Better, kold out, new start

Sweat it out last night. long night of it, but good nuff,,, Feel tons better this Ay-em,,

Its well below freezing outside right now, and I get to go out in this shit. Wonder why peeps get sick this time of year,,,,

Must be something in the atmo,,, BCE posts this up,,, and I was gonna put up something similar, though not the same,,, SKILLS. Get ’em! Meself, I have been piling them on since AUghtEight, Self taught machinist (rude form but effective) sand crabbin'(foundry work)some medico stuff, (not quite corpsman level)

one area where I am weak, I have ten black thumbs. I plant it, it dies,, PERIOD, end of discussion,,, part and parcel of why I went the mekanik directions. One, I am good at those things, and two, those that can plant and grow may not be BUT they will need someone too keep those tillers and other implements functioning: free market enterprise sort of thing,,,

And I wholly concur,,, GET IT IN HARD COPY!!!! Yeah, dead tree versions are heavy and take space,,, BUT, they don’t suffer EMP failure, or the more simple failure of “battery ded on arrival” I like my e-books, for the simple fact that I can carry a backpack worth of books in the same space that occupies my phone, internet access and other entertainments, BUT, dead tree is the way to go for certain… I have several, from early 80’s BSmanuals, to reprints of 1920’s machining trade books and many many more. Some are GOV books from ArmyCorpsNavy, but those are some of the better ones as they are written to get the message across to the average person fastest. May not make you an expert, but you are gonna have skillsets that you didn’t

AND PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE. Reading is one thing, doing is something else, and if you do the first without the other, you may as well be masturbating over cold tofu,,,,

Granted, some of those skills are hard to practice, but there are ways. I recall when working at UC hospital, Internists would sit at a table and suturing surgical towels together. If they had down time, they were practicing SOMETHING,, So, yeah, you can find ways of practicing even those skills without needing actual blood and guts in the way. (that puts a different spin on it anyway, so make sure you have the muscle memory down pat PRIOR.)

Go camping,,, primitive style, practice making a fire in the rain, make a shelter from materials on hand, little shit like that. Don’t know, get the books and READ, then go practice.