Wizard's Log - November 8th 2026

Transcript

Hey everyone, Callan here, and in this video, I'm just going to give another life update. That's what these wizard logs are, just me letting you know what's going on in my life. So, basically the biggest thing going on right now, which I've been talking a lot about lately in my videos, is the dugout shelter, and it's basically done at this point, and it's very comfortable to live in. it can i get it i can get it up to 80 degrees i could probably get it up to 90 or even 100 degrees in there if i wanted to even when it's freezing outside it's got a raised bed i'm putting in the all the wiring for the solar panel so i'm going to be able to run basically lighting and there's going to be a halogen 50 watt light bulb like white but warm full spectrum light and then also it can switch to a red light when it's dark so i'm not interrupting my sleep patterns. Then it can also run my plasma machine, and also it can charge all my USB devices, including a radio. I have this little ham radio. It's one of the few things that I brought with me from my last location. And I've got this, because the shelter, the dugout shelter is lined with aluminum, you can't get any signal in or out of there. So anyways, I had to buy this long cable extender, which you can take the antenna off the radio, plug the cable into the radio in the same spot, and then run the line outside, and then put that... little antenna on there, and now I can get radio signals so I can listen to the weather, right? That's one nice thing. I can also get FM stations, but it's a ham radio so I can talk with other people who have ham radios, like the people who live in the house on the property that I'm staying on. And the place where the dugout shelter is is quite a ways away from their house across a field which gets very muddy. when it's wet, and also right now it's fairly cold outside, so it's not necessarily a trek that they like to make if they need to ask me something or something like that. So basically we're setting up a radio system where we can just talk to each other instantly without having to worry about that. So I'll probably make a video about that. And also on the plasma machine, we've been working, basically we've been working as partners, the guy who owns the property. to build a prototype plasma machine using my design for how the electronics are laid out and the parts that you use. And he's basically designing and building the boxes. So currently it's basically a box that's made out of some nice wood. And I lay out the components on a big piece of plexiglass, and I have to drill out little holes and cut out little squares for all the pieces to go in. I'll show you a video of this pretty soon. It's pretty similar to my last video about the plasma machine, but, you know, now it's into plexiglass and in one of the first prototype boxes. Anyway, so you just can, you'll be able to just slide that plexiglass plate in there with all the pieces on it, and then when you need to adjust the spark gap, which you need to do every, probably every couple of weeks, you can just slide it out, you know, discharge the capacitors before you touch anything, and then adjust the... spark gap distances and just slide it back in so and it will probably have a plexiglass thing on the top of the box too so you can look inside and see it working so anyways like i said i'll probably make some more videos about that sometime soon so what's left for the dugout shelter are probably things that i'm mostly going to be doing next year if i decide to do them one would be building i think i'll build a rock wall going up the stairs So basically, I have a whole bunch of rocks and they're all good size, perfect for building a wall. And then we just need to get some mortar to do that. Then on the inside, I might put in some flooring of some kind, maybe like a wood floor, and then also I might put up walls of some kind. I don't really know quite what I would use. I mean, the standard would be using drywall, but you know, that's kind of boring, so... Another person had this recommendation of using rice paper, but I would be a little worried about how flammable rice paper would be. I think that's the stuff they use in Japanese homes for their walls. But if you've got ideas for something cool that could be used for the wall or even for the floor and the ceiling, please let me know, because next year that might be something that I work on. Then something I'll probably do this year, or at least... I'll do the part where I add the dirt, so I'm going to be adding, I'll probably be doing that today, so adding a whole bunch more dirt to the roof now that I've supported it with the posts. And then I have a whole bunch of grass seed, which they have left over from when they planted grass a long time ago, a couple years ago. And I'm just wondering whether I should plant it now. It's getting pretty cold, but I think grass does pretty good in the cold, but maybe I should just wait till spring, so I haven't decided on that. and I've got a smoke detector, I've got a carbon monoxide detector in there, I've got a radon gas detector, I'll talk about that in a second, and also now I have a fire extinguisher and an axe to chop through the door if I need to get out or something like that, if the door's not opening or been locked in or something like that, or chop through the ceiling, something like that. So anyways, on the radon gas, that would be the only thing that I'm a little concerned about at the moment. Radon gas is a radioactive gas. It comes from the decay, I think uranium, and it's one of the stages of decay, and then it, after that, it becomes like lead, and then it goes to something else, and then it becomes another isotope of lead. So, but anyways, it's in the helium. If you look at the periodic table, it's on the right side, you know, all the stable gases, helium, argon, xenon. Krypton maybe, but I think radon is like the one of the heavier ones, if not the heaviest one, and it is radioactive, and it's released from the ground and basically seeps up. So anyways, they had a radon detector in their house, and they're letting me use it, and so the radon's a little bit high. So I'll talk about that in a video coming up here. So another thing I wanted to mention is that we have got all the seed that we're going to use next year in the large field that we're going to be able to irrigate. And it's kind of specialized seeds. So seeds that are very specific to this growing area because we have a very short... season, it's very cold even in the spring, early spring, and in the late fall, and so you have kind of a short