25/10/2011

morning,

 

in town, will be heading back into the brush tomorrow..

looking forward to the tranquility and being able to do my things..

 

also packing some survival loot from the technocult..  a few items...

will be nice to have the plastic buckets..   thinking to start buying plastic tool boxes next trip to Panama,

want to get things as organized as possible, so I can have more breathing room in my shelter..

 

one thing at a time relentlessly working towards my preparedness goals..

 

and will start working on stuff to build a fire piston,  and be able to light fires on days too cloudy for a lens, or even at night..

will be fun to play around with, and learn the skills, and work on some new habits, keeping dry tinder etc.. will take me a big step farther from reliance on the technocult,  with something that will fit into my refugee kit...

 

thinking I have a long 3/8's stainless bolt in my stash, to use for the piston, will have to wait a couple of weeks until next town trip, to look for some copper tubing to fit, and an O ring..  then  will make a wooden shaft to fit the tube into..  also thinking to do a brass wire bail as a keeper for the plunger, and will do some kind of lanyard attachment point for the whole device..  I like to tie my survival stuff as much as possible to the bags etc..  so it doesnt get lost in a tumble.. or fall out of a pocket..

 

when I can find the stuff, will likely make several smaller units,  and scatter them around in things like my bow quiver, maybe do a downsized version to go on key chain... so that the chances of having one at any given time are increased..

 

I have a stainless can for tinder..  will likely put the charred cloth into a plastic bag inside of it, due to the ambient humidity of the rain forest..

in the smaller kits use a plastic bottle perhaps.. here one has to be very careful keeping things dry, even the bakelite handles of kitchen knives will grow fungus... 

 

as do the rubber handles on tools etc..

 

also hoping to afford more nylon cord next month, to do some more heavy duty net bags, and to work on my wooden back back frame..  for lacing, and doing a net bag, so I can just stuff things into it..

 

tired of busted zippers on packs.. they look good but last a year at most of regular use..

Im afraid alot of survivalist types are going  be hauling their stuff in their bedraggled sleeping bags in short order...

 

fast downhill trip on yuppie gear..

 

well, I need to go take a bath, and put more bread in the oven, likely a couple weeks until next blog posting....

 

have a good day who ever you are..

 

 

 

 

18/10/2011

Afternoon,

in town,  just did a border cross a few days ago...

 

still having probs with the infection,  but using hexoclorophene for mouth wash.... and has stopped most of it... 

 

anyway, have been teaching a small tribe of girls how to bake yeast breads and today cinnamon rolls..  people who had never had a real cinnamon roll in their lives.....

 

Have been doing alot of searching on line for small scale agriculture machinery,  we are about to boot the farm considerably in the next couple years, with first priority being food security for ourselves,  and survival food stashes,  and after that use the excesses as a business...

 

the business model is a two sided thing...  with an eye to whats coming...

 

why not?  better than holding down a job and being afraid to leave it.....

 

and the cinnamon rolls are part of the plan....  soon to be selling in a market thats never tried them...  might do OK eh?

 

also bought a few items in Panama,  found 22 inch rula style machetes, not available in costa rica...

 

nice size for gardening...

 

I was reading awhile back online and ran into a thread on swords versus machetes as weapons...  guys, survival heads,  arguing over which is better..

 

Well,  let me say this about that:   swords quit evolving much maybe a hundred years ago..  made obsolete by the revolver etc...  

 

Or did they?   if you search rula machetes, or try imacasa.com  you can see images of a rather strange machete virtually unknown in the US market...

it has a narrow blade,  and comes in lengths up to 28 inches....   if you study the images, and you have any background in swords,  you will realize its basically a backsword...  differences being a wider blade...  the blade is also thinner...   basically this IS the continued evolution of the sword..  improvements in spring steel manufacture allowed the use of much  thinner stock,  i.e. a much faster lighter sword...  and the width of blade does nothing to hurt its effectiveness..

 

the sword operates on the physics principle of the inclined plane or wedge...  the thinner the wedge,  the sharper it can be...

 

so a sword thats say a 16th of an inch thick,  can cut much more effectively than one an eighth thick...   it can also travel thru the air much faster, and is lighter and takes less muscle to wield...  basically a guy with a rula could cut a man with a heavier sword to shreds...   with little chance of being blocked as with heavier slower blades...  due to blade being able to move faster than the human eye can follow...

 

I wouldnt even consider a historic sword in comparison...

