Two blue dinosaur statues facing each other with open jaws among rocks and fallen leaves in a garden.

Prepper-ed

Posted on by brucewinter

I’m slightly embarrassed to admit that my P(doom) (probability that AI will do bad things) has creeped up just high enough that I have become a mini prepper. Relatively low cost/effort to match the low, but non-zero, probability.

I tested out filtering creek water and cooking with twigs:

Selfie of man in a white sleeveless shirt holding a blue waterproof bag with instructions near rocky, mossy stones.
Blue inflatable device with white vertical lettering and connected blue tubes on a lab counter.
Stainless steel camping kettle atop a small outdoor stove with flames, placed on a metal table among fallen autumn leaves.

Bought a couple of solar panels for charging laptops, flashlights, etc:

Two large solar panels propped against a rocky hillside in a wooded, leaf-strewn outdoor area.

And 6 months of easy cook grains & legumes with a shelf life of 20+ years. I discovered that cheapest supplier is the LDS online store. Cost about the same as 1 month of groceries ($500) and they shipped 300 lbs of food for $3! Hoping to start slowly eating all that food around 2050 🙂

Stacked cardboard boxes on a leaf-covered trail beside greenery; an open box reveals paint cans.
Shelf filled with boxes and white plastic food buckets, including Morton iodized salt and assorted oats and cereals.

Backyard mystery: one of the T-rexes lost an arm and a leg. I don’t know for sure how that happened, but the crocodiles ARE smiling:

Two blue dinosaur statues facing each other with open jaws among rocks and fallen leaves in a garden.

I’ve been de-mudding ponds and re-mudding Bruce:

Mud-covered, shirtless man taking a selfie beside a stone Buddha statue in a rocky, leafy area.
Shirtless man with glasses stands in muddy water, holding mud-splattered buckets, surrounded by dense tropical plants.
Man shirtless, wearing glasses, rinsing his hair with a garden hose on a wooden deck.

Enjoyed beautiful Beauty Berries and a symphony in the park concert:

Purple berry clusters on a leafy shrub in a forest setting.
Purple beautyberry clusters on a brown stem with green leaves.
Crowded outdoor park picnic with people on blankets and chairs, a white event tent in the background under clear blue skies.

Closing cute kid-vids:

Bruce

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