Extended power outages? No problem.

by Angela K. Durden
Technology inventor protecting creator's copyrights. Business writer, novelist, songwriter, and Citizen Journalist.

If you are experiencing extended power outages, here are your Hints and Tips O-da Day about how to function.

First:
Remember you have always wanted to "live close to nature" and "camp out" for two weeks. Now is your opportunity to put up or shut up. 

Second:

Remember all those posts you make on social media about people being too obsessed with their handheld technology and view this as an opportunity as an intervention, much like shock therapy.

(Not sure if you are one of those? Take this test.)

[NOTE: If you are going to click the link to take the test, then you are one of those people, so don't even bother clicking.]

Third:  
Think of your home as a fancy camping tent that just happens to have your bed, fave sheets and pillows, clothes, toilet paper, manual toothbrush, and drinking alcohol but with lights that are only there for decoration.

Fourth:

Remember all those post-apocalyptic movies you like to watch and how you always walk out of the theater thinking "I could do that." Well, welcome to the reckoning in Your Week of Practice.

Fifth:
Stopyerdamnwhinin' and dig deep into your knapsack of shelves and eat that vast store of canned goods. It won't kill you to eat it cold. Betcha won't laugh at preppers ever again, will ya? That's right. Preppers don't whine. They take action.

And lastly, or sixth if you want to get all snippy and technical about it after reading all the above awesome motivational Hints and Tips O-da Day, be thankful you are still alive unless you just want to not be thankful for that in which case who am I to say you must be thankful?