 

and here in central america, you can buy the rulas for $5 or less any where theres a hardware store....

 

the steel is hard enough that it will just barely file...

 

and its flexible enough you can bend it as far as you dare....  its serious spring steel, not some immitation "stuff" from india, that wont hold an edge like it will hold a bend....

 

 

Ive used alot of machete steel..  its good stuff...  very seldom break them.. even cutting serious tropical hardwoods...   and the locals use them on larger trees, I have seen latins cut down trees over two feet thru, with machetes, with the blade "ribboning" between strokes due to its flexiblility...

 

try that with your immitation historic sword....

 

basically what it amounts to, is the rula is the height to date for a slashing sword.  and after you use them down a bit they tend to get very pointy...

 

they are also ubiquitous...   dont elicit much notice...   and if you want to practice,  just find a brush patch in need of clean up....  

 

reason I mention this, is I realized something about the bible and swords...  lets assume I am correct on my overview, book of Enoch etc...

basically the aliens running the test,  are of some kind of militaristic culture,  i.e. Jehova of Arimies.....

 

OK,  Jesus said if you dont have a sword to sell your robe and get one...  strange statement for the prince of peace..

 

but recently heard a passage that might explain some...   in the bible,  old testament I think, and it was that  the last of the reptoids were going to be finished off with the sword..

 

connect this to the cutting of necks in the book of enoch....   ie it answers the question I have had about it being done with expedient pocket knives, or swords, axes, etc....   and considering the descriptions of depth of blood from the event being up to a horses bridle,  it would take alot of swords, and I wondered if the aliens were going to supply swords or box cutters or something, as the way its written in Enoch, they are going to order the suvivors they like to cut the necks of those who fail the final tests, ie did you do anything for those at the very bottom of the pile of greedy self centered humanity..   JC himself explains this one, and that the losers will be led off to be cut off into eternal darkness...  connect with Enoch..

 

anyway on towards my point;  that JC is sked to be appointed ViceRoy of this planet,  comander in chief big time,  rule with an Iron rod, and all that..

 

so all the Christains who read the sword passage and think it justifys an AK-47 or an AR clone,  may in fact be considered to be disobeying a direct order...

 

nothing a military mind hates more,  than troops who think they know better than their leaders....

 

if I am told to get a sword,  a sword I will get, and the very best one I can...  doesnt need  to be spendy or fancy looking,   needs to be a good sword, not a fake,  and in my book,  a rula would make a much better issue battle sword than anything in the catalogs of the self professed experts of a dead art...

 

old chinese saying,  that those who speak, do not know, and those who know do not speak...

 

the real experts with blades  in modern times are guys who work in the brush and jungles with blades every day, all day long, clearing acres, planting food etc., with nothing but a machete...   and they have the muscles and skills to prove it...  if you ever come to central america,  observe the men, you can tell a campesino from a town dweller in a quick glance..   the  country guys are gnarly...  and the tool they use most is the common machete, and most prefered for serious work are the longer rulas...  and many of them can clear an acre or more in a day....   you try that....

 

in battle,  its not a 30 second thing, goes on until only guys from one side or the other are left standiing...  and its not a place for a purist thrusting weapon...

 

Id much rather be on the side of gnarly campesinos than city types with ornate relics...  

 

now to point...  if this is all a big test,  following orders might carry some points with it...  and following that order might be what shifted the balance enough to put a sinner on the side of the cutters, rather than the cuttees...  and a humble blade that was of better practical use would be more respected than a historic dinosaur blade, who's design and materials enhancement stopped a hundred years ago, or that was impractical in a real battle....

 

and yes, I could design a better sword than a rula, but the rula would be my starting point....

 

and its a sword that anyone can afford...

 

I bought three this week for $3.50 each...  and got the shorter 22 inch and a 24 inch rula, because I was buying them  for use by small women....

 

For myself, I like the  26 and 28 inch rulas..

 

anyway, my point is; that  it might be advisable to have one on hand for everyone in your clan...

 

they are a prime survival tool.. here where its warm all the time, it aint an axe...   if I had to get down to one possession, it would be a rula...  I can grow food, gut fish, or defend myself and my family, and do it very very effectively with that one single device....

 

and do it for next to nothing, and carry the thing full time in my hands if need be...  and here in central america, they are the weapon of choice killing snakes..

