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Cogspeaks EP7-1 transcript

Welcome back to the cog speaks. Today is going to be Completely off the cuff. I’m just gonna ramble,,, and I’d like to talk to you all about a prepping.   And I’m not talking the prepping,, you know making sure that you have ammunition and Six months of food and 18 months of water and whatever,,, I’m talking you prepping YOU and everything around you!!!  No lectures!   Instead I’ll give an example of me.  (I) Came down here 17 years ago,,, good Lord!  a freaking lifetime,,,  and With the intention of building a home and I am now living inside that home. I’ve been in this home for 10 years as of the 25th. Oh, hey, that’s today (laughter)  10 years, my own home, built paycheck to paycheck.   Some of the some of the materials was salvaged The tin roof was a salvage, the framing timbers were salvaged from very large pallets that we had at the job site that I worked out then. The windows salvaged from a government project at here in town where they were replacing all the windows at the HUD.  All of this stuff just kind of came together but a person could look for those things too, and Build their own home somewhere in the middle of nowhere for Little to nothing, other than time effort and Some chasing down parts.   My electric is provided by solar power. I do have a backup generator that I fire up every six months just make sure it works, but I have never needed it. Never!  Not once!   Water: I Have a 350 gallon tank up the hill that catches water from a spring, and That feeds down to my house through a two-inch pipe that was also salvaged.   Heat: lately, the last three years, I’ve been running propane, but I Have a wood burner for when it really gets nasty. Luckily around here it doesn’t get that nasty..   I’m comfortable The fact that I have two sleepin’  kitties near me, and a dog sleeping on the floor,,, we’re comfortable, We’re safe!  We’re up in the middle of nowhere, Not as far as nowhere as I’d prefer, but yeah,,, You got to compromise somewhere sometimes.  Finding that piece of property might be Impossible in this day and age.   There’s a lot of people Buying up stuff because they’re looking for what I’ve got.    Prepping! They’re prepping! They’re preparing for shitty times! Trying to get away from the hordes: the golden horde, whatever you want to call it,, because,,,, As we’re seeing this week it Looks like the ebt cards aren’t gonna get refilled, and there’s a lot of a very large orcs That are not real happy about this!!!  Fuck them. Just fuck them. I don’t even care.   Yeah, you’ve been you’ve been skating for years Time to get off your ass and actually do something,

 but we’re talking about prepping and one of those props is Something I’ve been doing the last month I’m trying to get my ass in shape. I was sitting at 210 pounds, I’m six foot. And that’s not a bad weight for my height But it was a bad weight in how I was carrying it. it was all around the middle the visceral fat underneath the skin, (A) Huge battery bank as I’ve found that out, because I’m eating next to nothing! and Actually my energy levels are stabilized My mood?  good lord! I don’t get angry. I’m not hot headed. I’m not bouncing off the walls looking For trouble because that’s how it felt like I was at.   Like I said in my post the other day: I woke up normally in the mornings,  My preparation for the day is I make affirmations, you know, little things, you know, I’m not worthless. No, I’m not yeah. I am Self-resilient, self-reliant, creative thinker outside the box. Those are all affirmations I say because they’re true. I don’t think inside the box,,, But yesterday I woke up and those affirmations… It was just like ‘what the hell am I doing? I don’t need to tell myself I don’t need to see that I don’t need to hear it’ And my my emotional state was so Flatlined,, just,, I can’t even describe it. It was just,, it was amazing! uh and I started doing yoga and I was start off with the camelback where you reach over you know you bend over at the waist, touch the floor and to Walk forward,,, And Cosmos decided that ‘oh daddy’s playing’ He cames up and he walks right up between my legs and underneath me and does the Big old morning puppy kiss (schlep!) Right across the face.  I’m laughing! The kittehs felt it,, Kids felt that they’re just like “oh it’s dad and he’s in a good mood “or something,,,,I don’t know but the whole day I just coasted! right through the day bad things no issues. One of the guys at work uh, I’m not gonna say the name, but he’s a crew leader and he was he was just, he’s going off, and (I’m like) dude! chill! It’s just a thing! We’ll find your parts. Well we’ll get your shit done and you got three good guys on your crew That are more than capable! Just deal !

Anyway! Later on I went up. I was looking at the truck and you know it’s it’s not in good shape I’m not gonna lie. It’s Looks like people stolen parts off of it before we got all the fencing up around the the property line The catalytic converters are cut off. It looks like somebody stole the battery by cutting the cables,, um Little things,, And I’m just like ‘I can fix it I can fix it!’  And I know I can! Time a little bit of money more time Because labor ain’t free, even my labor ain’t free, it takes time When you pay for a shop to fix your car you’re basically paying somebody’s time, And that’s what, you know, instead of me paying other people’s time, I do the work, It’s still costs,,,

 But that title! I’m just thinking And I’m kinda flexlble about it. I even told the guy like “look, you don’t show a title and I’m gonna walk out here’ And  he says ‘well the owner is gonna bring bringing it in’ and around like what ‘you call me when he does Because with no title I’m not moving You see no money’.   I’m not going to buy a parts truck. Now, uh Fred just to let you know now that bed will not work on Buffalo.   Buffalo is an S10. She’s a mid-size pickup truck And that truck is a full size; it won’t work, I wouldn’t even try it. Of First off Going from a one-ton to a half-ton. That’d be pushing some limits and Buffalo’s got 332,000 miles on her block. She ain’t gonna be appreciative of uh more weight.

 Now yeah, I’ve Got a party to go to tonight Um, I don’t really like parties! I’m an introvert. I don’t like parties um I can get together with people But uh parties yeah Not so much Not so much.  I love my family. I love my duct tape family, Don’t push it,, Yeah, 

Prepping! Let’s go back to the prepping thing because I told you this is off the cuff and I’m from flying from the hip and I don’t care, I’m just talking to a damn microphone anyway. and no lectures! I’m just Venting I guess you could say. uh,,, Big country is doing a road trip this weekend to Nawlins. I wish him luck, Uh, I’m hoping he’s not on a suicide run because he uh went fully armed and Expecting trouble Yeah, it could be yeah I think his  instincts are stronger than that. He wouldn’t have gone down if he thought he was actually Walking into a shitstorm.   Go enjoy yourself man get down on front down in the french quarter and have yourself a good brew and just chill the fuck out!   Life is good! As Iron Maiden said ‘we’re living in the golden years’. May not be what it was 30-40 years ago, but you know what? It ain’t bad~ Life ain’t bad. I mean Stop reading on of all the fucking news. They’re liars!!! They don’t give a flying fuck about you and all they’re doing is looking for headlines: “If it bleeds it leads” that never changed!   Go out, take the advice I gave my dad: Gotta take a walk, look at the woods Watch the wildlife, that’s the real world. They don’t care about us. They don’t need to care about us, other than self-protection, and most people are so useless in this day and age that deer walk right by them and they don’t have a clue, No clue what to do in a survival situation. uhm, I’m not one of those, I see deer, I see,,,, Anyway (chuckles) Life’s good man, life’s good. You just gotta make it good! 

All right. I’ve been rambling here for fucking 14 minutes and y’all are bored,,, I’m gonna edit this down because there’s a quite a few pauses, and I completely miss my subject line of prepping, you know, Anyway, I’m gonna quit there you have a good night!

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Post script: I made the choice; IF, a title is in hand come next week, I will be buying ‘Twuck’. There are just too many plusses, despite the repairs needed, to ignore this. Title in hand or no deal.