Contents:
First-aid kit contents, 1x large red bag
Left pocket, survival:
Compass, Small Magnetic
String
Magnesium rod (under compartment) - Use with knife if lighters run out
Misc fasteners and bags (in bag)
Water purification kit. Good for about 3 person-years.
Work gloves
Right pocket, convenience:
Baby Powder - Prevents chafing. Also consider moleskin.
Earplugs
Floss
Face mask - For smoke or disease.
Glasses, spare, for Zachary
Lighter
Nail clippers
Petroleum Jelly - Chapped lips, protect wounds, help light tinder.
Razor
Sleeping mask
Toothbrush
Toothpaste
Center compartment:
(right) Band-aids/plasters, various sizes - Use to cover small cuts
(right) Gauze and medicine directions
(bottom pocket) Grill lighter
(back) covid-19 test
Thermometer, mouth
Tweezers
Alocane-brand Lidocaine burn relief gel
Triple Antibiotic Ointment (may not work) - contains bacitracin,
neomycin, polymyxin. Prefer washing using sanitation bag.
Hydrocorozone cream - treats itch and rash
Cotton swabs (in bag) - Clean wound
Gauze (in moleskin) - Wrap to stop bleeding, or use to clean a wound
Gauze (loose)
Moleskin - Patch blisters or prevent them from forming
Liquid Skin - Superglue. Disinfect small cuts, then brush on to close.
Q-tips - Clean wound
Sanitation bag (see below)
Medicine box (see back)
Vitamins box (see back)
Sanitation bag (in center compartment):
Water - Clean wounds. Slightly soapy. Refill and add campsuds and
povodone iodine to replenish.
Campsuds - Concentrated soap.
Povidone iodine - Use with water to create a sterile cleaning fluid.
Doesn't work to sanitize water (need 15min+80 drops/gal)
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Medicine box (in center compartment):
Acetaminophen, 500mg, x20 - Longer white pill labeled 5500.
Non-NSAID pain medication. Does not reduce fever, only reduces pain
Use for people on certain medications or for headache.
Caffine, 200mg, x10 - Medium ycircular yellow pill labeled 44 226.
Take half with taurine to stay awake. Caffine impairs judgement
Calcium carbonate, 0.5g, x5 - Pastel colored large circular pills.
Antacid. Use for heartburn.
Ibuprofen, 200mg, x30 - Small circular red pill labeled I-2.
NSAID anti-inflammatory. Use to reduce fever or inflammation.
Low fevers fight diseases, don't remove them.
Loratadine, 10mg, x30 - Small oval white pill labeled L612.
Used to minor allergic reactions.
Melatonin, 3mg, x10 - Small unlabeled white pill.
Natural sleep aid. Take 1 to sleep somewhere noisy. Groggy after.
Peptobismol, x16 - Larger pink circular pill in plastic labeled RH 046.
Use for diarrhea or stomach upset. Recommended dose is 2.
Pseudoephedrine HCl, 120mg extended release, x2. One per day.
Pseudoephedrine Hcl, 30mg - One every 2-4 hours as needed.
Use for stuffy nose. Stimulant.
Taurine, 500mg, x5 - Medium white gel capsules. See caffine.
Razor blade, x1
Activated charcoal - Black powder.
In case of poisoning, immediately induce vomiting.
Then eat activated charcoal.
Bentonite clay - Grey powder. Do not use.
Vitamins box (in center compartment):
Mulivitamin, x20 - Large green pill labeled 1.
Take one every other day only if vitamin deficient.
Contains enough: Vit A, Vit C, Vit D, Vit E, Vit K, B1, B2,
Magnesium, Zinc, Selenium, Copper, Manganese, Chromium
Bayer One a Day Men's Pro Edge
Vit D, 5000 IU, x25 - Small yellow gel beads.
Take one every 2-3 days if sick or missing sunlight.
