Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.
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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