The Hippie Survivalist

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Damn if I didn't have the coolest dream last night.  I was outside, trying to move an object with "chi" from my hand.  Next thing I know, my hand feels like it's super-pressurized, and some leaves on the pavement in front of me catch on fire.  I stamp them out, then aim my hand at them again, and concentrate.  That pressurized feeling again, and a thin, near-invisible ray comes out of my hand and hits the leaves, igniting them.  I stamp them out and keep practicing.  It was so real that I woke up thinking I could really do it.  Then I realized I hadn't lit my bed on fire in my sleep.

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I'm interested in guerrilla, do-it-yourself warfare, like the Pickup Truck Army in Libya or the Technicals in Somalia.  I guess I'm afraid that one day the good old United States might collapse, and, in its weakened condition, get invaded by foreign powers.  So I think to myself, what could regular people do to fight invaders, if they only had civilian armaments and supplies?  I'm no tradesman or craftsman, so I don't really know what anyone could do.  But I guarantee people would do a lot.  Look at what Charlie did in Viet Nam, and at what the militias did in Libya.  Then look at all the supplies, education, know-how, tools, manufacturing equipment and patriotic individuals we have in the Homeland, and you start to get the picture.  I wonder if PVC compressed air guns could have any battlefield applications, either as shotguns or launchers?  Or gas-ignited spud guns, or spring-powered guns?  Probably.  They'd be really quiet, too!

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OK, what about a whole slew of under-barrel attachments for the AR-15 platform?  Like, a survival kit stash tube, for instance.  Or, an ammo-storage tube.  Or, a small, functioning "Masterkey" crossbow.  Or a tiny, full-auto "Masterkey" submachine gun.  Or...a pistol mount.  Or...a .410 revolver shotgun - a modified snubby Taurus Judge, so-to-speak.  I could keep an aluminum tube attached to the under-barrel rail on my M-4.  It would be loaded with a survival kit.  If I ever had to GOOD or bug out, I could always remove the tube if necessary.  But it would make my bug out kit more compact.

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Some Cool Tools

The Japanese Hori-Hori garden knife: It cuts, it digs...it kills.

The Amish garden hoe: It is an outstanding, effective shape...and it's made in the USA.

The Craftsman Digging Shovel: It has a 14-gauge, serrated blade, a metal-reinforced fiberglass handle, wide "power steps" to facilitate cutting, and fer cryin' out loud, it's ALSO made in the USA!

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Today's bargains (above): 2 wine boxes and a crate from the East Bay Depot for Creative Re-Use, and a small but sturdy work table from Urban Ore.  Total cost: $35.00.  Not peanuts, but still a bargain.  Everything is in very good condition.  The table cleaned up nicely and the boxes will stain well.  The box on the right already has hinges on it as of an hour ago.

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Another low-rez camera photo, taken at "late dusk".  I love it, and: No cost whatsoever.

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