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

I seriously need to spend a few hours in the bunker straightening up. As of late I simply shuttle acquisitions and purchases there and leave them on the floor figuring I’ll deal with them later. Bad, bad, bad. I need to segregate them, datestamp them, and put them into their respective storage containers and then label the containers. Tedious and quite unglamourous. It aint all sunshine n’ stun grenades when youre the Zero.

I also need to do a fuels evaluation and come up with some hard and fast numbers regarding fuel consumption and inventory. Basically I just buy more and more and leave it at that. I need to research and experiment and see what actual consumption is. (How long will my lantern/heater/etc run on one gallon of kero, one bottle of propane, one gallon of Coleman fuel, etc.) Time consuming. There are a few references that give some basic rules of thumb in terms of consumption…still, there is no room for error so its gotta get done at some point. Really, a spreadsheet is in order…”If I run the lantern for 12.9 hours, the heater for 18.2 hours and the stove for 5.3 hours that will use 10# of propane”, etc, etc.

The trick is actually doing something…its too easy to weigh the advantages and disadvantages of something, compare prices, check availability, etc. and next thing you know three weeks have gone by from when you said “I better buy a …” and you still dont have it. And meanwhile The Day creeps closer and youre still sifting through catalogs. Its *real* easy to get lulled into that ‘armchair survivalist’ thing.

That reminds me, I need to polish up The List and see what I can pick up in the near future. I keep a tiny 9-point-font list with me so if I find myself at a store I can check against it.

ANd I seriously need to do some website updates.