Wow, that sounds like quite the story. You can do... a hell of a lot of cool things from that position. I'm having my first go at sustenance farming in my city yard and it's definitely not what I expected. I am not competent to make any suggestions about how you should respond to the coming collapse, but I would definitely recommend you start keeping a diary if you don't already. Not keeping a diary is my second-biggest regret in life, the first being that I never learned how to make music.