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Posted Fri, 07/17/2009 - 09:28 — Brigitte Dale
My recurring "earthquake stress dreams" have prompted me to make you a video about emergency exits.
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I almost had a psychic girlfriend, but she left me before we met.
Brig, please don't "jolt your brain" too much, and when you said "crawling outside the box physically"...that was pretty funny stuff. Oh, and thank you for the warning, I was going to totally try it by myself(without shoes in btw)!
Shade grown coffee... yeah but isn't that code for guano-encrusted coffee beans? That's for the birds!
Getting out of the house is only the first step. What do you do after that? If it was major earthquake; power, water, phones would all be down. No internet access means no checking twitter to find out what's going on. Do you have a portable radio with fresh batteries (change them the same time you change the batteries on your smoke detector, start and end of DST). Do you know what station to tune to for information. Do you have a bag with enough stuff to last you two to three days or longer. Bottled water, food (MREs are good), clean clothes (especially undies and socks or a mysterious shirt with armpit stains), first aid kit, matches, flashlight (change the batteries as well), hand cranked ones are good also, glow sticks, Duct tape, cash (ATM machine will be down), etc...
Compiling a list of what you'll need can grow if you don't think it out. You can buy these kits at a hefty price, but 90% of the stuff you can buy yourself and just keep in a duffel bag or backpack. Some of the newer things to add are those cell phone chargers that use AA batteries, or even a solar powered charger. The idea being cell phone towers would be up and running sooner than the phones lines to your home. You don't want to over pack. No point in wasting hundreds of dollars for something you may never use and if you do, only needs to last you a few days. Don't pack for Armageddon, just be prepared for a few days of roughing it. The most valuable lesson learned from hurricane Katrina is that you will be on your own for a while.
I should probably proof read this but I'm tired, so any spelling or grammar mistakes is just your imagination.
Joe
Hm.. If I'd have known you were having stress dreams about earthquakes, I never would have mentioned your green hardhat or the San Andreas fault t'other day on Twitter...Sorry if i added to your stress...
Good show, but what's up with the big shadow of an F in the background. Right to your left. Just thought it was kinda funny.
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her last vid, she tried an F-bomb...it left an imprint
I don't think your dreams are a psychic msg either, its probably just like you mentioned "just an underlying worry". When I was learning how to drive, I learned during the winter. That kind of freaked me out a lil cause of the ice + snow + highways = horrible, horrible death... in my mind... haha... Shortly before my driving lessons began I started to have dreams where I would be driving and would loose control of the car and it would spin out. When I made the connection of my fear of winter driving to my dreams... well, my dreams stopped and I ended up having fun learning how to drive in the winter! Now I enjoy winter driving... I don't know if you could every enjoy earthquakes?!
But, maybe now that you've made the connection your dreams may stop as well? I'll def' share this vid with my friends who moved to L.A.
When you were in NE, did you have tornado preparedness plans? To me, as a native Nebraskan, earthquakes are much scarier than tornadoes, but when I lived on the west coast I talked to many people who thought just the opposite.
Next time someones bragging about all the earthquakes they've survived, you can tell them about all the tornadoes you've survived! That will shut them up
Really good advice, Brigitte!!! But how about when you live on the 3rd floor and, besides that, there is NO fire escape???
Same with me. 3rd floor and only one way out. Unless you count jumping out the window and hoping whatever disaster just occurred softened the asphalt.
Joe
Brigitte - you always give such great advise... can you tell me what you'd do if you upset a friend via iChat? I was being playful, and she took it all wrong and got really upset. I apologized but I wonder if there is some sort of etiquette to avoid this in the future. I'm older and not very good with this virtual world stuff.
Hey I'm obviously NOT Brigitte Dale
, so I hope you don't mind if I reply? It's just that I had a similar experience happen between two friends not via iChat, but through an e-mail thread amongst a group of friends. It started off just as you wrote, "playfulness" from one person being misunderstood by another as being mean spirited. In my situation friend A made a joke and friend B took the joke personally (you should know that friend B is sensitive and tends to over analyze in everyday life). Both friends apologized to each other and to us (for clicking reply all). After this experience I conducted my own non-scientific experiment via msn messenger. I waited for a friend to begin a convo' with me and I replied, but when I replied I replied in all caps. Every reply was written in caps, so when my friend asked how was I? I replied with, "FINE"... etc. After about 5 mins of replying in all caps she asked if I was upset with her 
these lil' guys are really important, 'cause a "FINE" which comes off as "yelling" can be downplayed by adding an emoticon at the end "FINE :P" Try incorporating emoticons in your virtual conversations, they may help? 
My conclusion after conducting my NON-scientific experiment is that all those lil' cues such as tone, intonation, facial expressions... etc. a.k.a. non-verbal communication, something we take for granted in our non virtual lives, helps our face-to-face conversations run smoothly. It's these non-verbal cues that are completely missing in our virtual conversations. Chances are if you had had your convo' with your friend face-to-face she would have understood that you were being playful; instead of being mean. luckily, there are emoticons. The lil' faces used to simulate the mood of the msg: