Five Weeks Left

 I've never had a job where I get this much time off work. It's crazy! 

I even earned 2 flex days by going to this mandatory waste of time training a while back. I haven't taken a day off yet, there's no need. I got so much time off and I'm about to get about two and a half months off!

This job is really pretty good! My mentors tell me the first three years is the hardest while you get things figured out. I think I've got a good handle on it now, I try to keep my classes relaxed and student driven with my direction. That's the goal next year! 

I need between 12-15 Anycubic Photon Mono M5s Pro printers, PCs to design on, a couple of large wash stations, and we are rolling! I want to add a lost casting system to the advanced program and I want to make it for juniors and seniors only so they can make their own class rings and such if their family doesn't have the money for it. 

Then...well I can't imagine another high school doing that. I'm the first to tell people I got no clue how to teach BUT I am really good at making a living and relaying those skill to the students. I am dead set on teaching them how to take these very simple skills, add in some creativity, and how that translates into earning extra money for themselves and something that can be scaled to making a full scale living for their family. 

Outside of Vo-Tech courses, show me one that can do that in the public school system...

I have a program that can legitimately support itself and contribute financially to other programs in the school when it's fully implemented. No one likes the stupid chocolate fundraisers with unmotivated kids, parents that bring it to work, and all of that for less than 50% of what you sell. Forget that. I can do better and this summer I'm going to get this program built. 

I'm going to clean out the whole room, streamline it, organize it, and this program is going to soar next year!

I've Always Felt It

It's strange to feel too. The strange deja vu from time to time. The vivid dreams that fill my nights and give me endless amounts of insomnia. The feeling of something coming. Something in the future that isn't here yet but is unrelenting in its travel and destination. 

Perhaps it's an extension of 80's Cold War paranoia preparation culture but it's real. Not just for me either. I firmly believe that there is a great many people that feel the same, something is coming because our country and culture cannot survive living like this. 

Our corrupt politicians have bankrupted the country for personal gain. It's Super Bowl Sunday right now, the Chiefs and the Niners are going to kick off soon and the country will watch. This distraction will keep America entertained while the world burns. Normally I'd be watching right along and enjoying the event. 

I can't. I've got a purpose. I've got to prepare. I want you to prepare.

Here's how. 

Food preservation. We can't do much about gas, water, or electric but we can concentrate on food for survival. If you have a garden, you're ahead of the game. The past couple of years I've seen up close and personally how fragile our supply chain is. I've shopped or delivered over 2500 runs for Spark. The pandemic changed everything. Now just the hint of bad weather will fill the stores with shoppers trying to provide for their families because they are unprepared. Our food supply is perilous, don't bet your future on it.

I don't want that for my family or friends. I want us to be prepared. I want YOU to be prepared as well.

Learn about bushcraft. Learn basic mechanical skills. I don't expect you to rebuild a 350 but knowing you can will benefit you. Learn to shoot, learn to shoot accurately in any condition. Learn to handle a knife, an axe, anything you think may help you later on.

Buy a freeze dryer. You can buy freeze dried meals already but the cost of a new or used freeze dryer will pay for itself in a very short amount of time. There is plenty of price comparisons out there to judge for yourself. Get to know your neighbors, help them prepare too. Tell your friends, family, anyone you don't want to see starving in a few years. 

Food is sky high now, wait a couple more years when the climate change terrorists clamp a stranglehold on food production because of co2 or anything else they say will be a problem. If that living cadaver John Kerry gets his way or that idiot Greta that dropped out of school instead of actually learning science and stuff then they firmly believe that the planet is over populated. And guess what? You are not the elite they intend to protect and save. 

Good food will be expensive or scarce. If the climate crazies get their way, and they might, it could be a luxury eventually. Be at the mercy of events outside your control or prepare yourself. I live in a state that every 5-10 years we get a storm that will take our power out for a day or more from damage. I plan on going on several solo camping trips and a supply of freeze dried foods take up little space and have little weight. 

Start freeze drying soups, meats, vegetables, fruits. Learn about it, it's affordable now to get a freeze dryer in your home now. One company called Harvest Right. Look into them. YouTube is your friend for research on this. Figure out your own system to helping your family and friends. Maybe every couple of weeks full day of food prep with everyone together and then again for the storage preparation. It can be a fun event, you are investing in your future wellbeing. 

This isn't politics, this isn't liberal vs. conservative. More realistically this is the ruling class elites vs. you and your family.

What are you going to do?

For me and mine, I just told you.