Author Archive: Diana

CERT is awesome, but it’s not going to work during the Zombie Apocalypse. Because CERT is all about search and rescue, and search and rescue is just going to spread the contamination. My CERT class. To be fair, there are lots of skills that CERT teaches that will be invaluable come the day: How to [...]

Remember the guy whose seeing eye dog led him and a bunch of other people out of the World Trade Center on 9/11? That was a pretty damn awesome dog. Of course, she was a seeing eye dog, so that almost goes without saying. But I find myself wondering: how would a seeing eye dog [...]

In the Santa Cruz mountains. Can’t think of a better place for it. These folks run a five hour class on surviving in the wild, as the native Americans might have. My guess is that they’ll be on the crunchy-granola side of things, but that’s fine by me. If the edible plants class we took [...]

I was really tempted to call this post Stickshifts and Safety Belts, but that doesn’t actually work. I drive an automatic. Most people in the US do. It’s the easy option. But, come the Day of Apocalypse (DoA – very appropriate, no?) you may need to know how to drive something else. Just imagine: You’re [...]

Did you know shooting ranges can provide you with zombie targets? I did not, though it seems obvious in retrospect. Eight of us went shooting, and I wasn’t even the least experienced person! That was awesome. We decided to go for an indoor range since it was cold out and we were worried about rain. [...]

Six Months now has an open Facebook Group (feel free to join) We also have Events! This weekend is an outing to a shooting range, so those of us who don’t know how to shoot can learn and those who do can show off and those who are gun crazy can play with their new [...]

This looks incredibly cool: Edible and Medicinal Wild Plants.The rhetoric is a bit frou-frou-feel-good, but the actual lesson looks great. They take you around and show you which local plants are edible or medicinal, like the name says. The next taster/intro class is February 6th, somewhere in the East Bay. I’m thinking this is a [...]