The I.T. Life

So, I’ve been trying my very hardest to not buy toys, and not drool over toys. I end up with huge lists of things I want, and just putting them away. I have added a few more items for my EDC/really cool crap that I want, and have some uses for. I recently had a few bucks for my bday, so I bought a few random things, most significant is a CRKT M21-14SF

In addition to this beautiful knife, I’m drooling over a NiteCore D20 R2.

A great flashlight, about 6″ in length, running off 2aa batteries. Capable of 200 lumen for 1.5 hours before power decreases. This will not be my EDC light, or my pocket carry light, 6″ is too big for that, this will be my backpack light, my camping light, my SAR primary light. I was hoping to buy this light for my bday however I ended up needing to spend some of the cash for bills, so, I am out of luck on that one. I’m hoping to have it in my hands for some of my training in the fall with SAR, or even sooner for my camping in PEI with friends. I’m going to have to look at the budget, see what is happening with the house, and figure it all out.

Now, also on my list, is the uber cool Leatherman Skeletool, a great stripped down Leatherman, with a new design.

Its light, simple, and effective. I don’t know how I will carry this, or what I will use it for though. I have a Leatherman Wave in my backpack for SAR, and that is also in the Jeep so, its easy to get to. I carry a pocket knife now, and have a bigger knife on the way. Perhaps I will giveup carrying my c33x and start carrying the Skeletool, or just rotate them. Perhaps I will carry both the CRKT and the Leatherman in my laptop bag, in addition to my NightCore D20 and my various other things.
I find I am carrying too much junk, last weekend for camping I loaded 3 bags in the jeep all for myself. My SAR/survival backpack, that basically lives in the Jeep, or in the house and is carried to the jeep whenever I am going anywhere, my big camera bag, and my over the shoulder laptop bag. My SAR bag will be staying in the jeep, so that leaves me 2 bags. Perhaps I choose limited camera equip for weekend travel and use my laptop bag. Perhaps I can put my laptop in my camera bag. Perhaps I can travel without the laptop, without all the camera gear, and without the sar gear, then find a small, ie smaller than shoulder bag for my edc/weekend gear, that will hold knives, lights, etc, and my camera…. Perhaps… I’m hopeless…

My EDC, a Pen, a light, a knife, wallet, and phone

So I was browsing around JeepForum.com and got into a thread about “what you carry in your pocket”. Somewhere in there was a link to a site EDCForums. This is a forum where people discuss there EDC (every day carry items). This ranges from people like myself, who want to carry a good quality pen, knife, flashlight with them in there pocket/bag. Or People who are medics/cops/crazy into this, that carry multiple pens, knifes, lights, a gun or 2, first aid kits, radiation suits, whatever. I’m slowly expanding what I EDC now because of them, I’m not going full crazy, but I do like a lot of the ideas. Here is my basic EDC, I won’t ever pocket carry more than this, but will eventually have a backup of all the essentials in my backpack.