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  • Review of Fight, Flight, or Hide. The Guide to Surviving a Mass Shooting [Kindle edition]

    This weekend I had a chance to review the book Fight, Flight, or Hide. The Guide to Surviving a Mass Shooting [Kindle edition] by John Forsythe. The title intrigued me because, like many security-related scenarios, I feel woefully under-prepared. Understand that this is a Kindle book, not a hard copy book. As I’m getting more and…

  • How to Keep Children Safe, Part 4: From Strangers

    [Editor’s note: This is a 6-part series regarding my views and plenty of common sense on how to keep your children safe in a dangerous world. It is generally geared toward children 12 and under. I hope it helps you.] I’m not sure I can think of much in life that’s more disgusting than someone…

  • Egg Storage Experiment – Week 12 Results

    Here we are three months in and I’m still surprised these eggs are holding up. Anyway, here’s the most recent mineral oil egg (didn’t float or smell funny): And here it is being cooked up (didn’t smell after being cracked, though the membrane did seem to break down on this one): I ate the egg alone…

  • How to Keep Children Safe, Part 3: At School

    [Editor’s note: This is a 6-part series regarding my views and plenty of common sense on how to keep your children safe in a dangerous world. It is generally geared toward children 12 and under. I hope it helps you.] I always look forward to sending my kids off to school (is that wrong?) because…

  • How to Keep Children Safe, Part 2: At Home

    [Editor’s note: This is a 6-part series regarding my views and plenty of common sense on how to keep your children safe in a dangerous world. It is generally geared toward children 12 and under. I hope it helps you.] There’s so much that can be covered here, from fire safety to safety topics by…

  • Review of Scottevest – Travel Vest for Men (and Women)

    I didn’t have time to do my own product review this week but I did find this nice video review of the Scottevest by TheUrbanPrepper. We actually had a post a few months back about a similar idea titled An OPSEC Get Home Bag by MorrisB that talks about the same idea. Here’s a link…

  • How to Keep Children Safe, Part 1: Public Places

    [Editor’s note: This is a 6-part series regarding my views and plenty of common sense on how to keep your children safe in a dangerous world. It is generally geared toward children 12 and under. I hope it helps you.] This last Saturday we took our kids (along with nieces and nephews who ranged from…

  • Happy Easter to You!

    I thought I would quickly say “happy Easter” and hope you have a safe and fun day today. Though my kids no longer believe in the Easter Bunny, they’ll have plenty of chocolate-filled eggs to hunt and even got to color a few hard-boiled eggs too…  

  • Egg Storage Experiment – Week 11 Results

    Things are looking up again this week, at least with respect to eggs that is. Here we are in week 11 and the egg I used today looked real good. As usual, the egg didn’t float: After cracking the egg I tried smelling it and didn’t notice anything funny and immediately snapped this pic: As…