Drinking Water

Not necessarily out of thirst, but much more out of boredom, I've been drinking a lot of water today. I just finished my fifth or sixth liter of water today, and I've also had about a liter of Kagome of varying flavors.

When my mom asks "Are you drinking enough water?" I feel like I can pretty positively say "I think so."

I understand the average person would need to drink in excess of a liter of water per hour for an extended period of time to notice any deleterious effects, so don't worry about me getting water poisoning or anything like that. My laziness limits how much I can drink because I have to go almost twenty feet to go get another liter of water.

Also, you need to have limited intake of foods to be at serious risk for long-duration water poisoning, and I'm sure you all know that I have no problems with consuming plenty of food.
But if ou are concerned, you could send me money to go eat out more often. I wouldn't complain.

I appear to have run out of water...

Rice and Water... Disaster?

I went to make another batch of rice last night only to discover a couple of flies flying around in the bag. To me, that says there's probably something in there that I don't really want to know about, much less eat, so I grabbed it by the top, twisted it shut, and tossed it in the trash. Unfortunately, I was not smart enough to get a reserve bag of rice, which I fully intend to do soon. I understand the Japanese disaster recovery system blows, and it sometimes takes a long time to get basic services back. Having enough rice to eat for a week or two set aside seems like a good way to at least combat that somewhat. Rice in an airtight bag should last quite a while, I think.

I have 10 liters of water store in bottles that are completely full and under negative pressure to inhibit bacterial growth. It's not enough (about two and a half gallons), but it's something I only recently started building up with bottles as I use them. It's potable water to last me a few days if I don't wash my dishes and whatnot. I regularly use the same bowl for weeks, so that's not really an issue, though going without showering or clean clothes would kind of suck. I'm slowly adding to it, but I'm going to need to move some of it outside soon so it doesn't take up too much floorspace.

I've heard that you should expect to use five gallons of water per day per person, but that seems awfully high to me. In addition, it's simply unreasonable to expect to be able to store that much water. For reference, the big jugs on water coolers are usually five-gallon (19 liters) containers. Imagine having seven of those in your living room and you can see why I think that's a little unreasonable.