Entertainment During the BUG IN

[Shaper]

Ah yes, notice the handle of the treadmill in front of the second bookshelves?
NOT electric - you actually have to make it move, not just try not to trip. (There's a little battery run display, but it works fine without it.)

I need to rig up a rowing machine to charge my kindle and AA batteries. The I'd be set, and have a reason to exercise.

Damn you, doc...now I have to add yet another project to my ever growing mad scientist list.

Airdyne bike small appliance charger.
Doggy treadmill AA/AAA device battery charger.
Kids playground swing pendulum dynamo.

Fun forth whole family! The possibilities are endless!

Fake Edit: this whole discussion keeps reminding me of the scene with the old guy in Soylent Green peddling the exercise bike for thier power.

[Towanda]

Books
Board games
Cards
Other stuff already mentioned

The people I plan on bugging in with are a fantastic bunch and we often have spent entire non-ZPAW evenings in conversation with no TV or other electronic distractions. I see no reason for that to change once the zombies have risen, except for occasional bouts of defending the BIL.

Something else people did in the before-TV-or-radio-time was read aloud. They'd read a few pages, then stop to discuss what they had read, then read a few more pages, and discuss some more, etc. Sounds like a pretty good way to spend an evening.

[H. neanderthalensis]

Books and sex.

[KnightoftheRoc]

Books and sex.

so, a solo bug in, then?

[JesterODX]

What I'd like to do is get one of the solar power generators. Great to have for lots of reasons. Then I could play Doom while surviving the collapse of society.

Not Fallout?

Never did Fallout, but it does seem appropiate. Especially since I live too close to a Nuclear plant...

[Ableto]

Well i will have my D&D books, and the dice that goes with them.

Lots of decks of cards, regular and magic the gathering.

Board games.

Ipad and iphone games with solar powered charger.

My Pass the Pigs game. Fun game, rolling little piggy dice.

And a few other things to keep me occupied, besides books, helping neighbors, etc.

[skelco]

books, musical instruments (and song books), records (and a battery-powered record player), basset hounds (comedy on four short legs), endless art and craft supplies, sniping zombies from my roof, etc...

[H. neanderthalensis]

Books and sex.

so, a solo bug in, then?

God, I hope not.

[azstinger]

Chess, D&D, WH40 and Classic, Inquisitor, Legos, Books, Books, Porn/sex, board games, exercise (not related to porn or sex), maps (practical and not, but I can spend days on end studying maps), books, cleaning, drilling (evac, med, combat, etc), watching clouds and hopefully enjoying not having a blackberry go off every 10 seconds, an email to respond to and the quiet god I love piece and quiet. Oh and study, I love learning so I have old textbooks and textbooks on things I never took classes on but enjoy learning. You can usually get an out of current version for quiet cheap.

Edit: for 40k what we did in high school when we were poor was just buy the correct size base for the model and just put tape on them saying what they were, easy to move them around and as long as you have the codexs you have infinite possibility. So I still have just tons and tons of those bases (our record was a 20k a piece 1v1 on a 18"x18x18" board, took us days to finish! That and the damn beagle kept moving so one minute a squad would be in cover the next they were staring down a damn tank barrel.