u00a0 It might make more sense to do the out of the way pickup today and just leave it all on the truck for the trip up tomorrow.\u00a0 So many choices.<\/p>\n Americans are certainly used to an overabundance of choices.\u00a0\u00a0 We even have a branch of science* to study why having too many choices is bad in retail, and in life.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve argued for a while that one of the main underlying and crucial differences between Americans and Europeans (well, really everyone else) is that we come from a culture of abundance and they come from a culture of scarcity.\u00a0 It really does impact how you relate to almost everything.<\/p>\n With that in mind, the coming shortages and economic collapse are going to be very hard for Americans to accept and ‘deal with’.\u00a0\u00a0 I think there will be a lot of people whose brains just sort of vapor lock on the idea that there AREN’T any choices.\u00a0 They are going to sputter, and deny, and b!tch, and fail to adapt to the new reality.<\/p>\n Don’t be one of them.\u00a0 Get your head around the idea that things are not normal, won’t be normal, and it will be a long time before a new normal establishes itself.\u00a0 This will free you to act accordingly.<\/p>\n Stacking up stuff so you personally still have choices might be a really good idea too.<\/p>\n nick<\/p>\n *well, not ‘science’ exactly, but SOCIAL science…<\/p>\n (and Friday the Thirteenth falls on a Wednesday this month)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Warm and wet again.\u00a0\u00a0 It did rain on the plain in Spain yesterday, for values of ‘rain’ and ‘spain’ that are closer to ‘houston’ and ‘misty drizzle’.\u00a0\u00a0 Rounding error.\u00a0 Yeah, that’s the ticket.\u00a0\u00a0 Today should be more of\u00a0 the same, overcast, humid, rain in places.<\/p>\n