Until 14:00 and change!

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I did not get to much. Simply staying up became the task. Not that I pushed, I merely delayed. Waking starkly and abruptly at 20:00, I have been doing a few tasks in the way of research. Some information is actually difficult to find, some of it has proven impossible so far. I did find a very good site regarding storing water and container prep, but only after a good hour or two of fruitless digging. Most sites merely want to sell you (often inferior or overpriced) containers. I did fail to do a search on Survivor.com, but I will fix that shortly. There are so many ways to do things, but only a few of those will lead to an optimal outcome. Much like the roof, storing water and food could be as simple as just doing it. Results vary greatly and I cannot afford fixes I may not be able to do let alone counting on food that is not edible.

As the days go by, I realize time is counting down quickly. There are means of slowing the decent, reversing some of the various clocks which are in congregate counting down to the big fall, but these are merely stop-gap measures meant to stall. There is no fix other than a world wide control-alt-delete. The skeleton is so fragile it could literally collapse tomorrow and yet it might last a few more years. How steep a fall and how long that fall will last, as always, is anyone's guess. My guess, as I may have mentioned, is a brief but almost absolute fall followed by an upgrade to the 1930's (depression era, as well as social similarities). How long will that last? That will be the way of things for 30 years, maybe more. We will never quite be where we are today. If our government system falls and we turn to "global governance", we will be worse than that, more like Russian citizens in that time period. And that will last for centuries.

On the good side, the greens will get their people in place and they will immediately do what they always do in power... completely despoil land, water, air, and all they touch. Look at the places ruled by those who the greens support. And, the population of the world will be "...reduced through improved medical care and vaccines.", as Bill Gates is currently using his "charity" to see happen in Africa at this time. Well, back to research.

Update:

Water storage is pretty much covered, and without much to go on I will be mixing beans and rice, if not all or totally. I am considering how to partially bag the various types within the mylar bag. Trash bags, I believe, would be proscribed, having toxins or at least taste issues. So... what type of bag? Again, checking... Perhaps I am simply being to difficult, making the process more difficult than it is, or stalling without really meaning to do so? Maybe. Another issue with filling the water containers is... having the water softener means I do not want to store standard faucet water. I have a limited amount of water which can be gathered from the reverse osmosis system, but I do have an outside faucet. Now, the thing is, I am not certain where the outside faucet connects with the water system. It is close enough to be connected to the house and far enough away to be connected from the incoming water line. You see, it does get complicated. Then again, do I want to use city water?

It seems that, like any project and more so to a first time newbie, more goes into any action the first time than will most likely ever occur again. Even if, at some point, I change how I do one or many things it will merely be more like flipping a switch compared to building the whole electrical system, or adding an faucet rather than constructing the plumbing. And, just like developing the plans for those, then constructing them, the process of prepping really is not much faster. Given my monetary and physical constraints, this will be slow. Still, I am getting there. And hoping the collapse is further than I suspect, shallower than I believe, and that I will find my legs between now and then.