Collapse.....just in case it wasn't already obvious

Check out the part on how leaders respond to collapse:

PBS interview with "The real Indiana Jones"

That about sums it up.  As we say at work every day lately, "It's all over except the arguing."

On another note, recommend switching from google to this search engine, which my Raspberry Pi defaults to:

Duck Duck Go - the search enginr that doesn't track you

Happy riding it down!

Unplug

I noticed a while back that less news makes you happier, as discussed in this article.

And that was before, well, the world went all funhouse mirror on us.

Think I'm done with the news, with one exception.  My survival radio came in, and I am taking it in to work everyday.  Each morning I check the weatherband to determine the prevailing winds for that day and the next.  

That's really the only info I need.  

Working up the momentum to take my phone out in a field and blow it away.  

My schedule is free tomorrow.....

Planned on 2

Went 5.3

Well that only took two weeks....

"We heard a Chinese president becoming the leader of the free world," he said.

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Trump's Trade War May Have Already Begun
https://www.google.com/amp/www.cnbc.com/amp/2017/01/31/trumps-trade-war-may-have-already-begun.html?client=ms-android-att-us

It's called checks and balances...

Looks like someone's daddy sent him to a school where they don't teach civics.

What a dumbass.

How to eject

Apparently Australia needs all kinds of skilled labor:

https://www.border.gov.au/Trav/Work/Skil

Plan to put in a EOI to get the ball rolling, just in case!

Get out while you still can

The end of the American experiment

Installing now

http://trumpfilter.com/

Song of the week

Blast from my past, "Take Me Home" by Phil Collins.

Yup, that's right, in high school I listened to a lot of Phil Collins.  This one has always one of my favorites.  Thinking of adding it to my "final playlist."

Told Katy no eulogies for me.  After they cram me in the coffee can (no urn necessary), I want a few songs played.  Before today, I only had a list of two:

1.  Sadness and Sorrow from Naruto, played by Katy herself on the piano, which so far she refuses to do.

2.  "Nothingman" by Pearl Jam.  Pretty much sums it up for me.

Guess I could add this one to end on a more hopeful note.  Eh, time will tell.

Take that look of worry
I'm an ordinary man
They don't tell me nothing
So I find out all I can
There's a fire that's been burning
Right outside my door
I can't see but I feel it
And it helps to keep me warm
So I, I don't mind
No I, I don't mind

Seems so long I've been waiting
Still don't know what for
There's no point mistaking
I don't worry anymore
I can come out to find you
I don't like to go outside
They can turn off my feelings
Like they're turning off the light
But I, I don't mind
No I, I don't mind
Oh I, I don't mind
No I, I don't mind

So take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home 'cause I've been a prisoner all my life

And I can say to you

Take that look of worry, mine's an ordinary life
Working when it's daylight
And sleeping when it's night
I've got no far horizons
I don't wish upon a star
They don't think that I listen
Oh but I know who they are
And I, I don't mind
No I, I don't mind
Oh I, I don't mind
No I, I don't mind

So take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home, oh lord
Well I've been a prisoner all my life
And I can say to you

But I don't remember
Take, take me home
'Cause I don't remember
Take, take me home

Days 4 to 7

Sinusitis with fever.  Wearing my bane respro mask to contain my cough.  I like it.

"No one cared who I was until I put on the mask."

"If I take that off, will you die?"

"It would be extremely painful."

"You're a big guy."

".....for you....."

Gotta love the Irish

Perhaps we can move there sooner rather than later

Irish letters to Trump