Dried fish

 

Here is the dried fish that the guy in the comments has been talking about.

Not much different than the dried fish people been eating for millennia.  Even George Washington had a thriving business of making dried fish.

There is a dried fish preparation called stock fish.  Townsends Youtube channel has a video on it for his 18th century cooking at Mt Vernon, and another video of him making and eating it.  

The prices seem confusing to those who have not been here.  In order for the seller to make the price look cheaper they will mark the price per 100 grams or per 1/2 kilo or 1/4 kilo    

|Kilos to pounds:  1000 grams = 1 kilo.    1 kilo = 2.2 pounds
one peso is roughly 2 cents.  So the math in your head you see 100 pesos that is 2 bucks.  The butterflied dried fish for 80 pesos is 1.60USD for 1/4 kilo.  1/4 kilo is just a little over a half pound.  

Today I bought 1/4 kilo of smoked dried fish for 75 pesos.  Some sort of Sardine.

I ended up spending a total of 50 bucks on rice, veggies and fruit today.  As the garden is nowhere near fully providing what I need.  

I did find a bit of what may be a bargain on that Japanese pearl sushi rice.  I bought 5 kilos to try it, and if it tastes good, I will get 50 kilos to bottle in quart jars for the apocalypse cabinet.  As my previous rice purchase turned out to be rather shitty and tasteless, the remaining that is not bottled will be served up to the dog and next batch of chickens.  

As that stuff tastes bad I pretty much am certain I will never get into the bottled bad stuff unless it is dire circumstances.  Or I find a good deal on good stuff and re-use the jars..  

I am pretty picky on the rice I eat now days.  There is a big difference.

I got about 3/4 of a kilo of tomato in the dehydrator going right now too.  I got plenty of paste, but sometimes I like dried tomato in my pasta instead of a sauce.  to the wifes dismay, I also ate 2 bowls of sliced fresh tomato with soy sauce for lunch.  Do not knock it until you try it.  Soy sauce and fresh tomato are even better than salt and pepper on tomato.

Another fukening on the horizon

 

Selfie of me from the future...

So I just found out that Indonesia has banned all coal exports.  

Which is a big hooray as it means China gets no coal.  

However before I run off and cheer, I realize that the majority of coal that powers Manila via Meralco is Indonesia coal.  

Manila has or at least was at 60 days reserve before the coof.  

I am checking with a coal broker I know this morning to see if I can find more details.  

So if we here get rolling power blackouts like the bad old days of the 90's things gonna start to suck.  Which means that more than ever I need to upgrade my home power system and keep a backup plan to move the fab shop back to the house garage.  

Yet another fresh hell to put on the plate.  

Even if the power shortages do not come to pass, I will still be ahead financially with upgraded self made power.   Provided I spend wisely and do not go overboard preparing for a expedition to Antarctica instead of mere hard times.  

Also yet again, I learned the hard lesson to NEVER BRING THE WIFE GROCERY SHOPPING EVER AGAIN.  I put this in all caps to remind myself this.    I am there with my calculator app going, price comparing and basing my purchases on that.  Meanwhile the wife acting like she is on a tv shopping spree and everything is free if she can put it in her cart in less than 60 seconds.    

I had to reject a good amount the things she grabbed at the wet market as they were expensive or just not economical to get.  Even still we smoked 60 bucks at the market with 20 of that goin towards her useless meds related to her Jab illness fuckery.  

As the wife continues to get more weak, she was unable to even hand carry a 5 kilo bag of rice to the car.  She also has become very petulant like a elderly person.  So I planted her ass gently on the corner sidewalk to await me carrying the grocery to the car, and fetching her at the sidewalk.  

My wife has went from sex goddess to elderly old woman in less than a year.  If this shit keeps up I will be a widower by Christmas or at the minimum caring for a bedridden spouse.  All from a decision I begged her not to make.  

