Category: miscellaneous
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Common core: why all the fuss?
Yesterday I was sitting at the breakfast table, having some coffee with my wife before we got ready for church. My son had left his homework out from the day before (my daughter has migrated to doing her homework in her room, but my son still does his at the kitchen table) and I just…
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Fail
So I was trying to get a post on here every day for 40 days. I made it 8. Posting every day and having it be even semi worthwhile is hard. I have a long list of stuff I want to post on, but finding the time to sit down and work it from a…
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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…