In the beginning ...

I am prepared for the post-apocalypse. I own (2) survival kits. One for the house and one for the car. I have read multiple survival guides, watched every movie in the genre, and read World War Z twice. I know how to kill zombies. I have learned to load and shoot a gun, build a fire with flint and steel (well in theory at least), and carry drinking water in non-lubricated rubbers.

It's time to take the next step. It's time to become more self-sufficient-ish. I've finally accepted the reality that at some point during the post-apocalypse I'm going to run out of canned peaches. I'm then going to have to step outside the safety of my arsenal and find some food. I don't know how to grow anything, so that leaves trade. And quite honestly the wasteland vagrants are going to take one look at my sweet ass and probably turn me into some kind of sex slave. I've played FallOut 3. I know how wasteland vagrants roll.

So, the fact is I'm not as prepared for the post-apocalypse as a need to be. And although my survival guides talk in length about sleeping in tarps and killing beavers, I need to know more. Self-sufficient-ish here I come!