Zinc, 50mg, x20 - Medium white unlabeled circular pill.
Take half a pill per day to resist getting COVID-19 or for diarrhea
Folate, 400mcg, x20 - Small-medium white gel capsule.
Take one every other day if missing vegetables in diet.
Vitamin C, powder
Take small amounts if missing fruit from diet to prevent scurvy.
For diarrhea, oral rehydration solution. If not available, use water.
0.5tsp salt 6tsp sugar
0.25tsp potassium salt 1L/quart water
Potassium chloride, powder - ORS
Iodized table salt, powder - ORS or dehydration.
Atorvastatin, 40mg, x50 - Medium white oblong pill labeled ATV40.
Prescription: Take one pill daily to reduce cholesterol.
I moved from California to Ohio. I wanted to be with my friends. Also, my old place caught on fire (twice). The new place is cheap, but underground. The first order of business was installing lots of lights, and replacing my moldy old mattress.
My dad kindly lent me a car until mine showed up in September. There was lots of DMV paperwork. Not the best, but Ohio is much cheaper and easier than California in this regard. I also got health insurance, which cost almost as much as my rent.
Happily I already knew many people where I was moving, and I also started attending several meetups from meetup.com. I got to spend Thanksgiving and Christmas with friends and family this year. I also sent out Christmas cards for the first time.
Games
I started two D&D games in 2022. One ended before session 1, the other exploded after two months. I had a nice time playing as a player in “Index Card RPG”, though. I ran a session of lexicon, which went pretty well. We quit before getting to the letter Z, but that’s a design flaw in Lexicon–it’s way too long.
I participated in the 2022 April Fools Puzzle Contest, on #ircpuzzles. I came in 7th.
This and that
A little travel. I went to Missouri to visit friends. I got to go to my friends’ wedding in Boston.
I read “The Art of Computer Programming” volumes 1 and 2. Donald Knuth sent me a check for finding a 0x1.2 bugs.
I got a snakebite lip piercing.
I made a first-aid kit, which I’m realizing I didn’t write up. My thinking was that it’s bad to give medical advice when you don’t know anything about medicine.
I made a new blast furnace with my sister, which we never used (old one).
In November, I did Hack-a-Day, a project I conceived to do a new computer project every day of the month that I could show off to others. As part of it, I learned web sockets, webRTC, unity3D, game programming. In all, there were around 30 projects–click the link to see them all.
I made huge improvements to qr-backup. Its basically “done” for the CLI version.
I wrote youtube-autodl, a program to automatically download a feed of youtube videos and sort them into folders.
I wrote a video linter for my personal video collection.
I wrote a screenshotter, which takes one screenshot a minute of my laptop (encrypted) and archives them indefinitely.
I was exercising daily. I kind lapsed after my ankle surgery, oops.
I stopped doing my daily morning log at some point, and didn’t fix it within 2022.
I tried an experiment with “no-computer” sundays. This was super productive one time, and less so the next. It led to the e-ink laptop, because writing a short story by hand was really painful.
I started limiting myself to one youtube video per day. That went great and I’ve kept it up.
I sorted my scans into folders. I decided not to do the whole process (transcribe the handwritten documents, etc) for the thousands of scans, because it wouldn’t be worth the time. I’ll wait and see what I can do with AI in a few years, maybe.
Writing
You can read most of what I wrote here! On a blog! Of particular interest might be my new index page.
I also wrote a short story, Earth II. It’s not online because it’s bad.
I had to remove library.za3k.com because of DMCAs.
Every year, the libera IRC network has a puzzle contest starting on 04-01. (It’s not an april fools joke). It’s fun but quite difficult.
This year I wrote about a third of the puzzles. Give them a try, either alone or as a team! It will be open indefinitely, but social activity will die off in a week or two.
As of writing, no one has won (finished all the puzzles) just yet.
