timing the collapse

TIMING THE COLLAPSE

National Pravda Radio had an interesting piece on global electronics.  Seems the Japanese quake took out about 40% of flash drive production.  If you are waiting to buy an expensive item and you think near future supply might halt, consider buying now.  I heard it on the radio Wed. afternoon, perhaps the NPR Web site has more info for you.
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Sam, I got yet another generous donation from you. Many thanks, but I’ll understand if you want to stop for awhile. Unless you know something I don’t and are dumping your dollars- then go right ahead. Your last one bought a new shovel after mine broke trying to get the truck unstuck. It is a Wal-Fart shovel so it won’t last forever, but it beats the old one with its new one foot handle. That killed my back, shoveling stooped over. So you see, your generous gifts do get put to good use. And yes, the chocolate does go to the wife. Almost always. Sometimes I steal a bit, but not often. Chocolate isn’t even my favorite, other than on Milk Duds. And I won’t share come Christmas if anyone gives me fudge. But it really is her fault, since she just leaves it around, taunting me with the “forbidden fruit” syndrome. I always seem to crave whatever we don’t have in the cupboards. Or what the wife has in her stash. Hell, I almost never ate Muncho brand chips ( not sure I spelled that right, the Pringle type that use dried potato ) until she added them to her shopping list and left them to defy my snack needs. If the stuff wasn’t developed during the Cold War to outlast radioactive isotopes it would all go bad, she leaves it there so long. They’re all agin me, I tells ya.

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One minion, one of the rare ones with an actual sense of humor that doesn’t get all butt hurt whenever I mock and abuse everyone, vomiting my black soul upon you as the mood fits, jokes he thinks he’s smart enough to think he can time the collapse. Making light of his questionable tactics of having his cake and eating it too, living Yuppie now and hoping to escape in time. Well, bugging out could mostly be trying to time the collapse. But to my mind it usually patterns itself after all those disaster/collapse movies where the folks actually wait until a nuke strike to drive out of Dodge. Reading a lot of the comments at almost every other prep blog I get the sense that most folks are pretty damn dense when it comes to the big picture and it would in fact take a hammer blow to the head to convince them to leave their wonderfully lucrative employment. They wouldn’t actually leave unless the work office was under a tsunami or a heap of radioactive rubble, their fear of financial destitution is so great. And, boy howdy, let me tell you! When I even brought up Peak Oil at an unnamed prep blog that is based in Tennessee and starts with the initials Survivalist Blog.Net those yahoos went batcrap crazy and ballistic. The mantra seemed to be, its okay to collect semi-auto’s and buy MRE’s for a short term disaster, just don’t confuse us with the facts of resource depletion ( no offense to the unnamed writer of the blog, bless you for keeping the Pollyanna’s away from me- and I will give a shout out to my two minions that came to my defense ).

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So, really, in actual practice, bugging out is most likely just trying to flee your Bad Yuppie Self lifestyle. Timing the collapse would most likely entail trying to get out before disaster struck. I’m not trying to split hairs or confuse the issue. I would call bugging out fleeing after even Captain Obvious knew the end was nigh, and timing the collapse as getting out at the very early stages, before most were even aware. Does this strategy suck? Of course it does. Almost all strategies suck when you are trying to live in both worlds. We want to be able to afford a trophy wife and keep her from being eaten by mutant biker zombies. But that is a darn hard thing to do. You can find a wife that will live out of harms way, but take it from me, they have their own set of baggage. Most bitches ( THE classic line, “Why do you call us bitches or ho’s?“ “ Cause that’s what you is”- relax, ladies, I’m mostly joking ) insist on flushing toilets, a mortgage and their own car. Just stop short of a boob job. You can’t repo them and the owner will take them along to entice a bigger paycheck.

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But at least trying to time the collapse is somewhat proactive rather than reactive. Buggering ( sorry, I can’t help it- short for bugging out but meant in the most British slang manner ) is all panic and flight. Well, dear, no choice now. We have to drive to Crazy Uncle Bob’s and bring along the AR and the bucket of freeze dried yak bowels and live in the woods now that New York has been glassed over. Surely you understand, right honeykins surgarbear? Oh, Christ on the cross. Stop being a pussy and tell the bitch you’re all moving to West BumHump Montana to wait for the apocalypse. Okay, so you get divorced. If you are correct about the collapse she won’t get too much money ( hint- get a lower paying job prior to divorce. No guarantee but it might help on lowering payments ). If you are wrong, you get to pay to keep the worthless fool away. It’s a win-win. Anyway, not to get distracted, panic and covering your ass is bugging out. Timing the collapse is leaving when it simply doesn’t look like things are going to improve. And it is now or never. Now, before the general panic.

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Buggering is not a great strategy. You could get stuck in traffic and shot for your supplies. Timing the collapse is also a less than ideal strategy. You could really misread the tea leaves. But at least you know waiting until the end is stupid. You are still smarter than the Equipment Commandos, fearless clerks of industry by day, fabulously fearless warriors of doom come the collapse ( or, give me a semi and I shall transform into Superman, even if I am a fat little weasel ). You do the best with what you have. Yes, I constantly harp that it isn’t good enough. But that applies to myself also. Take it with a grain of salt, cause I’m not so in love with my own ideas I’m blind to others.

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