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Lights Out

As the Red Cross is warning about being prepared for potential power outages during high winds, FP would like to add some items to your preparedness checklist:
-battery-operated twinkle lights
-Triscuits and smoked clams or sprats
-canned hummus and more Triscuits
-bulky sweaters
-trashy magazines and a flashlight

The modest proposal diet

Some alternatives to the 100 Mile Diet, wherein one eats only food grown within 100 miles of one’s home:
-The greenhouse diet, where you only eat local foods that are not native to your local climate and must be raised in greenhouses. Very handy in BC.
-The eat the wild animals you can catch in your back yard, who foolishly trust you due to the neighbors feeding them diet.
-The realize that the energy needed to farm the food needed to power your legs is less efficient than a gasoline engine and drive everywhere diet.
-The only eat food that can take public transit diet (primarily vegetarian).
-The carpool diet, where you only eat food transported in groups of two or more.
-The Nerfherder diet, where you only eat candy.

Unless you're willing to sell out your neighbors

Amazon is plunging into that failprone breach that is online grocery services. (Well, Schwann’s does OK.) But while they will admit to serving the Seattle area, and I have seen their trucks around, they won’t tell you if they serve your area or let you look at their selection and prices unless you give them your name, full address, and phone number. Yay for you, Amazon.