Exclusion Zones, Mutant Wolves, Surreal Shopping & An Extra Large Electric Burner

  It was a very overcast and chilly day so I pretty much just stayed indoors out of the weather and binge watched a bunch of videos online about people making excursions into a radioactive exclusion zone and documenting their travels. In comparison to that my life seems rather mundane and honestly there is something deeply disturbing about the fact that not only do such places exist but that there are also full-time inhabitants of such places.

  Watching the videos also got me to thinking a lot about working with very little in the way of resources and having to rely on ingenuity to solve problems. I know I have complained a lot about 'working with junk' over the years but I guess that I should be thankful that it was not 'radioactive junk' that I was working with. Seriously though, I found the videos to be rather inspiring and they really got my gears turning in regards to making the most of what I have available to me and being grateful that I am not in some stressful contaminated forest contending with mutant wolves and marauders.

  I went out on my monthly supply run and got all stocked up again as far as provisions go. It has always been weird going from the woods to the stores on my monthly trips and ever since the pandemic began it just seems like the trips leave me feeling even weirder than they used to. One thing that is nice about the area that I am in now is that there is not much in the way of a sense of hostility (when I am visiting the stores) and I have taken to no longer feeling compelled to wear my hatchet on such trips. If anything the folks that I see in the stores just seem tired, weary, stressed and yet somehow they also seem pleasant enough so go figure.

  Anyway, by the time I get all my groceries loaded into the cart I invariably begin to get spooked out and wonder if a cart full of groceries is worth risking my life for and if I should go back to getting fewer groceries for the same amount of money by ordering them online. Given the high calorie demand of my life of late I think that it is probably best to just keep myself well fed and not have to overly ration along the way which unfortunately only works if I visit a store in person.

  Some really good news is that while I was at the store I found an inexpensive single burner electric stove-top and it is so big that I can fit both my stove-top espresso makers on it at the same time. Awhile back I had switched to drinking coffee made with a french press and whoa after a month or so of that I am completely over it and am thankfully now back to drinking my usual twelve shots of espresso in the morning which makes for a wonderful start to the day.

  My propane gas stove is still in the storage tent at the old camp site and I have yet to find a place to set it up at the new shelter site so for now I will just have to be content with the new electric burner. It sounds horrible but just writing about the espresso makes me want to brew some before I finish writing this entry. For what it is worth I should note that the coffee that I was brewing in the french press was probably way stronger than the espresso I usually drink but by volume I was staying much more hydrated drinking it!

  Well, I do not have much to write about at the moment so I am going to keep this short and sweet. I hope that everyone is doing well and has a nice day/night.

The new electric burner in action!

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