New sub-forum: The Newbiedome

[boredagain]

Boredagain here,
33 year old vegan athiest, been reading the news portion of this site for a few years, check ouot Kunstler's blog every wee, been keeping my eye on the price of oil and the shake up of the stock market recentyl. I work in the financial services industry so I'm curious how long I will have a job for 
I here mainly to find info about gardening post peak and where might be the best place to relocate to. It's all about location, location, location....
Looks like I have a lot of info to get thru here.

[oklahoma89]

Welcome,

I am an also in the same industry.  I hope business is going well!

[2athome]

Howdy all,
I've already been hazed quite a bit but seeing as numberwise I'm a newbie I guess I better do the intro thingy properly in the proper place.
Have been reading LATOC for 2 + years now and forward it so much to my friends and family that they think I am a complete nut and nothing bad will ever happen that we won't bounce right back from so stop trying to educate them.
I do part time work for farms both humanely/ethically raised animal farms and veg farms; hands on, computer work and spreading the word around town.
I knit, crochet, spin wool, sew, cook, can food, pickle/ferment food, make sourdough from scratch, homeschool, eat meat, read lots of books about a self sustainable life without electricity and the various skills one may need, chop wood (poorly but I git er done), garden, and I love my husband and kids more than life itself. 
Last year we searched out an intentional community to become a part of but most of them are vegan/vegatarian and don't grow very much fo their own food nor have any real idea of how many acres of wheat it takes to make a years worth of flour for an individual.
I don't belong to a church or own land. too bad for me on the land count but I fear eminent domain. I am a doomer and I am pretty bummed about hte way things are looking yet I have hope that enough folks will wake up and get outta their lazy boys.
Thanks for reading.

[Jonas Parker]

I just found you all as a link from http://www.321gold.com/. It's good to see that not all of our citizens are watching the economy with the same mild disinterest as they'd watch a sit-com on ABC. I'm not sure what I can bring to the mix here, but I'll try to be constructive in a destructive economy.

[StrangeFire]

Hello there. I've been reading LATOC for 6 months but just came out of the "lurk-closet" today. Swordfish's post from yesterday scared me BAD, and I thought it was time to join the dialogue. I'm in my early 40's, been teaching at a smallish university for 15 years, where my spouse of 20 years also teaches. We have one child, in college (big scholarship, thankfully). Relocating seems prohibitively expensive and disruptive; I figure we'll stay on the grid and in the loop till we can't anymore. My mom owns a ranch/farm, so I guess moving in with her is our back-up plan (but hell would really have to freeze over, first...Ha!).

In the meantime, we're stock-piling food, trying to get out of debt, and trying to live beneath our means, but it seems like something happens every month to make that impossible.

I'm curious about solar generators--does anyone know if they are any good? I figure we can do without heat and electricity in Texas, even in winter, and we've got lots of propane for cooking and lanterns and kerosene and candles, but I want to be able to stay on-line as long as possible. Is a solar generator the way to go for that? Or, by the time the grid goes down, will the internet be gone, as well?

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[medicvet]

Welcome to the Hotel Newbiedome.

You can check out anytime you like, but you can NEVER leave......

unless you get yourself booted.

@JDD
Perhaps we could assign someone to come and taze... er, I mean haze the newbies when they first enter?  You know, break em' down, isolate them, wipe their memories and offer them no hope of rehabilitation.... oh wait.... sorry.... I'm channeling Gitmo.

Don't taze me, Bro!!! 

Hi, I'm not all here but here, and this is my first post here, although I have known about Peak Oil for a few years now. I am also a firm believer in carrying some preps on me, so I am a fat ole broad. 

[Barnabas]

Hi, another 'newbie' here, though admittedly a regular lurker at this site for more than a year.  NY area 'Financial Type', have been PO-aware for a couple of years or more (think it was a Kunstler article I read in a magazine).  Long PMs and MH....short on solutions.   I figure more and more things are going to get local real soon, and like everyone else here, just trying to figure how that will work out.  Taking Horticulture classes at the local State U.  The WSJ article today hit home; I'm sure it reminded friends and colleagues of me, since I've been harping on the theme for awhile, and PO is a 'very' unorthodox thing to believe in if you're anywhere near Wall Street.  Cheers.

[emartin76]

Aloha,
Newbie here...although I took college classes that said oil would run out some day I think they predicted something like 2050 or something...I recently rented the end of suburbia and it pretty much woke me up to what I had been trying to piece together for sometime...anyway following that I have been trying to figure out what to do, what is the "right" course of action to plan for this...I have always been on edge anyway so it didn't take much to push me off, however, I am currently in process of trying to purchase some land that will be more livable than my townhouse...anyway, I feel overwhelmed and that I don't have the proper resources to take on the changing of my existence and I was very happy that I found this forum section.

[Bruce]

 HELLO all newbies. Pull up a chair and give it a listen. You might not agree but damn will find it interesting. Welcome.............................Bruce

[Li-an]

I felt more welcome as a lurker. Bye.

[Chesire]

Don't forget to grab a beverage from the bar while its still open.  Then pull up a deck chair and play spot the iceberg .  While the Current Chimpanzee in Chief or his successor  Hitlery , Mckeating or Obama lama ding dong  drives the boat right into it at full speed.  The band is very good and if you don't smoke now is a good time to start. Your not going to live long enough to see any deleterious effects from it 

[Barter4Booze]

Can anybody tell me how to add a picture to my profile?  I'm having no luck trying to figure that out!

[Redwood]

Hello everyone.
I didn't notice this thread at first, so I dove right in and posted a few replies here and there.  I might post a few more.  I used to discuss this and that on various forums, but I got tired of it.  Especially tired of it now, since most subjects are already moot points, so to speak.
Working as a computer programmer for the State: the State of California, that is.  Actually, I loathe computer programming, and have a low opinion of technological society in general, and that was before I learned about the Peak Oil situation, late last year, after having watched A Crude Awakening.  I feel a little miffed I wasn't able to put two and two together and realize the actual situation on my own.
I used to be interested in drama, particularly Shakespeare, but now I'm drawn to horticulture.
I have a lot of ideas that other people dislike, I've found -- which indicates I don't read the newspaper: following Thomas Jefferson's advice.
Married, but separated, and have enormous difficulty convincing my, I mean a certain person well-known to myself, about the implications and likely logical outcome of the oil situation.
You know on those dating sites how it's fashionable to identify yourself as "spiritual but not religious?"  In my case I'm spiritual and religious.  So I read into the oil situation a lot from that standpoint.
How about a dating thread on this site?  You know, a matchmaking thread for people with a common interest, or rather THE common interest nowadays, namely relocating (in tandem) to an area outside the metro area?  Just kidding?  Not really.

[ascatterling]

Hey there everybody!

I finally decided that it's time for me to start posting after having been a daily visitor for a long time.

I'm married with one child and we've lived in 3 different countries in the last 3 years. We currently live in Colorado, but with our wondering streak, who knows :-)

I first heard about Peak Oil on New Zealand television in 2005 and I was instantly intrigued.

This site (I include the main site and the forum in this) has been my lifeline to sanity in a world that seems crazier every day, filled with people that seem more indifferent about it every day.

Keep up the good work everybody!