Brucie - you seem to have idle thoughts similar to my own. I often will have a stray thought such as....

What if TEOTWAWKI happens and.. we get a strep throat.. would anybody be able to reverse engineer the formula for penicillin? Should I get a book on how to make it or get a book on how to vaccum-seal a huge packet of it so it lasts for a 20 years?

For those who don't have such worries.. TEOTWAWKI stands for The End Of The World As We Know It and is pronounced.. Tee-oh-twah-kee.


I suppose I think about these things more than I should because I live in Los Angeles and I got stranded up in the Hollywood Hills for 3 days after the Northridge Quake. We had no running water or electricity for a day and a half. Now I keep a camp sove, propane and lots of extra water around just in case. God forbid I shoudn't be able to brew a pot of tea for 24 hours.