Thursday, 31st March, 2011..........

Morning,
overcast, just got in from the garden..

dug with pickhoe on a path, ran into alot of rock, picked out several
buckets full of gravel, and a wheelbarrow or so of medium rocks, &
pried out several big ones... so got more rocks than path...

Did plant & water several herb plants, a carnation, and planted a
Tangerine tree, and also several spinach plants, 6 I think....

shoulder packed two buckets of rock up the hill and to a repair spot
on my trail to spring, packed in a bucket of root hunks for cooking
fuel... garden project is producing an endless supply....

was happy to plant the herbs etc... Dreaming of a nice collection...
starting a buying habit every time I goto town... so add to my herb
hillock monthly...

its all slow progress, but better than counting on the system...

also planted a cinnamon start... so a fair number of things
planted... I have some peppers going too, but not big enough to
transplant yet...

And missed planting a couple spinach plants... Tomorrow if I
remember.. the spinach is some tropical plant, probably not really a
classic spinach, but its a green leafy food plant... Perenial, and
roots from cuttings or even roots in water... It likes sun and
moisture, and I have one plant that would fill a washtub, and am now
waiting on consistent rains to do a bunch of cuttings directly onto
terrace slopes... first goal is to do a big area on a slope, then
propagate from it, and use for ground cover.... I figure if I use it
all over the place in areas, my "greens" security is fairly well
established..

also figured out recently, that a local plant was in fact Poke Weed...
Polk? its called "Jaboncillo" here locally.. "little soap plant"

I havent seen one in awhile, they come up in disturbed soil from birds
dropping the slightly used berries.... so only a matter of time until
one shows up in my garden, or I see one elsewhere & pick some
berries...

I had some husk tomatoes come up wild..
And another plant used for making a drink...

and yesterday had my worker plant corn & beans... I'll be planting
corn from now on, as I finish building a bed... about one per
morning, seven paces long.. its my favorite size...

the garden area has some topsoil, due to the rocks... the past
owners chopped the place constantly for pasture, burnt the place every
year... and ran cattle on it... A steep mountian... erosion, likely
no place on earth trashed any more effectively.. They chopped the
brush back with machetes, and so rocky areas got a higher chop...
meaning more brush, less grass, so cows went there less, less erosion
etc...

so the rocky area is where theres a bit of topsoil left... so..
Yours truely digging in rocks, removing brush roots, consolidating
topsoil into raised beds, etc... its a real tough job...

but its what I have to work with... And getting plenty of exercise...

cheaper than a gym membership... in fact I was thinking this morning
how sports, & other modern exercise, is "Pseudo Work"... much of it
immitates tasks of agriculture, like the shot put, I was shot putting
rocks out of my garden...

I think alot of sports etc. Is people who are too good to work.. And
historically they got tired of being beat by peasants... So they
invented exercise etc...

work sanitized for a nobility...

it feels good to get back to the roots and rocks of life... I've
done everything subsistence in pieces in my life... now I'm in
progress of putting it all together in absolute terms.. listening to
the news on short wave tells me that I'd best boot it.. WORLD WAR 3
has already begun.... It just hasnt gotten up to speed yet....

I figure the hard digging is good practice... sooner or later I'm
going to need a fox hole/fallout shelter... and if I procrastinate
too long, I may have to dig it in a hurry..

these resource wars have winners & losers... Not just the innocent
people they depopulate off the top of the oil, but big players....
Sooner or later, things will get pushed too far... and the nukes
will fly... And many, including self, think its not far off.. A
couple three years at most, could happen next week, for all I know..

so its a good time to be going into the subsistence crops.. & its a
good time to be improving my habits, and toughening up physically.. &
its a good time to be buying those last list items for long term
survival in a post technocult reality....

