Well, i "ate out" tonite. If you can call eating two year old tinned caviar and biscuits "eating out". Hey it isnt standard canned fare at least. Jay tired a couple bites abd promptly annouced it unfit to eat but i enjoyed it. i cracked opena bottle of wine from my stash in the cellar and we had us a fine old time.

From now on ill try to write a bit about the post outbreak world around us. I dont know what your world will be like but ill try to fill you in on ours. i have yet to se an animal, beside birds, smaller than about 125 lbs since the outbreak. no cats, mice, very few dogs, and even most sheep fell victim. they did not reanimate (thank god) but simply died and rotted. Large anuimals like horses, cows, some pigs etc surviuved but are.....different. they are far more skittish that before. The last cow i shot for fresh meat held at 350 yards and it was staring me down hard wheni dropped it. It was as close as i could get. any closer and they run like the devil's after em. horses run as soon as they see a human at any distance. im no biologist so i cant conject what may have happened or its potential influence on the enviroment either. I have seen increasing numbers of large predators like cougars and the like. they prowl the edges of town, what they are feeding off i have no clue. Fishing is poor and the fish come up misshapen and oddly colored. we quit fishing not long after the outbreak because we feared something upriver had contaminated the water and the fish.

its a rough existence here. living on the ragged edge. oddly i relish this lifestyle. No more cell phones, ipods, or idiot drivers and while i do miss my computer i dont miss wading through stacks of spam e-mail and putting up with e-porn mail all the time. now all i have to worry about is where my next meal is coming from and when the dead-heads will thaw this year.