Woo-Woo 2019: Past Life “Education”

I was sitting in our recording studio Sunday morning with the cuppa coffee when it hit me:  I’m a damn fine studio builder and when it comes to mixing, yeah, I can probably hold me own. Thing is – and it’s weird to sit in a studio and contemplate this – I’m honestly not much of a … Read More

Wednesday Woo-Woo: The Oneironaut Notebook

In case you missed it, I am a Oneironaut.  Since the term may not be familiar to you, here’s the definition:  A “oneironaut (plural oneironauts) is person who explores dream worlds, usually associated with lucid dreaming.” It is both a blessing – and a curse. The blessing part is being able to “lives two lives” while … Read More

Coping: UrbanSurvival’s 2018 Book List (Part 1)

Today, I wanted to go through some of the books that I have read this year or which are still on my reading list.  People ask “What do you read? My thinking  has always been that if you are going to be an interesting writer, you need to read extensively across a broad number of … Read More

Prepping: 10 “Little Things” for a Holiday

OK, the turkey is done, in the fridge, and now you have a nice weekend to begin frittering-away time until you can put on the yoke of capitalist oppression again Monday… Rather than waste time – the one truly limited supply item in Life – might we offer a sampling of really useful prepping ideas … Read More

Prepping: Project Big Ears Part-2

For this to make a lot of sense, you will want to revisit the original September 30, 2018 article Project Big Ears here. The goal of the project, to refresh, is to build a high-performance Beverage Antenna using commonly available parts.  That first article was mostly the theory of what the project was about.  Today, … Read More

Prepping: How to Write Your Book

You ARE going to write one -some day – aren’t you? When you get to be a little older than you are now, the topic of  “Measuring Your Life.”  will matter more – and maybe writing a book is one of those measures.  Sharing of information and lessons of Life is key.  Maybe you’ll write … Read More

Prepping: How to Fix Anything School (1)

“George, prepping costs money.  You talk about getting debt-free and putting something aside for a rainy day, but dammit this all costs money.  Where’s THAT supposed to come from?” There are extremely simple answers to this obvious question. You know the way businesses are managed, right?  There are only three keys that you will EVER … Read More

Prepping: Navigating Transfrugalism

I was talking to my buddy Gaye who runs the StrategicLivingBlog site and we got t o comparing notes on how our lives have run,  versus how Millennials seem to be setting up their personal outcomes for “down the road.” Gaye and I have known each other since 1973, and over the past 45-years, we’ve … Read More

Prepping: For the “Bull Market’s End”

This being a holiday weekend, and because a lot of people will have a bit of extra “personal time” tomorrow, it’s a dandy time to take a steely-eyed look into the future. The bull market the stock market has been in will end one of these days. The specific cause doesn’t matter.  What does matter … Read More