2003-03-25-9:04 a.m.


I feel so doomy and gloomy.

It's like 9/11 set the tone for the century. I figure there will be another 9/11 event within 5 years, followed by another war. I figure this sequence could repeat itself two or three times before we'll be living in a total police state with a tanked economy. How many times can you spend 75 billion on war before a beleaguered economy totally tanks? Heck, I'm wondering if most of the airlines will even be around in another year.

Yeah, I know. I'm a little ray of sunshine. (sarcasm)

I've never been a little ray of sunshine. It's not in my nature to be so. I just hope that I'm wrong. Hopefully totally wrong.

In case there is a disaster, I've put together the requisite 72 hour kit for all of us --- Dehydrated food, water, light sticks, first aid, space blankets, cash, potassium iodide pills, a few antibiotics, etc. I still need a little camping mess kit for heating water. I'll probably get that today. I have a nifty little Esbit camping stove. It's German. It's extremely lightweight and adored by hardcore backpacking types. That's not why I bought it though. I got it because it's very cheap and more importantly it runs on solid fuel. I'm terrified of canned propane/gasoline type fuels. I was trying to talk myself into a canned fuel model but then the "sales associate" admitted being burned by his exploding and another woman in the store told me about hers blowing up and setting a stump on fire. Those stories fueled (no pun intended) my fears of the damn things for sure. I only need something to heat water, so it should fit the bill nicely -- and also not blow up.

Still - a 72 hour kit seems really futile sometimes. But at least I'll be able to make tea if Armageddon strikes. Tea makes everyone feel better, right?

What I really want are one way tickets to New Zealand. I've always wanted to live there. One thousand sheep for every one person. Exactly the opposite of Japan, which has one thousand people for every one sheep. A kiwi (NZ native) told me that.

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