I suppose I should actually name this Peak Fossil Fuels, since once Oil is out of reach, all the rest will follow. I recently read a book called “The Long Emergency” by by James Howard Kunstler (Grove/Atlantic, 2005 ISBN: 9780802142498 ). This book not only made it to my mental must read list, it went beyond that, if I was to create a new list called “Read These Books or Die” it would be number one. James goes into exact detail of what he believes is the real current situation on the planet, and give plenty of references. During the read, I had my laptop open, and checked everything as I read, he was bang on the money with his facts, which to be honest, scared the hell out of me.

With the coming Economic Collapse, which will reach far beyond just the United States, and a growing sense that a massive food shortage on the horizon, without accounting the issues surround oil, peak oil is a greater threat then most of us realize.

I sit here today in a frump, (Is that even a word?), thinking about what next I have to do to get going on the things that need to get done. I'm swamped yet again, this time with bills. The biggest disadvantage of living in the city is it's limitations on what you can do within your own property. And I can see that the biggest disadvantage to living in the country is the travel time required to gather junk at stores in the city.

When I was a kid, we had black and white TVs that managed to pull in three channels via a thing stuck on the side of the house called an antenna. My grandmother had the more advanced version of this thing on the side of the house, it had a wired remote control so she could turn it from side to side to get half a channel more.

An Open Letter. (Thanks Tom for pointing this one out to me.)