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diff --git a/bus-todo.txt b/bus-todo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ddcda2 --- /dev/null +++ b/bus-todo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,69 @@ +To BUY: + +water tank $650 +1 large light $25 +2 medium lights $50 +1 huge LED for large light $20 +5 sm LED bulbs $80 +1 more birch panel $27 +insulation for cockpit ?? +mattress ~$150 +mattress pad ? +sheets ? +floor $500 + +total: ~$1800 + + + +finish the bus interior: + +* ceiling strips + cut + sand + install +* kitchen + wall by couch + install stove + cut wood to match old + install + sink + clean out screws from trap + install into pipe and test holding tank +kid's bedroom + buy mattress + repaint in glossier finish + buy and install fan on dresser + +Table area + install recovered seats + install table rail + cut new table top + paint and install window trim + +bathroom + re-install water lines + test holding tank flow + new shower head + +Cockpit + buy birch panel for cockpit + cut wood to fit panel area + sand and finish wood + sand and repaint dash + buy and install light + +pantry + shelves of some kind? + +floor + buy and install + install 1/4 round trim + + +Finish bus engine: + exhaust needs to be redone $1000, maybe more + what's going on with carburator/choke/cold start? + tires need air + suspension feels sloppy + diff --git a/cloudland-canyon.txt b/cloudland-canyon.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cda17a1 --- /dev/null +++ b/cloudland-canyon.txt @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +I have a terrible habit of never going to obvious places that are right around me. For example I lived within 100 miles or so of Death Valley for 26 years and never once went until I moved across the country. Same with Catalina Island, which was always a mere 26 miles away. Until it wasn't. And then I went. + +I've been joking for some time that Savannaha GA is going to be my new Death Valley, which I suppose would make Cloudland Canyon my new Catalina Island. Except that it appears I'm getting better about these things. Maybe. I wouldn't say I made it to Cloudland Canyon, but events did conspired such that I made it Cloudland Canyon before we left Georgia. + +No, we didn't take the bus. It was a family reunion for some of Corrinne's family so cabins were rented and we were offered a room in one of them, which is just as well because the campground was a bit dismal -- little more than a gravel parking lot really. The canyon, however, is well worth going for, particularly if you get up before dawn and head down to the Bear Creek overlook to watch the sunrise. + + diff --git a/house-todo.txt b/house-todo.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0eb661 --- /dev/null +++ b/house-todo.txt @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +House todo: + +paint ceiling +rent dumpster to clean up yard and basement + +Kitchen + paint walls + +Office + paint walls + tear out shelves + new baseboard + get wood out + +laundry room + get everything out + touch up paint + + +backroom + touch up paint + +landscape + finish front bed with fall flowers + 10-15 bales of pinestraw to pretty things up + clean walkway + paint front door + paint porch + fix gate hinge + hang back gate @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Quite the contrary, it promises to be a world in which raw survival, among other things, will depend on having *achieved at least a basic mastery of one or more of a very different range of skills. There’s no particular mystery about those latter skills; they were, in point of fact, the standard set of basic human survival skills for thousands of years before those glass screens were invented*, and they’ll still be in common use when the last of the glass screens has weathered away into sand; but they have to be learned and practiced before they’re needed, and there may not be all that much time left to learn and practice them before hard necessity comes knocking at the door. -*L.E.S.S.—that is, Less Energy, Stuff, and Stimulation. * We are all going to have much less of these things at our disposal in the future. Using less of them now frees up time, money, and other resources that can be used to get ready for the inevitable transformations. It also makes for decreased dependence on systems and resources that in many cases are already beginning to fail, and in any case will not be there indefinitely in a future of hard limits and inevitable scarcities. +*L.E.S.S.—that is, Less Energy, Stuff, and Stimulation.* We are all going to have much less of these things at our disposal in the future. Using less of them now frees up time, money, and other resources that can be used to get ready for the inevitable transformations. It also makes for decreased dependence on systems and resources that in many cases are already beginning to fail, and in any case will not be there indefinitely in a future of hard limits and inevitable scarcities. *deliberate technological regression as a matter of personal choice is also worth pursuing.* Partly this is because the deathgrip of failed policies on the political and economic order of the industrial world, as mentioned earlier, is tight enough that any significant change these days has to start down here at the grassroots level, with individuals, families, and communities, if it’s going to get anywhere at all; partly, it’s because technological regression, like anything else that flies in the face of the media stereotypes of our time, needs the support of personal example in order to get a foothold; partly, it’s because older technologies, being less vulnerable to the impacts of whole-system disruptions, will still be there meeting human needs when the grid goes down, the economy freezes up, or something really does break the internet, and many of them will still be viable when the fossil fuel age is a matter for the history books. |