Under construction...

Several folks have emailed and sent Facebook messages wondering if I had given up on blogging... the answer is no, I still enjoy blogging, but the reality is two-fold.  The gals and I have launched some ambitious new projects here at home and I'll likely have several big announcements by the end of summer and some terrific blog posts to share with ya'll.

First, due to some changes with accreditation requirements... my graduate degree will no longer qualify me to to continue teaching at the university in the fall of 2016. With that pending change, my gal and I decided accelerate a five-year plan of ours that will build my marketing and design consulting business, increase my offerings as a firearms instructor, and expand my work with security and safety consulting and training.

Taking from the God, Gals, Guns, Grub moniker... G4 Personal Safety is under construction and will formalize the training and instructing I've been doing for decades under a professional business name and brand. I am passionate about continuing to help every-day folks increase their personal safety, self-defense abilities, and self-reliance capabilities. We also hope to bring in some terrific instructors here at our facility to provide some quality instruction at a reasonable cost with small to medium class sizes... no thirty-five students and one instructor here.

After having a successful commercial and advertising photography and design business for years before going on to teach the same at the collegiate level, I'll be leveraging that expertise in my consulting work with various businesses and to build opportunities to help regular folks increase their personal safety, self-defense abilities, and self-reliance capabilities. So paperwork, business plans, banks, permits, government forms, web domains, web sites, Wordpress templates, HMTL, CSS, new materials, new equipment, insurance agents, attorney... it is endless.

Additionally, we've decided to build an additional barn on our property... insulated, heated, air-conditioned... and smaller than the big barn, but big enough to use as a classroom, training facility, etc. with internet, computer projection system, and all the important amenities such as coffee production equipment. I've also been working hard at some range accessory improvements including some movable walls using six-foot high vinyl privacy fence panels and stainless-steel hinges... more to come at a later date.

Now gals, my gals know that your average porta-john found at many outdoor ranges leaves something to be desired... so we now have a brand new half-bath constructed that will make you feel just like home and we'll warn the guys with a sign above the toilet that says, "If you can't hit the target at this distance, don't even bother shooting on our range!"

Second, regarding the blogging... I sometimes wonder why anyone would want my opinion or thoughts on anything with so many good folks out there offering theirs. Then again, I've been at this shooting stuff for over forty years now and we've got a private range where we can even practice firing from and around our personal vehicles if we want so... a post on that will be coming up later this summer or fall... so maybe I do have something to share that may be of interest to ya'll out there on the interwebs.

Well, we've been working day and night on many things... and I still work out and lift weights three days a week, and the dogs, and mowing, and shooting - yeah, if I have a choice between blogging and shooting, well you folks can chat amongst yourselves for a while if I'm shooting... or better yet... stop on by and we'll shoot together.

So don't worry... the gals and I are still here... we've just been busy 'cause we're... Under construction...