 

most of which are extremely toxic.. they also leap, yes, large snakes eight feet or so long at times, that can leap more than their body length...

 

hope you are really really good with your shovel....

 

so...   they might be considered the appropriate tool to rid the planet of two legged snakes..

 

and for a final point, there is a guy in Ciudad Neily who begs on the street..   he sits on the sidewalk with his plastic cup..  he has a leg thats had exposed flesh for most of my years here, you can see the meat any day of the week you happen by....   he got bit by a local snake..  once years ago.. and went from a working man to being handicapped for life in half a second....

 

I went past him a couple days ago, on the way to buy art supplies for a young girl, on the way back,  the change went into his cup, and I heard him say thankyou as I kept walking...   there but for the grace of God sit I......  I live in the brush,  toxic snakes are a part of my life..  and there is no shortage here...

 

anyway, do search rula machetes,  and if you are really serious about edged weapons or following orders exactly,  get one...

 

G!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8 September 2011

afternoon, 

have  computer  access for  the  first time in awhile, my  fone went bad, so limited now on ablility to blog..

 

have been listening  to  short  wave, things  getting  worse,  I dont expect things to get any better until after

alien arrival, as per book of  Enoch..  down hill trip folks,  gold isnt going to  save your butts, nor is money an any form..

I've realized for a long time the  connections in bible between money and "luck" in  whats coming, basically it boils down

to the more into or  connected to money, the  less are your chances of survival, and also it  will likely be a criteria when its time to decide

who gets their necks cut and who gets to  do the  cutting..

 

heard the  other night on short wave, an expose'  on money related stuff in the  bible, and it  was  very obvious that there is a

definite connection..  basically if you are into the  money system, you are guilty of its damages..  everything I heard backed this  up, and more...

 

so my  advice to  those capable of real thinking, is  to start vectoring away from the  use of  money until you get to absolute zero..

 

Getting  out of Babylon includes the  money  system,  and  I believe this is in  fact the  nexus, or  focal point,  that your  chances of keeping  your 

neck intact are in direct proportion to  your  involvement with  the  money  system..  and  that money, or  gold  hoarded will be looked upon as  unused potential to  help others, or to prepare for whats coming..   

 

just as I have suspected...

 

I am  currently in dire straits over un cared for dental problems, had two teeth pulled, do to extreme infection,  seems to be a very antibiotic resistant bacteria,  have had a dozen

bottles of  IV antibiotics administered, and the infection keeps coming back..  if  it  was  post  collapse,  I'd be dead as of last week..  and  not  sure I  will survive this even now..

 

so  please take care of any dental problems you have now, before the  collapse hits, and also I  suggest that you stockpile antibiotics anyway possible, for  yourself and  family and  others..

 

and  do it  in quantity and  in  quality..   much  better  a  pile of antibiotics, than a stack of gold or silver coins, that will be  worthless when there is nothing  to  buy...

 

Some economists are predicting the collapse in three to six months, others giving about  three years, until in deflationary depression...   if you are money dependant, best you get your  trip together now for living without it, even if that  requires going neonomadic...  time is  going to  be the most critical factor, that and realizing the  truth about whats

coming in time to do something about it in your own lives...   The Bankers are smugly assured that their plan for world government will work if they get everyone enough

afraid..  i  dont  think it  will work out that good for them. or  for  those who suck up their lies...

 

world war three will be the eventual result..  which they think  they can easily survive,  and they arent aware of the eventual alien arrival, or that anything could go wrong

with  their  schemes...  unfortunately for  them too many people  now  understand the connections, and whats coming...

 

Time is  running  out, and if  youre thinking anything but getting out, or preparedness, youre a bigger fool than I am....

 

time to  do some  serious rethinking of  yourself..   time to exit Babylon on the  run...   time to prepare to help others.. anything else is suicide of one form

or another..  

 

I'm  doing  what I can,  even today giving a stealth sermon to neighbors at the  bus stop on the  way to town.. 

trying to get them to plant more food and  not to believe in the  money system...  have one local guy starting to think really good...  and others  starting to actually listen..

not an  easy accomplishment in a land where nothing bad has ever happened...

 

I also hear Chuck Norris has come out in public, trying to get people to wake up..  good man..  now do your part.

 

prepare for  the absolute worst case scenario..  and maybe you  can squeeze by, maybe.. no guarantees of  anything from now on...

and  remember; the ultimate criteria for not having your neck cut, will be did you help others, especially those most in need, and  not  just  family and  friends...

