warmer winter wear

WARMER WINTER WEAR

I’ll be getting back to the Bulls-eye articles here shortly, perhaps tomorrow.  For now, in fine tradition harking back to children’s Christmas’, adults workplace annual bonus and birthday sex, the annual winter time wearables rant from yours truly ( your childhood is long gone, no one gets holiday bonuses anymore because that cuts into the CEO’s Bermuda vacation fun where he’d have to settle on just one hooker and only half the nose candy, and I’m sure your wife long ago canceled special birthday sex on account of her lack of interest ).  You might have been cruelly deprived of all other traditions, but I’m still here for ya, brothers.  I’m starting on my seventh winter here in northeast Nevada ( the five previous in west Nevada didn’t count as the weather there is SOOOOO much warmer- the average coldest days were only in the twenties and the rare earth shattering drop into the teens was their idea of the storm of the century.  In other words, Reno Residents, you are a bunch of friggin pussies- which is what I’m sure Michigan dwellers call me ) and every year I pick up extra tricks to stay a smidge warmer.  The first one I learned to just wear my snow boots every morning, regardless, starting the first of October.  That right there cuts out a lot of grief.  I also immediately invested in a digital inside/outside thermometer.  It is much easier to know what to expect before you get dressed, and I have a dress script for every ten degree drop in temperature.

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This year, I have a new pair of mittens to try out.  It was a giant leap of faith to buy them, as they are $35 and I won’t even spend that much on a coat ( although I did buy a $40 pair of swamp boots rated to minus 40 that worked great in my one test day last year-uncharacteristically mild last year, we had one whole day below zero ).  It isn’t that warm hands aren’t worth that much, it is that I’m afraid of being ripped off by charlatans and liars and they underperform.  But, finally, getting to the point, a new trick.  At 12 degrees, I start wearing my wool pants.  They are thick customers and wear outside my slacks.  And they work splendidly, no issues with cold legs.  But I can’t really wear them above that temperature because then I’m too warm and sweat and overheat.  So from 22 down to that 12 degrees, I’m usually a bit on the miserable side.  This year, I tried out warm up pants.  Those polyester pants you wear over your shorts until it is time to work out.  Not insulated, per se.  But they work great and yesterday at 15 degrees I was warm and toasty, just by giving my legs a bit of extra fabric ( a thin dress pair of large wool pants, or oversize jeans could also work- just make sure they fit over your regular pants ).  I know most of you don’t want to bike to work, especially in the winter.  But a side benefit here is I know how to dress, and have the clothing, for when energy supplies contract.  You think five layers of cotton hoodies are going to keep you warm on guard duty?

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HOLY FRIGGIN HUMP BATMAN!!!!
The Walking Dead season 4 DVD just came WAYYYY down in price to $20.  My nipples hurt right now, they are so hard.  I was waiting for the thing to drop to under $25 for a used one, but now I get a brand spanking new one under budget.  The Apocalypse Fiction Gods be praised!  Order through my Amazon ad atop this page now.  That is all.

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TEN YEAR WATCH AND REVIEW

I know I don’t get out much, but even so it was pretty embarrassing when I found out that self-winding watches had been around since the 1920’s and I was just now becoming aware of them as a neat post-apocalypse time piece.  I was so far behind the times, the Chinese were already coming out with them.  So, I bought one after I got all persnickety with Wal-Mart and their crappy replaceable watch batteries that didn’t even last half the time of the original.  I’d show them, by golly, and never buy another battery from those bastards again!  Well, as expected, the Chinese watch wasn’t all that great-even at $25 which was half the brand name self-winders.  The crystal cracked after just a few months.  Alas, I’m not complaining.  The watch showed me what it could do, or not do.  You do have to reset to the correct time at least once a week, if not two.  And if you skip a day wearing it, you have to reset and wind it manually.  No big deal.  But, at work in a modern setting, it kind of blows.  I had to keep asking anyone with a cell phone for the Atomic Time ( it was that, or call time and temperature and listen to the phone companies self-congratulatory advertising ), a standard no one can argue with ( my watch says you should be open now!  My watch, correctly showing the official US Government Colorado Atomic Clock time, shows you got two more minutes ). 

