Category: miscellaneous
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These damn kids today
I’ve spent the last few evening building out a mockup of a new website for my daughter’s volleyball club. It’s been a few years since I’ve had to build out a whole site and it’s really interesting to see what’s changed. The last one I built from scratch was for my church, and that was…
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Garden update
I’ll update the post later with some pictures, but I thought I would do a quick update on the garden. What can I say other than its been a great year. Almost everything has worked and I’ve had to water very little with all the rain. Even the squash bugs came on so late this…
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Restraint
A story that caught my interest over the weekend was this one from Reuters (arguably one of the most mainstream of MSM sources): Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans. I really encourage you to click through to the article (even if you get distracted and don’t come back to finish…
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Is insurance worthless?
One question I get from a lot of folks goes something along the lines of “why do you spend so ____ (time, money, energy, thought) on _____ (gun training, medical training, martial arts, etc) when you are very unlikely to ever need to ____ (shoot someone in self defense, treat a serious injury, defend yourself…
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Breaking through
Tomorrow I finally get a chance to deliver a SARC program to a full faculty and staff at a local high school. I first got involved in the School Attacker Response Course back in December of 2012, right after the shootings at Sandy Hook. As I blogged about before, a strange and wonderful set of circumstances…
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Med Class AAR
Really glad I spend the $ and time to go through the tactical med class today that was expertly delivered by Greg Ellifritz of Active Response Training. My only regret is that I didn’t do it sooner. While I’m by no means a qualified medical professional, I know a lot more and at least have…
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Holes
It will be light posting today since I am in an all day trauma medicine class. No, I don’t expect to be a world class Surgeon or even as good as a EMT with one day of training. But knowledge is power and I do expect to have a little more knoweldge at the end…
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The fair is a veritable smorgasbord
We’ve lived in Grant County for 7 years now. But I still prefer going to the Boone County fair. It’s one part nostalgia (the fair of my youth), one part the grounds (it’s a pretty nice layout) and one part food (country ham sandwiches and home made pie).
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If an election is held and no one votes, is there a government?
Watching Detroit eat itself is entertaining, for the schadenfreude as well as the phoenix like stories of rebirth (plus I keep waiting see a mention of Omni Consumer Corp buying up the whole place). One story that caught my eye was a recent report about the relatively light turnout in local elections. Elections which, by…