Today is another busy day of construction and deconstruction here at Ye Olde House. A note from a friend summed matters up perfectly (I paraphrase): “Old homes have character — and sometimes are<\/i> characters.” Ayup. These things must be coped with!<\/p>\n
Today again I won’t have a lot, but with luck the time spent painting and drywalling will be meditative and will produce Brilliant Thoughts. Later.<\/p>\n
So I’m throwing another question at you: How prepared are you to deal with unprepared people?<\/p>\n
This is a perennial question of course but I bring it up because of something a non-political friend said yesterday. When the Japanese quake hit, our area was put under a tsunami warning. In her town, many people took the warning seriously enough to flee into the hills. Not one of them — not one — carried a bug-out-bag. Not even a little backpack with bottles of water and a few granola bars in it.<\/p>\n
The local version of the tsunami fizzled. Everybody went home. No problem. People who lived in the hills, though, were horrified.<\/p>\n
Afterward, regional emergency preparedness officials conducted meetings to discuss future tsunami preparations, and some people at the meetings thought the government<\/i> should be stockpiling supplies up in the hills. Major not-getting-it-ness.<\/p>\n
How have you personally prepared for an onslaught of the unprepared? Not talking about “bloody zombie invasion after the fall of civilization.” Just “what do you do when unprepared friends, strangers, and family members turn up on your doorstep?”<\/p>\n
My friend (who lives on a hill) surprised me. She’s as mild-mannered as can be and is the soul of nurturing and charitableness. Her response (besides starting to make her own bug-out bag): “I need to get out my gun and get some practice in how to use it.” She also told her friends they’re welcome at her house — but they’d better bring their own edibles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is another busy day of construction and deconstruction here at Ye Olde House. A note from a friend summed matters up perfectly (I paraphrase): “Old homes have character — and sometimes are characters.” Ayup. These things must be coped with! Today again I won’t have a lot, but with luck the time spent painting and drywalling will be meditative and will produce Brilliant Thoughts. Later. So I’m throwing another question at you: How prepared are you to deal with unprepared people? This is a perennial question of course but I bring it up because of something a non-political friend…<\/p>\n