Eerily quiet

Last night I stashed my cans of fish and meat away in slightly more stealthy places, so I guess besides acquiring them that's what I did to prep. I tried listing some things on Ebay but Ebay wasn't working so I only got one thing listed.

It's eerily quiet out there. Sounds carry like crazy now. If I'm to practice, I need to do it within working hours because the nights are just too quiet and the bums are certainly out and about. Besides light discipline which I already observe, I'll have to observe sound and smell discipline. No more late night practice and hot meals will have to be cooked during the day. Late night coffee will have to be cold.

I woke up at 3, right when the cop store closes so today was not the day to go there and see about pepper spray or any other goodies. Amazon doesn't mail pepper spray to California so that's out. I have a canister around here somewhere, plus there's the cop store if they have it and will sell me some (Big-5 is closed) and there are other options like getting some Ozium from the car parts place which comes in a small, highly pressurized can, easy to carry in a pocket. I think I can modify the spray nozzle on it to make it put out a stream instead of a spray, and there you have it, a jive-ass defense weapon.

I got an hour of practice in, mostly concentrating on endurance exercises. I'm thinking of ordering Laurie Frink's book "Flexus" which is apparently an update of the Caruso method and expensive but the Caruso book is too.

If I'm not busking for a year, it's a good idea to make this a year of improvement. I had a year like this as a competitive shooter where I practiced like crazy for a year without any important competitions really, and it paid off.

I just cooked up some scrambled eggs and smelly spicy "Cajun" sausage from the freezer. Once used up, I won't get more because like bacon, it really advertises that someone is cooking something good. If I eat something later tonight it will be something cold.

I looked up the CDC stats on regular yearly flu, and it's a hell of a killer. 30,000-50,000 deaths a year. The same sort of death profile as Covid too. It is any more pleasant to die of flu than Covid? Both apparently kill by pneumonia. It reminds of me reading a falconry magazine, and a guy related a story about his latest hunting trip, where his falcon had gotten a skunk. Now it was a question of untangling everyone without getting sprayed. The guy describes the skunk being really freaked out by him, the human, being there vs. the hawk that had its talons in it. The way he puts it is, that the skunk didn't mind being eaten by a hawk so much, as it was a familiar foe. I really wonder if this is the case with regards to Covid.