The depths that the world news media have sunk to

 I was watching a series of posts and videos posted by a guy in a telegram group I am in about 12 hours ago.

He was in Paris and in the middle of a massive demonstration.  Literally millions on the streets.  EVERY faction was out protesting the vax mandates.  Commies, Anarchists, Yellow Jackets, every single party in the street protesting the same thing. 

He said that the crowds were getting more angry as the marches progressed. 

 One spark and the crowds will invade the gov offices and burn it down. 

Oligarch news media was SILENT.  

When the fall comes it will not be televised.  

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Yet more censorship

 yet another Isaic Kappy video has been removed from the toob.  

They killed him 13 days after he made the music video calling out the hollywood pedos.  

Resource Leakages

 I am working on a project proposal for plastic waste, and it has occurred to me that plastic waste is more of a problem of resource leakage, and opportunity.  

Plastic trash goes everywhere and a lot of graft goes into the collection and disposal of it.  

Yet plastic in itself even when used and dirty, has a value.  It has a value in calories, and the energy going into the production, of it is still there even when it is in the trash can.

The problem is that people are not viewing this plastic as a resource, and that makes the plastic to have zero economic value.  

Yet that plastic does have economic value.  This value can be extracted in many different ways, and those who can really scale up these value extractions, will become immensely rich.  

At present those who are extracting value from waste plastic are the recycling scrap buys and the big network of mafia like operations who are getting paid enormous amounts of money to bury the valuable plastic.

Which in the grand scheme of things opens up a immense opportunity.

Plastic has many different methods to be re-used.

Roads 

As a example, waste plastic, like the dirty mixed plastic that is just too nasty to be run thru the recycling facility can still be pelletized and used as a substitute for asphalt (bitumen)

Bitumen prices per ton as of this post is 260usd to 380usd depending on the packaging and htis is the price at the ports before it gets shipped, taxes added, and logistics.    

This means that local sourced plastic waste pellets are at a minimum value of 260dollars per ton.  

Plastic used in asphalt roads makes the roads much more durable and stronger than bitumen by itself.  You still need to use Bitumen but you can use much less and the plastic makes a better product.

Energy

Plastic contains a lot of calories.  It can be easily broken down with the proper equipment and converted to a clean burn gas (with the exception of ABS and PVC)  

Building materials

Mixed plastics like bags and foil sachets are useless for conventional recycling.  However I have demonstrated in my own shop that these mixed alloy plastics can still be molded into building materials.  With the addition of borax to the plastic during molding, you also get a fire resistant plastic.  It will melt, but will not sustain a fire.  

Biodigester. Fuel and Fertilizer.

 I have seen these over the years, from Cody's Lab to that guy down in Panama with examples.

I had kinda glossed over it with glazed eyes, however I think it is time to re-visit this.

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This guy has a pretty neat if a bit expensive setup.  He feeds in compost in the top, it makes gas for his stove and he drains off fertilizer.  All in a continous process.

I could place it in a corner of the property, run the hose to the stove and there is 20 bucks (with the price going up every time I refill) tank of propane for the stove replacment.  

Preppin. We doing it wrong.

 I am not a stranger to this prepping thing.  Back in 1999, I prepared for Y2K.  My kitchen was stocked to the ceiling with food.

Of course Y2K did not pass as advertised.  However, that food saved my ass a year later when I had a time of unemployment.

I failed then to understand the lesson from that.

In 2008, I was concerned about the economic crash.  I 'prepped' for the worst.  As if the world was gonna stop.  

Of course it did not stop.  Meanwhile I pretty much lost all my supplies as they were in a storage unit and not even enough money to retrieve them, nor pay the rent.    Easily 10 thousand dollars lost there.  

Meanwhile I was damn near homeless and actually hungry about 500 miles away from my stash without even a bicycle.

Being the hard headed asshole I was, I again prepped in 2011. 

Again I ended up hosed.

After being repeatedly hit on the head I have changed my tune on 'prepping'.  

