Plecostomus
Commodore
Direct from my blog:
Ok as a Mormon I am taught to prepare for The End Of Civilization As We Know it: They teach us to store dry-goods (and how to prepare them), they teach us how to store water and keep it safe, how to select preserves and monitor them for health and safety... along with how to repair our houses and gather firewood and boil/condense water using improvised equipment.
I/we have 500 pounds of dried goods, 750 jars of pickled and preserved meats and vegies, 500 gallons of water in carboys down stairs, a Diesel Generator that can burn waste oil and some other undisclosed survival gear.
Just put a down payment on a coupla furnace and a blacksmith's anvil/tool-kit. Also I'm boning up on my old-skool drafting and metrology skills so I can work without modern tools.
My plan is if things Go Bad I can sit here and harvest waste oil from various sources for my generator, and barter my repair skills to survive.
Ideally I'd hook up with the local warlord and get a plum position in his kingdom as chief designer of his armored war-chariots but that's getting ahead of myself, civilization has to collapse first.