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       #Post#: 782--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shortages & JIT Problems
       By: Digwe Must Date: August 24, 2021, 4:34 pm
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       Gentlemen
       It's a beautiful day here.  It's sunny, cool and the air is
       better than it has been for 2 months.  We had some rain recently
       which has been a significant stress reducer.  It gets old fast
       waking up several times each night to smell the smoke and check
       the horizon.  The folks down south don't have the respite.
       Thousands are on the fire line in CA.  Hundreds of homes have
       been lost.
       Another day for me attempting to maintain a thin veneer of
       competence and productivity.  I'm inside for a break after
       spending quality time with my chainsaw in the woods taking down
       excess fuel.
       
       Regarding the topic at hand:
  HTML https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/leaderless-lebanon-slippery-slope-mayhem-2021-08-23/
       So is Lebanon in the midst of collapse?  or, is it not collapse
       until they're all dead?  Nurses, doctors, aircraft mechanics,
       hookers, anyone with a transferrable skill took the last
       stagecoach out of Dodge.  Lebanon used to be very wealthy and
       civilized.  It ain't Somalia.
       Endless war and misery on the periphery of the empire are
       increasing, right on pace for general societal collapse.  We
       could debate the state of numerous countries and regions and
       their obvious future but Buddy J will not recognize collapse
       until it starts sleeping on his couch and using his toothbrush.
       But the state of human geo-politics is not the basis for my view
       on collapse.  Human institutions will not survive the collapse
       of the major natural systems.  You are correct, billions do not
       see it my way.  Billions upon billions have not had my
       experience.  Had I spent my life commuting from one cubicle to
       another I might not see the collapse of the natural world or
       give it much thought if I did notice it.  After all, the Cheetos
       are still on the store shelves.  The chemicals to keep the lawn
       green are still available, the car is still shiny, water still
       comes out of the tap (for now), the average Kardashian ass is
       still bigger than a Buick and the government has my best
       interests at heart.
       Here is an example of how denial of natural systems works in
       practice.  It is also a prefect metaphor for how the US deals
       with crisis. Capitalism at its finest.
  HTML https://gizmodo.com/trumps-border-wall-torn-apart-by-arizona-monsoon-rains-1847535174?utm_campaign=Gizmodo&utm_content=&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR3lI9wJyitfV-IBacp0nMS-7hTGRy_BsE3QNrtDybVS_bLxWEYF1I0gGC8
       Between us, my wife and I have over 75 years experience working
       in the natural world. ( I checked the fossil record) She, being
       the brains, beauty and ambition of this outfit, has all the
       managerial level experience.  I've spent my time at the grunt
       level in various follies. In her last gig for the government she
       managed 6.3 million acres - the Humboldt Toiyabe National Forest
       - with about 400 employees.  In the course of her career she has
       made the professional acquaintance of hundreds of "ologists",
       that is hydrologists, fisheries biologists, wildlife biologists,
       silvaculturalists, ecologists, botanists etc.  Of course they
       maintain various networks and keep track of each others' work in
       the various fields.   She has also worked internationally as a
       consultant on climate change strategies for several different
       governments as well as state governments in the US.  In the
       course of this work she has also associated with numerous
       academics and experts in the fields I mentioned above as well as
       climate scientists, sociologists agriculturalists and a few
       goatherds.
       They're all brighter than me and not one of these folks will
       tell you we aren't in dire straights. Not one.  This matches
       what I see with my own eyes. You can worry about what Webster
       says ( I used to have a rooster named Webster.  He was quite the
       talker.)  I worry about dead and missing birds, disappeared
       pollinators, Massive levels of species extinction, dying
       forests, collapsing ecosystems, dead fish floating in oxygen
       starved rivers, disappearing ocean fisheries, shellfish baking
       on the rocks, whole towns burning in wildfires, little kids
       drinking lead and I'm just getting started.
       There is no coming back from this. The fact that most folks are
       oblivious to the situation doesn't make me wrong. Just lonely.
       RE is right.  There is no place on the planet that is not
       experiencing collapse at some level.  Oblivious humans are no
       proof against it.
