Ah, the life of Zero…as far as LJ goes, its days of being one person and then thirty minutes of being Commander Zero for the sake of posting.
Real life, such as it is, isn’t like that. Being Commander Zero is a lifestyle.
It’s waking up every morning and before doing *anything* checking the news outlets to make sure Something Important hasn’t occurred.
It’s going to Costco and being annoyed that the quantities things are packaged in arent big enough
It’s being excited about single-serving pouches and mylar/foil packaging
It’s knowing you have a gun at Point A and one at Point B but carrying one for those times youre travelling between A & B
It’s seeing 1970’s era Bronco’s and Land Cruisers with ‘For Sale’ signs on them and thinking ‘someday..someday…’
Its guesstimating what a years supply of toilet paper, rice, band aids, cooking oil, kerosene, socks and sewing thread is
It’s wondering how many friends think youre nuts, how many think youre overprepared and how many think youre underprepared
It’s driving around doing daily tasks and subconsciously noting ‘choke points’ like bridges
It’s looking at your DVD library and seeing Red Dawn and The Omega Man are always on the top of the stack
And all of this takes place while trying to look, sound and behave like Joe Average. Of course, the nice part of all of this is that when Something Important *does* happen I am so far ahead of the sheeple and only slightly behind the .fedgov in terms of preparedness that I can usually ride it out in comfort.
Lately I’ve been slacking a bit in terms of preps…money is tight these days. But theres still alot of things to be done that dont cost a dime – reading and learning, mostly. Hunting the internet for useful files, calculators, blueprints, plans, recipes, treatments, instructions and the like.
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Today is shameless self-promotion day…. if youre reading this and you dont appear on my Friends list or Friends Of list, howabout leaving a comment and saying how you got here and a little about yourself?
if youre reading this and you dont appear on my Friends list or Friends Of list, howabout leaving a comment and saying how you got here and a little about yourself?
And just what do you plan to do with this information? Let’s just say I’m a friend of a friend.
A marketing analysis….whaddya think Im going to do with it?
Im just curious. “I read [lj user]’s journal and found you on their Friends list” or something like that….
I am actually not sure how I found you now. I remember stumbling across your journal one day and liking your outlook on things, so I added you. But I can’t recall exactly how I got here.
I found your journal because on occasion I read‘s journal…who I don’t really know in real life…but it appears that we know a lot of the same people…which is even more unusual because she knows a friend of mine from home as well as someone I know in the great state of virginia.
And today is not a very stimulating day at work so I’m using LJ to stimulate my mind…or at least keep me occupied until I get interrupted by someone needing help 🙂
found you through a survivalist community. you seemed to be one of the only ones who actually had a plan, and a clue. It’s rare when people have both.
I started watching the guns community…
I’m…a…normal…person….
I’m here because an LJ friend recommended I check your journal out. My husband is also obsessed with disaster preparedness (although I don’t think he’s thinking of the end of the world so much as, say, a really bad storm). He has nowhere NEAR the stockpile you’ve got, but I think we’re in better shape than the average citizen. I like checking your LJ for cool ideas, like keeping the light sticks on top of doorframes…and those Idahoan potatoes are damn good!
I found you (and your alter ego) through‘s journal a while back… I found kit’s journal when I started checking random names of friends or handles that I knew when another friend of mine told me he was on LJ ~ fall 2003.
Some of the stuff that abz and kit go through as a couple relate to stuff that and I are going through… some related to being boomstick enthusiasts, some related to a “being prepared” sort of mentality.
Decided to finally add you today because I was wondering if commander_zero had also/still been posting daily or he was busy sparring with Fat Cat…
Kit –> your alter ego when the TSA twit didn’t like your perfectly legal AR –> com. zero