Wednesday 13 April 2011...............

morning,

nice day here, sun behind a cloud at the moment, but blue skys & 80F or so....

I'm munching some bannock with Curry, hot peppers & garlic... Pretty good...

listening to short wave, but the propagations have been bad lately,
so I tend to listen more at night...

sounds ugly up there in Disney land on the Patomicville....

Makes me thankfull to be a poor brush rat living in a banana republic....

what I observe listening to the call ins, is that people invariably
think its somebody elses job to fix things...

my, my arent we predictable...

you dont suppose the status quo counts on that do you?
They seeem to, have installed corks in all the fixit positions...
leaving you Yammerheads as Heinline called you, to squawk and scream,
and get nowhere but used and eaten...

what do we need to see before you get it? The Romper Room lady get out
her magic mirror, and say; you & you & you, are responsible for doing
something to fix things?

you know, one of the reasons I left the US, is because I saw what a
bunch of gutless spineless fat slobs my fellow citizens were...

you people are going to squeal like pigs in the movie diliverance...
And after the status quo uses you real good, theyll cut you throat to
shut you up..

to achieve anything, you have to pay a price...
What I hear is morons who think liberty and freedom is a fone call away...

Just call their black box elected, unconstitutional government,
Misrepresentative, and FedEx will diliver their new reality overnight,
please sign here, for your free freedom...

no Silly, you have to pay a price... And not with a checkbook or
plastic card....

you have to do something, anything, that thwarts
the status quo...

I found changing my life helped alot in the freedom department..
also I feel really good to not be paying for their dirty bomb wars....

they dont get anything from me, nada.. Nobody does... and having my
boughten food bill down to $30 a month, there arent very many
middlemen making very much money off me....

I dont watch TV, I dont buy shit on commercials, I use mass transit,
dont have a driver's license or a car, no medical insurance other than
clean life, clean air & water, veggetarian diet, home grown fruit
etc....

I'm kind of a non-participant in reality....
civilisation could end tomorrow at 8:00 AM sharp, & I wouldnt give a
shit other than for the suffering of all those silly geese foolish
enough to buy into a grandiose pyramid scheme called government &
technocult.....

how did I get here? took risks, made plans, made plans happen, went
thru hell, almost didnt survive many times etc... wasnt a fone call
that got me here scott free....

Tell you a secret; if you dont like whats going on, you can leave the movie...

Nature is always happy every morning.. Whether youre around or no....
New York could become a glowing crater, and the Pizotes after my
breadnuts wouldnt care...

I would never know, if I wasnt a Short wave DXer hobbyist....

well, I see the monkeys are back.. Hold on a line or two...

ok, cut up some bananas for them, I count at least 14 this morning,
and saw the Mamma w/baby on her back earlier.... second time theyve
come today, and now coming within inches of me to snag banana hunks as
I cut them, and also beginning to explore in my shelter...

how did I get the cool Tarzan job?

I bought it by doing something..

coming up with the guts to leave the twilight of normalcy zone..

until you start fixing yourself, the reality is going to get worse & worse..

me? Constant struggle to fix my own sorry butt...
That & prepare for things to get a whole lot worse..

I dont think anyone else is going to do anything but complain their
way to WW3... Wee-Wee-Wee! All the way home, to hell for gutless
squealers....

remember the fable? Smart piggy put his money on what was substancial,
and the half assed piggys lost their asses.... The wolves do blow...
Lies generally, unless theyre sucking.. Eggs, blood, etc...

hey! Guys! Its a preditory reality!

you cant just be little stupid sheepies, and everything will be wonderful.....

gotta find your own balance.. Gotta pedal to get there...

become; "doo-ers", not whiners...

a quarter of the planet is still wild... Thats a fair sized area...
The seas are fairly empty....

its all about letting go of the monkey trap....

you know, I have a dozen monkey friends now... They might have IQ's of
20 or so.... But they know how to be & stay free....

not a one, has asked to use my fone, to call a congressman....

they just do it.....

Primates... From Baboons, to pot bellied Bafoons....

anyway, practicing solar electric guitar most mornings, learning chord
rounds... Still a beginner, but learning daily... going to someday
play a mean guitar, or die trying... Gotta have something to do, now
that I'm free of the system, knock on wood....

and the trying habit gets habitual...

got an email from my son yesterday... He was happy, scored a stainless
Solingen kitchen knife blade at a 2nd hand store for a couple three
dollars... same knife new over a hundred...

so now he needs to rebuild it, new handle slabs etc... I'm sure he's
got the routine down, saw DAD do it many times, since he was a little
kid...

so I suggested a wood type & source in a reply email...

happy my kid has a good survival related hobby....
he who makes knives, always has some....

its a refugee item... subsistence tool.... I'm looking fwd to seeing
a foto of the used blade... and another foto when he's finished..

do you suppose that one will go into his refugee gear? There beside
the Solingen knife my father gave me? its blue steel, pre-stainless
era....

also he has a couple knives I made, with really exelent steel...

and sheathes I sewed by hand... Designed them too.. One is the nicest
knife sheath I've made to date.. And holds a hunting knife thats the
very best stainless to cross my palms in my life...

did a nice job on the knife too, perfect lines & proportion....

friends still mention that knife to me, now 5 plus years later..
i'm happy my kid has it, and the others too... just owning one good
knife, is something worth being thankful for...

its not how much you own, or how much money you have... its having
the right stuff, & doing the right things...

do nothing, get nowhere....