       Can you think of one civilization that has withstood
       environmental collapse or a precipitous decline in available
       resources?
       An increase of the human population well past sustainable levels
       is not, in my view, an indication that collapse isn't ongoing.
       In fact, I view it as the opposite - another symptom/cause of
       collapse.
       I also view the techno-fantasies of life on Mars as another
       symptom.  If this were even possible how many humans would it
       benefit?
       A lesson for me from recent history involves the US entry into
       WW2.  With the fullness of time it is obvious that the US was
       going to war.  However, on Dec 6th 1941 a majority of Americans
       believed the US should, could and would stay out of the war.
       The truth was inconvenient.  The end of empire and ecological
       collapse is just as inconvenient now.
       I'm not here for a battle of wits or definitions and stats with
       you, Buddy J.  It's obvious I would come to the contest poorly
       armed and barely able to defend myself.  I wish you well.  It
       would be better if you were right.  But your not.
       A tune for RE
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZgBhyU4IvQ
       And now back to it.  I'll need to harvest plums today before the
       hornets get 'em.  The dogs were busy last night - It's been a
       poor year for wild berries and the bear are hungry. They smell
       the fruit.  The deer look good but the rabbits have disappeared.
       I keep a backyard above ground 16'x4' pool filled in the summer
       for fire protection.  It holds about 6,000 gallons.  Well, a few
       frogs have moved in.  They will be sorely disappointed in a few
       weeks when the pool goes away.
       
       #Post#: 785--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shortages & JIT Problems
       By: Nearings fault Date: August 24, 2021, 6:33 pm
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       This is a fascinating conversation. I believe there are hundreds
       of mini collapses going on all the time. There does seems to be
       a building growing collapse of the natural systems that underpin
       life on earth. I've given up trying to predict when. I don't
       think it hits all at once so hopefully we pull our butts out of
       the fire in time. I'm sure we are heading for a much diminished
       natural world with less predictable weather and less ability to
       support people but not mad max. As to the rural living question
       if you have resources or a means of making money living rural is
       the best life going. I think the smokies, or WV would be great
       places to check out. Rural Ontario is a wonderful place to live.
       #Post#: 786--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shortages & JIT Problems
       By: RE Date: August 24, 2021, 7:21 pm
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       [quote author=BuddyJ link=topic=52.msg783#msg783
       date=1629842337]
       You seemingly indicate that folks fleeing the backwoods, as many
       have, is a disadvantage to those wanting to return? "Unlikely WV
       is becoming a better place to live than it was" is probably
       highly negatively correlated with the amount of liquidity one
       arrives with.
       [/quote]
       This explains your attitude completely.  You're living off a
       nice fat retirement package.  Good for you.  The vast majority
       of the population however does not have so much mailbox money
       incoming.  In my years on the internet, virtually no one in such
       financial circumstances would recognize collapse.  You won't
       until either the checks stop coming or the money you have won't
       buy your food.
       I am done with you.  Have a nice day.
       RE
       #Post#: 787--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shortages & JIT Problems
       By: FreeWillHijack Date: August 24, 2021, 7:28 pm
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       Its another day during the COVID Lockdown Calamity here in
       Sydney NSW. Since I visited a shopping mall fruit and Vege
       Store, for about 15 minutes on 13th August, and dutifully QR
       coded my presence using the NSW Covid checkin services App, one
       week later, the health NSW team notified by phone message, that
       I was deemed a "close contact" and had to self isolate for 14
       days , of which 7 had already passed. This tells me that the
       virus infection rate is beyond control. People are being
       infected, becoming contagious, spreading the virus in the
       community, and only some of them later become sick enough to
       seek testing or treatment, and documentation as a a registered
       case for contact and trace. Fortunate for me I am 2x vaccinated,
       tested -ve and will be eligible to leave my house in a few more
       days. My suburb documents in the statistics as the highest
       growth rate and number of cases in this city.   We can have our
       mobile phones, wear masks, don't travel far ( < 5km), and can
       register our movements and visit places by scan QR code and
       upload, but its not containing a contagious upper respiratory
       virus. JIT is a week too late. Biology trumps civilization.
