In very arid areas (such as Colorado where I live) these are actually illegal. The cities plan on your watershed and capturing it can net a ticket. Rarely enforced, but good to be aware of.

What system are you on? There are programs to do it for most of the platforms out there.

Always been in my kit. Since some of my clients are younger I usually don't tell them what it is an let them think I've got something for every occasion. The mom's sure snicker though.

I used to be a guide. Thankfully neither were clients, we just happened across accidence scenes, one motorcyclist went off a curve and slid off a cliff that our trail went under and another was a shattered ankle from a rock climber adjacent to us. I always have to buy QuickClots seperate, but it'll replace the thick…

There have been surprisingly few clinicals regarding peroxide in particular. There however have been more regarding alcohol efficacy. What they say is in line with those studies or at least according to the medical training I received.

I never really liked the prepackaged sponges, but that's all personal preferences I guess.

Aggreed. But they taught us a irrigation syringe + scrub brush is better if you've got access to it. Even a hydration bladderwith clean water works pretty well to spray out the dirt if you sit on it (carefully). Oh the patient will hate youif you have to scrub brush it, but that's why I tote a tiny burn spray can…

Povidone-iodine: that's what they really should have mentioned for sterilization. The stuff works and even if you have to go into surgery later, it's what they would hae started with. People jus hate how it stains the skin. It's great for use when something more involved than needing soap and water. Oh well.

Cold-Brew Tea: Some companies create special blends designed for this. Lipton is one of them, but I know there are others. No need to even sun heat it so it works regardless of your conditions. For the Lipton cold brew, just steep it while moving the bag around occasionally for about 3-5 minutes and it's ready to…

It depends heavily on the power supply installed.

$1.86 per month is cheap insurance for PC health.

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned it yet: Get a laptop.

It depends heavily on the local humidity, but much of the US isn't suitable for indoor air drying - or at least not enough of the year to get people in that mindset.

Simply phenominal video quality.

I use mine quite regularly as an IT worker to supply a secure(ish) trusted connection for my laptop so I can initiate a secure VPN tunnel to remotely manage servers. For critical work, I've decided at this point I simply can't trust random open wifi connections before the VPN is initialized since there's that whole…

Learning to package your own big game will save you hundreds. For deer it isn't too hard and there are tons of videos on the web on proper dressing & packaging. I'm not wildly efficent but it takes me about 15 minutes to field dress, let it hang and cool after skinning depending on weather than then schedule 2 hours…

Regarding prices of meats: While not practical for everyone and while certainly against some people's ethos, in much of the US hunting or fishing remains a viable option.

Microsoft offers radically reduced prices for students and teachers. Anyone with a .edu address can purchase and download these version that are essentially identical to the business version.

Used it twice this morning already :)

We've dabbled in centralized profile management quite a bit, but several times a year we'll have some form of a network outtage at the university that I manage that inevitablly keeps us using local profiles. Sending a thousand people home because a stack of routers in a closet dropped out isn't acceptable for us. For…