With the weather turning foul, yet again, friends do not call and ask if I am out of milk and bread.  A) Because I stock this house on a back up system and I haven’t run out of anything in over a decade.  It’s psychotic, but benign, and somewhat convenient.  If you’re going to have a hang up, make it useful.  B) Now that cabin fever has turned into a syndrome, I realize that there is only one critical item we must keep on hand…PAINT.