       While waiting in the car queue line for my free 2nd COVID test,
       that I was told directly by NSW health to have, I listened to
       reports of evacuation chaos at the airport in Kabul Afghanistan.
       A man was saying that families with Visa documents on their
       phone , essential to be accepted for a trip out of the hot zone,
       are being told to go away by Australian employed staff. This
       after they have run the dangerous gauntlet of Taliban
       checkpoints on the roads.  Hard copy print documents are
       difficult to obtain, and the entire system of producing them in
       time is broken, if it ever was working fairly. DFAT , the
       Department of Foreign Affairs is said to be working divided
       against itself.
       One section of DFAT takes the money transfers, processes the
       documents, does the checking, and maybe gives the approvals.
       Another section gets to man the barricades, and reject all the
       evidence of them, and doesn't what to see them, or have to
       verify them. They are different sets of people, different lives,
       working under entirely different conditions. And perhaps given
       different and conflicting instructions by political divisions.
       So remote, in a foreign country, different language, and novel
       situation under stresses. The people holding the fort at Kabul
       Airport feel they are under threat, and they are running their
       own show all by themselves. Instructions from Canberra
       bureaucrats that do get through must be getting laughed at. This
       what an end can be like, where nothing is working as expected,
       only prejudices can recognise titles, passports, visas, or
       rules, or compassionate need, or citizenship of a powerful
       nation. Deals get to be negotiated with local power and
       resources, personal persuasion with the local banditry, dealing
       with all the irrational passions and prejudices in between. Our
       values, beliefs and documents become meaningless when confronted
       with people for whom it means little.
       We have the global social machine breakdown, with cracks and
       fractures between our separate realities. Depending on ones
       position of power and receiving of privileges, we work at
       conflicting goals. The only sure thing is we all need to keep
       consuming our resources to live and spread our wastes, as
       entropy producing machines.
       At Sydney Australia, the global goods, food supplies, water,
       news internet, are all still being delivered. Our currency and
       money savings still work for exchange the global megamachine.
       Australia still ships out its coal, gas, and traded products.
       The evidence is that our systems time left and domains of power
       are shrinking.
       The Australian government has been putting up new barriers
       against migration and acceptance of refugees now for a long
       time. It is not hard to think that the governments find the
       current stuff ups in Kabul altogether convenient, suits the
       system designed for common national rejection of foreigners, and
       they and the national media will ignore the temporary
       embarrassment.
       #Post#: 802--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shortages &amp; JIT Problems
       By: Eddie Date: August 25, 2021, 11:02 pm
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       My ears are burning.
       I think a lot about what retirement would be like now. At 35
       when somebody I met said that thing I’ve so heard many
       times....”Oh, you’re a dentist!”....I always replied, “Hey,
       that’s just what I do, not who I am.”
       At 65 I’m here to tell you it’s become a LARGE part of who I am,
       whether I ever wanted that to happen or not. I worry about how
       I’d really feel if that part of life was over. Would I still be
       me? Would I feel like some old emasculated has-been with no
       purpose anymore? I really have no idea.
       I’m sure having some money will make things easier. If  the
       money will buy anything when I’m retired a few years, which is
       less and less of a given. I’m glad I hedged the way I did. It
       seems to be working for the moment.
       But we do live in an unstable world. One that has less
       opportunity, I think, than it did when there were a lot fewer
       people and a lot less tech and a lot less need to harness the
       entire energy of the sun just to keep our lifestyle going.
       There are too many people, not enough open country that isn’t
       surveilled by somebody, and too many laws....and too many
       regulations and too many taxes.
       And there is an elite political class that owns almost
       everything and pays next to nothing to support the boondoggles
       they come up with to waste my money and yours and siphon off a
       bit of it for themselves.
       But to quote Jerry Seinfeld, it is what it is, and you do what
       you gotta do.
       Our world has some major problems....of that there is no doubt
       in my mind. Man-made problems....and I never had much faith that
       mankind would solve its own problems.
