Today (11/11) America remembers our veterans.
Wow! Our unique visits counter is about to surpass the 800,000 mark. (And a whopping 38.3 million page hits, but that is a far less important statistic.) Thanks for making SurvivalBlog such a great success! Please keep spreading the word.
We recently changed ISPs, so we will no longer be checking our old Earthlink.net e-mail. But our more recently (and commonly) used “rawles@usa.net” e-mail address will still be checked at least twice a day. Please update your e-mail address book, accordingly. Thanks!
Speaking of communications, we just switched to Vonage.com “voice over IP” long distance telephone service here at the Rawles Ranch. This means that I have unlimited calling to hard wire phones in the continental U.S. as well as to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, France, Ireland, Italy, Spain, and throughout the U.K. This will be a great relief to any of you were dreading the big phone bills associated with consulting calls. Henceforth, just let me know your phone number, and I will call you. (My consulting fee is still $100 USD per hour with payment in advance, but now, unless you live in Outer Mongolia you won’t have to pay for the long distance calls.)
Today we present yet another article for Round 7 of the SurvivalBlog non-fiction writing contest. The writer of the best non-fiction article will win a valuable four day “gray” transferable Front Sight course certificate. (Worth up to $1,600.) Second prize is a copy of my “Rawles Gets You Ready” preparedness course, generously donated by Jake Stafford of Arbogast Publishing. Since there have been so many great entries in this round of the contest, I will also be sending out a few complimentary copies of my novel “Patriots” as “honorable mention” awards. If you want a chance to win Round 7, start writing and e-mail us your article. Round 7 will end on November 30th. Remember that the articles that relate practical “how to” skills for survival will have an advantage in the judging.