Still no firm closing date on selling off a big chunk of the business, but did get quite a few smaller things done over the past few days. Went through my truck’s toolbox and sorted, streamlined, and organized things; some just normal tools, but a lot of get-home and emergency stuff. Replaced the old mountain house foods, batteries stored with the get-home stuff, along with some other things that have limited shelf life. OTC pain pills, vitamins/supplements, etc. I still drive a bunch, but my commute is much shorter than it was up until three or four years ago, plus it doesn’t involve going through any towns between work and home. So I eliminated a few things that I used to carry because of the added distance and additional populated areas. Not counting the gun and ammo cable-locked in the vehicle itself, got the GHB pack down to just 21 pounds, and even that is probably substantially more than would be needed for 2-3 days of getting home.
Also upgraded the first aid kit in the storm cellar. In going through it a week or two ago to make sure it hadn’t been pilfered and depleted, I decided to increase its scope and scale both somewhat.
Got the permanent cap installed on one of the storm cellar wall penetrations; a small three-quarter inch sleeve through the wall specifically for allowing the remote probe of a survey meter to pass through the wall, in case someone goes full retard and radiation monitoring becomes a real-life concern. The penetration has been there and usable the entire time but had just been living with a temporary/interim cap on it. Used a galvanized flange and threaded cap for the permanent seal, and also attached a wrench to one of the anchors with a wire, to eliminate the risk of not having the right wrench on hand when needed:
Also a handful of other, smaller things; but some of those are as much regular maintenance as they are prep-related. Adding a 60-foot HDMI cable, switch, and splitter to get the security camera feed to the main screen in the storm cellar, and a few other minor things like that.