       I like very little about where the national zeitgeist is taking
       us these days. I think social media is a sewer...and a dangerous
       experiment that won’t end well. I think the average American is
       dumb and delusional. I think more changes are coming that I
       won’t like at all...but I can’t get behind taking up arms
       against the hordes. **** that.
       Climate change sucks. But other things suck too. You just have
       to try to make the best of it. Some of us are luckier than
       others. I count myself very lucky.
       I think about the possibility of relocating, but I will probably
       stick around here. I just drove to Chicago and moved my son and
       his wife’s studio equipment and power tools and the contents of
       their shop to Austin.
       Twenty-one hours straight, on the first leg.....and about 24
       hours, loaded to the max, coming back. He flew down and we made
       the trip together. It’s probably the only time we’ll ever do a
       trip like that. I enjoyed every grueling minute of it.
       I learned that my top speed for pulling my 18 ft flat bed fully
       loaded behind my Silverado is 62 miles per hour. Anything faster
       makes me nervous in the service.
       Three of my four kids are here. One is probably starting medical
       school next year, and she will be moving away again after 11
       years here.....after more than 10 years of college. I still hope
       she can.
       The kids all come and go but Austin is always home to them.
       Maybe me and the missus being here is part of that.
       Life, for me, is often just about making some kind of plan and
       then doing my best to carry it out. A road trip to Chicago. A
       trip to Alaska. Building my boathouse. A trip to the dump to
       haul off the detritus that just keeps piling up behind me and
       threatening to catch up with me before I take the dirt nap.
       I am studying retirement these days.....lots to learn about how
       to keep the tax man out of my pocket. Doesn’t matter if you
       retire..if you have some income, they want it. I am dedicated to
       not paying a lot of tax after I quit work. I am learning the
       ropes while I still have time to make some course
       corrections...I hope.
       I lost two good friends this last year. One to COVID, and I only
       found out months later. I only ever saw him at the lodge at
       Christmas, but I’ve seen him there for 18 or so of the last 20
       years. He was one of my few Jewish friends of this lifetime.....
       and he was funny as hell. He was in his 80’s and the poster
       child for co-morbitity.
       The other friend was lost  to a brain tumor that only became
       symptomatic a few weeks before it was fatal. Also found out
       later, when I looked for obits because I hadn’t heard from
       him...and there was a very nice one....it still sucked. One of
       my go-to guys for work. He installed the equipment in my first
       office, and he fixed my broken **** for more than 30 years.
       There will be no real replacement for him. He was also a sailor
       and had me out on all his many boats over the years. He will be
       missed.
       No closure in the Time of COVID. Funerals have fallen out of
       fashion.
       Just rambling......and it’s getting late and I have early
       patients.
       I hope you’re all coping with whatever bullshit life is
       currently putting center stage. One lesson my dogs taught
       me....live in the moment, and always love unconditionally. If
       humans could do those two things as well as the average Blue
       Heeler, we’d be shittin’ and flyin’.
       #Post#: 803--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shortages &amp; JIT Problems
       By: RE Date: August 26, 2021, 12:57 pm
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       [quote author=Eddie link=topic=52.msg802#msg802 date=1629950530]
       My ears are burning.
       I think a lot about what retirement would be like now. At 35
       when somebody I met said that thing I’ve so heard many
       times....”Oh, you’re a dentist!”....I always replied, “Hey,
       that’s just what I do, not who I am.”
       At 65 I’m here to tell you it’s become a LARGE part of who I am,
       whether I ever wanted that to happen or not. I worry about how
       I’d really feel if that part of life was over. Would I still be
       me? Would I feel like some old emasculated has-been with no
       purpose anymore? I really have no idea.
       I’m sure having some money will make things easier. If  the
       money will buy anything when I’m retired a few years, which is
       less and less of a given. I’m glad I hedged the way I did. It
       seems to be working for the moment.
       But we do live in an unstable world. One that has less
       opportunity, I think, than it did when there were a lot fewer
       people and a lot less tech and a lot less need to harness the
       entire energy of the sun just to keep our lifestyle going.
       There are too many people, not enough open country that isn’t
       surveilled by somebody, and too many laws....and too many
       regulations and too many taxes.
