Now that you mention this, I realize that I *do* carry entertainment gear in my "kit"! My "around town" bag - although I've never considered this as survival gear. It's the junk I carry around if I'm going to one of the kid's events and may be stufck there for a while waiting for it to start (or end!) Or waiting out a friend's surgery in the hospital waiting room.

I carry a deck of cards, a mini cribbage board, a few paperbacks, an iPod and large studio headphones, a few 5-6 foot lengths of 7-9mm rope for knot typing practice, an old Palm IIIx PDA with some games on it, spare batteries for that (of course!), some photocopied Soduku puzzles out of the newspaper, a small parafoil kite, LED flashlight, Leatherman P4 Squirt, a USB Flashdrive (What for? I don't take my computer!) Usually you'll find a Snickers Marathon Bar shoved in there too. Man, I carry alot of entertainment crap! And to think ... this ALL fits into an Altoids tin (yeah, right!) Actually, it's a 9"diax12" duffle. Never thought of it as "survival gear", but that's exactly what it is! (I don't take this when I'm hiking however.)