IAL - Day 1

When all in about 12 hours the power went out three times I knew this was like it man! Well that and when the super hot noon weather chick on the news started crying and freaked out and fell through the green screen backdrop. I can't believe this is really happening! First I can't believe it's happening in my lifetime, and second I think it's actually going to be zombies!

From what I've heard so far from my prepper friends on my genny powered ham radio is that people down in the city are getting sick and biting people and stuff. This is crazy cool! Finally all the commercialized TV and movie generated zombie-freaks out there who play their zombie board games, have zombie family van stickers and who drink from those little zombie thumb shot glasses can all suck it and die! This is real!

This is the damn apocalypse and I'm going to totally rule!

So I'm going to journal my procedures.

First I slammed down the slots I installed on the door that enters my apartment which makes it damn near impervious to anything. Second I powered up one of my two generators so I could keep in touch with my bros in the prepper squads, and third I grabbed up my two main go bags.

My first go bag is my munitions double-duffel which has my two pistols and as much ammo as would fit for the 9mm and .45 ACP pistols plus a ton of .380 ammo for my hunting rifle.

The second bag is my awesome military style backpack. This thing has everything. I'm so ready for this. This bag has two full rolls of duct tape, 128 water purifications tabs, 2 compasses one of which is mostly glow-in-the-dark, a P38 can opener, 2056 wooden stick matches, a mirror, a big bag of cotton with tons of char cloth, 4 120 hour survival candles, 12 feet of steel snare wire, 40 feet of 20lb test fishing line, a variety of about 12 fish hooks, a Swiss made folding saw, 3 bottles of Ibuprofen, 2 bottles of Imodium, two waterproof notebooks one of which I'm writing this in, 4 thingies of super glue, 2 flint and steel kits, 3 tactical pens, a small bottle of Potassium Permanganate, two entire sewing sets, and 2 fully stocked first-aid kits. I also have a huge array of knives from fish-scaling to Swiss made multi-tools to the combat variations.

I even have a 78 inch long bow string for going all primal if I have to.

I also have two belts, 5 hat bands and 22 wrist bands made completely from 550 para-cord. I have an additional 200ft of 550 hanging off the bottom of my backpack. I have tons of it around the apartment in lots of different colors but the stuff slung under my backpack is military green, it's so sweet.

I even have an RS-2 square adaptor hub for opening any size commercial water valves from 6" to 60" that are outside gas stations and stores and stuff.

There are also 6 small signature prepper style Altoid tin kits hidden around my living area with lots of the same stuff just in much smaller scales.

I know there is more but it's starting to get dark and I think I hear some yelling or something going on outside. I'm going to kill the power to the genny. No reason to waste the gas on the first day of the rest of my life.

Actually before I go I'm going to end on that. This is the *first* damn day of the *rest* of my life! Everybody laughed at the little video game programmer who bought all this stuff and said the end of the world was coming.

Well guess what buckos?!? It's here and I'm going to PWN this New World!

- Irwin Augie Lightman