 

anyway,  likely will be at  the dentist's tomorrow,  and find out how things are going in real terms, and what to do next about the  resistant infection...going to be another tight month at  best, for the thin wallet..   but, if I can beat the infection, and continue to struggle towards preparedness, i will be very thankful..

 

When you live very low for a long time, what you learn, is  how little you actually really need to keep breathing..   best to run a  tight ship,  and be prepared for the  storms coming over the horizon...  and I hope that this blog has helped some,  I write as always from the point of view that if what I've posted here helps even one person, its was more

than worth all the time spent trying to teach what I've figured out by being slightly ahead of the curve.. 

 

so,  my  personal struggle continues,  every month I try to do things to prepare..  I have no desire for wealth, or  fame, just want to make a better world however possible,

and have realized that everything we take for normal is incredibly twisted..

 

all connected to the love of money, and our innate egocentric natures... 

 

anyway,  other emails to write..

 

good luck!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Continued;.............

I also taught myself flint knapping, favorite tool is a railroad spike
& a hunk of tire rubber.. I've worked Obsidian, and produced points
that collectors flat refused to believe I did myself in 15 minutes...
I generally make points out of glass... Coke bottle bottoms & TV tube
glass are my favorites... No shortage of those resources anywhere on
the planet... I make steel tips too... like to use lace into a slot
method, with monofiliment fishing line, and then coat with epoxy
resin... aint comin' apart... and used up machete steel is just
right for broadheads... easy enough to cut out with a thin abrasive
wheel.. And I could do it in my fire pit with red steel and a hot set
type chisel, then retemper.. I know the art well... blacksmithing is
a personal hobby... Starting with flat stock means all I have to do is
cut out, temper & sharpen.. Yup! A country boy can survive...
especially if he's not too caught up in the wizzmo-gizmo culture...

how did I learn all my skills? decided I was more interested in
hobbys than watching TV... TV watchers are going to have bad stats in
whats coming...

anyway, my worker commented the other day that I had food growing
everywhere... yup! My original vision was to create a garden of
Eden... its been a fun hobby, dont own any freeze dried food... no
gold other than a couple pieces of jewlery..

not much caught up in money... it could disappear tomorrow & I'd
adapt almost instantly... have gone for years on end barefoot in the
jungle.. my favorite way to eat fish is raw.. Sushi, Cevechi, etc..

Also made another Neoindigenous discovery;

cooking wood; always a problem in the wet season in the tropics when
your shelter repretoir doesnt include a wood shed... what I figured
out, was the easy way to do it, was to peel a tree, and let it die
standing.. pretty soon limbs start falling... nice dry wood...
eventually I cut the trunk down and burn it too, and then plant a food
tree where the original tree was... and so slowly evolve my
surrounding area into food security... dont need a wood shed, if
youre not too good to burn sticks, or chop up larger limbs & trunk...
wouldnt work in wet northern climates like the Pacific north west, but
here the evaporation rate is high enough that standing dead wood is
generally dry enough to burn... I have several trees peeled ahead..
More to peel, and what land I have that isnt in fruit, is in forest
now, it was all pasture filled with scrub brush when I bought it...
the locals thought I was crazy for letting the brush grow.. They were
all shifting to gas or electric stoves at the time... wasnt long
though until wood cooking "Fugons" started appearing behind houses..
They discovered gas & electricity to be expensive... so its kind of
funny to see nice stoves in kitchens, and the mom behind the house,
poking sticks into the traditional fugon, under a small sheet metal
roof... People in towns cant do that, no fuel source..

trapped like rats by their desire to be closer to money sources...

I have an unlimited supply of cooking fuel.... unlimited supply of
water, and more land than my descendants will need for generations...

I'm just as agile as I was in my 20's, just as healthy..

I worry about whats coming, not for myself, I'm better prepared than
most of humanity...

for the last couple years I've been collecting the ocasional pocket
knife.. Not easy on a micro budget, but have managed to get some nice
pocket knives of several different types... why?
Because I suspect a pocket knife is the brush rat's most used tool,
and having several different types means I have knives for specific
uses... I've high graded whats come past... also because pocket
knives make sense for the refugee... minimalistic, no need of sheath
etc... I lanyardize every thing, learned as a kid that I never lost
a lanyarded knife...

I lanyardize sheath knives too..

