CRAZY PREPARED

[Reginald Ret]

you know, the more i learn about my body the more i love it.
It's snazzy and spiffy at the same time!

[Jasper]

Seriously?

BAI, if something ultra-super-bad like that happens because of the LHC, I will eat my house.

The whole thing.

[Richter]

A prime example of CP mindset form work yesterday.  Someone was looking for string.

I offered them some of the 10 meters of paracord I carry at all times.  5 people and at last 2 military vets rejected it as "too thick".
What the shit?  they don't know how to pull the core out for smaller strings?
TWO of them were MILITARY, at least one a Marine with signif. survival training, and did not learn the awesome of this stuff?

Well, you can be trained, you can be educated, but that doesn't mean you'll be able to USE what you know.  That takes the will to take the steps, and the metnal flexibility to make what you know fit a situation.

Granted, I've met military folks who were some crafty, crazy motherfuckers, and some Scouts who will forever outdo me in woodsmanship or improvisation.  Then I meet some folks who despite all the chances to have learned it, do not know jack.

[Reginald Ret]

most people who like staying sane have this line of code:
If at work: disable brain

[Reginald Ret]

You've been eating the narativium laced sandwiches again haven't you?

[rygD]

A prime example of CP mindset form work yesterday.  Someone was looking for string.

I offered them some of the 10 meters of paracord I carry at all times.  5 people and at last 2 military vets rejected it as "too thick".
What the shit?  they don't know how to pull the core out for smaller strings?
TWO of them were MILITARY, at least one a Marine with signif. survival training, and did not learn the awesome of this stuff?

Well, you can be trained, you can be educated, but that doesn't mean you'll be able to USE what you know.  That takes the will to take the steps, and the metnal flexibility to make what you know fit a situation.

Granted, I've met military folks who were some crafty, crazy motherfuckers, and some Scouts who will forever outdo me in woodsmanship or improvisation.  Then I meet some folks who despite all the chances to have learned it, do not know jack.

This doesn't surprise me, as most of the army guys I know never use the 550 cord gut for anything.  If you don't use all of it why would you even bother to carry the whole thing around?  Out of curiosity, what does your EDC consist of?

[Richter]

I more call it "Shit I leave the house with"  
It's a laundry list of stuff.  I'll compile and post tomorrow.

[Richter]

Here's the list.  The whole kit masses 10-15 lbs. depending on the optional stuff, a weight which I don't really notice

On person: 
Money clip for cards and cash. 
Chapstick.
Small bic pen.
Cell phone
Keys: (Car, house, 2 padlock keys, Gerber "artifact" multitool for bottle opener and small razor, 2 ft. paracord lanyard for neck / belt, 2 ft. paracord braided with a small stainless shackle)

Bag: (Timbuk2 messenger bag)

2 carabiners (1 heavy steel drum lock, 1 light aluminium) on the strap
Emerson CQC-8 folding knife, modified (in pouch on strap)
Coleman LED flashlight (in pounch on strap)
1 large safety pin (on pouch)
800 ml. stainless steel water bottle (clips to one of said carabiners)

Sub - pockets:
4 gig MicroSD card, in USB adapter
Ipod touch
spare set contact lenses
Hobby knife
Hemostat, bent tip
Titanium fork and spoon.
Plastic Chopsticks
2 sharpies
2 pens
1 pencil
3 small screwdrivers
1 marlin spike
various dental picks
2 lighters
pencil touch (butane)
magnesium / flint firestarter
Sewing kit
small handle, screwdrivers and torx head bits
playing cards
Gaming dice
small cotnainer schiracha
small container salt + adobo
eye drops
latex gloves
eye drops
gauze pads
Generic aleve painkiller
ear plugs
hand sanitizer
condoms
2-3 penannular broaches
iodine water tablets
chemical hand warmer
waterproof capsule for sugar
Powdered sports drink

Main pocket
Sunglasses (perscription)
Leatherman tool
20 ft. paracord
Multitool (hex bits, scredrivers)
tiger balm and arnica gel
knee brace
2 padlocks (the infamous Masterlock, and the old fashioned "pirate" lock)
Carving kit (4 files and chisel) and spare bits of bone to work on
1 med. fixed blade knife (Scary Sharp)
diamond hone
Electrical tape
leather gloves
mechanix gloves
moleskine
1 large philips head screwdriver
Keys (braided lanyard, carabiner, small bottler opener / knife combo, backup car / house keys) (sort of an improv flail)
swiss army knife
tiny led flashlight
ethernet cable (4 ft.)

extra crap (Loose d12, tiny wood tokens, metal bits, clevis pins, cotter pins, copper roofing nails, loose chainmail rings, brass hexagons, titanium ring size 10, about $2 in quarters, 1 british pound, .10 euro, 1 Irish cent, extra bird blunt for fencing swords, kleenex)

Optional packages to drop in:
1st aid kit
Netbook + charger
nested titanium kettle / stainless steel cup, small bottles spices

[Cainad (dec.)]

NICE I'm usually the most prepared person among my peers, but I can't even hold a candle to that.

[LMNO]

I'm guessing you have a panic attack every time you have to go through airport security.

[Triple Zero]

that's an awesome list, but I wonder, how do you fit all that in a bag and sub-pockets? I mean, not qua space, but without it becoming a mess that you have to dig in and where stuff cannot be found when needed and worse, damages eachother?

[Richter]

that's an awesome list, but I wonder, how do you fit all that in a bag and sub-pockets? I mean, not qua space, but without it becoming a mess that you have to dig in and where stuff cannot be found when needed and worse, damages eachother?

It actually all fits in pretty well.  I pack carefully, and keep the most often used things in pockets, pouches, or on a lanyard.  This has never been a problem. 
I also have some skill "coordinating" and working with messes.  When I have to I can find things in it, in the dark, without difficulty.  (Painkillers, eye drops, antacids, sugar, gatorade, etc, are kept in unique containers so I can identify the contents be touch.)

I'm guessing you have a panic attack every time you have to go through airport security.

I fly naked and check all my bags.  This is allowed by my standing as a product of Project BITCHHAMMER, and backed up by terms of my parole.  It goes well; except when I forget to remove the sub dermal razor blades or the spike I keep up my urethra.

[Triple Zero]

I was assuming you didn't have problems with it, it's more that I would have them and would gladly accept advice on how to deal with them

[Richter]

Ahh, now I follow 

Having 10 internal pockets plus the main compartment help a LOT.  I try to keep the small tools and pens in the appropriate pockets, and clip them in where i can.  If something (like the Ipod), isn't abrasion friendly, it gets a case, a wrap in a bandana or cloth.  (I keep 1-2 fair sized cloths around too, preferably 1 meter square. Bandanas, slings, bandages, blindfolds, etc.)

LArger items, books, the carving tools in their pouch, computer, or such, I try to stack in like school books in a backpack.  Computer screens either go up agaisnt a book or other flat rigid larger than the computer, or face my body.  When packing, if needed, I try to build a "pyramid", wide objects in the back, getting more narrow towards the "front" (side away from my body) of the bag.  This "pyramid" stack cn slide either way, or stay central, to let the contents of the pcoekts further stabilize the load, or I'll add the other incidental bits in to fill in the corners / dead space, making less room for things to move.

[Triple Zero]

cool I will give that a go next time I pack my bag