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As long as you didn't leave the door open, it should be fine. You know, since the door keeps the cold inside.

The lady on the radio news said frozen stuff can last for a day or two but I think she said refrigerated stuff begins to go bad after 4 or 6 hours with the door shut. She also said if in doubt, throw it out. I didn't have much food to begin with, I needed to go shopping anyway. I have some potatoes so I can have fried or baked potatoes today.

But they were saying we had to boil our water because the pumps at the water facilities had stopped working during the outage. I never drink tap water but can we shower in that? I don't want to wash my hair in poop water, and it gets in your eyes, too. I'll have to keep my eyes and mouth closed when I take a shower.

But they were saying we had to boil our water because the pumps at the water facilities had stopped working during the outage. I never drink tap water but can we shower in that? I don't want to wash my hair in poop water, and it gets in your eyes, too. I'll have to keep my eyes and mouth closed when I take a shower.

God, it's like Mexico.

God, it's like Mexico.

Oh, that reminded me. Tijuana and Mexicali and other parts of Meheeco were on our power grid. The fuck? That kind of surprised me but then didn't surprise me at the same time. If I walk up to the top of the street, I can see a huge stretch of the 805 freeway that I live next to and I can see the downtown skyline and out my south bedroom window, I can see TJ way out in the distance.

I noticed that TJ was dark and only had a few lights on after it all happened but their power was one of the first places to be restored. I got a bit miffed and when I told my mother about that, she said it's really densely populated down there and there's a lot of crime. I was like hmm, yeah, understood.

The one thing about up here was there wasn't a whole lot of crime going on. Car accidents were at a minimum, too. People were saying we should have a power outage every week.

Day 8 without a car and my freezer and cupboards are nearly empty. I've been smashing together whatever random food I can find and calling it a meal. This is getting fucking ridiculous.

wow, where do you live that there's no food store in two kilometer range?

Avast needs to stop randomly restarting my computer for updates.

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Beer drinking ,and fishing on the lake.That's my last thought.

Dack Janiels.

I bought The God Delusion but I'm afraid that if I start reading it now I won't be able to put it down until I finish it and I have too much homework. Well at least this semester I'm only taking 17 credits...

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I actually have prepacked emergency items in the event that a fire hits my home on account of the fact that the state of Texas is undergoing its worst drought in over a century.

Wildfires are so large in Texas that they produce enough smoke to show up on Doppler Raders like dozen sq mile storm clouds consuming the state.

And despite those horrible fires an arsonist actually ignited a fire in a bordering county. They seriously have to burn entire neighborhoods in the dryest year of the century? Well that does make the prettiest fire but, damn, the risk of heavy punishment after getting caught would be so much more extreme at a time like this.

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I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.

I believe in my neighbors.

I know their faults and I know that their virtues far outweigh their faults. Take Father Michael down our road a piece --I'm not of his creed, but I know the goodness and charity and lovingkindness that shine in his daily actions. I believe in Father Mike; if I'm in trouble, I'll go to him. My next-door neighbor is a veterinary doctor. Doc will get out of bed after a hard day to help a stray cat. No fee -- no prospect of a fee. I believe in Doc.

I believe in my townspeople. You can knock on any door in our town say, 'I'm hungry,' and you will be fed. Our town is no exception; I've found the same ready charity everywhere. For the one who says, 'To heck with you -- I got mine,' there are a hundred, a thousand, who will say, 'Sure, pal, sit down.'

I know that, despite all warnings against hitchhikers, I can step to the highway, thumb for a ride and in a few minutes a car or a truck will stop and someone will say, 'Climb in, Mac. How how far you going?'

I believe in my fellow citizens. Our headlines are splashed with crime, yet for every criminal there are 10,000 honest decent kindly men. If it were not so, no child would live to grow up, business could not go on from day to day. Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries --but it is a force stronger than crime.

I believe in the patient gallantry of nurses...in the tedious sacrifices of teachers. I believe in the unseen and unending fight against desperate odds that goes on quietly in almost every home in the land.

I believe in the honest craft of workmen. Take a look around you. There never were enough bosses to check up on all that work. From Independence Hall to the Grand Coulee Dam, these things were built level and square by craftsmen who were honest in their bones.

I believe that almost all politicians are honest. For every bribed alderman there are hundreds of politicians, low paid or not paid at all, doing their level best without thanks or glory to make our system work. If this were not true, we would never have gotten past the thirteen colonies.

I believe in Rodger Young. You and I are free today because of endless unnamed heroes from Valley Forge to the Yalu River.

I believe in -- I am proud to belong to -- the United States. Despite shortcomings, from lynchings to bad faith in high places, our nation has had the most decent and kindly internal practices and foreign policies to be found anywhere in history.

And finally, I believe in my whole race. Yellow, white, black, red, brown --in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability....and goodness.....of the overwhelming majority of my brothers and sisters everywhere on this planet. I am proud to be a human being. I believe that we have come this far by the skin of our teeth, that we always make it just by the skin of our teeth --but that we will always make it....survive....endure. I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency.

This I believe with all my heart.

-Robert A. Heinlein

That his HIGHLY unusual of you rad, to be so positive. I take it you've picked yourself up out of your slump?

No. I just found the piece interesting.

Expensive cars are useless...

My rich aunt is stupid, my rich uncle is stupid, my nephew is even stupider.

So your stupid uncle and aunt are somehow responsible for the stupidity of your nephew?

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