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

Picked up a couple extra mantles for my Aladdin lamp yesterday evening. Always nice to be able to cross something off of The List. Actually, I need to pick up one more mantle. I want a total of five. The mantle I have now has been in occasional use for the last, oh, ten years I guess…but I dont use the lamp very often at all. At most, a few hours a year. However, if I need to depend on it for a longer period of time, I want to have spare mantles. Still need to get a spare chimney, wick and burner as well as a wick trimming tool. Once thats done, I’ll be set for that particular lamp and will then pick up a spare.
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Haiti. Third-world illiterate countries will always be like this. Until someone decides to take the risk and bring business and industry to these little nations they will continue to be little hotbeds of revolution. Not. My. Problem.
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Still havent picked up any 26.5mm flare or smoke. Im hoping to run into some at a gun show but I suspect I better buy some soon before the surplus military stocks dry up and become difficult to find. I just hate paying the additional $20 for HazMat fees. Grrrr.
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Another item I need to pick up this year – USMC combat tents on eBay. $180~ and worth every penny. Buddy of mine has one (or two) and they are a good piece of gear. A bit heavy, but worth it.