I also drill the handles of garden tools & axes etc. so that they can
be tied thru a hole to pack saddle etc... hard to lose something tied
thru a hole... an axe etc. Might catch on a limb and slip out and be
lost if not tied thru a hole...

well, the woman thats been after me seems to be serious... she's
losing 30 pounds at the moment... nice lady, a nurse at a local
hospital, had five daughters, single mom, three adopted.. On a third
world income.. One daughter just left home this week, another two will
follow in the next couple of years.. last two will be awhile... But I
like kids...

the woman was raised on a farm, but got caught up in the money trap...
went thru several shades of hades in her life... has realized in
town isnt a good life... and knows having a guy is a good idea these
days... wants to grow food again... Live with some space... likes
animals.. and with her being "chaser" & me being "chasee" I got to
set my price... no bullshit, no games, with the requirement of
constant struggle on her part to be a good wife in MY opinion, not
hers... she's 16 years younger than I am... ten years older than my
number one son... so I suspect my years of living alone to be drawing
towards an end... I've been living alone for most of 18 years....

She's had a thing for me for years.. Offended me once years ago... I
like her for who she is.. She's at the same point...

anyway, I need to go take my last rinse of the day in the spring, and
butcher that pineapple... Yumm!

where did I go wrong?

its a humble life, but a good one....
Why does everyone like the Tarzan dream?
Because its sanity. it is do-able, it is better than being a rainbow
niggeroo... funny how what goes around, comes around... most of the
slaves are white people now.. black people at least werent
volunteers.... they werent that stupid back then, they knew they had
it good... my only crit of black people, is theyre too white on the
inside now... Like their old slang term: "Oreo" i.e. Black on the
outside, white on the inside... like an Oreo cookie... well, how
bout "Oreos on steroids"? you black folk really need to get back to
the land, go back to agriculture, rewild yourselves some... Get away
from the cities, the drugs, the dependence on whitey's technocult...
alot of you are some incredibly decent folks, time to do what it
takes and regraft onto your old "real" roots... Not some TV movie, to
pump you up, while youre still effectively slaves by other means...

If you want to be my neighbor, 'hope you like gardening & fishing...
And that the kids like horses etc... we'd do fine... The playing
field has been leveled quite a bit lately... the uppitys have come
down some...

humble people are an asset anywhere...

--
Sent from my mobile device

Continued;.............

I also taught myself flint knapping, favorite tool is a railroad spike
& a hunk of tire rubber.. I've worked Obsidian, and produced points
that collectors flat refused to believe I did myself in 15 minutes...
I generally make points out of glass... Coke bottle bottoms & TV tube
glass are my favorites... No shortage of those resources anywhere on
the planet... I make steel tips too... like to use lace into a slot
method, with monofiliment fishing line, and then coat with epoxy
resin... aint comin' apart... and used up machete steel is just
right for broadheads... easy enough to cut out with a thin abrasive
wheel.. And I could do it in my fire pit with red steel and a hot set
type chisel, then retemper.. I know the art well... blacksmithing is
a personal hobby... Starting with flat stock means all I have to do is
cut out, temper & sharpen.. Yup! A country boy can survive...
especially if he's not too caught up in the wizzmo-gizmo culture...

how did I learn all my skills? decided I was more interested in
hobbys than watching TV... TV watchers are going to have bad stats in
whats coming...

anyway, my worker commented the other day that I had food growing
everywhere... yup! My original vision was to create a garden of
Eden... its been a fun hobby, dont own any freeze dried food... no
gold other than a couple pieces of jewlery..

not much caught up in money... it could disappear tomorrow & I'd
adapt almost instantly... have gone for years on end barefoot in the
jungle.. my favorite way to eat fish is raw.. Sushi, Cevechi, etc..

Also made another Neoindigenous discovery;

cooking wood; always a problem in the wet season in the tropics when
your shelter repretoir doesnt include a wood shed... what I figured
out, was the easy way to do it, was to peel a tree, and let it die
standing.. pretty soon limbs start falling... nice dry wood...
eventually I cut the trunk down and burn it too, and then plant a food
tree where the original tree was... and so slowly evolve my
surrounding area into food security... dont need a wood shed, if
youre not too good to burn sticks, or chop up larger limbs & trunk...
wouldnt work in wet northern climates like the Pacific north west, but
here the evaporation rate is high enough that standing dead wood is
generally dry enough to burn... I have several trees peeled ahead..
More to peel, and what land I have that isnt in fruit, is in forest
now, it was all pasture filled with scrub brush when I bought it...
the locals thought I was crazy for letting the brush grow.. They were
all shifting to gas or electric stoves at the time... wasnt long
though until wood cooking "Fugons" started appearing behind houses..
They discovered gas & electricity to be expensive... so its kind of
funny to see nice stoves in kitchens, and the mom behind the house,
poking sticks into the traditional fugon, under a small sheet metal
roof... People in towns cant do that, no fuel source..

trapped like rats by their desire to be closer to money sources...

