Archive for the ‘General Info’ Category

Staying the Course in Crisis

Monday, February 9th, 2009

Good Day to all!Recently, I have been having a conversation with another person regarding giving up the city and moving to the country.  The thought was that being in the country would allow the person to grow crops and raise livestock.  Moreover, land can be had cheap (in some states) ...

Guns Rights Under Fire – Part II

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

I am really concerned about the House Rule on the legislation for Gun Licensing.  In my urban survival mode, maintaing a firearm is critical for protection of MY property and for hunting over a long term.  For those who are interested, the link to the legislation is:http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c111:1:./temp/~c111E4GLyS:e0:A qualifying firearm means ...

The Emergency Courses Begin

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

OK, after multiple conversations with tech support, the glitch was found and those who have signed up for the emergency preparation course will start getting them.  If you are one of these folks, please drop me a line if you did or did not receive the email.For those just signing ...

Hard Drive Crashed

Thursday, January 1st, 2009

So, What do yo do when your hard drive crashes?  Go out to some schlep and tempt fate that he can recover the data at $20 per Gig (not guarenteed)?  Lets see, I have a 300 GB drive - Yikes!Here is what I did.  I have a copy of Knoppix ...

Virus Alert

Wednesday, November 26th, 2008

OK Urban Survivalists.If you are using your computer as much as I do, listen up  We here at Urbansurvivalsecrets recently had a virus hit and wiped out my 'puter with adult content.  I recieved a virus warning from an IT friend this morning :Beware.... There is a particularly damaging ...

Going for the Kill

Monday, October 6th, 2008

You all must be thinking I am whacked with the title like that. What is an Urban Survivalist to do?? Lets see, Congress has lied to us again (thanks to Pelosi and Reid).  The 700 billion is actually over 800 billion due to pork and the stock market has tanked ...

$700 Billion in the hole

Monday, October 6th, 2008

Now that our illustrious congress has passed a $700 Billion dollar bailout, what does this do for us lowly folks? Well. lets start with the credit market.  The treasury has been pumping money in to the banks for loans for a while now and it still hasn't helped.  While listening to ...

Surviving the economic downturn

Thursday, September 25th, 2008

Have you ever wondered who has had their business go under as of late.  Look no further - I am a statistic.  Uban survival during an business FAILURE - yes EC. You see, I supplied construction products.  I got in late on the curve and flamed out to say the least.  ...

Huricane Ike Part ??

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Listening to NPR today and they mentioned that many folks who did not evacuate did so because they remembered the traffic nightmare of Rita. Some did not because they thought it was not going to be a big deal. SO, 2000 folks evacuated from Galveston Island later, here ...

Surviving Virus’ and more

Saturday, September 6th, 2008

If someone was to ask me to rate my personal life this week it would be a 3 star week. Lets say Virus City! Here I am, a guy, with a bladder infection after having the flu. Now, for the feminine side, you are probably aware of the ...