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+Episode: 1977
+Title: HPR1977: What's In My Bag
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1977/hpr1977.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-18 12:44:44
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+Hello everyone, mirror shades here again. I want to apologize for the sort of rough quality
+I don't have much in the way of recording equipment and that last episode was recorded on a very old Sony tape recorder that actually bit the dust.
+So I did manage to scrounge up this microphone. I don't know how well it's going to do.
+So we're going to find out hopefully you can between the the janky microphone and my terrible hillbilly accent you can understand most of what I'm saying.
+So today I just wanted to talk a little bit about some of the gear that I use. I work for the local school system here in the IT department.
+And when it comes to like backpacks and bags and stuff, I have quite a few, well not quite a few. I've probably got three, maybe four.
+I'm just about as bad as my wife is with purses. I have, let's see, I have an old beat up target backpack that I bought probably six or seven years ago.
+I have a mini Alice pack. If you just jump on Amazon and type in mini Alice pack, you're sure to see what one looks like if you've never seen one before.
+It's an older style military backpack. Mine's black as opposed to you know the olive or the camouflage or something.
+I also have a engineers field bag which is again a type of military bag. I did replace the strap on that bag because the one it comes with is kind of not good.
+But it's a great bag. Let's see what else. I also have a 3v B locks 2 which is what I'm generally carrying right now.
+Some of the stuff that I carry with me on a daily basis. I have a multi tool. You just can't go wrong with a multi tool if you work in IT or if you're some kind of technician or engineer and you have to go out on side a lot to work on different things.
+I do have a tool bag. It's like a tool bag that has several screwdrivers and stuff. But the multi tool is by far my go to tool. I just about don't leave the house without it.
+Mine is a SAG. Mine's the EOD model. I know Leatherman's are very very popular but I really really really love my SAG. I wouldn't trade it for anything I don't think. It's a little heavy but it's very nice. It's never let me down.
+Some of the stuff that I carry in my backpack. I live in Kentucky and allergies are a thing here. A really big thing. Even if you don't have allergies, if you live here long enough you will.
+I usually keep some ibuprofen and some kind of sinus like decongestin or something with me.
+Ibuprofen 2 is good for inflammation. Like I said in my last episode I'm 38. I've got my right knee. It's kind of a bum knee. Sometimes my lower back gives me issues.
+I'm just having that on hands. A good idea. Excuse me. Let's see. I usually keep... I've got one of those. It's a little pocket riff. It's a little book. You can go on Amazon and look it up the pocket riff. It's like an $8 book.
+It's got all kinds of information. It's not something I pull out very often. But I like knowing that I have it because some of my co-workers think it's silly to carry it around because I've got a smartphone. You can just google whatever you need to know.
+But what if you can't? What if you're just happened to be in an area where at that particular moment of time you don't have any sort of internet access.
+It's kind of nice to know that you have access to some reference material that doesn't require an internet connection or a charged battery or anything like that.
+I also have... It's one of those Stanley... It looks like an ink pen but it's actually screwdriver. There's a hundred different ones of these things out there. They don't cost very much. You can get them on Amazon or whatever.
+I try to keep a few pens with me. Never a pen around when you need one and a couple small notebooks.
+And also a Sharpie. There never seems to be a Sharpie around when you need one. Sometimes when a hard drive goes bad and needs to be replaced, what we do is...
+I have to bring that bad drive back and we'll label it as bad. We'll just write it with a Sharpie bad across the top of it.
+Because if you don't, you might set it down. Forget you set it down and somebody will pick it up thinking it's a good drive and it won't be.
+So just to eliminate confusion, we label them before we send them off to be destroyed. But there never seems to be a Sharpie around when you're in a classroom.
+When I need a Sharpie, I'll like to never find or dry race markers which believe me, they don't help you at all.
+I don't know if you ever try to use a dry race marker right on top of a hard drive but it's definitely not what you need.
+Let's see. I also usually keep... Well, I'm actually a smoker. I do have cigarettes and a zippo lighter.
+I have quite a few old flash drives and SD cards that I keep in one of the smaller pockets on my backpack.
+They're various sizes and brands. Most of them are old. I don't think I've got one. It's over eight gigs. It's pretty bad but it's the truth.
