Apparently he realized he missed some shit so Mr. Smiles came back out yesterday. Here’s the rocket stove, the hand cranked washing machine, the Thunder BucketTM… Shoved the exercise bike against the pump jack wheel and showed him the PVC Special piston pump. Tossed out some good 15 second doomy soundbites and jabs at suburban delusion… whatever.
Don’t much care. He said I was a kind man for allowing the interview but I’m really just a crazy man – harboring an insane belief that the show might get somebody up off the couch heading for the front yard with a shovel. I guess another guy he found for the show has a windmill and grows some shit. Again, the real story is how absolutely dependent society is on things continuing as they have in the past.
News article about how fucked Tulsa, Oklahoma is. That’s a hundred miles away and has a population of 400,000, and a million in the metro area. Cutting some funds for police, fire, road repair – the usual suspects. Nasty little inner city “activity”, too. Tulsa seems to be my canary in the coal mine – wouldn’t it be funny if the first metro area to go bazzoo and have the troops called in happened to be right next door? Okla fuckin homa – who’d a thunk it? At least we get to see if Ammo and Camo Bubba goes to the dark side or fights for truth justice and the american way. My money says they’ll join in the riots and “blame it on the niggers.”
So they’ll raise taxes and cut back on services. People who can leave will leave, walking away from their mortgages and jobs and broken lives heading for mom and dads and the great whatever in the hinterlands. The smart ones, that is. Those who know when it’s fourth and long you fall back and punt. Go Sooners!
Regarding the financial yada yada post, it’s been kinda fun to be in this mindset – Go Bernake, Go! Keep it all alive if you can. The Romans musta felt the same way at Christians vs. Lions, You know how it’s going to end but it’s fun to watch them run like hell.
I’m so bored – just bored out of my mind. Garden is only half planted and I don’t really care about getting on it. The focus is on the rental house rebuild – how many more days on the flooring before I can finish up the sheetrocking? Paint and trim in a far distant future… I knew going in to it that it was going to be my last big hurrah – I’m officially middle aged and looking forward to going back into retirement.
Tomorrow is opening day at the Farmer’s Market and I’ll load up the tiller and hoes and work in the community garden across the street. Less than a half dozen plots spoken for so I’m going to load it with cowpeas corn and winter squash and watch it all turn into a beautiful tangled mass of food for a pig. Pathetic – weeks gone by at the sale barn without any weener pigs – cheap or not – so it looks like I’ll have to shell out 35 bucks to some guy on craigslist if I can find his place down a tangle of Mac County back roads.
Enough rambling – it’s just a clusterfuck.
Take heart! I said to colleagues – when Frankfurt Airport was closed for five days – that it was “foreshadowing” for when the economy collapsed. That is, no-one flies, the peons are delighted at doing nothing…then they realise that things are serious and then they’re fired/paid off. The listeners weren’t happy!
Don’t worry too much – folks just don’t want to hear that their lives will change fundamentally soon.
It’s all a clusterfuck. Any time you expect something from another person, it turns to shit. People suck royal….. Well, you know. Most of ‘em ain’t good for nothin’ beyond fertilizer as far as I’m concerned. The rest are only marginally useful for things like axle grease, tallow for candles, or entertainment as they hold a bullseye just slightly above their pointed heads. Yeah, I’m in a bad mood tonight, go figger. Headed to the garden Sunday, that should break my funk….
If the show got just a few people to get up off the couch and do anything, it would be worth it. Chances of that are slim though.
6AM in the garden yesterday, planted like hell for about 2 hrs. didn’t put any seedlings out just yet for fear of the severe weather, maybe next week. Neighbor kid was selling garden plants/flowers/etc for a FFA fundraiser. 6-pack veggies were only a buck, so had to indulge a bit, nice raspberry bush for 3 bucks, couldn’t resist.
Get out in the garden, Comrade, it’s great cure for “bored”!
Hey pondering the idea of the alternator/windmill concept, planning stages in my mind now, hehe. Sale barn today, couldn’t afford a damned thing last week, not sure why it would be any different this week…
Hey, handicapped calves are finally looking better, might actually make a buck or two, or stuff the extra freezer!
how many of us are singing this same song – i’m getting bored waiting for shit to fall apart, while i watch everything fall apart – the wheel keeps turning…
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Still looking for borders?
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/apr/30/farm-volunteers-see-benefit-in-working-for-free/
http://www.wwoofusa.org/
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Seems as if we have less work to do if we don’t have “help” around here so no, we’re taking the summer off…
Worked 20 hours the last two days just to get things started up here in the Northeast. I understand your sentiment regarding the lack of motivation. But, the more that gets planted, the more I want to finish. I should have it all in the ground in a couple weeks. All I could think was how much I admire the people who did this before petroleum. I use very little petroleum myself, but it is still infinitely easier for me than it was for them. Regarding Tulsa, I never had much use for the town. Lived in OKC for years, found it more hospitable, but Tulsa was just so damned boring. Doesn’t surprise me that it is slipping. Make sure your zombie fence is reinforced. Or, you could always teach your hogs to love the taste of zombie. Mmmm. I’d like to see you on the TV box if you’d send some links.
Do you have a link to the Tulsa news story? I sure would like to read it. (I am from a small town about 15 miles outside of Tulsa.) My family settled in OK in the late 1800s, but now everyone I knew back there is deceased or deluded about what is coming down the pike. You are right about being the canary in the coal mine…once I heard Tulsa described as the the most average of all American cities. At one time it was a hugh test market for all of the large corporations because it was so average.
torch – I googled something or other and can’t remember what it was. Try Tulsa budget crisis or something like that.
We’re damn near neighbors, eh?