Sonday domestics and tangents

Loaded up for doin’ laundry and such.  gonna just slide through the day and do as I will, no rush, no muss, no diggin’ up trash on the netz.   Relax out my short weekend of pre-spring WET weather,,,, (its starting to get cold out there again)

And I wanna talk about YOU and your’n for a quick minute.

Dunno what level of ‘Prep’ you are in, doesn’t really concern me and believe me, I DO NOT WANT YOU ADVERTISING IT,,, Don’t post in comments about how you have enough ammo to supply a platoon for three weeks of heavy combat,,,, Don’t do it!!!   Apply that across the board; don’t tell your neighbors either, not their business, and you don’t want to be the target before the storm,,,,

Ok,,, First off   WEAPONS.   Any weapon, as defined by common-folk, is merely a TOOL in my book.  I have covered this before,,, I AM THE WEAPON,,, The tools of death and mayhem are the extension of my WEAPON that I use to fulfill my mission of “SHUT ‘EM DOWN”.    I just saw over at Irish’s place that Hom0Depot has a sale on “Braveheart Sword”s.   Now, I personally wouldn’t spend $5 on a stainless steel factory line stamped out mass produced peice of cutlery like that.  One good swipe at a person with a kevlar helmet and the thing becomes a stainless steel strap around their head, anchoring you to that person where they can pull you in closer and slip a shiv into your spleen.(honestly, if you want to run with edged weapons as a backup, a good quality machete from a reliable maker is cheaper and more effective, and has an ‘oh shit!’ factor built in.)   No,,, I’d rather hold that E-tool I kept from the Marines if I had nothing else.   It may be cumbersome, but by GOD, its still effective (and you do sharpen your E-tool, right?   I do,,,  Makes it easier to cut roots for one, and makes it really wicked in its other aspects.)

Here’s another one,,,,

I just picked this up for my camping gear supplies, and let me tell you, MUCH IMPRESSED.    This thing is very much the Tomahawk of yore,,,  Yeah, it has that saw blade that stores in the handle, but the head on this thing is wicked mean when NOT in saw mode.  

if ya have to use it as that tool, the recipient is gonna KNOW they were hit,,,

Still,,, Never take only a ‘hawk to a gun-fight,,, rule one, right?  

As for home defense,,, in comments over there at Irishs’, one person mentions a lady that found the drawer to her pistol stuck and used a Katana to subdue and hold the perp until Police arrived.   THIS is an example of “YOU ARE THE WEAPON” IMO,,,   Whatever is at hand, WITH INTENT is usually all you need.   NOTE: WITH INTENT!!!!    That does NOT mean ‘intent to harm’,,,  get it?  

Maybe I should expand on that for the slower crowd:   WITH INTENT means “I‘m gonna kill  your ass so dead, your great grandchildren will fear my genetic code!!!” INTENT.  Yes, it’s silly sounding in mixed company while sippin’ on coffee over breakfast, but when that war face is on you, the adrenals are pumpin’ and the ears shut down to minimum duty status,,,,,,

BCE has an article (re-released BTW) about a toy you can make for ‘fun’ and IS LEGAL TO OWN in 48 of 50 states (you can probably figure out the 2 that restrict such,,,)  YMMV, and I have NOT gone down this route meself,,,   But its one for the books (literally, print it out dammit!!!!) and may or may not be something our future needs more of,,,   Personally, after seeing the Highway of Death in Kuwait, being downwind of it for 24 hours,,,,   I get a little quesy thinking of the effects of Big’s toy.

SO, the weapon is YOU,,, Always,,, get that in your head NOW because it certainly looks like this show is about to gain momentum,,,   Be ready to flip that switch in your head from ‘civil Joey’ to ‘KrazzzeeeKarl’ of gnashing teeth and bloodspattered face,,,

But how to keep that engine that carries both “joey and Karl” along,,,,   FOODIES,,,,

There currently isn’t any showing of restricting our food supplies in market.  Other than the recently normal slow resupply that is,,,  Get a little here, a little there,,, I have been saying this since 2008 and if you have spent $5/wk since then, you should have quite a bit of stores in place.  IF NOT, get on it.   There are disruptions coming,   let me restate that: there ARE disruptions coming.   These things take time to come to fruition, but when they do, they seem UBRUPT,,, prepare now and you will be sitting multiple levels above joeyaverage,,,,

Comms. even if what you can get is a set of family radios at wallyworld, and spread them out among like minded folk in your AO, than you are one step forward to a network that can’t be shut-down easily. If you are counting on your Fon/internet,,,

As resilient as the nets are, they are NOT in your control,,, One drunken fool can take out a substation and knock out net access to a couple of counties of people. We found that out recently. (why I had shitty comms a week or so ago) Netz go down, local economies shut down (if they are not person to person on a cash exchange)

Get some comms that work when everything else goes dark. battery powered and get lots of extra of those too. Even if one of your ‘friends’ is that handicapped can’t get out of the house old lady up the street, She can at least send word that ‘theres a strange vehicle headed your way,,,,’ 5 minutes before you can see it. That is the sort of comms I’m talking about. Like we used to have when the Fon’s were bolted to the walls and people still interacted with neighbors,,,, (yup, dating myself and my childhood in the 70’s/80’s)

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Be the weapon,,,

Learn (relearn) how to communicate with your neighbors: get some way to make that communication more resilient.

Stock up on things that keep you going when everything else shuts down,,,

Take the time to learn something new, some new knot that you didn’t know, some way of fudging a distillation of water, how to bandage up gunshot wounds with what you have on hand, something,,, learn something new everyday while we still have this wonderful tool called the netz. If you can’t find it on Utoob or Rumble, keep looking, its out there somewhere,,, Just keep wording your search string until you break through the AI blockers. (Yes, you can learn how to make the Tannerite Dog protector on Utoob,,, )

DO NOT BE “THAT” GUY,,,,,