Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Well cool…it looks like I may have someone to sponsor me for a trip to the local Mormon cannery this weekend. I like to imagine it will be staffed by wholesome, hot Mormon chicks but in reality its probably geriatric members of the ladies auxilliary or somesuch. Unimportant. Whats important is that its an opportunity to hedge my bets against an uncertain future and provide an extra layer of security for me and the girlfriend. Oh..and networking. Mustnt forget the networking.

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Still working on loading 9mm ammo. Know what the interesting thing about having the big Dillon 1050 is? You wind up loading ammo for your like-minded friends too! And Im perfectly cool with that, otherwise i wouuldnt have offered. So I just handed off 1000 rds. to a friend and will do another 1000 rds. for me, then another 1000 rds for them, then another 1000 rds. for me, etc, etc. Not because I feel there’ll be an event that requires me to use 5000 rounds of 9mm, but because theres always the possibility that whatever ammo I have now may be all the ammo I have for the rest of my life…therefore ‘too much’ is never really possible. (unless the wheels flew off of civilization in a major and violent way I could not foresee needing more than a couple magazines worth of ammo in a given event. However, I could see needing a bit to hand out to my friends who may have been caught short. As I said, never enough…actually, I stated it better here.)

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Sadly, I received an RSVP from ,Rawles with his regrets that he would be unable to attend the wedding. Thats too bad because I was looking forward to chatting with him.

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The girlfriend consumes a fairly large quantity of tuna fish. Usually the small 3 oz. cans are what we purchase since they are just about the right size portion for her. As of late, however, we’ve been liking the ‘MRE pouch’ style packaging that StarKist has been using (her preferred brand). According to the company FAQ the cans are rated for four years and the pouches for three. Both of those, IMHO, are conservative. The canned stuff is, most definitely, cheaper but requires draining and is a soggy mess. The stuff in the pouch does not require draining and seems firmer and more appealing. Both forms of packagin have their pros and cons…the pouches are lighter but the cans are more compact. The solid cans are, in my opinion, more durable than the pulltop cans … I’ve had products where the cans have failed at the pulltop seams from some object being pushed hard against it. No such problem with the solid cans but, naturally, you’ll need a can opener. The main attraction for the pouch stuff seems to be the quality of the product within. What I’ll probably do is stockpile both.