Well, I hope you guys had a good holiday, regardless of which one you do or do not observe. It’s a big enough boat that we can all have our own observances and still row to our common goal.

How’d your buddy Zero make out? Well, I’ve a pretty small friends group (that is to say, the group of friends is small, not the the friends within the group are small) so I don’t really get much in the way of gifts. However, people in the know about the Beta Site gave me some appropriate items including chainsaw sharpening tools and some trail cameras. Thoughtful!

And, against my better judgement, I wound up picking up a rifle from a coworker who wanted to get something else and needed to thin the herd. Its a Savage 10 GRS in .308. An interesting looking little gun that is New In Box. I already have a couple .308 bolt guns, so I may pass this one along to a friend who wanted a ‘tactical’ .308 bolt gun at a dont-break-the-bank-price.

Now comes that quiet week between Christmas and New Year where virtually nothing gets done. Then 2026 barges in like a homicidal KoolAid man. The year will be interesting, probably in the Chinese sense, but hopefully in the harmless sense as well. I plan on spending as much time as possible at the Beta Site and getting it up and running enough to at least be a viable fallback location by the end of the year. I don’t expect to have it at the sit-back-and-put-your-feet-up stage for about two years, but I think it’ll definitely be at the ‘primitive bugout location’ stage before the end of 2026. I guess we’ll find out. Should make for a lot of interesting blog posts.