       And there is an elite political class that owns almost
       everything and pays next to nothing to support the boondoggles
       they come up with to waste my money and yours and siphon off a
       bit of it for themselves.
       But to quote Jerry Seinfeld, it is what it is, and you do what
       you gotta do.
       Our world has some major problems....of that there is no doubt
       in my mind. Man-made problems....and I never had much faith that
       mankind would solve its own problems.
       I like very little about where the national zeitgeist is taking
       us these days. I think social media is a sewer...and a dangerous
       experiment that won’t end well. I think the average American is
       dumb and delusional. I think more changes are coming that I
       won’t like at all...but I can’t get behind taking up arms
       against the hordes. **** that.
       Climate change sucks. But other things suck too. You just have
       to try to make the best of it. Some of us are luckier than
       others. I count myself very lucky.
       I think about the possibility of relocating, but I will probably
       stick around here. I just drove to Chicago and moved my son and
       his wife’s studio equipment and power tools and the contents of
       their shop to Austin.
       Twenty-one hours straight, on the first leg.....and about 24
       hours, loaded to the max, coming back. He flew down and we made
       the trip together. It’s probably the only time we’ll ever do a
       trip like that. I enjoyed every grueling minute of it.
       I learned that my top speed for pulling my 18 ft flat bed fully
       loaded behind my Silverado is 62 miles per hour. Anything faster
       makes me nervous in the service.
       Three of my four kids are here. One is probably starting medical
       school next year, and she will be moving away again after 11
       years here.....after more than 10 years of college. I still hope
       she can.
       The kids all come and go but Austin is always home to them.
       Maybe me and the missus being here is part of that.
       Life, for me, is often just about making some kind of plan and
       then doing my best to carry it out. A road trip to Chicago. A
       trip to Alaska. Building my boathouse. A trip to the dump to
       haul off the detritus that just keeps piling up behind me and
       threatening to catch up with me before I take the dirt nap.
       I am studying retirement these days.....lots to learn about how
       to keep the tax man out of my pocket. Doesn’t matter if you
       retire..if you have some income, they want it. I am dedicated to
       not paying a lot of tax after I quit work. I am learning the
       ropes while I still have time to make some course
       corrections...I hope.
       I lost two good friends this last year. One to COVID, and I only
       found out months later. I only ever saw him at the lodge at
       Christmas, but I’ve seen him there for 18 or so of the last 20
       years. He was one of my few Jewish friends of this lifetime.....
       and he was funny as hell. He was in his 80’s and the poster
       child for co-morbitity.
       The other friend was lost  to a brain tumor that only became
       symptomatic a few weeks before it was fatal. Also found out
       later, when I looked for obits because I hadn’t heard from
       him...and there was a very nice one....it still sucked. One of
       my go-to guys for work. He installed the equipment in my first
       office, and he fixed my broken **** for more than 30 years.
       There will be no real replacement for him. He was also a sailor
       and had me out on all his many boats over the years. He will be
       missed.
       No closure in the Time of COVID. Funerals have fallen out of
       fashion.
       Just rambling......and it’s getting late and I have early
       patients.
       I hope you’re all coping with whatever bullshit life is
       currently putting center stage. One lesson my dogs taught
       me....live in the moment, and always love unconditionally. If
       humans could do those two things as well as the average Blue
       Heeler, we’d be shittin’ and flyin’.
       [/quote]
       I quite enjoyed retirement until I got sick and lost the leg.
       Even though my mobility was poor, I was relatively independent
       and I had my interest in collapse and my writing to keep me
       occupied.  I liked being by myself, I've been a loner since I
       got divorced three decades ago.  My income was low, but still
       plenty for me because I don't spend much.  Taxes also not a
       problem for me at all.  Many laws bother me intellectually, but
       practically they have little effect on my life since I don't
       break them.  There are a few I broke in the past, but
       fortunately never got caught. :)  Now however I don't leave my
       digs enough to break a law, even if I wanted to.