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You know what I’m talking about.  We are all watching the clock, checking it a hundred times a day.  Mostly at work.  When to start, all those deadlines ( I have small windows of pick-up times for a lot of my donations ).  A watch that is within a minute or two in the morning and then loses another minute or two during the day just ain’t gonna cut it.  In a less fast paced environment, okay.  If I was just doing paperwork all day and the office clock told me when to quick, no problem.  But when we are all doing one and a half jobs, when every position left is your job PLUS the job they never filled, and you need to get twelve hours of work done in eight, time is a bit more critical.  I had to go back to a quartz movement battery powered watch.  I placed the self-winding watch in storage and got myself a Casio watch for $20 ( Wal-Mart.  I know, but it has got to be less profit than their batteries ).  I was just looking at a replacement Timex-too expensive- and there it was!  Advertised as a Ten Year Battery!  I was so happy, let me tell you.  A watch that won’t last as long as its battery.  Normally a bad thing, right?  But to me, a trouble free accurate watch that costs two or three bucks a year and lasts five to eight years ( assuming I scratch the crystal so bad I can barely read the time anymore ) is great.  It is like a pair of pants that lasts three years instead of one.  You know you are going to have to get another one eventually, but it’s nice to hold off as long as possible.  Plus, the longer the battery lasts, the longer you have a watch into the Apocalypse.

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REVIEW: WORLD GONE WILD

World Gone Wild by David Moore is the big ass coffee table book that covers every post-apocalypse movie out there.  The book is splendid looking, and I have no regrets spending $30 on it ( it took up two near complete days of reading ).  However, I do NOT recommend it for my minions.  If you are a behind the scenes movie geek with too much money, sure, go for it.  But for the rest of you, this is NOT a survivalist movie book review.  A post-apocalypse movie is anything to do with life ending as we know it, the breakdown of law and order, a dysfunctional future.  A survivalist movie is a totally different animal.  It takes place when the societies infrastructure collapses and no outside one takes its place.  Thus, movies that depict a collapse with still functioning government, even weak, is not really a survivalist movie.  You have to have a Dark Ages lack of trade.  So not many movies called post-apocalypse are realistic insofar as how society is going to function.  This book judges movies on how well they are made, not how well they depict survivalists in a complete collapse, a die-off.  So, while reviewing movies here was great, a first rate job, they most likely are not the kinds of movies you want to see about The Collapse.  Logun’s Run is in here, to give you one example.  A wonderful book, but most likely inappropriate for Redneck Trailer Trash Survivalists.

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BULLS-EYE 3

The first ring outside the bulls-eye is your Rat Race Escape.  Instead of focusing on silly crap like semi-auto’s ( they can wait a couple more rings outside the bulls-eye, so never fear Mattel Toy Carbine Worshipers- and to be serious, with AR’s now down to $650 with the overall national gun sales slow-down, I do actually have a thing or two decent to say about them as I always give the Devil his due ) you concentrate on escaping the vicious putrid maw of the Hell Spawned Bankers ( a heck of a lot of good came from the Protestant challenge to Papist Monopoly, but relaxing the restrictions on usury was not one of them ).  Obviously this is going to be much more expensive than the $800 Frugal Survivalist plan, but not by as much as we’ve been led to believe by the horrid, befouled Banker’s Whores out there that pimped a twenty year mortgage as a twisted nightmare ( as a side note, did you all notice my new blog heading on Malthus’ Nightscape?  I tell you what, I impressed the heck out of myself on that one ) of independence.  All the moronic scum suckling asswhores who said, hey, come on down to my level of Hell where we can frolic with the Succubus Of Debt.  Go ahead, buy my book or periodical that sways you into a death grip with our 1% masters, I’d never lead you astray!  Pricks or ignorant whores, take your pick.

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Aside from a grand or two for junk land ( and, buying land on E-Bay, most allow a no credit check payment plan so you need not come up with the total amount up front.  Yes, it is still debt, but two grand ain’t no two hundred grand and that makes a huge difference ), you only need about $500 additionally to start on the second ring.  Land, a 64 square foot Unibomber plywood shack, a few solar panels and a battery and LED 12v bulb in an RV lamp fixture is going to start you down the road to freedom and security.  The equivalent of two months city apartment rent and your entire future real estate cost is a negligible amount of property tax every year.  Oh, sure, there are a few extra pieces of equipment like a propane stove, a camping coffee percolator, an iron skillet and a few other odds and ends.  But you either have most of them or you can improvise around them ( a rocket stove is nearly free and uses free fuel, you can Cowboy Coffee it until you pick up a perker, use a crappy sheet metal pan you already own until you find a used skillet on sale at a thrift store or yard sale, etc. ).  $300 is the cost of an 8x8 stick lumber and plywood sheet cube ( rest on stones for a foundation, use scrap plastic and old tires as weights for the roof, if money is real tight for now ).  A solar panel with way more capacity than you need for lighting, a marine battery from China-Mart, a light fixture and an LED 12v light will run you around another $200.  Now you are no longer paying rent ( or, at least, have a place to go when you no longer can p[ay rent ) and are not sleeping in a tent.  You are the new rich mayor of the new shantytown.

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