Justice (or what passes for it) in 2013, in the life is good department there's a new Hiaasen book, and about that last ferry in New Orleans...
I'm not really a doom and gloom sort of fellow. You might say I'm actually pretty positive in the overall scheme of things and have a great respect for homo sapiens' general ability to mostly muddle through whatever gets thrown at us.
That said, not having my head buried in a hole like the proverbial ostrich, I do find the current state of affairs somewhat nervous making. Face it, if your spidey sense is not tingling like that time you licked a 9-volt battery because someone dared you to...
Well, you're just not paying attention.
We folks on boats tend to have a much better grasp of what we use and resources in general but we do take a lot of stuff for granted. For instance, the other day while shopping I found it interesting that nothing in our shopping basket came from anywhere closer than a thousand miles or more (OK I did break down and buy a bottle of local rum). Being on the ass end of an easily disrupted supply line with almost zero local food production can be stressful or, interesting as they say...
So, next time you're provisioning take a moment or two and think about how many of the foodstuffs you regularly use and depend on come from somewhere a long way away and what those supermarket isles would look like if there were no containers for a couple of weeks.
Spidey sense kicking in yet?
Listening to Reel Big Fish
So it goes...
Over Jammer
3 days ago