I have a couple months until my next run into Panama, and thinking to
get another pickhoe, and some machetes for stash.... I also bought a
couple files for sharpening.. I entend to keep buying files, as
theyre one of the most important consumables in subsistance living..

basically all I do now, is prepare...

people used to call me paranoid.... now I watch them playing catch up..

fallout shelters are selling like hot cakes... I'll build something
simple... just a hole into the dirt somewhere with the best drainage
possible..

three feet of dirt is a thousand half factors, and I'll rig a
blanket over the entrance to filter dust out of the air... where I'm
at, no big issue... could likely survive fine sleeping in my own
bed, unless someone nukes a Sub up wind from me, off the coast...
nearest target is Panama canal, a couple hundred miles away.. likely
the width of the average sized state in the US.... And I'm generally
up wind.. Those waves on the Pacific come in from the west night and
day for a reason... the wind pushes them..

I wonder if the canal will even get hit.. The Chinese run it, and the
US needs it most... Neither has incentive to take it out..

the Russians arent likely interested in it.. Not with the Arctic
ocean warming up.. Theyre soon to have a nifty shortcut of their own,
over the top....

its an anacronism really.. Long gone are the ships bucking the seas
around the horn....

now there is rail, and trucking covering continents coast to coast..
Canals are convienant, but they arent a necessity...

Besides, WW3 will be over almost before it starts... a couple hours
of fireworks & the party is over for the Monkeys of Hubris & the
Vanity & Greed Gods...

Governments are like spoiled children fighting...

and that will be the end of humanity, except for a few survivors, who
will be back just off the stone age.. no shortage of metal, no
shortage of things, as long as you dont mind seeing decomposed corpses
while youre scrounging...

personally I'd be afraid of residual radioactivity & dormant
microbes.. and I'd rather have everything I really needed up on the
mountain..
One scenario I've thought about, is the Mega quake being set off by
nuclear winter thermal shock... if that happens, 80% of humanity gets
the toilet flush treatment... first crumble and crash the cities,
then all the coastal versions get a serious washing.. the quakes &
tsunamis to date are just the Orchestra tuning up.. meanwhile all the
silly monkeys are happy as long as its happening to somebody else...
little do they know, that theres a number line, and theyre on it
somewhere...

its like the peaceful protests now.... should we be peacefully
protesting the killing of millions by the military industrial complex?
what it means, is when its your turn in the gas chamber, maybe
someone will peacefully protest it.... That will make it all better,
right?

wake up you morons.. Peaceful protests are for cattle at slaughter houses...

JC said if you didnt own a sword, sell your clothes & get one... Do
you suppose it was to ornament your nakkedness at peaceful protests?

I think not...

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Sunday 27th, March 2011.........

How would I design micro geothermal power plants?

Well, first I'd try to keep the laser bore hole small to make it
easier & cheaper to do.. Perhaps a couple inches or less...

then to eliminate any piping into the bore, I'd make it cycle like a
geyser... Where basically you dropped a shot of water down the hole,
and got a steam hit.. with this I would run a turbine, which would
then turn a large heavy flywheel to even out the power..
I'd have the turbine connected to the fly wheel with a coaster rachet
like on a bike rear hub, so that the fly wheel wouldnt have to drag
the idle turbine between pumps... Then I would use permanet magnets
around the fly wheel to produce a pulsing DC current somewhat above 12
Volts, for line losses etc. And the pulses at perhaps 60 cycles, so
w/pulses you could easily transform it into a pulsing DC of 120 volts,
or to use as 12 Volts to charge standard batteries.. the 120 volt
pulsing DC could be used to pump the current around the farm or
village with less line loss...

I'd design the steam system with a condenser, that had a gravity
slope, probably using it for heating or air conditioning around the
farm or village, with the gravity slope designed so the condensate
water drained back into the geothermal well in passive cycles.. This
way the system would run continuously, provide two types of current,
and only need a lubrication system for turbine & flywheel...

so basically you'd need a truck with a Laser & power plant mounted on
it to bore the wells, and to install the power plant on top by
cementing in a pipe down to solid rock... such a system would bore
geothermal wells for the price of the energy used to power the Laser,
and it could be portable enough to drill & relocate quickly &
efficiently...

