: All right that makes 3 of ya'll telling how
: inconvenient it is to get to the
: "packie" for a resupply.This is
: Sunday in the wonderful"blue
: state" of Ct.-and the commies will not
: let us buy any alcoholic beverages on
: Sundays-you run out you are F----d!!Of
: course you can make a run to Doc's house
: where it never runs dry-just make sure the
: green rope lighting is on.Mix- { only 1 hour
: away from Doc's}

I got backups to the backups. Learnt that in crew chief school, my version of safety wire. Then, of course. Shakey turned it into an art form.

The formula is this: you got your working supply, which we all have in one form or another.

Then some of us have the typical backup supply, for late nights, Sundays, sunny days, cloudy days, holidays, power outages, that sort of thing. You know, unexpectedly good days.

Then some others of us, those even more safety-conscious than most, have some sort of disaster backup backup. One never knows, does one? When the backup starts to diminish, gets down to the point that everybody is jockeying to grab the last blast, you need to know you have another option. That would be your disaster inventory, the stuff you found, or that folks gave you or left by mistake, stuff wouldn't put down your neck under ANY circumstances except now, when there is nothing else and no prospect of getting anything else, even in Massachusetts.

And then there are a select few, survivalists, if you will, who have a major natural disaster, hurricane, blizzard, cataclysm-type survival supply, the kind of supply you guard with large-caliber weapons, buried, sandbagged, under lock and key. THAT is the class of backup inventory we're talking here. We're talking your absolute BEST stuff, the stuff you don't feel worthy to drink or serve except under the most dire of circumstances. Old Chivas. Black Bush. Walker Blue. Glacier gin. The cognac you couldn't bring yourself to open even to sniff it.

I did not realize that Mixer was aware of the existence of my blizzard supply. That is a potential problem I may need to talk to an outside contractor about. And it appears that I need to have another discussion with my wife concerning operational security.