       I only have 2 friends from the past I know who are dead, and
       both died quite some time back.  Today I have only 3 people I
       can consider friends, Eddie, Keith & Brian.  Even if visiting
       with Eddie or Keith wasn't so difficult, neither of their wives
       like me much so I wouldn't visit them because of that, and even
       with Brian anywhere I go I am just a burden who can't get around
       by himself to do anything.  Unless you spend time together also,
       long distance friendship has the same problems as long distance
       romance.  Spending time together is what really makes a
       friendship, IMHO.
       Finding a way to occupy my mind these days is the hardest part
       of living.  I am no longer inspired to write about and
       pontificate on collapse. I find both reading and watching video
       to be boring.  Even fantasizing in my head is boring.  In all
       cases, I know all the plot lines, I know how things will come
       out in the end. When I sit in my recliner now, I try to not
       think at all, which is also difficult to do.  On the occasios I
       do fall asleep, sometimes I have a good dream but I always seem
       to wake up too soon because I have to piss.  lol.
       Animals don't seem to need to keep their minds occupied.  Cows
       stand around all day just eating grass.  It's much harder for a
       Homo Sap to just sit around all day and eat Mealz-on-Wheelz.
       RE
       #Post#: 804--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shortages &amp; JIT Problems
       By: Digwe Must Date: August 26, 2021, 1:20 pm
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       RE  If I were in your neighborhood I'd take you out to break a
       law or two just for fun.  I really do think a few hours out of
       doors in a nice spot before the weather turns would be good for
       you - but you say that's not possible.
       FreeWillHijack  Thanks for the Sydney update.  I agree about the
       global societal machine breakdown.  Is the government in
       Australia (I'm asking for your opinion of course) being
       proactive, reactive, manipulative?  Are they acting in good
       faith re Covid?  Or, have they seized upon the situation to
       advance a previously existing agenda?  Or some combination?
       Eddie  At 65 you are a retirement whippersnapper. Enjoy it.
       Enjoy the family.  Adventures await.  If you decide to do some
       service work in your community or elsewhere I'm sure your skills
       would be greatly appreciated.  OR you could take up a new hobby
       This gal is 79:
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4s2WAMZIVM&feature=youtu.be
  HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4s2WAMZIVM
       Buddy J  I'm not going to debate.  I would just point out that
       no previous civilization I'm aware of has so scoured the entire
       planet of resources and polluted the damn place.  The next
       civilization will begin on salvage.
       Meanwhile, this cracks me up.  Talk about JIT delivery!
       Do you know how the Burj Khalifa takes out its poop?
       NEWS  THURSDAY,
       At over 828 meters and more than 160 stories, the Burj Khalifa
       in Dubai holds the record of being the tallest building in the
       world. With so many floors and tremendous height one would
       assume the technology used for its sewage system to be highly
       sophisticated.
       Unfortunately this is not the case; according to a report on
       inhabitat the tallest building in the world uses an archaic
       system for the disposal of its sewage. This archaic system
       involves the sewage from the building being literally trucked
       out to a treatment plant. The report also mentions the reason
       behind using such an archaic system is because the building is
       not hooked up to the municipal wastewater system
       According to the report, the sewage is collected in trucks and
       is transported to a wastewater treatment facility outside the
       town.
       Many tall buildings in Dubai are not connected to the municipal
       sewage system. Once the sewage is collected in trucks they wait
       in a queue for the collected sewage to be put into a waste water
       treatment plant. According to a calculation made by Gizmodo the
       Burj Khalifa has 163 habitable floors, and can hold 35,000
       people at any given time. Humans on an average produce 100 to
       250 grams of poop per day which when taken to be an average of
       200 grams it comes up to 7 tonnes of poop every day. This does
       not include human produced liquids like pee, water used for
       bathing, cleaning their teeth etc. which will bring the total up
       to 15 tonnes of sewage daily.
       #Post#: 806--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shortages &amp; JIT Problems
       By: RE Date: August 26, 2021, 3:34 pm
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       What law would you break just for fun?
       It's not that I can't go out to look at nature. There certainly
       are plenty of parks around here and lakes and mountains etc.
       It's just I don't see the point in going to one of these places
       to sit in my wheelchair and look at it. It just wouldn't be much
       fun. More depressing than anything else.
