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ok, so I got a kitchen cart,
here is what it should look like when put it together as they say you should.

but I wanted a sink with an independent water system installed in it, so I got some more parts.

my favorite part is the hand pump

I then assembled the cart,
it comes packed flat.

and here it is assembled with my stove and other junk on it.

now time to cut a hole in it and install the sink.

and install the water fill port.

and the rest of the plumbing, I decided to make it drain into a trash bin as there was not much room left for anything bigger and it will be easy to water my plants with the waste water.

here is a close up of the one way valve that makes sure that the water does not go back into the tank when it is not pumping

and a close up shot of the screen to keep bugs out of my vent tube, and if it ever over flows, it will drain into the bin that is used for my drain.

and here it is all done, with my stove packed up on the bottom shelf
yay !

it sure was quite a bit of work,
but now I have 9 gallons of water on tap that is not connected to the city water at all, it rolls around easy,
and it is cute.

next I will be setting up my mini water treatment system to fill it up with, but I am still waiting for parts on that one.

so, some people are watching the news and are thinking that the world is ending with the economic mess, shifting

weather that causes low food supply, over population, and 2012, ect...
they get depressed and just quit trying,
I can't figure out why that is happening,

I see it like a wave,
if you end up on the bottom of it from not paying attention, you will be crushed,
if you catch the wave, you can end up on top and doing great,
if you just keep going like everyone else, it will hurt, but it will likely not be that bad,
if you give up and quit trying, you will be sure to fail, so why would any one do that ?

I think that it may be that they have not though about it that much.

lets go point by point.

economic problems:
look at places that have had this happen in the past,
people almost always live through it just fine,
yes it is annoying if you have not prepared for it,
but you will in all odds get through it fine,
economic depressions never last that long, things will get better.
if you prepare a little, you can be very well off when it gets bad.

food supply issues:
the price goes up, you will likely loose access to your favorites, but if you are rich enough to have a computer,

you are very likely to have enough money to keep eating,
remember that farmers do well in a depression because everyone still eats, and that means that the farmers will still be there.
once again, if you are ready for it, you will be just fine, because that one week supply disruption will not change your life at all, and if it ever gets to the point where lots of people start dieing, then remember that th more people that go, the more food will be left for you, so a 3 month supply of food will get you a very high chance at survival.

over population:
some people don't want to have kids in this messed up world,
and that is just silly, it has always been a messed up world.
let us say that everyone that is smart and kind enough to think about things like this decide not to have kids, then in one generation you will be left with the same population problem, but then all new generation is from stupid parents, and how is that helping the world ?
anyone that does not value having children will truly vanish from this earth, this is happening to the non religious english speeking people in the USA right now, they are being outnumbered by the hispanic catholic people because they are not having children as much.
if we ever run out of resources from what we are doing, then they will win just by pure numbers even if there is a mass die off.
and to top it all off, can you think of a bigger insult to your ancestors than "Ha Ha I am killing your blood line off by not having children"
so, my point is that if you are smart enough to read the news and see what is going on, then you really should be having children, I am not saying have them like the catholics do, but one or 2 will be perfect, just enough to replace you, and you must teach them how to thrive in whatever world they have to work with.
you can have a great life almost anywhere if you have the right information and attitude, and your children can do the same, don't skip on having them.

as things collapse other things rise,
the amount of opportunities out there are amazing, even in "bad times"
so please look forward to the future, because it really is what you make of it,
so make something good of it, make a happy family and good future for the people around you,
because if you get depressed and give up, you are sure to fail.

here is my oil lamp when it is running,
the advantage to this lamp is that it has the
same brightness no matter what the oil level is,
the level is low in this picture,
but you can fill it nearly to the top.





here is another picture, but it is missing its wick
so that you can see the stainless steel screen on the top,
the stainless steel screen is there to protect the
paper towel that is inside the copper tube.
there are slots in the sides of the tube at the bottom
to let the oil into the tube, they were cut with a hack saw
before the tube was welded in place,
but you can't really see them in my pictures.


here is the wick and stainless screen removed,
it is a very old wick and needs replaced.
the new wick is a piece of paper towel that is the
size of a business card and folded to fit in the tube.


here is a new wick installed with no screen yet
and the old wick mostly unfolded in the background.



here it is with the screen installed
and a new wick ready to be lit !
the wick is the cotton end from
a q-tip that has been pulled off.
pour oil on the wick before lighting it.
if you are lighting it with a match,
you will likely need to replace it
every time that you light it as
it is hard to light after it has been used,
but if you have a small torch,
you can light the wick easy and it
will last a month of regular use.



who would have thought that it would have a
label on it after all of the years that I have had it ?

it gets hot in use, so I put it on a metal dish when running.

so other details on it,
the inside of the small tube is about 0.3 inches (8mm) inside diameter, and 0.37 inches outside dia.
the copper end cap is almost 1.3 inches tall, and
1.75 inched diameter.
the stainless screen is very fine, and is the kind that someone would use in a smoking pipe, and smoke shops sell them although you have to trim it to fit the tube.
when I started making them, I had no welder, so I cut the bottom of the small copper tube into 4 sections and spread them out so that so that the tube would stand up in the cap.

they seem to work well mo mater what oil that I put in it,
it burns rancid oil just fine....
the paper towel in the tube will clog up if you use things like extra virgin olive oil that has more solids in it, so run the cheep oil, I have corn oil in mine right now.

I hope you like the information,
and feel free to leave a comment if you want more info
or if you just want to say thanks,
or if you want to tell everyone how well it worked out.
anonymous comments are allowed.

I had 3 stores in a row waste my time after work,
everyone of them was because they had changed what they had told me.
2 were closed due to a change in policy that was enacted with no prior notice.
and the other changed its mind about something without calling me to tell me to not bother showing up.
it was a really bad shopping trip.
I was slightly annoyed at the one and a half hour pointless drive and the 4 $ bridge toll
and just wanted to get home,
so I was driving a little fast,
it has been a long time since I have slid my car around a corner with the gas to the floor,
I had forgot how fun it was.
I guess I keep forgetting why I bought that car in the first place,
that car is so very fast and fun to drive.
it is a 2002 subaru WRX in case you are wondering.
I am doing better now.

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http://www.drudgereport.com/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
http://www.earthfiles.com/
http://www.infowars.com/
http://www.abc.net.au/
http://www.who.int/en/
http://rawstory.com/
http://jihadwatch.org/
http://www.aglines.com/
http://quake.usgs.gov/recenteqs/latest.htm
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

are TV listings news ? I think so.
http://www.tvguide.com/listings/default.aspx

not quite news, but very news like about Argentina
http://ferfal.blogspot.com/

I found a blog that shows a real view of what happens when society falls apart
http://ferfal.blogspot.com/
it is has lots of useful tactics and things like that.

I was wondering how little water I could wash my car with,
so I used a garden sprayer full of water, a spray bottle full of soapy water, a wet wash rag, and a towel.
I sprayed a section with water, then with the soapy water, then washed that area, then rinsed that area with the garden sprayer, and then went to the next section from the top down.

I managed to wash the whole car with only 1.25 gallons of water.
and it was easier than getting out the hose.

I like taking tests on okcupid.com

here are my results for my last taken test.

here are my results for the The Zombie Apocalypse Personality Test.

here are my results for the obscure sport test.