Took 3 hours since I-40 was closed, but I got there. 7 hours round trip.
I didn't see really much damage in Asheville; the art river district was badly damaged, but that's only part of the city. The grocery stores were full, with the exception of refrigerated/frozen items, but there was plenty of bottled water, canned and dry goods, even veggies were fine. Hell, I could have even ordered a Starbuck's coffee in the grocery store made with bottled water. The bathrooms were out of commission.
The town in general wasn't bad at all in my opinion. I did go to a donation site, and it was being manned by Coast Guard reservists. They were friendly and asked what I needed when I pulled up in my car. There was only one other car there other than mine, and they got some bottled water, but other than that no one else was donating or picking up. They weren't taking donation so on I went. The town looked so good and was basically operating as normal other than some big buildings being damaged, I didn't donate, I just started off to another tiny town I'd heard had been hit hard, Marshall NC.
Small town, tons of damage, homes destroyed and swamped. They had a mile of road lined with small houses near the river (beautiful homesites), that got devastated. No power, no water, no septic and they were mucking mud out of their first-floor doors and windows. I found the Madison County fairgrounds where they were taking donations and left everything there. They also had active-duty Army at this location (20 or so) that were friendly and helpful both giving and taking donations along with some wonderfully friendly local women.
I forgot to take a photo of the receipt, but it's in the car and can do so later. Can't to about $750 bucks.
They don't give a shit about minorities unless they toe the line for the cause. Useful TikTok idiots are in full attack mode now
A 'dating coach' shares how by supporting and being kind to her husband, she's actually secretly sabotaging his desires while fulfilling her own.
You guys asked, so here you go, Odd Man Out podcast for those that just want to listen or are having streaming issues.
A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Lots of news topics to cover across the board but I think all are worth discussing.
https://thepostmillennial.com/game-publisher-ceo-fired-texas-heartbeat?utm_campaign=64471
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A bit of a scattered video, but I want to address men and losing their emotional awareness, Fresh and Fit's fallout due to losing control of their emotions and how Rich Cooper from Entrepreneurs In Cars calls me out (in the correct logical way) and a response to that.
I watch news and doom scroll on 'X' and news websites all day. It's part of the brain damage I must suffer to find content.
Many analysts are saying due to the price of diesel, prices will likely increate 20%-40% on most household goods, including food, not because of an oil shortage, but because of a refinery shortage, unable to turn enough oil to fuel. This was all before Ukraine just hit several more refineries in Russia the past few days.
To save money and have a hedge against shortages, I have gone out and picked up canned food and long shelf life dry goods (that I love to eat, food shortage or not) and most other necessities for 3-4 months.
It might be a good idea to make sure you have a bit of a food, toilet paper, soap, water etc supply, just because things may go south worse than expected, and the price is likely to go up in the next several months anyway.
https://global-energy-flow.com/shortages/diesel/
EDIT Let me add my favorite, simple recipe for a great stew that the ingredients can ...
Ok fellas, I've enlisted GrokBot to do some calculations, look for land listings and it's done a hell of a good job.
The idea is this buildout is the final goal, but we'll likely have something temporary in the meantime so the land is at least usable (rainwater collection with ad hock shower/wash station, some solar for wifi/electronic device charging, clearing for RV/Tent, outhouse or compost toilets etc)
I've contacted real estate agents for the following properties:
$59,000 10.13 Acres 10.13-ac 10.13-ac Forest Trails Ln, Celina, TN 38551
$79,900 8.6 Acres 0 Moss Arcot Rd, Celina, TN 38551
$54,900 5.51 Acres 5.51-ac Beaver Ln, Gainesboro, TN 38562
$33,998 5 Acres, 5 Benton Tidwell Rd, Hilham, TN 38568
I've asked it to come up with a building design / ideas in our budget window, here's what we're looking at (I've given it $200,000 to work with as a total so we have plenty of left over for things it didn't calculate):
Estimates only (2026-09-19). Not contractor bids. Minimal permits required for ...
So you guys have various preferences for television night. Some are very obscure that I can't find for download so I'll have to dig a bit deeper, but leave a list and I'll snap as many as I can up. I'll likely need to get a larger hard drive at some point, but we can get started.