I realized that I need not to prepare for the end of the world, rather for merely "I got no money to buy the things I need"  Meaning that I do not waste my money as preparing for a expedition to some unknown and buying everything I may think I need or desire to have on the island of the Swiss Family Robinson.  

Re-reading that story, I realized that the Robinson family over packed for their expedition and under packed on things that they really really needed.

So my mentality has changed from the extreme to more of a prepare as if I will have no money kind of thing.  

Planting a garden, storing the basic foodstuffs, and not stocking up on the pre-made luxury goods.  Making my own electricity, etc.  

I can tell you that money has been very tight here since August 2021.  However I have never been anywhere near hungry, nor in the dark.

So take stock of your real situation.  Do you REALLY need that 5th case of ammo if you are not in the business of ammo dealing?  Do you have enough of your basic foodstuffs before stocking up on the pre-made goodies?  Do you have the skills to prepare the delicious things from scratch?  Can you bake your own bread, make your own pasta, cure your own sausage, smoke your own ham, or any of the myriad things that are relatively low cost vs purchasing from others?  Do you have the ability to run your fridge/lights if you can not afford your electric bill?

Think basics:

Flour, sugar, rice, beans, peas, oils, etc.  A sack of sugar and 3 sacks of flour will get you farther along for the money than buying the same amount of fancy stuff.

As a example this morning.  I went to the kitchen at 0515, and prepared a batch of flour to make bread.  I did the usual bread making stuff, and rolled it out in pieces to wrap around some cheese and hotdogs.

I was rewarded with a breakfast fit for a king.  The cheese bread with the 3 year old cheddar, inside was absolutely perfect.  The hotdog bread too was prefect.  I spent relatively little vs buying some premade stuff as I would have in my past.

Sick are everywhere here

 So in the last 2 weeks suddenly EVERONE got sick over here. 

Yesterday long lines I went to the mall to get some foods and stuff for my helper who has the 'rona.  

All three pharmacies in the mall had long lines.  Tylenol aka paracetomol and cough syrup is nowhere to be bought.  

To add to fresh misery the Chinese been selling fake cough syrup and meds all over Manila.

I am not sick, but now with on ehelper still MIA due to his jab sickness, and now the other one with the  'rona, it is down to me and the secretary to fill orders.  

Secretary is at the moment out in the shop running the drill press.  She has 400 holes to drill today.  

Also dealing with the local retard stuff.  I shipped a order out from the local Lazada online thing that is like Amazon.  Drivers are supposed to pick up but since they keep messing that up I just drop it off at the warehouse.  So this morning, the truck is already on the way to the warehouse the Lazada driver texts me sayin he coming for the order and I tild him it already shipped.  So he dings me with a false claim of package not ready and his 'proof' is a random photo of somewhere I do not know.

also lines for the jab at the mall..

With a ambulance on standby for those who stroke out gettin the shot. (no shit..)

also Angeles City is now no jab, no food now.  

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Supply chain lag in these inflation times.

 Got off the phone with someone in South America this morning.  He told me that his solar panels have not increased in price like mine have here.

I am pretty certain that it is due to a lag in the supply chain.  These lags you can also leverage when you see them.

In this example, Solar guy in South America buys 3 containers of panels at the price of 100 in July 2021.  It takes him 6 months to sell the panels + 2 months logistics.  

Meanwhile January 2022 the price has increased 30%

Does Solar guy raise his price to match the new price?  Does he keep the price low to undercut other suppliers who are selling at the higher new price with newer stock?

Does Solar guy even check on the prices of the new stock or he only waits until he needs to re-stock again?

Meanwhile there is a price difference.

This same thing can be said for most every product.  

Fertilizer increases 300%, but you will find at the old price in small stores that are either not keeping up on the increases due to not needing to restock/low volume, or are not keeping up with the increases.

Point being is that you can still find bargains and arbitrage in inflation environments.