Life continues apace

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It’s been a rough few days here at Casa Zero. Just that time of year. However, I’ve got some stuff to do in my civilian life that’s gonna keep my busy for the next few days so…amuse yourself with 15+ years of posts. I’m sure there’s something in there somewhere that you haven’t read yet.

But…some observations….

Guns and ammo continue to be either unobtainable at reasonable prices, or obtainable at ‘fetch the Crisco’ prices. I sealed the deal on guns, ammo, and mags a long time ago so I’m not really concerned for myself. I do, however, admit that I had bought more ‘speculative’ guns and ammo so I could be one of those people making bank on the current demand.
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I was talking to one of the flunkies at the post office today. He’s switching roles from front counter to back room sorting. I asked why. He said he started off enjoying dealing with people but as of late has decided that people are “80% mean” and he doesn’t want to deal with people anymore. (Hey, disgruntled postal worker! Good thing ammo is hard to find.) He said that between Kung Flu and everything else, people are getting mean. I pointed out that people aren’t ‘getting mean’. Rather, the current situation is simply bringing out the person they always were.Good people, the mensches, remain mensches. Bad people remain bad or get worse. Nothing brings out who a person really is like adversity. And adversity usually has an element of fear, and fear is what makes Mr Rogers into Mr T. This is why in times of crisis…war,famine,depression,whatever…you have to be cautious. Scared people are dangerous people and they don’t even think they’re being dangerous.

So, the postal guy realized that most folks are not intrinsically happy, shiny people.

Welcome to my outlook.
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Although I’ve been light in posting lately that doesn’t mean I’m not still diligently working on keeping up my end of the Ant-Grasshopper paradigm. Still socking away food and supplies, although that pace has slowed down considerably since I went so hardcore on the subject a few weeks back. Now it’s mostly fine-tuning and maintenance…that is to say, I’m starting to rotate older stock into everyday use and replacing it with newer stock. For example, I pulled half a dozen bars of soap out of storage, moved them to the bathroom for use, and then replaced them in storage with newer product. (Because, unsurprisingly, soap can kinda ‘go bad’. It ossifies. Thats why I vacuum seal the soap I put into storage.)

But, by and large, I am…okay….with the situation here in terms of preparedness. Certainly I am far, far better off than most of the sheep out there. Somewhere right now there’s a 30-something with a crushing student debt, a car loan, sharing an apartment with two other people, and working in a Verizon store where their hours just got cut. It’s been a major drag most of the time getting there, but I’m extremely grateful to me for not being in that situation. Tomorrow might be different…anything can happen. But if it does turn to crap tomorrow I’ll have at least a couple tricks up my sleeve to improve my situation…money in the bank, food in the cupboards, gas in the tank, etc. And thats pretty much what preparedness is, no?
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Posting will be short and sporadic, if at all, for the next few days. Go outside and do a ruck march, practice your shooting, or something.

20 thoughts on “Life continues apace”

  1. Mr. Rogers was a real SEAL, while Mr. T. was a make believe Green Beret, but I get your point!! haha

  2. And on the Bloomberg-Farming Front yesterdays non-news. According to the Weather Channel an 80-100 mph Derecho spanning some 700+ miles wide crushed a lot of the standing corn and soybean crops in our Mid west. Media Crickets were silent aside from the stories of the Sock Puppet and the real President Elect Kamala announcing they are buying votes from Gimme dats and the previously mentioned under employed 30 some year old in your article with 2K dollars per moth COVID Relief taxpayer debt.

    As the USDA disposed of the last of the National Grain Reserve in 2009 AND the flooding of 2019 destroyed most of the farmers reserves as well as most of that years crops, WE the People are in TROUBLE.

    They can wave their magic wand of fake money but they cannot create a single loaf of bread.

    If you think well fed Antifa and BLM street thugs burning Targets and Liquor stores are a problem, WAIT until the song of “Mommy I’m HUNGRY” erupts across this land as plenty of electronic digits EBT cards buys nearly Nothing.

    Then the Real uncontrolled by agitators MOBs ™ that destroys infrastructure like the power grid comes out.

    I hope all here have 2+ years of dry foods (and already eat them), 2+ years of seeds (and some garden skills) and have already done a weekend with out power to learn of gaps in their planning while Amazon and Lowes are open to fix them.

    Winter is coming, the “Good Ole days” is TODAY.

  4. I’ve worked some form of public facing customer service job my whole life. This shut down as been hell when it comes to dealing with the public. Mind you, I’m not SURPRISED by the general public’s lack of ability to cope, but its still been hell.

    At my work, in a 4 week span, we’ve had 4 people turn in their two week notice. All have been employees there for at least 2 years. 3 for more years than me. All are going to new jobs that are not public facing. Every one of those 4 has stated that dealing with the absolute hell that the shutdown caused was the final straw (we are an “essential retailer”, yay).

  5. Thanks for the update. I look forward to your blog everyday. I actually find your writing very enjoyable and it reminds me of the writings of Skeeter Skelton. Hope all is well and look forward to your future posts. Be well.

    • I enjoyed skelton’s stuff a lot. It was on his influence that I bought one of the special run of Smith 24’s in .44 Special back in the early 80’s.

  6. So you want some time off? Sorry, I’m not really letting Uncle Remus off the hook and they keep saying he’s dead. So back to work and forget about any raise in pay/

  7. A topic I’d be interested to hear about is your thoughts and steps (if any) regarding home and personal insurance. Do you have any additional insurance to cover your extensive preps? How about your firearms/ammo/accessories? Why or why not?

    What role do you think there is (if any) for life insurance? I might argue that it should be considered a required prep for heads of households, but for a solo unmarried never-had-kids survivalist, it is probably an unnecessary expense.

    I just got thinking of this the other day, considering how concentrated most of my supplies are, and how it would really suck if that particular structure were to burn down.

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