period of time where you can grow things. And also, I'm going to be doing three sisters, which is corn, pole beans, and squash, and you need to plant the corn, and then you need to wait until they get... you know, several inches tall before, I think like six inches tall, before you plant the beans, okay? So you're losing a whole bunch of time for the beans and the squash, which you can't plant until later. So anyways, that's why it's important to have seeds, which have been bred to be very good for short seasons and which can handle the cold a little bit, okay? So, oh, let's see if I can remember the names. Okay, so I got the painted mountain corn, which is a corn grown in... basically bred in Montana using all kinds of different varieties of Indian corn, which was developed by like one guy over a couple of decades in order to be perfect for basically the area that I'm in. Okay, and it's all kinds of different colors, and it's a corn that you can use for lots of different things, so you can make flour out of it, you can, I think you can, if you harvest it early enough, you can eat it like sweet corn, but... My main use for it personally will be as parched corn, which is like popcorn, except the kernels don't expand. They just stay as little kernels, and you can just pop in your mouth and chew them. So I've talked about that before. So anyways, then the other one is good. The pole beans are something called Good Mother Stallard, I think. I can't remember for sure. It's Good Mother Something. Stallard, I think. Anyways, those are pole beans, so they'll climb up on the... the corn stalks, and basically the goal there, it's not for green beans, it's for storing, basically, so once they're done growing, I'll leave them there to kind of dry out, and then I'll store them, just like you would, you know, dried beans that you would buy from the store. And then the squash that I got is called Butterbush. So it's like a butternut squash, but it's a little bit smaller, less long. and it grows more quickly and does really good in this area. And it doesn't spread out as much, okay? So I'm going to be doing the three sisters in rows, and the rows are about a foot and a half away from each other, so I don't want them spreading out too far. So anyways, that's the squash that I went with. And those three things together, you know, the goal there is to keep everyone that I know and care about local to me fed in the situation where... you know, our access to the food system has dropped out for some reason, either because the system is collapsing, or because there's a new system which we all decide not to become a part of, which is probably what's going to happen. And then, so this year, you know, I got like five pounds of the corn seed, that's enough to grow. You know, it's not even half, it's maybe not even a quarter of the entire field that I have available to me to plant. So hopefully this year nothing bad happens, and I'm able to keep most of the corn and all the other things as seed, so that next year I can plant pretty much the entire field. And one thing that I would like to do, it's a little bit cost prohibitive at the moment, but maybe I'll do it next year, or this year, sometimes soon, because I'm going to start plowing out the field, hoeing the rows before the ground gets too cold, that it's hard. So that next, when it gets to spring, I don't have to worry about doing that really quickly right before I need to be planting all the corn. So anyways, I want to put in electroculture like I did back where I was before. And we saw that, especially with sun chokes, you could get almost twice the height out of the sunshokes and probably twice the volume of produce made. just by using the electroculture. And so what I did back then, I had a spiral garden, I made videos about this, I showed the whole process of putting in, and, you know, as it was all growing, and showed that, yes, electroculture definitely works if you do it correctly, and it's dramatic, especially with sunshokes. So anyways, I'd like to put in an electroculture system. and maybe just do like half of the rows with the electroculture and then half the rows without it just to see how well the corn and the squash and the beans react to it But it's a little bit expensive because it takes bare copper wire. You know, you want to be not really thin because you don't want it to be fragile. And so I would need it fairly soon if I was going to do it this year because it would be, when I was doing the hoeing, it would go into the mounds, okay? So I would dig out a little trench in where the mound was going to be, lay down copper wire all the way down the row, and then mound it up. And that's where the corn is going to get. planted and then I would also need a tinkara fishing rod or some sort of like tall wooden thing you know back where I was I think it was like 15 maybe 20 feet high okay and then I would just run copper wire all the way up to the top with the little thing of copper wires coming out like a little antenna at the top and then that copper wire runs down the pole and then connects to the copper wire which is running through all the rows in the electroculture system in the field okay so now I want to talk a little bit about what I've been eating while I've been here I've been focusing on foods which are extremely inexpensive to buy yet still organic and fairly healthy okay so I usually stick to I try it when I'm in a mode like I am now where I don't want to spend a whole lot because they don't have a whole lot. I focus on getting foods which are around 20 cents per ounce, which is pretty cheap. Even a lot of non-organic foods are not that cheap. Oats is one of those things. Raisins is another one of those things. And like canned, refried pinto beans, that's one of my favorite foods. And I found a good company. that sells that and the beans are organic, the other ingredients are not organic, but the other main ingredients are like avocado oil, which you don't need... Avocados are one of the food that you don't really need it to be organic, so when you're going to the store and you're getting avocados, the organic ones are going to be much more expensive, but really, that's one of the foods where it doesn't really matter because the whole, the shell, the skin of the avocado basically protects it from the things that are going to contaminate it. I'm not too worried about that with the refried beans. And then the rest of the ingredients are things like paprika and salt and those kinds of things. So anyways, that's basically my, what I eat. That's my food. And in the oatmeal, I also add organic cocoa and a little bit of stevia powder