Organized some of my previous purchases for future inclusion into various packs. Bought water and rotated some stock of the same. Bought bleach, rotated stock as well. Put one of my LED flashlights through it's paces, packed extra batteries for it in my "Ready Bag". And I generally buy some food stocks and keep them rotated every other week or so. I need to pick up some more MREs to stock up. I'm also in the early stages of planning a new storage system to help with rotation. Added/removed/rotated items in my "Ready Bag" for which I recently purchased a new bag... <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Oh, and Ironraven, try mobile firefox (or any of the other mobile apps) on the FASTEST USB 2 flashdrives you can find - even ones from a year or two ago don't remotely compare to today's fastest drives. There's a large difference. There are some other tweaks you can do to make it load faster if you want to get under the hood as well.

Week ending 11/4:
I usually do a lot of preps on the weekend and this being the change of months I have a few regular things scheduled.
Instead I got to do a bug out test. I got the call from my mother around 3:00 that my grandmother was only given a few hours to live. So I ran home and we packed up and hit the road by 5 so we hit all the rush hour traffic. I added a CB radio to my truck and have a handheld as well so I was able ask a couple truck drivers if they would let me in out of the merge lane and check status of traffic ahead. We made the 250mile trip in just over 4 hours and most of the time before we left I spent finding someone to perform the server maintenance I had scheduled that weekend for me. So maybe 30 minutes to pack for unknown number of days. We stayed until Tuesday and returned home.
I did manage to charge all my rechargeable batteries for my normal monthly cycle and am running my laptop backup today.

Bought a 2+ liter Platypus bottle for my PSK CamelBak. It is rolled up on the bottom.

Anyone seen the new in-line water filters that go in the water line of a CamelBak? They are $50 at REI. It is the Sawyer Inline Water Filter. Sawer Filter

I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill ya.

I made an increase in my potable water and dried beans supplies. I have also purchased another backpack, mess kit, and winter field jacket. I will also re-inventory my equipment and identify critical shortcomings

The best luck is what you make yourself

Week ending 11/11:
Not a lot this week, drove back from WV after my grandmothers funeral. I do consider that trip a pretty successful bug out test as I had to fight 5:00 Friday traffic to get out of town, packed up with no notice and made it there on what gas was in the truck and pretty much lived on what we could remember to pack or what was sitting ready for 4 days and 4 nights.
I patched the little hole in my truck cap and stared planning for our first camp out next year.

im sorry man that your grandmom passed. my prayers are with you.

Condolences on the passing of your grandmother.

I bought 2 more Aquatainers. Water is my weakest link. You can never have too much.

Every time I go to my local country store for anything, I pick up a box of #4 or 00 buckshot in 12Ga.

hasn't been a lot lately - life has been in the mode of "using survival stuff", but my wife is now working, and I'm NOT working umpteen hrs of unpaid OT/week, so I bought a foodsaver, and a bunch of meat for the freezer, and packed the meat. Laid in another 5 lbs of beans (even though my daughter hates them). Kitchen freezer is basically full - if I lay in any more food, I'll have to start the 2nd freezer

No hunting this year - Mom and Dad's health is such that I should not be that far away. As I can transfer one of my tickets, I'll hand it to a hunting buddy, and ask him if he can take one for me