Time to start hoarding

Reasons why the paranoid survivalist that lives in my brain thinks we should start digging a shelter in the crawlspace, and learn to drive a dune buggy:

• melting Siberian permafrost
• shrinking Greenland ice cap
• shifting magnetic poles
• faltering Gulf Stream
  
• SUPERVOLCANO! SUPERVOLCANO! SUPERVOLCANO!
• Elephant Rage

I've been watching too much Discovery channel.

In what-I'm-reading news :

• finished: The Anubis Gates. Once again, Tim Powers rocks
• started: Anansi Boys, by Neil Gaiman
• ordered: House of Chains and Midnight Tides, by Steven Erikson.