to sweeten it up. But now that I've got about three months of that stored up, I am looking to start getting some more foods, which are maybe a little bit more expensive, like rice. and dried beans, and then once I've got maybe a couple buckets of each of those, then I'll probably start getting things like, you know, organic grass-fed ghee, which is like super expensive, but super good for you, okay? So organic grass-fed ghee is one of the ingredients in something, so Dave Asprey developed this ice cream that he makes. He calls it get some ice cream because it's, it makes you, it has everything you need in it to basically Basically, when you eat it, it makes your body go, okay, I'm in abundance of nutrients, and so it's time to make babies, okay? That's why it's called get some ice cream, because after you eat it, you know, you get interested in other activities. So anyways, like oats, raisins. that kind of thing, very cheap, you know, rice, beans, kind of middle of the road, and then kind of at the top of the scale is getting things like ghee. I'd also like to get eventually like a five-gallon bucket of, you know, organic honey, because honey stores extremely well, and you can live off of honey just by itself. And some people even say you don't need to drink water, I think, because there's, you know, a little bit of water in it, okay? So, anyways, those are my kind of... aspirations food-wise. And then I also wanted to mention that I am drinking a little bit of coffee again, which I'm hopped on up on right now. Coffee was something I used to drink a lot when I worked in the video game industry as a producer. And it got to the point where I was drinking so much that I started to get ill drinking it. And for several years, I couldn't even drink one... cup of coffee without getting ill again, even if it had been several years since I've had it. But I decided to, because the people around here drink coffee, and I decided to join them and have some coffee, and I didn't notice any ill effects, okay? And so I don't know whether that's because I was using the plasma machine, or I just went a really long time, and so whatever, adrenal gland ingredients were able to fill themselves up, because I think the reason I was having trouble with it was, either a thyroid thing, like a hyperthyroid thing, which coffee can kind of like over-stimulate, or an adrenal gland thing where my cortisol was basically running out, right? And so basically when I would drink it, it would get to the point where I felt really tired. for a couple of days after even, and I would feel like more susceptible. I wouldn't necessarily get sick, but I would feel that feeling of like, okay, right now I am susceptible to being, getting sick if I am not careful. So anyways, I was able to go probably a week or two drinking coffee, several cups of coffee every single day, you know, just a few weeks ago. And then it started to get again to that point, okay? So there's a little bit of a limit there for me still. But... At this point, I'm basically limiting it to maybe a cup of coffee a week, okay? And so today's Sunday, and I decided to enjoy a cup of coffee because coffee is one of my favorite things. I love the taste, and I like how it makes me feel. Okay, so just a few more things that, you know, basically in the future I'm thinking of, you know, upgrading. First thing would be my glasses. So I've made videos in the past, how you can... If you are near-sided, which means you can see well close up, but you can't see very far away, you can actually walk that back slowly. It takes a long period of time, but if you do it right, you can get to the point where you don't need glasses anymore. I've been doing this for several years, and I've made a little bit of progress, and I think it's about time that I'm going to drop down my glasses a little bit. And also, these glasses I've had for a couple of years, and they're starting to get to the point where they've got little... scratches or smudges on them, which are kind of permanent. And when they get in front of the eye, I find that really annoying. You know, whenever you're looking out something, there's a little bit of a blur in a certain spot. You know, it's kind of frustrating, and it just gets worse and worse over time. So anyways, I probably should get some new glasses sometime soon, and when I do, I'm going to drop them down a level. And if you're interested about, you know, how you actually progress backwards, I've got several videos on my website. I think if you search nearsightedness or myopia on my website, then you'll find those videos. And then another thing is my server, which runs calend.org, and also my XMPP server, and a couple of other things. I made that video a few days ago, or maybe a week or two ago, about the upcoming, likely, massive cyber attack. And as soon as I did that, I noticed that there's all kinds of weird things that started happening with my server. like certain services would just stop working. I've been running the server without many changes at all for many years, and so I'm very familiar with how things tend to work and what things tend to fail. And I've been getting all kinds of different issues, which are new, all of a sudden, and it basically happened like the same day I posted that video, and it's kind of been a little bit of a continuous thing. So if you see my website drop off for a little bit... you know, that's what's going on. The thing about my website is that it's static, okay, so you can't really interact with it, there's no PHP or anything like that. But, I mean, you can still attack it in certain ways by overstressing it, and there's probably other venues that, you know, maybe I'm not familiar with. So I'd like to get a beefier server, maybe one that has unlimited bandwidth, so you can't attack me in that way. and also when I do that, I'm going to set up the structure in a way which is much more secure, okay? So in the past I've used something called Privex, and it's Privex.io where you can get a server, you pay with cryptocurrency, they don't ask you who you are, you have to use an email address for them to contact you, but that can be anonymous, right, you can just make an email address. So I'll probably get one of those. with, you know, unlimited bandwidth and probably more storage on it, and then just set it up, you know, more carefully than I did before, just to make sure it's more hardened against cyber attacks. Okay, and then I want to talk about kind of what I've been up to just in my free time. What do I do when I'm not working on the dugout shelter and that kind…

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