and thats my answer, to the lying assholes with no brains, who
promote nuclear & other forms of toxic power...

another couple Items I bought on my town trip was some yuppie water
bottles.. The stainless steel versions are starting to show up here
ocasionaly now.. so far I've gotten three 26 ounce size, for $3.65
each in the stores that sell factory over runs etc... I'm thinking to
use them for seed storage, bulk condiments, & food concentrates for my
refugee kit... I'm hoping they get other sizes in... Would like some
larger and a few smaller.. and I wish they'd manufacture versions
with wider mouths, and perhaps designed for home canning of food....
These would require a better lid/stopper system.. maybe a stainless
cap & O-ring...

it sure would be nicer than heavy & breakable glass jars..

What started me thinking about the stainless bottles was use in
holding Rum etc. in unbreakable containers.. would be nice if wines
and other beverages even came in such containers... the actual cost
difference between glass, aluminum, and plastic containers is probably
slight... personally I think it would be better if even tin cans were
replaced by reusable stainless containers..

another item I picked up, was a small 6 Volt gel cell battery to run
my short wave radio with.. It cost me what a couple months worth of
regular disposable batteries do, and will likely last for years...

I can charge it from my solar panel... So now I'm set to hear the lie
by lie account of the demise of humanity..

I also bought half a dozen plants, mostly herbs, as I'm thinking to
collect some every month, and then propagate them over time into good
sized areas of each type, so we have plenty of herbs for medicinals
and seasonings..

the planting season is getting close... a couple more weeks and
we'll start getting consistant rain..

another item I bought was a set of "glomers" style vise grips... They
looked handy for holding small projects while filing or drilling
etc... kind of a neonomadic's vise....

so, it was a good town trip for the neoindigenous survivalist type...
several refugee kit items... and even a few stainless steel things...
I think pack ratting away practical stainless steel items is better
than buying gold or silver....

if only 2% survive, wont be alot of market for gold, & if most or all
of the cities are flattened, there wont be any factories... So it will
be down to building forges, and starting over with metals scrounged
from dead cars etc... Its a long ways from scrap metal to a forged hoe
or a stainless knife... I see stuff being cheap now... got the hoe
head for the price of 8 lbs of beans... I can grow tons of beans with
that hoe, and leave it to my kids & grandkids after I keep an
appointment with my designers... I dont think 8 lbs of beans will
make it that far...

Last month I had some critical dental work done, and so didnt get
much, but I did buy some strings for the electric guitar, got 4 E
strings, as thats the one that breaks most often, and I got 2 of the
next three strings, and hope to soon get some of the last two
strings... I cleaned and painted a can from air rifle pellets, and
melted vaselene over the carefully coiled guitar strings... its the
tropics, everything rusts, rots, or degrades here..

What I find about materialism, is that on a nano-budget, I can make
progress due to my neoindigenous lifestyle...

One actually needs so very little, if you arent trying to live in the
sea of vanity up to the water line of "normalcy"...

it was such an emotional relief to let go of the technocult.. I
became much the richer that instant..

these days I pass up alot of stuff... mostly because it doesnt fit
my mental paradigm anymore.. also I know what a drag having too much
stuff is...
likely dont have a tenth of what the average american has stuffed into
their house.... and still have a hundred times more than I actually
need..

I seem to be fine tuning my material collection steadily towards a
pretty good set up for the times ahead... I try to use every bit of
money to finish projects, or get items that are wise to have during
the collapse of civilisations...

Lately I've been thinking about the melt down in Japan, and how
Obvious the lies are coming out of the Squawk boxes of the world....

and it is something I've long written about, that nuclear power is a
grave & ever present danger... JC called it an abomination that causes
desolation in Mathew 24:15... sentient beings wouldnt use
abominations....

I listed these purchasses for you to give an example of what its like
to think neoindigenous, and how you can use the current availability
of materialism to constantly boot a more fundamental lifestyle...
I dont own a car, or a house, I dont have a TV... and I'm able to
live on $100 a month
fairly comfortably because of the mindset, and do it happier than I
was living in the US, & holding down a job... when the technocult,
the money & materialism goes away, it wont be any big shock to me...
I'll be working in my garden every morning, just as I do now.. and
over the next year I'll be altering my diet, buying even less, and
eating even better...

