An internet friend who lives up in Canada sent me an Email earlier this week and let me know that they were dealing with -45 degree weather.

Yeah, I’m sorry but there is no way I could deal with that shit.

I am way too skinny and the arthritis I have in my hands especially would render them completely useless even with gloves on.

My friend Irish and the area he lives in in the Upper North East also got slammed with snow and shitty weather this last week.

It appears now we here on the Left Coast are going to get slammed by some Arctic Blast but it looks like the Upper Mid West is really going to get it here in CONUS. That means Canada is going to get it even worse for longer.

Poor DeathRay, him being in Alaska, I have no idea how he does it.

So Tomorrow is The Wifely Unit’s birthday, she wanted to meet up with as much of the local family as possible at a local Mexican restaurant for dinner.

I’m thinking that for safety’s sake, most everybody is going to bail out on that and I don’t blame them.

It’s supposed to get down into the Teens, snow like hell and maybe just for fun, have 50 mph winds tomorrow.

Then it is going to stay cold for the weekend and probably Monday too.

But like the title says, at least it’s going to be ABOVE zero.

Some of the rest of you are fixing to get way, way colder than that.

Parts of Wyoming are supposed to get down to -65!

The Wife is all worried about what we will do for heat if we lose power. I gave away both of my generators.

I told her we will get in the truck and drive until we see lights on and either get a motel or find family.

If I can get the door open on the truck tomorrow I may head to Home Depot and see if they have one of those propane Gas Buddy heaters.

I’m pretty sure I still have a full bottle of propane out in the shed and they sell them right up the road if I don’t.

All the heat in this place is Gas. Ya gotta have electricity to run it.

Sure I could fuck around with an inverter and a battery and make it work but fuck that. I can’t even remember the power being out for even 24 hours around here even after the worst storms.

The power line guys around here are phenominal.

So as much as I preach about preparedness, I have completely slacked off because the wife has bitched and bitched and bitched about it.

I got sick of listening to it.

Imagine my surprise when out of the blue she is suddenly worried about it.

Looks like I will be back in the Preparedness business after all.

Whodathunkit?

So what are you guys looking at coming your way?

Now he can go back to his RINO grifting ways and trying to submarine Trump just like he has been doing for years.

Good Fucking Riddance and take that Shrike Haley with ya.

Swing by and take a look. Tell him Busted sent ya.

I’ll make sure the Blogroll gets updated also.

I see these stupid time wasters all the time on Twitter.

Obviously posted by people with way too much spare time on their hands but this morning just for shits and grins, I started adding them up.

I got a 3.

I’ve never been on a cruise but I have worked on Tug Boats.

I’ve never gotten a piercing but I have had lots of stitches over the years and have had foreign objects get jammed into my hands.

And I’ve never been sky diving,

I could never see the sense in jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.

Other than that, yeah, I’ve done ’em all.

Some several times.

You could say that I have not led a sheltered life.

Sent to me by my most excellent friend Irish as he was heading to bed early.

An interview with an Iranian who came across the Southern Border.

Even he says Biden is a danger to the whole world and that he is a Traitor to the American People.

Pay special attention to what he has to say about our First and Second Amendments and what he has to say about Trump.

We can’t get the fucker to start.

Remember what I drive.

just saw a very good new year’s resolution: Endeavor to survive into 2025.

i like it.

@clif_high

I mean why the fuck not?

I’ve made this far and this year has the potential to be one that stands out in history going down the road.

Might as well try and stick around long enough to see what comes out the other side.

Besides, I have a long list of people that need near constant torment anyway.

Wouldn’t want to disappoint anyone.

If it isn’t too late already,

Buy More Fucking Ammo.

Sometimes, I amaze myself.

Other times I’m as dumb as a box of rocks.

Seriously, it’s a gift/curse.

Going through and deleting garbage Emails, a daily thing, I ran across one that I clicked on out of habit.

The latest coupons for Harbor Freight Tools.

Immediately something popped out at me.

Notice the “Sale Price” on that little hummer?

Five Hundred Bucks.

Thank you, Joe Fucking Biden.

Something in my guts kept eating at me for SEVERAL YEARS a while back and I pretty much went on a wild spending spree on tools, fasteners and general shop supplies.

I was scouring the web looking for deals and never missed a new Harbor Freight sale.

I might not have bought anything but I looked it over hard.

I was picking up Cheap Chinesium shit left and right for basically dirt cheap.

BangGood, EBay, Harbor Freight, Craigslist, you name it.

I specifically remember buying that exact air compressor about four or five years ago and I also remember I didn’t pay anywhere NEAR that freaking price.

So I just got on the Wayback Machine and looked up an old Harbor Freight sale from 2016.

Just as I remembered, I paid A Buck Fifty for the same damn compressor back then.

(Blow that picture up in another tab and you will be able to see the sale price is $149.99)

So here in the space of a few years and the results of an installed communist regime later, that price is now THREE TIMES as expensive as it was five or six years ago.

EVERYTHING is like that now.

Of course you know that all too well, you live it every day like I do.

My point is, why was I able to perceive such a driving need to buy thousands of dollars worth of tools and supplies but I’m not smart enough to invest a hundred bucks into something that would provide me a decent return?

I think it’s basically because I am allergic to money.

I break out in a sweat of I have a five dollar bill in my pocket for more than 24 hours and God Forbid I should get my hands on a Benjamin.

But tools?

Hell yeah, load ’em up boys!

I also remember posting about buying cheap tools back then. I mean for crying out loud, every once in a while FOR YEARS, Harbor Freight would have a sale on their cheap 4 inch angle grinders for $9.99.

There is no possible way someone wasn’t losing their ass on those.

Making them in China and then shipping them all over the world, then selling them for ten Bucks?

I had scads of them still in boxes, stacked up.

I would give them away.

Those days are long gone now and they aren’t coming back in my lifetime for damn sure.

I just find it really weird that I sensed this inflation coming years ago and for some reason decided to focus on tools.