I have an unlimited supply of cooking fuel.... unlimited supply of
water, and more land than my descendants will need for generations...

I'm just as agile as I was in my 20's, just as healthy..

I worry about whats coming, not for myself, I'm better prepared than
most of humanity...

for the last couple years I've been collecting the ocasional pocket
knife.. Not easy on a micro budget, but have managed to get some nice
pocket knives of several different types... why?
Because I suspect a pocket knife is the brush rat's most used tool,
and having several different types means I have knives for specific
uses... I've high graded whats come past... also because pocket
knives make sense for the refugee... minimalistic, no need of sheath
etc... I lanyardize every thing, learned as a kid that I never lost
a lanyarded knife...

I lanyardize sheath knives too..

I also drill the handles of garden tools & axes etc. so that they can
be tied thru a hole to pack saddle etc... hard to lose something tied
thru a hole... an axe etc. Might catch on a limb and slip out and be
lost if not tied thru a hole...

well, the woman thats been after me seems to be serious... she's
losing 30 pounds at the moment... nice lady, a nurse at a local
hospital, had five daughters, single mom, three adopted.. On a third
world income.. One daughter just left home this week, another two will
follow in the next couple of years.. last two will be awhile... But I
like kids...

the woman was raised on a farm, but got caught up in the money trap...
went thru several shades of hades in her life... has realized in
town isnt a good life... and knows having a guy is a good idea these
days... wants to grow food again... Live with some space... likes
animals.. and with her being "chaser" & me being "chasee" I got to
set my price... no bullshit, no games, with the requirement of
constant struggle on her part to be a good wife in MY opinion, not
hers... she's 16 years younger than I am... ten years older than my
number one son... so I suspect my years of living alone to be drawing
towards an end... I've been living alone for most of 18 years....

She's had a thing for me for years.. Offended me once years ago... I
like her for who she is.. She's at the same point...

anyway, I need to go take my last rinse of the day in the spring, and
butcher that pineapple... Yumm!

where did I go wrong?

its a humble life, but a good one....
Why does everyone like the Tarzan dream?
Because its sanity. it is do-able, it is better than being a rainbow
niggeroo... funny how what goes around, comes around... most of the
slaves are white people now.. black people at least werent
volunteers.... they werent that stupid back then, they knew they had
it good... my only crit of black people, is theyre too white on the
inside now... Like their old slang term: "Oreo" i.e. Black on the
outside, white on the inside... like an Oreo cookie... well, how
bout "Oreos on steroids"? you black folk really need to get back to
the land, go back to agriculture, rewild yourselves some... Get away
from the cities, the drugs, the dependence on whitey's technocult...
alot of you are some incredibly decent folks, time to do what it
takes and regraft onto your old "real" roots... Not some TV movie, to
pump you up, while youre still effectively slaves by other means...

If you want to be my neighbor, 'hope you like gardening & fishing...
And that the kids like horses etc... we'd do fine... The playing
field has been leveled quite a bit lately... the uppitys have come
down some...

humble people are an asset anywhere...

--
Sent from my mobile device

Saturday 6 August 2011.........

morning..
Just did a second stint on guitar rita..
Its a beautiful day, I did some putter work, more to follow..

have a pineapple that I need to eat today, but currently full of left
over flat bread from yesterday, so the Pinya waits...

learned a couple neoindigenous tips for you in the last few days...

one, realized that my new little garden trowels would be nice for
working cement laying stone... the mason's trowel has flat
construction due to working with regular flat and square shapes...
bricks, or block... that flat tool is fine for what its designed for,
but stone is a different medium.. and I think a garden trowel would
be alot more ergonomic for laying stone...

another thing I figured out, was a way to make coffee more
efficiently... thought about the classic great depression Hobo
technique of boiling the coffee grounds in the water... and began to
suspect that maybe the perculator, espresso maker, and drip style
coffee makers were something likely pushed by the coffee industry &
general electric... so, now having a stove top for my fire pit, I
decided to dig out my stainless on the burner style perculator, and do
an experiment... kitchen science, my specialty...