I have plenty of food even now... From the food trees I planted,
tropical tubers etc.. I'm actually improving my diet & life
steadily... if I get another year or two, I'll be very well set.. To
me it will be a seamless transition from current reality to a new
post technocult version... I'm already well over halfway there...

and by NOT trying to maintain a modern lifestyle, or packrat away
excess wealth in the form of ornamental metals, I am able to make
consistant progress, and to also learn alot... And to spend my hours
doing fun crafts projects, gardening, etc..

it could be done in some form almost anywhere..

so, I get to be a strange man.. Navigating his way thru the
dreamworld of modern insanity, questing continually for a life
improved in real terms... And I get to have fun doing it... Camping is
a nice lifestyle... I was showing some women friends in town fotos,
it was fun, to see their reaction to my stone fire pit with a roof,
wheelbarrow loads of several different types and colors of bananas,
and fotos of my garden project, and the terracing I've been doing...

so, here I sit, a fool on a mountain, 68 floors above Tsunami
levels, cooking banana bread...

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Sunday, 27th March 2011.......

morning,
home alone, enjoying the solitude....
Relaxing, doing some puttering...

went to town a couple days ago, paid off some dental work, and did my
shopping..

spent about $30 on food for the month, and shopped the stores for some
list items... And for any items of opportunity...

I found a nice little Mexican hoe, forged, that was the perfect size
and shape for a refugee kit item..

have been thinking of doing a set, by making an E-tool by rehandling a
kid's sized shovel available here, then doing a matching hoe, with
both having about 24 inch overall length... Then I have an axe, that
I made by cutting two hatchets apart, and welding them into an
interesting little double bitt axe... thinking to do a 24 inch handle
for it also, then I have a rula style machete thats the same length
over all that I made, and I made a nice leather scabbard for it, and
its already in my refugee pack...

downsized stuff has limits to what you can do with it, but in a
refugee situation, would be better than nothing... basically
camping equipment, but several orders of magnitude above the normal
stuff.. & definitely enough tools to start life over in the brush...
I prefer full sized tools, but feel quite capable of building a hut
etc. With those tools.. And even growing food...

I also found an interesting little 12 inch traditional Chinese rice
sickle.. I paid $1.65 for it.. thinking that it might be good
steel, as it looked like a tool not generally exported.. Simple, and
very basic...

I got it home, and tested the temper of the blade with a file, and
found that it was the correct temper for a sickle, quite hard... so
hard in fact, that I couldnt use a file to sharpen it.. sickles are
stoned...
This one needs the angle of the cutting edge laid back about 2X, and I
started with a hand stone, and decided it needed to wait for a visit
with my grinder first, as it would take several days down at the
spring with a stone to do the job...

I consider the sickle to be a great score for the survivalist... as
its one of man's most important tools, and this one is not some soft &
crudely designed piece of junk for the yard tool market.. I've owned
such, and gave them away to someone I didnt like...

this one weighs ounces, and is definitely going into the refugee
kit... I know the value of it in a reboot from scratch survival
situation.. And I do grow rice.. using a primitive central american
method.. here they sell a curved knife originally brought in by the
Banana companies, to cut stalks of bananas into "hands" as theyre
called.. and for awhile these knives were hard to get, and people
kept them as prized items for home grown rice... And most had to use
regular kitchen knives to cut rice with... so finding the exact right
tool, with thousands of years of design evolution behind it made one
happy shopper...

primitive humans lived on native grasses before the Improved strains
of grains came along.. They used small stone knives to cut the
proto-rice etc. And archeologists study the blades for usage, guaging
by the amount of polish by the silicates in the grass stems of the
flint & obsidian blades..

which means some blades were likely used just for such work & saved
harvest to harvest, & not used up doing other jobs..

to me, survival in whats coming means that we will likely be knocked
back into the early iron age for awhile.. the sky gods predict near
extinction... & some biblical scholars put the projected number of
human survivors at about 2% of humanity... And as Jesus put it, if
these days were not cut short for the sake of the elect, there would
be no flesh left alive...

which if you analize the semantics, negates a pre tribulation rapture...

