On the Advantages of Giving Up

The crash dive is to clean install Mavericks on both computers and sell them.  On completing that, I can be in Europe by nightfall.

My brother said with some amusement I'll starve but starving for food isn't anywhere near as bad as starving for life.


Plan B is to keep the laptop as it's not worth much anyway and that gives WiFi which is the easiest way to connect with Cat.  The iPad goes overboard as it's useless for anything but playing SCRABBLE.


(Ed:  what about Yevette and Cadillac Man?)

I don't know but what I do know is the time scale isn't fixed so it's best to unload the computer(s) as close as possible to getting tickets so it doesn't get dib-dabbed away on trivia like food, etc.

Both have much more complex preparations than I because I don't have much property and nothing is stored anywhere.  It's either in this room or nowhere.

However, that can't be open-ended such as 'it could work in about a year' as there isn't that luxury.  So it has to be flexible but can't be wide-open.


Plan C is to sell off most of the kit.  The lasers would be too expensive and difficult to move anyway.  Yevette and Cadillac Man are my friends, not roadies.

There's no point in cameras without the iMac.  This is a gigantic heartbreaker as that's the only way to share this stuff but that tells me to suck it up as it's the price of freedom.


Selling that stuff would conceivably would get a couple of tickets as I don't see how Yevette can sell her house.  It's different for a man than for a woman because some percentage of men don't care about nests whereas they are almost always important to women.  A nest means nothing to me as someone could straight-up hand me a deed to a house ... and I would be on the road as soon as I could find some sucker to buy it.

There has to be anticipation of the Complete Disaster as say Cadillac Man and I are there with Yevette but we get run over and killed by bicycles in Amsterdam.  Suddenly there's Yevette by herself in the middle of Europe and what should she do.  There has to be an answer before ever going anywhere near an aircraft to fly the Atlantic.

Note:  if you get in the way of bicycles in Amsterdam, you do so at your own peril.


(Ed:  what about reefer?)

Amazingly enough, I'm not an addict.  I simply enjoy it and a bunch of judgmental fuckheads say that's wrong.  It's illegal and immoral they say ... while they cheat on their taxes and their wives.

If reefer is meant to appear then it will.  Maybe that means go to Czechoslovakia but how is that a problem.  I've never been there and I bet the Czechs are cool.  The primary language is Czech which is an evolution of Slovak.  Not much chance of getting it unless you take on Polish as well.  English is widely-taught and it looks like German is number two.  So, shouldn't be any trouble communicating.  The same primary rule applies:  learn the words you need for manners in the home language and you're halfway there.


I'm not blowing any secrets as we have talked about this.  I'm going to elect myself Project Manager until I'm killed or someone else is better and one primary design goal is Yevette must have a foundation solid enough in Europe that she says, without any encouragement, this is my nest.  In part she needs protection from herself as she is really, really pissed about what they have done to her country.  I'm not even close to pissed as I only observe but this is her homeland and she's outraged.  More often than not it's me calming her down.

This really did come up in conversation:  "Even if they burn the country to the ground, you will still own that land."

She believes they will do it but I don't.  Most likely the pyramid of greed will collapse and a lot of Tories will get killed but I doubt cities will burn unless Tories start the fire.  Judging by how they have armed cops like military, they might.  Regardless, it will be hugely ugly and an excellent time to be somewhere else.  Cops can't control it; those racist goons can't even deal with kids at a pool party.