It's been a couple of days since I posted the first message, which I hope you read. And I hope that some of you were able to pass along the link to these pages, so that others will be able to read this. Make sure that you link to the beginning of these posts, so that others will read the posts in the same order that I upload them.
To help with that, I've started numbering the posts; this one is 00.01. I guess that this post is sort of an introduction, since there isn't really a chapter '0' in most books. Unless you think of a book's prologue as a "chapter 0".
But computers use 0 as their first number, so I thought I would too. Anyhow, the numbering system will always be of the format nn.nn. Think of the first two digits as the chapter, and the last two numbers as a section of the chapter. So that would make this posting 00.01; the first posting, which I assume that you have already read, was 00.00. So you can use the posting numbers to make sure that you are reading the story in the proper order.
Enough of the business end. On to more interesting stuff.
I was going to tell you about me, but that's probably not interesting enough. Maybe I'll get to that in another post. You already know about the Problem, since you are living with the consequences of the Problem. If you are fortunate, and I assume that you are because you are reading this now, you've been able to survive the Problem. I count myself as one of the fortunate ones, since I was able to prepare myself and my surroundings for the Problem's problem. (Hmm...a little redundant and repetitive there.)
I took some field trips after the Problem, and what I saw then was not very pretty. One of those trips was almost my last one. I was just barely able to escape with my life. After that trip, I've stayed here. I might take another trip later, but that last one five months ago was not very fun. Another trip then might have been my last one. I'm not sure how things are now; I'll have to investigate further before I attempt another trip. Luckily, I have plenty of supplies, and the winter wasn't too bad this year. And I'm remote enough that there's little chance I'll be found by any wanderers. I'm ready for them, though.
But I may need some information from you who are reading these postings. There's no reliable way to contact me, and any contact will have to be very secure. I think that sharing information about current conditions world-wide might be useful, though, so I'll work on setting up some sort of message group system. It may take a while, though, so I'll let you know when I've got things set up.
In the meantime, if you can, try to keep connected. Posts here will be as regular as I can make them, at least on a daily basis. There might be some days when I'll get several posts up, and some days when I'll only be able to get a short one up.
The posts will have to be short, due to connection speeds and erratic connections. Long posts will probably have more chance of corruption, short ones are best for now. Maybe as the Net gets a bit more stable, I can try longer posts.
For now, though, it's time to send this post. Keep in touch (well, since I don't have the mail server set up yet as of this posting, just keep connecting to where you are reading these posts), and try to survive. I know it's hard. But it is worth it.