I think the thing with the nuclear power plant in Japan demonstrates
how its going to be... The liars, thieves, & killers we know of as
governments, corporations, and Bank$, are going to careen along
unchecked by any amount of wisedom however slight... I already hear
the propaganda on Short Wave for both a continuation of Nuclear power,
and a continuation of the resource wars...

both of which will lead to the Apocalypse, and I dont think we'll have
to wait long to get there....

which is incredibly stupid considering that geothermal is
everywhere... some places more drilling, some less, but the truth is
we have the tech to put geo thermal power plants anywhere on the
planet, & get absolutely free & non poluting power, and are able to do
it NOW! and if we applied a small fraction of the money spent on oil,
coal, or nuclear power, or on wars over such, we could develope even
better technology able to bring geothermal power down to family farm
level... how? I would suggest using lasers, and burning small
diameter holes, and designing small power plants that any village
could afford...

But who am I, eh? some fool on a mountain living on the edge of the
jungle, and harming no one, while my "Betters" who are so wise in
their own minds, contaminate the planet with things that will kill &
deform humans for billions of years, if we made it past their greed &
arrogance based follies...

think about all this when you hear the propaganda being fed you via
our economically enlightened & exaulted ones...

they make me want to vomit....
Thats what I think of "People Magazine" types...

infinite hubris... finite reality....

and sanity is the art of struggling to not be insane..

insanity is what you see sold on TV....
Talking heads who spin beautiful lies for consumption by masses who
have forgotten how to think independently....

I've been watching the monkeys that come for my excess bananas,
feeding about 16 last count..
They remind me alot of humans.. little assholes trying to pig
everything for themselves with Three Stooges on steroids social
behavior... Chop off their tails, blow them up to a couple hundred
pounds, and put them in business suits, and give them a language, and
a keen ability to lie to themselves & each other, & you have humanity
in a nutshell....

the sky gods should have started with Racoons
or Kinkajous or something else... Even Gorillas would have been
better... I think they must have ruined some Chimpanzees to create
us..

Yeah, Racoons would have been better.. Less neurotic....

I also bought a couple kitchen knives.. One is a very nice design, it
had a fancy Japanese name, but is basically a short french knife with
an extreme drop point.. a nice "Veggetarian Hunting knife"... and I
reshaped the bakelite handle by filing off the squarish corners, and
have been working on its edge, sharpening it one sided, to create a
finer inclined plane, as I see it as an ace tomato slicer, and its
metal was 440C Stainless.. and will hold an extreme edge, if I can
keep it out of other people's hands...

lately I have been busy building a new garden.. Working most mornings
for 3 hours with a pickhoe carving terraces and building raised beds
in the flatter areas.. what I have done now is the size of a big
country garden, but its just the beginning... The space I have is over
an acre, about half a hectare perhaps, the size of a soccer field... I
calculate it will take me a year with the pickhoe to finish... Why
so big? because its my goal to be 100% food self sufficient a year
from now... going to grow grains & legumes on a large enough scale,
that I can quit packing the stuff up the mountain... And because I
expect in the next couple three years for there to be a nuclear war,
and I'm hoping some people I care about make it out of Babylon.. I
even got an email from my niece, now a middle aged woman, with two
little girls, and she sees how bad things are getting in the US, and
is seriously thinking about moving down.. I've offered to give her
land for a house site, and use of any amount of land she needs to
build whatever dream she desires... I have about 70 acres.. I didnt
buy it for just me.. in fact, all the people I care about have the
same offer.. imagine that... being able to escape the US, and live
in paradise on a farm with a thousand tropical fruit trees... it
seemed better thing to do, than working a government job to me...

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