I’m going to stop posting for now. I’m not sure whats going on out there but things are truly fuckobazzoo. Banks are stinking something awful, gas and gold are climbing fast, hell everything is going up on a weekly basis. A roll of fence wire goes up 5 bucks every time I go get one, and nails, fence staples, anything steel is climbing like I’ve never seen before.
The Shit Is Hitting The Fan.
I’ve got a few minutes a day to surf cryptogon, the life after the oil crash board, and a couple other sites for some updates on the world at large as it implodes but I need to be spending serious time gardening and finalizing preps for the collapse. I’ve blathered on a lot over the last year about how it’s all gonna come apart but I just got real quiet the other day when I felt like something out there snapped. Our society has been wound way too tight and I think something just snapped way up the food chain of the global elite. They’ve gathered all the wealth they can under the radar, got into position to suck up the rest when it all comes apart, and I believe they decided the time to pull the trigger is now.
The Shrub had that “busted” look on him when he was asked about reports and data that point to 4 buck a gallon gasoline before the summer driving season comes around. That total bullshit look as he said “oh, I haven’t heard about that” – those fuckers know whats up. They know it’s coming apart at the seams
I sold some gold to buy fencewire, posts, staples and nails the other day. Gold was 950 an ounce and today it’s 970. I’ll kick myself for unloading it in a month or so when it’s 1200, but that roll of wire will have gone from 97 bucks to 117. If it will even be available… Gold will go up faster than hard assets will – probably a 3 or 4 month lag time for prices to catch up. I also expect gold and silver to drop way below what they are today after an idiot spike, and since my hoard was acquired at 9 dollar silver and 450 gold after a spike and a 75% drop I’ll still be even.
When a chicken will bring 8 bucks at the sale barn (those chick in the post awhile back – sold them last week for $3.50 apiece!!!) rolls of chicken wire are better than shiny metal buried in the yard. I got 5 dairy goats getting ready to come into milk and at 4 bucks a gallon (today – next month it will be 4.50) fencing off that lush vetch pasture is gonna out perform the $20 St. Gaudins that I sold for 95% of spot melt price (cash – no taxes, no questions). And since time is money it’s costing a healthy chunk of change to be pecking away at comrade simba dot com when planting season is rolling around and a fucking head of lettuce is a buck and green onions are 1.29 a bunch. And nobody bitches about my eggs at 1.50 a dozen.
I’m going to drop yahoo as my web host and see if I can’t get the blog and message board onto a free host site. The 12 bucks a month needs to go to shovel and other tool handles. I got a bad feeling that I could get caught flat footed when the balloon goes up, and though I’m better off than 80% of the population at large I think the plan is for only 5% to survive the die off / kill off.
And so, guys and gals, no more new posts here. I’ll check the comments regularly and yak in there. The message board- http://www.csimba.com/compost/ -will stay up though I’m going to purge some shit in there. If I have anything to say I’ll post in the open forum.
The ground is dry enough to work today. It’s peas and onion time.
So long… and thanks for playing.
Power to the peoples, man, power to the peoples.
comrade simba
March 1, 2008 at 7:13 am |
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Well maybe but
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
Some things in life are bad,
They can really make you mad,
Other things just make you swear and curse,
When you’re chewing life’s gristle,
Don’t grumble,
Give a whistle
And this’ll help things turn out for the best.
And…
Always look on the bright side of life.
[whistle]
Always look on the light side of life.
[whistle]
If life seems jolly rotten,
There’s something you’ve forgotten,
And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing.
When you’re feeling in the dumps,
Don’t be silly chumps.
Just purse your lips and whistle.
That’s the thing.
And…
Always look on the bright side of life.
[whistle]
Always look on the right side of life,
[whistle]
For life is quite absurd
And death’s the final word.
You must always face the curtain with a bow.
Forget about your sin.
Give the audience a grin.
Enjoy it. It’s your last chance, anyhow.
So,…
Always look on the bright side of death,
[whistle]
Just before you draw your terminal breath.
[whistle]
Life’s a piece of shit,
When you look at it.
Life’s a laugh and death’s a joke it’s true.
You’ll see it’s all a show.
Keep ‘em laughing as you go.
Just remember that the last laugh is on you.
And…
Always look on the bright side of life.
Always look on the right side of life.
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Always look on the bright side of life!
[whistle]
Repeat to fade…
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/02/always_look_on.php
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March 1, 2008 at 5:30 pm |
Good luck and god speed. I will be thinking about you while I am putting in my potatoes and beans! I will still keep sporadically blogging as I still spend time in front of a computer at work (for as long as my job lasts, which may not be much longer!)
Michelle
March 2, 2008 at 12:35 pm |
I wish you well in your preparations, you are better off than most. I have a daughter and grandson living with her new husband somewhere around Texarcana and their lives revolve around consumer culture ahead of awareness.
You asked about Australia’s circumstances a while ago and I failed to respond, it’s hard to get a handle on specific predictions but the article and comments here seem to be a fair summary http://anz.theoildrum.com/node/3657
Our dollar is appreciating as yours is falling (we’re only several cents from parity) but an acquaintance was listening to Jim Puplava on the net and he mentioned that the Aus’ money supply has increased 23% in the last year, that doesn’t bode well.
China has been buying up our raw materials and minerals for many years now and our economy has boomed for it, still is actually, but the US is (was) their biggest market and China has many internal problems; as the factories shut down and the millions that have been lured (or driven) to their cities riot, things will not be pretty and our biggest market will implode.
Australia has around 23,000,000 people, without industry, road transport and cheap energy it has a carrying capacity of around 3,000,000. I don’t expect things to come to that but dwindling oil supplies will see our guvmint build coal to oil plants and other schemes of stupidity, country rail lines have closed or fallen into disrepair and much of our infrastructure has been privatised with all that that implies for poor maintenance and little ongoing skills training. By the time that these policies are reversed we will not have the energy to do much about it.
I’m adapting as best as I can with little money, I opened a new business last week converting cars to LPG, it is half the price of petrol here and the government offers a $2,000 rebate to people converting private vehicles. This should allow me the time and money to build woodgas producers to a standard acceptable to the local authorities, they are not a long term solution but should give some breathing space when TSHTF and relocalisation efforts seriously begin, if worse comes to worse I can be the village blacksmith.
I live in the workshop and have a lock up yard that can support a reasonable veggie patch and several chooks, my nearest neighbour is a scrap metal dealer and I cheerfully drain his scrap propane bottles as a free service, haven’t paid for heating or cooking gas for a year now.
PS Eggs are $5 a dozen in the supermarket here, $7 for free range.
Cheers
Rob
http://nakedmechanic.blogspot.com/
March 3, 2008 at 1:33 am |
Jim – And our gov’t leaders remind me of the Crack Suicide Attack Squad…
Rob, thanks for the comment. The whole peak chorus was packaged up in there nicely. Woodgas – homebuilt woodgas generators are going to be damn popular in five years. Anyone who designs a simple rig to bolt on to those old 9N tractors will want for nothing.
March 7, 2008 at 9:06 pm |
Say it ain’t so!
I just got all my seeds in today. Yeah, I’m a bit behind. I think I’m a bit shell-shocked over the events in the world. Still, we’ll all keep plugging.
I’m in far worse shape than you, but I’m still going to keep going. I would wish you good luck, but I know you don’t need luck. If we were neighbors, I’d help you with that fence.
Be well, my friend.
March 14, 2008 at 4:23 am |
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4 bucks a gallon in Santa Barbara this week. For 87 octane.
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