Tab Clearing

Taking care of some KTKC housekeeping today, which includes mailing out books to those who donated $40 or more in the closing days of the fundraising campaign. Thus far, I have addresses for all but these donors:

• Caitlin Monterey
• Peter Reczek
• Sarah Robertson
• Heath Baus
• "I'm Harper" 

I'm guessing Harper used his/her Internet handle when donating. If you guys will get me your addresses, you have signed books waiting to be mailed.

I just checked the LiveStrong totals, and several hundred more bucks have come in, mainly on behalf of Caleb Giddings, with a few bucks more for Jay G. and myself. That raises the KTKC total to well over $11,000.

Not bad for a bunch of EMS and gun bloggers in only 30 days, eh?

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I'm looking for half a dozen EMS bloggers with a talent for writing satire – I mean strong, biting, make-em-write-an-angry-letter-to-the-editor-before-they-realize-they've-been-had, Onion-style satire. It won't pay much, but it could get you published to a wide audience a couple times a year, and it oughta be fun. Hit me up if you're interested.

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Thursday I leave for Deepinahearta, TX for Epic Hog Hunt II, along with TOTWTYTR, Old NFO and a couple other blog buddies. Afterwards, we're heading on to the Texas EMS Conference, where I'll be giving several talks. If you're attending, look me up!

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Making my 2012 speaking schedule, and it looks like my engagements thus far are Milwaukee, Hartford, Baltimore, New Orleans (twice), Austin, and hopefully Myrtle Beach, SC; Pipestem, WV; Virginia Beach, VA and another in Connecticut. Lock up yer wimmen and chirren, folks, Ambulance Driver is coming to a town near you!

(And if I'm not, send me the link to your state's EMS conference Call for Presentations. Have laser pointer and laptop, will travel.)

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I'm about to start a new series here on the blog called "Lies We Tell Ourselves, and The Lying Liars Who Tell Them." Prepare to have your assumptions challenged, and for some of you, your poor widdle feewings hurt. I find it difficult to find the motivation to write much these days, but vitriol might be an untapped source of inspiration.

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Speaking of inspiration, I think I'm going to pen a few gun/shooting/hunting posts, and set my hand to writing a few submissions for some of the gun rags out there. From some of the pieces I've read, you'd wonder if the writers actually fired the weapons before they penned their thinly veiled PR shill unbiased review. If nothing else, I think it'd be nice if gun writers used "acceptable combat accuracy" a lot less, and "wretched, pulsating ball of suck and fail" a lot more.