Sunday whatever

THIS WEEK
-- I became the gasogene (leader) of Watson's Tin Box for 2015
-- I dropped Weight Watchers. I still intend to count points and weigh myself, but not to pay them $40 a month for the privilege because...
-- I have been given the opportunity to go back to England in the fall and see Ben Cumberbatch's Hamlet and I'm clearing as many decks as possible to so that I can go


ACCOMPLISHED:
um... I don't think anything above counts as an "accomplishment" that I did over the forces of entropy. However, I have high hopes for today and tomorrow in the "Get shit done" category

Oh, wait, there is one thing. The Dr. gave me a prescription and I've already had to pour the pills out once and count to remember if I'd taken a morning dose. So I've written a pill chart on the bathroom mirror with that handy-dandy dry erase marker. (Best. Idea. I. Ever. Had.)

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READING:
Print
To my horror, I have not read one word for pleasure this week.

Audiobooks
-- A Fatal Winter, G.M. Malliet
-- Cuckoo's Calling, J.K. Rowling's pseud, which I tend to forget


A side note on Rowling and the Cormorant Strike novels. I have such immense respect for Rowling as a writer, because someone who was only in it for money would have stopped and frankly most writers would have been scared off by the insanity around Potter - or become egotists who assume their every word is sacred and must not be touched by lower life forms like editors. Rowling obviously writes for the love of the craft and the finished book, and and was willing to give up being ***J*K**R*O*W*L*I*N*G*** to find out if she could start over and have the writing take precedence over the author.

I will always be livid that she got outed, I really will.

But props yet again to her - outed, surrounded again by the hoopla, she forged on, and fortunately after the initial press hysteria died down she apparently has the opportunity to be taken as a writer -- I recall that the release of Silkworm was met with "Here's JKR's latest adult mystery" with very little about The Boy Who Will Not Shut The Fuck Up. (The audio of Silkworm is, by the way, next in my queue.)

Emergency Preparedness: Your Thoughts?

So, I'm dipping my toes into scary waters. One of the things that I want to do this year is set up 3-4 days of blackout supplies. The problem, of course, is it doesn't take a lot of searching on "shelf stable meals" and "emergency prep" to tumble down the rabbit hole of survivalism.

I'm not saying shit don't happen. Just the time I've been in this house I've had blackouts ranging from 2 minutes to 5 days (and ranging from just my block to the entire North American East Coast), tornado, derecho, anthrax in the mail, earthquake, 6 feet of snow in a week, polar vortex, and major terrorist attack on my town.

I'm saying when it hits the fan, the splatter is relatively localized and clean-up-able. The monsters are not due on Maple Street, y'all, and sometimes whatever I might learn from prep sites I can't hear over the sound of somebody's Rambo/disaster movie fantasies.

I just want usable ideas of what food/toiletries/supplies to make it through 3 to 4 days of blackout conditions until Pepco/rescuers arrive.