Who is John Gall

I have been in stuck several times before, for weeks at a time, with no power and thus no washing machine. Few things are as yummy as going day by day after a hurricane or typhoon with the prospect of a shrinking stock of clean skivvies. So, one of the things that I including in my preps is some provision for doing laundry. Even in my BOB I…[Read more]

So, as I wrote once before, not too long ago I got a new TV and found some more storage space beneath it, with a false back to one of the shelves (viewtopic.php?f=205&t=5655).

So, this afternoon I decided to follow up on that little project and make a false back for behind the TV in my living room.…[Read more]

One of my big, big dilemmas is trying to find places to store everything. For example, I want to start reloading. So, where do set up a reloading press, etc? We have a small room off of the garage…but it is full of holiday decorations. There is no way that I can get into it, not to mention the creepiness of working with my back to a 5′ foot…[Read more]

I can understand that. Being stuck with AT&T sucks, and our bill is consistently stupidly high. I like the iPhone as a handheld computer, but as a phone…

I know what you mean, DuttyDad, I like the idea of the Kindle too. But for the price and limitations of it, I don’t think that it is worth it.

However….have you considered an iPhone or iTouch? I have an iPhone and like it a lot. Ok, as a phone it is average to sucky, but for everything else it is not bad. And, Amazon has created a free…[Read more]

Howdy, I am from near Baton Rouge, but I grew up in the Fort Polk area.

A great resource on military medical material is the Virtual Naval Hospital. As you can guess, it is a bit Navy slanted, but it does include a lot of material from different branches. There funding comes and goes, so if you see something that you really like they recommend that you burn it on to a disk. Originally that was the intent of the…[Read more]

Good stuff, but two quick words of warning (sorry, I promise that I don’t always try and be dour):

You can have a systolic blood pressure of 60mmHg and still have a radial pulse. Yes, I too was taught the 60-70-90 carotid-femoral-radial rule, but research has shown that it is not true and my personal experience confirms it. The big thing is to…[Read more]