I havent used the perculator due to wood handle & open fire.. and
I've always hated cleaning perculator basket, lid, and stand pipe...

so I gutted it, filled it halfway with spring water, and threw in
three eating style teaspoons of coffee, & placed it on my stove top...

and boiled it awhile, and poured thru a fine screen filter/strainer I
got for tea... then the crucial taste test... no difference....
in other words, a few billion people have been duped into buying some
junk that if you study the physics, is designed to give Yuppies, &
Proto Yuppies something that uses about twice as much coffee, and
requires a special purchass of a dedicated item.... hmmm? are we
stupid sheep or what... yeah, lets just believe everything we're told
by the experts on TV...

anyway, I've been doing it a couple days, and using about half the coffee...

coffee is affordable in Costa rica, but with food prices escalating,
and the money value going down shit river into greedy pockets, I
think its a perfect time to dispell the urban myth about not boiling
the coffee in the water...

suggest you try it for yourself, and think about how much you spend
annually on the drug habit...

so basically you can make coffee in any pot, other than the
politically correct versions & come out way ahead on money... might
not seem as classy as the piece of shit plastic coffee dripper thats
taking up counter space, and costs money to buy etc... but
considering the Corporate Fascism now trashing everybody, I think
figuring out how to reduce cash flow to corporations is a good idea...

so, all you survivalist wannabees, take note... also a nice technique
for camping or backpackers....

it follows on the heels of a similar discovery with Tobacco...

I like to use tobacco for ceremonial/religious purposes, & as a
calming drug for mental grounding... but not into the cigarette
mentality..

so I built a nice long native american style pipe.. and quickly
realized the bowl was way too big... might be just the thing to
Pow-Wow with a bunch of buddies, but it used alot of Tobacco...

so then I made a much smaller pipe, with a bowl that might hold half
a thimble... only to discover it was also too big... so then I made
pipe number three, with the bowl being a 1/4 inch brass compression
fitting with the threads bored out ... its the size of a hash pipe..
And about right...

what I realized, is big pipes & cigarettes are again designed ways to
waste product...

if you study the anthropology of modern smoking culture, you notice
people light up a cigarette or pipe, and then they either smoke it, or
it burns up...

this creates an artificially induced excess habit, and as the body
builds up resistance, more cigarettes follow...

I find the ritual of filling & smoking a tiny pipe to be as nice as
the ritual of making tea... and with the bowl holding maybe a gram of
product, I never smoke too much at any one time, body resistance stays
down, as does likelyhood of ill effects...

also keeps from feeding a corporate monster...

so, all you smokers take note... get a hash pipe, reduce the amount
you smoke by 90%... Still enjoy your drug... keep the doctor farther
away from your kid's inheritance etc....

all you have to do is alter the habit.. in other words those
cigarettes were designed to get you to smoke too much...

what got me started on this logic was thinking about how small teacups
were... designed in another era... When people had to work, and didnt
have machines to make decadence the in thing...

so I downsized my coffee cup... still enjoy the drug, enjoy the
ritual, but use less coffee...

I also use a similar technique for drinking Rum...
I like to sip rum out of a shot glass... I buy a 375 ml bottle, about
$2 here for my favorite taste, which is Ron Abuelo from Panama....not
too sweet, not too watery.. and via the sipping from a shot glass,
this Sailor goes on a two day binge, for a dollar a day... I also
like Rum in coffee, and in green coconuts.. Which is the smoothest &
best mixed drink on the planet...

I do something similar with cooking fires.. Make the smallest fire
possible for the job.. Less wood to hack & pack... And its why I
searched for the downsized two burner iron stove top, and not a bigger
unit.. my stove top would go into a canoe without being noticed...

minimalism is incredibly powerful...

and money is incredibly toxic stuff.. Think about it... I suspect
that our whole reality has been skewed by money & greed... universal
slant, no innocents...

