Month: July 2024

Another rainy day in store if the weather liars get it right this time. Overcast, light rain, cooler… now look what I’ve done. It’ll probably be 100F and sunny, just to spite me. It spit rain and stayed overcast pretty much all day Saturday.

Did my thing in the morning, hit a couple of thrift stores and a pawn shop near my pickup. I’d never been in the stores before. The Goodwill was laid out differently than most, and had zero good stuff apart from a few t shirts. I need some new shirts as I’m wearing them out at the BOL. The non-affiliated but still churchy thrift had high prices but I still found a couple of LP albums. They had a dozen pipes and a rack with a humidor jar, but none of them were anything special and they wanted 3x what I was willing to pay. They did cut the price in half when I asked, but that still wasn’t really enough. Dr Grabow pipes are very common and were never expensive pipes.

Ran out the clock on the rest of the day doing laundry and messing around. I was tired and my brain was fried.

Today I’ve got all the usual stuff to do, and some stuff for my non-prepping hobby. Depending on weather, I will try to do some of the outdoor stuff too. Don’t think that is likely though.

I’m sleeping late today, trying to catch up a bit. Doesn’t really work, but it feels better.

Can’t make up sleep, and can’t use the preps you don’t have… so get to it.

nick

Cooler, then warming later. Rain. No rain. Light rain. Who knows. We got all of them yesterday at some point. It is nice starting the day cooler, gotta admit that, even if it comes with the rain.

Did a bunch of driving around to pick up stuff. Did some kid chauffeuring too. DIDN’T do the prep I should have for my club. I’m supposed to be providing some laptops for powerpoint, and maybe signage. I’ve got ’em, just didn’t get them all loaded with PPT and ready. I’ve been busy with other things most days.

So I’ll do my meeting, run up north for a double pickup, then head home to do some stuff I should have done already.

Family is going to visit east coast relatives next week. I’ll be headed to the BOL for most of it. Nightraker, if you are still living in the same place, drop me a line? I think you are nearby…? I don’t like splitting the group, especially when air travel is involved, but we still have to live our lives, and seeing family is important.

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Had a chat with D1 while we were driving. It was mostly about my prepping philosophy and timing. And how hard it is to get the timing right, vis Jews leaving Germany ahead of WWII. Better to be too early than too late, I think, and how that applies to our lives and what I expect to see in the next few years. Hopefully it made sense to her.

She’s growing up before my eyes, and it should be helpful to have her ‘on board’ with the why as well as the what.

Times are changing. The system has inertia, massive amounts in most areas, but enormous forces are being brought to bear. The critical decisions have already been made and when we look back, we’ll be able to see when we crossed the line and the bad things became inevitable. The stage is being set, pieces moved into place. Even me and my wife, with small roles to play, are being manipulated. The other day I learned a new phrase, “one drop theory” and I encountered it twice, once online vis Kamel, and then from my wife’s mouth on the same subject. Not a co-incidence. Programming. Battlespace prep. Memetic propagation . Very sophisticated forces are at work and their goals are not my goals.

Stack. It’s hard to influence the flow of history, but we can take steps to shape our own role, and our own experience.

nick

Hot again, but starting out cooler. 85F last night, but 100% RH. The cooler temps almost felt pretty good. It rained in the morning, and again throughout the day depending on where you were in town. Today looks a lot like that on the national map.

Did some clean up and putting away then I went out to do my pick up. The only thing I was getting was the fridge I won to replace the garage fridge that died. It’s big, in good shape physically and pretty clean. I got it home and plugged it in. We’ll see if it gets cold before I go to the trouble of moving stuff to get it into place.

I also hit the Deseret Industries thrift store since I was in that part of town. Nothing too good, one book and some vinyl…

The rain hit and I headed home.

Today will be getting the fridge into place, if it’s cold, moving the chest freezer out, and generally moving stuff around. I might do a pick up or two, if I won stuff in the same area. I try to combine the trips to save gas and tolls.

If I’m out and about, I might throw a pry bar and a big hammer in the truck. There are lots of piles of broken fencing all over the neighborhood, and some have the wood I need to finish repairs on my fence. I like to make fence repairs with similarly aged material just so it looks uniform. I won’t grab it if it isn’t good stuff, it’s easy enough to buy the material, but as I said before, it’s not really my fence, so I don’t want to spend money on it. But I do want it fixed. I’m really looking for some cedar 4×4 posts. They are crazy money at the Home Depot, and I’d like some for mail box posts and other stuff too. You never know, and it’s prudent to be prepared…

Speaking of which, I do have a pile of fence stuff in the back corner of the yard, behind the garage. Pickets of several sizes, and some other smaller repair pieces. Much easier to have the stuff and replace a broken picket than to go to the store…

Anticipating future needs is the essence of prepping. And then stacking stuff to take care of those needs.

Stack on my friends…

nick

Hot and humid, but less so to start the day. It was only 77F last night at midnight, with the light and intermittent rain cooling things down a bit. But it won’t last, because Houston… I only saw light rain in the morning, and at night, but some places got enough for localized street flooding, and the bayous were filling up.

I did my jury duty for City of Houston, and should be good for another 6 months. I’ll probably be called by the county soon as it seems to run in waves.

Did a bit of work on my hobby website when I got home, and that carried me to dinnertime. I think I got the kinks worked out for modern browsers at least. IE 11 pukes all over the site, but it’s unsupported anyway.

Today I’ve got to pick up the garage fridge I won, and maybe some other things if I can make the route make sense. Otherwise it’s domestic bliss and cleaning and organizing. I am not making the headway I’d hoped to make. I’ll do what I can with the lists… but I am not gonna beat myself up too badly.

I am going to stack. Because I always do, but I’m also working one using some of the stacks. If I can get them into what I bought them for, I’ll have room for more!

Yeah, that’s the ticket.

Stack some ammo this week, and maybe some black pew pews. Or go to the range and use some to touch up your skills. That would be good too.

nick