We've been far less concerned with the internetz the last couple of months, because we've been working on Castle Anthrax. IOW, our personal arrangements for when the threat of spicy times becomes an actuality, as well as being our retirement fortress of MYOB when we've had enough of indentured servitude for our final employer.
Where is it, you may ask?
NDBBM.
It is far from our front porch, well away from the 10% of America that lives in the surrounding area, and conveniently far from the beaten path to make us happy with the arrangement.
The last few weeks have been spent securing things to a reasonable degree, and working on plumbing and other infrastructure.
So as much fun as we have here, it doesn't hold a candle to weightier things at the moment. We do not expect a horrific turn of events tomorrow, or this year, but want to be in a better position for whatever comes, whenever it happens, with a view towards when we wish to put out the following unwelcome mats, bolted to the step,
then chain-locking the front gate, and set about minding our own business to a far greater degree.
Posting will continue to be therefore rather light. We have frequently advised people to make the most of the good times to prepare for bad times. That's exactly what we're doing the most of at the moment. We hope you are too, or have already done so. Anyone who doesn't realize Trump and Vance are a seredipitous but temporary respite hasn't been paying close attention.
And FTR, this is probably just about all we're going to specify on this particular activity until a friend or relative comes on here, and tells you we won't be posting anything at all, since there's no internet in the afterlife. We earnestly hope that day is looong in the future, but for the time being, we quite literally have much better things to do than deal with the minutiae in the wider world. We expect to still log on and visit our own favorite stops and drop comments, but overall, this place has been moved temporarily to about twenty-seventh on our list of daily Top Ten Things To Get Done.
While we're otherwise occupied, feel free to frequent the other bloggers on the Blog List, or cruise through our greatest hits from the last seventeen years we've been at this. When Castle Anthrax provides some object lessons, we shall be only too happy to share those, consistent with our personal privacy. When things are a lot farther along than now, we expect to return to more regular posting.
In our absence, you have our sincere best wishes for your efforts to make similar arrangements.
5 comments:
My preparations, such as they are, are either overkill or useless for my location. I won't know until too late. I am not The Great Scrounger... but I've encountered them and have more than half an idea. I've said folks that pray for me should NOT pray that I be ANY sort of hero. Instead, they ought pray I will one day be consider the "kook" who prepared for that which never fully came.
That said, being ready for a few days/nights of no grid (electricity, gas, net, etc.) is a Good Thing. Storms and Stupid happen.
Excellent. Here's hoping it's everything I imagine that it is - peaceful, secluded, and quiet.
Major bummer.
Good to hear, I was wondering about you (seemingly) staying in suburbia.
As a fellow So. Cal. guy, I can relate. We were living 10 miles east of Jamul (you went through it on the way to Bob's place). For So. Cal., it was great, except for the burn threat, but, you can't get away from Sacramento. We bailed to the Three Rivers area of western middle Tennessee, 1st week of '15.
Is it ideal? Nope, but it is very nice and our well won't run dry like it did in Jamul. Surrounded by farms, ranches and woods (they look like forests, but they're not). All our neighbors are snipers, er, I mean deer hunters, white, Christian. Been hearing them practice "sport" shooting more and surprisingly, more this year.
Again, glad to hear about yer "out".
Rural, peaceful, and quite secluded.
I'm making it more so.
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