Age 75; married, live near Pensacola, Florida; 30 acres; Heavy into prepping.
Prepared to be totally off grid and support 60 persons.
Background: Born an avid reader; was C- student in grade school & High School.
In the middle of 9 kids. Been working since age 10.
I feel I was a rotten student because I couldn’t compete with older siblings and I read their high school & later college texts books out of boredom. The only books the family had was a set of World Book Encyclopedias. I read them several times, but I refused to read my assigned school books. So perhaps that is why I was a poor student. Strange though. When I went to night college it was like I found my home, as I was weaned on college texts. I was an A / B student there.
At 22 I was diagnosed with a rare genetic eye disease, Keratoconus. My eyes were bulging out of their sockets and I was told I was going blind. All I could do was wear hard contacts designed to push them back in ( slicing my lumpy eyes in the process.)
I had to change the size of the lenses every few months as my eyes shifted shape. One day the doctor said “Jim. This is the worst reaction to mini skirts I have ever seen.” I told my wife and she didn’t believe it was a joke; almost had to sleep on the couch.
I am sharing all this for a reason. I never thought about going blind because I didn’t think I would live long enough for it. When I researched the disease, I discovered only boys get it and that Is just before puberty. Well, at 22, I was horny as heck with a tired wife and 2 kids. If I was just starting to reach puberty I was sure I was going to screw myself to death first, so why worry?
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I doubled my reading, took speed reading and doubled again. I was packing my brain with information. Business was my passion. 15 years of night school got me a CPA, Masters in Computer Science and Paralegal. I specialized in business turn arounds.
I never went blind. Started with experimental cornea grafts and 20 years later got another set.
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At age 50 I dropped out. I had a near death experience and started getting hunches/premonitions.
After two years of this I took a sabbatical and focused on opening up as a psychic as such (I hate the term). Once opened to it, every other night I dreamed I was alone in a college class on Economics and saw the coming Collapse and Reset globally.
I never went back to work and dedicated myself to helping others prepare for what I saw coming.
Everything was paid for and I knew how to make big money quick if I needed it. Besides, money never meant anything to me.
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My wife later told me to prepare the family. We eventually locked up our home and moved temporally to the hobby farm. Betty purchased a two year old portable 2 room school house (900 Sq Ft) for $200 and moved it to the farm. We turned it into a cottage and lived there happily for 8 years. We let her cousin live in our old home so we could assist her, she was feeble from a child hood illness and her husband recently passed.
Here is the big twist. When I prepared the family, I began searching for a How To book but found nothing for a large group. Being a Systems Analyst, I designed our place as a retreat for a maximum of 60 persons.
For Novices in your extended family, start with Family Prepping.
For all others, look at Group Survival.
I have several websites that may be of interest to you, but start with:
Pensacola Preppers (30 Minute Read, Indexed)
ResetUs.us (1 Hour read, Indexed)
It is a free news blog that only focuses on the global Collapse and Reset news.
I write daily editorials titled ”Jim’s Daily Rant”. This is where I interject my personal feelings on what I see coming. This site is for persons with family and cannot speed read the daily new stories for hours like I can. I make no money on all of my sites.
Hope I didn’t bore you. Look forward to learning from you.
Prepared to be totally off grid and support 60 persons.
Background: Born an avid reader; was C- student in grade school & High School.
In the middle of 9 kids. Been working since age 10.
I feel I was a rotten student because I couldn’t compete with older siblings and I read their high school & later college texts books out of boredom. The only books the family had was a set of World Book Encyclopedias. I read them several times, but I refused to read my assigned school books. So perhaps that is why I was a poor student. Strange though. When I went to night college it was like I found my home, as I was weaned on college texts. I was an A / B student there.
At 22 I was diagnosed with a rare genetic eye disease, Keratoconus. My eyes were bulging out of their sockets and I was told I was going blind. All I could do was wear hard contacts designed to push them back in ( slicing my lumpy eyes in the process.)
I had to change the size of the lenses every few months as my eyes shifted shape. One day the doctor said “Jim. This is the worst reaction to mini skirts I have ever seen.” I told my wife and she didn’t believe it was a joke; almost had to sleep on the couch.
I am sharing all this for a reason. I never thought about going blind because I didn’t think I would live long enough for it. When I researched the disease, I discovered only boys get it and that Is just before puberty. Well, at 22, I was horny as heck with a tired wife and 2 kids. If I was just starting to reach puberty I was sure I was going to screw myself to death first, so why worry?
____________________________________
I doubled my reading, took speed reading and doubled again. I was packing my brain with information. Business was my passion. 15 years of night school got me a CPA, Masters in Computer Science and Paralegal. I specialized in business turn arounds.
I never went blind. Started with experimental cornea grafts and 20 years later got another set.
___________________________________
At age 50 I dropped out. I had a near death experience and started getting hunches/premonitions.
After two years of this I took a sabbatical and focused on opening up as a psychic as such (I hate the term). Once opened to it, every other night I dreamed I was alone in a college class on Economics and saw the coming Collapse and Reset globally.
I never went back to work and dedicated myself to helping others prepare for what I saw coming.
Everything was paid for and I knew how to make big money quick if I needed it. Besides, money never meant anything to me.
___________________________________
My wife later told me to prepare the family. We eventually locked up our home and moved temporally to the hobby farm. Betty purchased a two year old portable 2 room school house (900 Sq Ft) for $200 and moved it to the farm. We turned it into a cottage and lived there happily for 8 years. We let her cousin live in our old home so we could assist her, she was feeble from a child hood illness and her husband recently passed.
Here is the big twist. When I prepared the family, I began searching for a How To book but found nothing for a large group. Being a Systems Analyst, I designed our place as a retreat for a maximum of 60 persons.
For Novices in your extended family, start with Family Prepping.
For all others, look at Group Survival.
I have several websites that may be of interest to you, but start with:
Pensacola Preppers (30 Minute Read, Indexed)
ResetUs.us (1 Hour read, Indexed)
It is a free news blog that only focuses on the global Collapse and Reset news.
I write daily editorials titled ”Jim’s Daily Rant”. This is where I interject my personal feelings on what I see coming. This site is for persons with family and cannot speed read the daily new stories for hours like I can. I make no money on all of my sites.
Hope I didn’t bore you. Look forward to learning from you.
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