+And because I work in a school system, I tend to keep hand sanitizer with me because you have to...
+a lot of times use the keyboards that are there and you just don't know...
+there's hundreds of kids a day who are handling the keyboards and the mice and you don't know what germs are on there.
+So keeping hand sanitizer with you is just a good idea because...
+Yeah, you just don't want to catch anything. I usually keep some extra DELA batteries with me.
+And I have a wireless mouse I keep. I've got my laptop which right now I'm carrying...
+it's a Dell E6500, Dell Latitude E6500 which isn't a bad laptop. It's an older laptop. It's seven or eight years old now.
+I bought this when used. When I first started working here, I was issued a laptop.
+But I wound up returning it because a lot of stuff. It's state-owned equipment.
+So the state mandates a lot of stuff. Like you can only run Windows 7 on it.
+You have to have my cappy antivirus on it. And I just prefer to have a Linux machine with me to actually get things done with.
+So I bought this when pretty cheap. I got it used. It wasn't too bad. It's a little scuffed up but it's okay.
+Let's see. I have my smartphone that I carry with me. It's a Nexus 6.
+I have an old first gen iPad that I also sometimes carry with me because I usually keep a few e-books on there.
+Just in case. Sometimes I'm out. Usually it's for lunch. When I stop for lunch, I like to try to get into a couple of pages of reading or something or whatever book I'm happy to be reading at the time.
+And let's see. I'm trying to think. Oh, this sounds silly. But I also carry with me an extra just thing of deodorant because working in a school system.
+You never know. Especially with Kentucky weather because it might be 20 today and 70 tomorrow.
+And the rooms. The HVAC. I don't know if there's just the way it's run, but you might walk into one room and it'll be it'll feel like a freezer in the next room. We'll feel like another.
+And there's a lot of walking involved. Up and down stairs.
+You're going to buy lunchtime. You're going to be pretty sweaty. I usually keep an extra thing of deodorant just so I don't stink all the time.
+And I also usually carry with me a thermos. Actually, it's kind of funny. That purchase started out as I wanted a really nice travel mug.
+And most of the nicer ones. I had some cheaper ones, but I was just tired of the cheap ones. And so I wanted something that was a little bit nicer.
+And the only one I could find that was like fairly high capacity. There was like a 24 ounce travel mug. And they wanted it was like 25 bucks or something.
+No, that's not going to happen. And I noticed that you can buy thermos, a 40 ounce thermos for almost the same price.
+So I wanted to buy a 40 ounce thermos. And I'm definitely a coffee drinker. I drink a lot of coffee. Probably shouldn't, but I do.
+And I usually, yeah, that's with me almost every day too. It's kind of like the salt. I usually don't leave the house without it.
+Also, that thermos, I got to say, it really works. I've owned some thermos in the past. And they've not been very impressive.
+It's a thermos branded thermos. And I can make a pot of coffee in the morning about 7.30 and come home and 11.30 at night. I can pour coffee out of that thing and it's steaming hot still.
+I don't know what magic juju they're doing to the thermos nowadays, but they really, really work.
+Also, I tend to, especially in the winter, it goes without saying, you know, you want to dress in layers, but I usually wear a hoodie.
+I don't know. I think they probably look down on that, but I do anyway because it's a, it's a warm layer that you can take off pretty easy.
+So if you're in one of those rooms, it's like an oven, you know, you don't have to swelter to death.
+And I actually, one last thing, I don't always take it with me, but I do have a, one of those spare batteries. It's one of those, you know, you plug it in.
+It's got like two USB ports on there and you can charge your phone or whatever. It just depends on, it's the kind of thing I really wish I could take with me all the time.
+It's a little bulky. Most of the time, my phone gets me through the day out without any issues.
+It usually has plenty of battery left when I get home, but I don't know, just one of those things.
+What if I go somewhere immediately after work, which almost never happens, but you never know.
+It's nice to be able to just, to just charge your phone without having to worry about, you know, finding an outlet or something.
+And that's, that's about it. That's usually what I carry with me.
+Some days I might throw magazine to in there or something. It just depends.
+But that's mostly what I carry with me on a daily basis.
+I think that's it for me now. Thanks for listening. Hopefully I didn't bore you. And until next time.
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