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Things I never thought I'd say aloud: "When did we get a Michael Jordan's Steakhouse?"

I can't figure out how to use that as a caption, but you can still lose yourself in...( a Cheaper World. )

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One of the odd things about having such a large readership is that when something surprising or horrible or disastery happens, there's a sort of expectation that you'll say something, as if silence is the equivalent of dismissal (and perhaps it is, I don't know).

There were a couple of earthquakes this morning, but I heard about them and the size and having spent a long time in California, I was fairly blase about them. Then I read...well, the entire internet's reaction to them, and realised that not everyone grew up in California.

So I thought while we are doing the roll-call-and-head-count, if-you-need-help-post-here thing, I'd share some information, because once I got home tonight I went and checked in on the inventory of my Emergency Kit. We've always had one in my family, and the schools usually had them as well, and when I moved out on my own I got one and have rotated stock in it (occasionally losing it entirely) for many years.

This is my emergency kit, kept in a black backpack in the closet of my kitchen.

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