Hot and humid. Of course. It was in the 90s yesterday and hotter in the sun. It must have been slightly less humid though as it didn’t feel quite so hot in the afternoon. I will say that sweat was dripping off my abdomen when I was bent over the generator around noon, and I was in the shade…
Speaking of generators, I was starting it because we lost power around 4am. A limb fell on our supply line and took out the fuse for our pole. Just us and 8 of our neighbors… the utility’s outage tracker had it, and the limited extent. That told me it would be some time before it got fixed. The crews are still working on tickets from the storm and 9 customers is way down the priority list. I’m glad I started the gennies, as it was 5pm before our power was back up.
Working around the outage, I did some more organizing and cleanup. This time it was mostly books and library sorting, as I’ve stacked them all over the office, and am out of shelf space. I need to separate some duplicates or similar subjects to send to the BOL, decide if I want the “rebuild society library” here or there, and see if I can get rid of some volumes. Do I really need 5 versions of “Intro to electricity” textbooks? It’s not JUST a contingency measure. I have actually used some of the reference books. I’ve written about the ditches and culverts engineering book I read to figure out stuff at the BOL, I refer to the electrical construction books, and the surveying books helped when I first surveyed the BOL lot.
I like books. I like that they are readable by humans 100 years later. I started accumulating reference books as a deep prep, for a very unlikely scenario, but now I think it’s a bit less unlikely than when I started. You have to have power and connectivity to keep the technological knowledge base up, and having recently seen how fragile those are, I’m more inclined than ever to stack books. It may be that someone ends up using my books for firestarter in the ruins of western civilization, but even that is useful if it keeps them alive…
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Today will be finishing the book sorting (or at least getting the sorted piles out of the hallway) continuing the office and home cleanup, and doing a pickup or two of auction stuff. I scored another Renology flexible solar panel for 1/3 retail. I hope they can “find” it this time. The auction has a pattern of not being able to find high dollar items that sell crazy cheap… but I keep doing business with them despite the irregularities, because of the “crazy cheap” part… and the panel is “cheap” but not CRAZY cheap…
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Stacks ran the A/C yesterday, and kept my food cold… they help me repair stuff when it breaks, and they feed me and my family. Stacks of preparations are a good thing. Build your own stacks, build your own resiliency.
nick