Sorry for the PM, but you are the moderator of the Round Table group that has several members that I follow. I am a fairly new prepper in Houston, but my wife and I have just placed a bid earlier today on 23 acres in Arkansas where we hope to move summer/fall of 2011. After reading 80-100 posts made by some of your members I have no doubt that I could learn a lot, and would love to sit in on the RT. I got into researching survival skills after the 2008 election fiasco. It became a hobby during summer last year, and now I'm completely obsessed. I tried to join the RT, but seems it's open to invitation only. I hope you'll consider letting me take a peek. I am a newbie with lots of questions, but I'm also a computer programmer with a few lo-tech skills of my own, including a new gearmotor, belt driven, solar cell washing machine that I've just finished designing and am about to build for under $100. Would love to pick your experienced minds and maybe add a few tricks of my own.