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Thursday 7th of April 2010.....

Afternoon,
just had a shower, thunder boomers and an inch or two of rain...

before that, listened on radio to an interview w/Lindon La Rouche...
never heard him speak before, he was definitely lucid.. understood
new world order agenda, and also suggested that we were in for a mega
quake above richter nine, perhaps a 12 Richter, on the west coast of
US... In the next couple of years.. He gave cause as the 62 million
year galactic cycle which I've read a little about before..

I'm not sure of causes, but I do take the sky gods warning
seriously... And I've been questing mentally for scenarios to explain
cause... I suspect its an all of the above answer..

I heard Dr. wong on short wave yesterday, talking about living
traditionally as an answer to the problems of our times...

same basic answer I promote.. Neoindigenism etc...

this morning I worked in my garden project, knocked out another raised
bed... aint easy, dealing with an area thats got no shortage of roots
& rocks, but I'm building a bed most mornings, and so my garden is
starting to look like a garden, one bed at a time....

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Monday 4th of April 2010.......

afternoon, a warm one... was listening to radio, until station went
OTA... Wasnt a freq change, so must be having probs...

Sounds like the US is getting worse monthly...

the problem with the ability to pass unlimited numbers of laws, is
eventually you run out of intelligent ones...

what happens living in a third world country, its like being an
anthropologist.. you start observing the quaint locals... and you
go thru phases, and eventually you realize that the defects they
exibit remind you of similar stuff back home, that
you never really added up... then you get it... Same traits,
different cultural "style" at most...

then after you figure that out, eventually you get screwed over
enough, it clicks, and reminds you of things youve done earlier...
thats enlightenment...when you figure out the "your OK, I'm OK" fad
was a big fat lie..

the human condition is a matter of degrees & opportunity...

people just play roles.. different role, different act, same animal...

business is the art of ripping each other off.. in the third world
thats just more obvious..

after years of thought, about lifetimes of problems with others, you
eventually realize that problems are invariably connected to people..
and that the more independent & self sufficient you are, the less
problems you have... the problems in the US, are only problems, if
you depend on the system.. the less youre involved, the less leverage
they have on you..

which is why I prioritize what I do & buy in order of importance for
self sufficiency... not too many people get excited over garden hoes
these days.. I do.. Why? Because its the tool that most helps me in
the direction of food independence..

this morning, I built another bed in the garden.. removed some huge
rocks in the process.. stuff you wouldnt be able to haul in a
wheelbarrow..

every bed is a step closer to home grown tortillas & beans or peas..

its what allows me to listen to short wave fairly unaffected.. I'm
not part of the problem.. And I seperate myself more daily..

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Monday, 4th of April, 2011.........

going on two in the morning,
I woke about midnight, and built a small fire for tea... around me,
jungle bug & ting frog noises... ambient temperature about 76 F....
amd I'm waiting for the dawn in a few hours, to go to my garden site,
& grub hoe up another raised bed..

its not easy.. roots, rocks, and a pickhoe with the pick removed to
do it with... I work up a sweat, get a pile of rocks, and another
of roots, but in a couple hours, manage to have a nice long bed
done...

life can be fairly simple... a couple hundred dollars in materialism,
and the knowlege of food growing, and one can live in the brush just
fine...

I contrast that with people who think they have to make thousand
dollar house payments or rent, or its the end of the world for them...

the technocult could dissappear tomorrow and it would make zero
difference to me.. the wild life wouldnt know, I'd just adapt, the
sun would come up & the moon set, and I'd just keep expanding my
garden project, cutting firewood to cook with, and waiting for dawn
to go out and putter in my garden...

would only take a few posessions really... A machette, a stout hoe, a
knife, Wok, tea pot, stock pot, bowl, cup and spoon.. a lens to start
fires with, a blanket to snuggle in, toothbrush, hair brush, a file
to sharpen tools, a stone for the knife, and one could live fine
under a thatch of leaves on poles.. I have 100X more than I need..
Ten or eleven hoes last count.. more pots & pans than I can keep
organized, got shovels & axes, saws & drills, chisels and hammers,
buckets & canisters for food...

my last trip to town, got a really pretty little hoe, a chinese rice
sickle, and a japanese style kitchen knife, and some stainless water
bottles, all for
about $20... the hoe cost the same as 8 lbs of beans.... The rice
sickle cost two cups of coffee...

I was telling my son in emails what I'd figured out about using hoes
in agriculture here, instead of the Tico machete based food growing
techniques...

Rediscovering the wheel only worse.. People had hoes long before wheels...