       RE
       #Post#: 809--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shortages &amp; JIT Problems
       By: Eddie Date: August 26, 2021, 7:41 pm
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       Hiking up to the Whittier Glacier in the rain, which the missus
       and I did on our selfish alone day without RE, was without a
       doubt a high point in my life. And thank God for the rented RV
       to dry off and warm up in....it was parked by the trailhead.
       FYI, it’s a much longer trail than they say it is in the
       freakin’ brochure. Not exactly primitive camping, ....... know,
       I know.
       I  didn’t come equipped for hiking. We were both wearing
       Uggs....which did okay until they finally just got soaked after
       an hour of steady rain. I think I wore them for the other long
       hike we took up at Denali too. Can’t remember for sure. That one
       was easier......but we didn’t get to see the peak. It was pretty
       socked in when we were there. There were some really nice
       mountain lakes up there.
       The Seward water is surreal. We ate on the dock and looked out
       at the sailboats in the marina. I can fantasize about sailing up
       there with no problem, but I’d need to up my game from what it
       takes in the Gulf, or even on The Atlantic
       I would probably fish a lot now if I were in AK.....the fishing
       looked to be pretty spectacular, although we didn’t have time to
       sample it. I seem to be taking a sabbatical from fishing here. I
       have some gear again....always meaning to do more fishing, but
       life tends to get in the way. Like golf, fishing takes time.
       #Post#: 810--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Shortages &amp; JIT Problems
       By: Digwe Must Date: August 26, 2021, 8:27 pm
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       [quote author=RE link=topic=52.msg806#msg806 date=1630010087]
       What law would you break just for fun?
       It's not that I can't go out to look at nature. There certainly
       are plenty of parks around here and lakes and mountains etc.
       It's just I don't see the point in going to one of these places
       to sit in my wheelchair and look at it. It just wouldn't be much
       fun. More depressing than anything else.
       RE
       [/quote]
       Well, I wouldn't want to steal, do damage or hurt anyone, but
       that leaves us many statutes related to personal conduct that we
       could have a good time with.
       The last time I mentioned getting out in nature you wrote that
       the only way to do that was in a van full of old folks and they
       wouldn't let you get out.  Not what I had in mind.  If, in fact,
       you could actually get out and feel something other than parking
       lot exhaust on your hide then I strongly recommend it.
       As I said to you before, I'm not pulling either suggestion I
       made to you out of my ass.  Getting severely disabled vets and
       those suffering from PTSD into and immersed in nature is proven
       in studies and anecdotally to really help.  I believe it because
       I have seen it work.  It's not just about getting outside.  It's
       about getting outside of yourself.  It might help - but it sure
       as hell has no chance of helping if you don't do it.
       You asked for suggestions and where I come from if someone asks
       for help you do what you can.
       I'm with Eddie.  I'd go fishing.  Possibilities abound. I first
       went to Alaska 50 years ago this month.   A friend and I drove a
       62 Chevy Biscayne to Alaska via the Maritime provinces and
       across Canada from Boston.  The Alcan was not paved yet.  We
       went through a lot of tires.  We smuggled two Canadian girls
       across the border who had been denied entry, and then wound up
       around the docks in Anchorage.  I got outstandingly drunk at the
       Salty Dog Saloon in Homer where I spent most of the night draped
       over a large driftwood log outside the side entrance.  (I didn't
       get mugged, rolled, beat up or harassed - it was a different
       world) After several adventures I eventually hitchhiked back to
       Boston. I spent 2 days in Delta Junction with my thumb out
       before two young women on vacation heading back to college in NY
       picked me up.  Life was good.  But, I digress.   Alaska was the
       first place I saw salmon run - and huge bear tracks in the mud.
       In Whitehorse (Yukon) I walked around an old paddle wheel
       steamer, hauled onto the bank, that had run up and down the
       Yukon River in the early days. It's long gone I imagine.
       In my second Alaska stint I worked as a cook in a gold mine
       about 100 miles north of Anchorage- fly in and out.
       Anyway, I have to get the sheep in.  Have a good evening.
       
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