everyday carry

Inspired by Stormdrane, I put together a everyday carry bag.  It is based off his with some minor modifications.  You would not think I use the small crowbar, but I do, often enough I am glad I put in it.

 I do not have paracord.  That is something I need to add.  I also do not have matches.  I tried the firestarter striker, but I just cannot seem to master using it.  So I either going to get some strike anywhere matches or a butane lighter that I replace every now and then.  I did order a vintage match holder, we'll see if it is the right size to put in.

 Hemostat, small scissors, tide pen, WD40 pen, small pen knife with tweezers in it.  Magnifying glass, small led flashlight, small sewing kit, small (eyeglass repair size), Gerber artifact, sharpie, writing pad, some bandaids, few safety pens.

Between this, my gerber multitool and key ring (small grooming thing, whistle, p38), I generally can fix anything which does not require hammering.   I am looking for a new screwdriver set the top came off this one, it still works but I need to replace it.

Prepping

like many people I watch American Preppers sometimes.  Maybe they are extreme but there is nothing wrong with being ready for problems.  So step by step I am doing some, hopefully, common sense things to make safer and prepare for emergencies.  I have plans, and I am not doing it all at once.  First step is preparing a first aid kit.  I am making two, one for in the car, one in the bug out bag when I start that halfway through January.

So first aid kit

tape, gauze (pads, and rolls), bandaids, butterfly closures, tegaderm, neosporin, nitrile gloves, ace bandage, athletic tape, eyewash fluid, burn gel, nitrile gloves, cold pack, sting relief pen. 

I'm pressed for space.  There are a few things more that I would like and may ditch the cold pack and burn gel.  There are burn pads that can do the same job.  I have an israeli bandage on order.

good old boys

Every Halloween I try a lesson on science and superstition.  This week's was Orson Welles radio version of "War of the Worlds" and the hysteria it made.  Listen to it, there are pauses, places you can here "do you here that?"  Students moved forward and gestured that they could not hear.  Supposedly, a bunch of good ole boys shot up a neighbor's water tower thinking it was a Mars Walker.  I asked the students if they knew anybody who would do that.  Not only were there hands, there was pointing to specific students.

characters

Our school does an event at this time of year.  The students dress up as dead characters from history and have a monologue about their character.  Today they dressed up to bring PR to the event in the evening.  (I have prior plans that must take priority.)  The students were very excited about who they were and were very happy if I could figure out who they were portraying.  A group of girls were the characters from _the_Crucible_

playing cards

I have had the "racist card" played on me so much I have a complete deck. 

I have also had the "lazy redneck so I don't need an education card."
Along with the "angry black girl" card.  I have seen these acts before people, they do not impress me, scare me or make me change my ways.

I swear one of the dealers of "angry black girl" is going to stroke out before she's 25 from so much rage.

head banging

Somehow 13 students in the slower class think that they can wear me down.  "Why we gotta learn this, I'll never need this."

They are trying to pull me into an argument.  Their problem is I know this game.  A calm, "you are in this class and this is the curriculum."  I am not going to argue, you need this for life or need to know or how do you know you don't need it or anything  else.

What you guys think that "oh yea, you do not need this, chill out for the rest of the year."

Myths in Professional Development

"Einstein was dyslexic"

No, look who knows more about the Father of Relativity, you or me, the Physics major.

There is no evidence that Einstein was dyslexic.  Maybe what we call Asperger's Syndrome now.

In a highly structured school system such as was Germany 100 years ago, he had trouble.  As a Jew in a Catholic school he had lots of trouble. 



 What Einstein was a genius, even as a child. I doubt I could teach him, I doubt anybody in my school system could teach him.  The best for him was a library and time.

I hate to break it to English Majors, but Einstein was not that much.  Surely he has more Brains than I will ever had, but consider Feynman, or Newton or Curie.  He wrote three papers that he made his career on and refused to follow quantum mechanics in spite of the evidence.