I find living on a micro budget of $100 a month to be fine.. I
generally spend about $30 on food, and the rest upgrades my
neoindigenous lifestyle one piece at a time... what makes it work
well, is heading for a lifestyle that has less need for money...
which is one reason I moved to the tropics, and into the brush on a
mountain, with the big wild jungle for my back yard.. was tired of
cleaning the toilet, & defrosting a stinky refrigerator on my "free"
time... Free from working a job to maintain the pieces of shit
materialistic life style... I have no plumping to fix, no electric
bill, doing fine on a single panel & battery, w/a 375 watt inverter...

my "House" has a ten by ten foot floor.. 100 square feet... not much
to impress the tax man if he ever gets lost enough to find me...

I dont need a gun either.. been into bows since I was 10 years old..
I suspect I could kill anything on the planet with my bow... Fred
Bear, and numerous others have proven the point...

and I make my own arrows from scratch using native materials...
homeland security types are going to have a hard time shutting off my
ammo supply, or preventing me from building bows.. and if they get as
nasty, so can I... Plenty of really toxic snakes & frogs here... you
wouldnt want to harass me excessively...

I know snakes here with no antidote.. all I gotta do is hit you...
and I've had alot of practice in my life, and shoot fine with bow
sight or instinctual... and I once had the pleasure of pissing off
some good old boys with spendy compound bows... I went to the local
indoor winter shooting club, with a recurve... had a bicycle spoke
taped to it, and bent around for a site.. all the red necks
snickered, considered me a fool... Mind you, I was into archery
before most rednecks even thought about it... I shot some groups as
good as theirs... things got real quiet.. I saw angry looks on red
faces.... matched necks... The next month I bought and installed a
sight... the bike spoke was a tempory expedient... not a stunt...
Sure learned something about human nature though... aint the price of
your toys boys, its how good are you with what you have.... never
owned a compound, never shot one... I figure I'm not too much of a
pussy to pull and hold a real bow... I tend to be fairly stubborn, an
asset when it comes to full draw, and getting on target...

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Someone murdered a 52-year-old U.S. woman on the grounds of her
family's luxury tourist rental on the Osa peninsula.

Friends identified her as Lisa Artz, who was the resident manager of
Casa Tres Palmas in upper Matapalo, just south of Puerto Jiménez on
the east shore of the Osa peninsula.

The Judicial Investigating Organization said that she was found in a
small cabina bound hands and feet with a blanket over her face. Agents
presumed she was smothered. Acquaintances said the woman lived in the
small cabina, the first structure her family build on the land,
because the adjacent 6,000-square-foot structure was rented frequently
to vacationers.

Casa Tres Palmas is known as the most luxurious property in the area
with a commanding views of the point where the waters of the Gulfo
Dulce meet those of the Pacific. Ms. Artz' father is George Artz, a
successful restaurant owner. The family runs Coconuts on the Beach in
Cocoa Beach, Florida. The sprawling main house features a Tiki-style
villa with a palm thatched roof. The property rents from $300 to $400
a night and sleeps up to 12, said the Casa Tres Palmas Web site.

Judicial police said they were awaiting the results of an autopsy to
determine exactly how the woman died. The autopsy also should provide
an estimate on when death occurred. Ms. Artz was a frequent visitor,
and friends said she arrived in the community last December to serve
as manager for the property. The property is 20 kilometers or about 14
miles south of Puerto Jiménez.

An acquaintance said the woman was scheduled to leave Costa Rica for
the United States Wednesday.

There has been a wave of criminal activity in the area, including
robberies and home invasions. There also is the unsolved February
murder of Kimberly Blackwell, 53, a Canadian, in San

Matapalo
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Miguel de Cañaza near Puerto Jiménez. Ms.
Blackwell was known in the area as the operator of Samaritan Xocolata,
which produced high-end chocolate items from Costa Rican cocao.

There also is the case of two Austrian citizens who were residents of
Puerto Jiménez. They vanished around Christmas 2009. That case still
is open.

Across the gulf in Golfito, the death of an expat there still is an
open case. He was Kelly Robert Nutting, 38, who was dumped in the
gulf with his hands tied behind him and with a piece of concrete
attached to his body. He appears to have been strangled. The U.S. Navy
veteran managed his family's hotel. The murder was in March 2010.

Although there have been sensational rumors, a close examination of
all the cases point to individual and personal motives, according to
residents of the area and some police investigators. Except for the
Artz case, judicial agents seem to know the likely suspects and the
individual motives that led to the killing but do not have enough
evidence to make an arrest under Costa Rica's complex penal code. The
reasons appear to be different, involve different suspects and have
motives that range from revenge to greed to jealousy.
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