It’s funny they are currently trying to out train one another to see who gets the best time on the next charity stair climb in Calgary. My daughter is over at the new hall right now packed up and on the stairmaster lol
I served for 5 years in my hometown in my early 20’s. My wife joined our local department 4 years ago. My daughter joined as a junior and is now responding to everything. It’s the best thing they ever did for learning practical skills and serving the community. And earning a little extra income. 
If you set up a containment under neg air for the dust you could dry sandblast it.
Prayers for you and the girls 🙏🏽❤️. Everything is going to work out
I’m on a similar path. I find myself having to remind myself about the SHTF maxim about gear, tools or stashes of provisions that can wear out, fail, be lost, stolen or destroyed:
“Two is one, one is none. Three is for me.”
It’s hard to apply all of the time because of the increased expense and space required, but it’s worth keeping in the back of your mind for critical things. And as far as freezers go, I think it’s good to have at least one that you can run off batteries and an inverter with solar power.
So I had a unique opportunity today. A 12 year old boy from church wanted me to teach him about bitcoin and learn how to buy some.
I immediately thought of an important lesson I should have learned on my own…a lesson nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs put in to words that really made it stick in my criminally stupid brain: nobody goes in hard enough the first time.
I arranged to sit down with this young fella and his parents and siblings and had him read Bitville to his younger sisters (https://a.co/d/bg0KgJy). I gave a copy of Saif’s Bitcoin Standard to his folks. I set him up with an old mk3 Coldcard from nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 and helped him back it up, both analog and digitally.
This young fella then. Buys $100 in bitcoin from me. I send him the sats and make a balance sheet for him with assets on the left and liabilities on the right.
After telling him tales of my monumental stupidity while watching bitcoin price rise from 10¢ to $0.1M, I tell him to borrow the $100 he just gave me and go buy another 100,000-ish sats. We add this to his balance sheet. He now has $200 worth of assets and $100 in liabilities. I tell him he must repay the loan when he is 18, but he can chose whether to pay back dollars or sats.
To test him and really drive the point home, I brought a 1/10th oz gold coin and told him to borrow $300 from me and buy the coin from me. I tell him he has to pay one loan back by age 18 and the other by age 30. He can chose dollars, gold, or sats. But it is his job to manage his time, skills, and balance sheet to stay solvent so he can repay his loans. I mean, the kid is 12 and he’s up to his eyeballs in debt :)
I sincerely hope he eventually realizes it will be to his advantage to sell the gold and learn how to acquire more sats on his own. I set the “label” on his coldcard to be my email address so that someday he can plug it in and contact me to repay his debt.
If I had learned the lesson I am try to teach him when I was younger, I would literally be a billionaire today.
I can’t say this is entirely altruistic. If he can’t figure out how to sell the gold and buy bitcoin by the time he’s 18, he fails the test. And as he fancies my daughter this is a bar he will have to cross to even have a chance to be in the running…at least from my perspective :)
Genius
Known “clean” USB cables are going to be a commodity soon.
The whole country should do this for three months. But instead of just laying down, plant food on every square inch of their property and arm themselves.
Signs that we are winning, and learning new ways to connect with the people who are making it happen
Yes I’m convinced that if a man does it right there should be all kinds of time for pursuing the things you love to do.
I have the house all to myself today. I’ve been swearing at everything I can. Stub toe? Faaaacking shit!!!! Drop a sock behind the washer? Jeeezus H Focking Christ! 15th unwanted text message? What the motherfuck!! The animals are afraid.
It’s nice being a couple years ahead of the tyrants