I'm doing a new raised bed most mornings, expanding my garden one
day at a time... intend to keep it up for a year or more... Until I
have enough area going that I have surplus food....

corn & beans folks... And a diet thereof... I have plenty of fruit,
and tropical tree foods going.. One just feels better if you have
grains & legumes for daily staples... yesterday was passover I think,
so I did flat bread... lived simple, watered my herb plants, dug my
raised bed, wrote emails to friends...

Got a text message from a young woman I met on the bus, have been
helping her w/english homework, she seems nice, has a little girl...
anyway, I think I'm going to end up teaching english for free to her &
a bunch of sisters, and any body else who shows up, every couple
weeks..

should be entertaining, I've taught english before.. Usually peters
out due to Latin inability to show up anywhere on a regular & timely
basis...

not my problem, I'll just do it for social entertainment, and to help
those who can manage to show up... my guess is I'll end up with
maybe half a dozen young people... some that I know, some that I
dont...

will be a shock to the village, havent taught publically in many
years... Got fed up w/latin trips...

but I suspect now will see better results... Theyve all spent alot of
money studying english, and gotten nowhere... Just bilked by fellow
latins, end up with a piece of paper, and cant speak or understand
anything, because the local system screws gringos over, uses latins
only, and none of them can ask your aunt Harriet where the bathroom
is... Trying for years to teach english with people who cant converse
for teachers....

the Tico government, and private schools have a little "no gringos
allowed" educational Mafia going, its costing the people millions of
dollars, and they never learn dogshit... doesnt take long to figure
out its a money game.. With government & private schools sucking up
wealth from poor people, while denying them any real benifit, by being
greedy racist hippocrit bastards...

I could tell you horror stories for an hour, corruption, extortion,
lies, and people who got promoted to even ministerial levels doing
such...

all connected to english non teaching.. If you want to go somewhere
where nobody speaks english, Costa Rata is your best bet... ripping
off foriegners & each other, is all they know..

so, I'll help some kids, because they need it, and let the sky gods
take care of the greed heads.. theyre going to need a big troop
ship, if they remove all the extremely dishonest people in CR.....

The Ticos even have a saying; "If the law really worked, we'd all be in jail."

and theyre telling the truth.. Which is rare here...

they have a pretend culture... looks really good superficially, the
entire economy is based on everybody ripping every body they can
off... Period... from top to bottom, inside & out, theyre planet
class sleaze bags... its like a conversation I had on the bus with a
tico about it, he gave the usual line; "its not everybody!" and I
looked at him & responded; no, its not, but the numbers are really
really bad.

he couldnt say shit....

so I feel sorry for the kids growing up in a cultural cess pool... And
I live in poverty, & teach for free, while worthless & arrogant types
have high paying jobs, pretending to be able to teach...
So I help kids on busses, help people via text messages etc... Its all
I can do...

I've been blocked repeatedly for going on 16 years, and not one person
in a thousand here speaks english... but they have a great english
program at the national level... Plenty of budget, big words, zero
results, due to the tico anti foriegner economic endemic bias... its
a sick novela to watch...

and why I generally stay home, and dont have much to do with the
ticos... All american long termers get to the point they distance
themselves from the ticos... its like living in some cartoon reality,
a land populated by 150 pound Oregon garden slugs, wearing nice
clothes, shaking you hand.. But keep your distance if you dont want
covered in their slime....

its been the very best thing possible for my own enlightenment.. You
live here awhile & you start realizing cleaning up your own act is a
"gotta do it." nobody is perfect, few humans even decent, but here
you get enough ego moster bites that you just pray to God to help you
not be like them any more than absolutely impossible to do anything
about.. its like being in an open air prison, and deciding you really
dont want to be like these kinds of persons.....

so.. I mostly stay home, play with my neoindigenous trip, and let
the world go where it may...

the other day I heard an interview on Alex Jones, with Shawn Stone,
son of Oliver Stone the movie director... he mentioned the book of
Enoch, and connected Angels with Aliens... and its a program with
several million listeners a day.... yup! best read book of Enoch,
Judges 5:20, Genisis 6, etc... And realize the game we're being
played...

the star of Bethlehem is a ship I think.... and Judgement day is
quite likely a coming reality, and enough people are going to get
their "necks cut" as its put in Enoch, to run the rivers of blood up
to a horses bridles described in the bible...

so I feel lucky I've had Ticos to teach me how bad we really are... I
used to think I was an OK guy.... now I realize it aint like I
thunk.... its the stuff we think nobody knows about.... We live on
two mental planes... Our imagined persona, & our real persona... And
we blythly go thru our lives doing shitty things, thinking not good
thoughts, like demon possessed pigs... and if we think no one knows,
then thats not part of who we are mentally...

listen to your own monster for awhile... Its really disgusting...
take a look at others.. Thats your "mirror of enlightenment".... see
how disgusting they are? Thats how you are too, if you see the bad
stuff in yourself, and not think whats hidden has no effects....

anyway, I try to do no damage to others.. And hope people wake up in time...

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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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