Monday, September 1, 2008 (Labor Day)

Some more helpful hints about sleeping

The best protection for TIs is always being around other people. As directed as their weapons are, there is always "fallout" and they cannot "fry" you as much if others are in the line of fire or pretty close to it.

Short of being around other people, the best protection is lead, and then steel, but I have never actually owned any lead, and experience has shown me that if I am relatively isolated, they can turn up the intensity to penetrate any amount of steel; I think you need about 5 feet thick of steel for it to stop it, and obtaining and paying for that is not practical.

So sleeping in your car, if you park it near an all-night diner or other 24 hour place, is a nice hybrid of steel (car) and people (customers). It used to be you could sleep in airports, but now with all the post-911 security this is impossible. But you could try to actually sleep in some crowded public place. Sometimes I wonder if 911 was purposely planned just so these criminals who hurt us could have an excuse to prevent us from finding refuge in airports. I wouldn't put it past them.