oh, i don't know why i didn't answer the stuff about steel and preppers and pumps; maybe it was a brain fart or maybe you edited it in later. i'll try to answer later
Yeah it was a few edits. I often stay on a theme awhile once consciously captured, resulting in a re-read and new ideas/tweaks. Ninja skill: trainable psycho-inertia, AKA "focus", now perhaps ostracized as a 'spectrum member' activity, I believe it was merely associated with clarity of thinking and general education in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