I’ve been working on a spell guide for D&D games. During the process, I researched the differences between the Dungeons and Dragons 5e Player’s Handbook (PHB) and the 5e System Reference Document (SRD).
For those that don’t know, in 3e Wizards of the Coast released the core rules of the game for free. They’ve continued to do so for 3.5, 4, and 5e. The 5e rules were released under Creative Commons recently (thanks!), in response to some community backlash over proposed licensing changes (eek!).
There are 361 spells in the PHB, but only 318 in the SRD. Which are missing?
Here are the 43 spells in the PHB but not the SRD:
arcane gate
armor of agathys
arms of hadar
aura of life
aura of purity
aura of vitality
banishing smite
beast sense
blade ward
blinding smite
chromatic orb
circle of power
cloud of daggers
compelled duel
conjure barrage
conjure volley
cordon of arrows
crown of madness
crusader’s mantle
destructive wave
dissonant whispers
elemental weapon
ensnaring strike
feign death
friends
grasping vine
hail of thorns
hex
hunger of hadar
lightning arrow
phantasmal force
power word heal
prayer of healing
ray of sickness
searing smite
staggering smite
swift quiver
telepathy
thorn whip
thunderous smite
tsunami
witch bolt
wrathful smite
Why are they missing? Well, the official WoTC answer is:
In general, the criteria for what went into the SRD is if it (1) was in the 3E SRD, (2) has an equivalent in 5th edition D&D, and (3) is vital to how a class, magic item, or monster works. For example, the 3E SRD has the delay poison spell, but in 5th edition that’s handled by the protection from poison spell, so protection from poison is in the SRD.
Wizards of the Coast, SRD5.1 FAQ
Looking at the actual list, every single spell missing was (1) not in the 3E SRD, (2) was added in 5E. I was curious what fraction of new 5E spells got added to the SRD vs. not, but it looks like no one has a list of new 5E spells, so I couldn’t easily check.
The following are renamed but present in the SRD, presumably for trademark reasons:
drawmij’s instant summons, evard’s black tentacles, leomund’s secret chest, melf’s acid arrow, mordenkainen’s faithful hound, mordenkainen’s magnificent mansion, mordenkainen’s private sanctum, otiluke’s freezing sphere, otiluke’s resilient sphere, otto’s irresistible dance, rary’s telepathic bond, tasha’s hideous laughter, and tenser’s floating disk are all shortened. They become instant summons, black tentacles, secret chest, acid arrow, faithful hound, magnificent mansion, private sanctum, freezing sphere, resilient sphere, irresistable dance, telepathic bond, and floating disk.
Here’s a list of books I read in 2022. The ones in bold I recommend.
Fiction:
1632 by Eric Flint
Alex Verus 1: Fated by Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus 2: Cursed by Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus 3: Taken by Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus 4: Chosen by Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus 5: Hidden by Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus 6: Burned by Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus 7: Bound by Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus 8: Marked by Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus 9: Fallen by Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus 10: Forged by Benedict Jacka
Alex Verus 11: Risen by Benedict Jacka
Art of the Adept 2: Secrets and Spellcraft by Michael G Manning
Art of the Adept 3: Scholar of Magic by Michael G Manning
Aspects by John M Ford
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson
Aurora Rising by Amie Kaufman Bastion (Immortal Great Souls 1) by Phil Tucker
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Citadel: Training in Necessity by Unillustrated
City of Broken Magic by Mirah Bolender
Cradle 11: Dreadgod by Will Wight
Crown of Vengeance by James Mallory and Mercedes Lackey
Cytonic by Brandon Sanderson
Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Gamechanger by L. X. Beckett
Genius by Leopoldo Gout
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
Grand Game by Tom Elliot (LitRPG) Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Head-on by John Scalzi
He Who Fights with Monsters 1 by Shirtaloon
He Who Fights with Monsters 2 by Shirtaloon
He Who Fights with Monsters 3 by Shirtaloon
He Who Fights with Monsters 4 by Shirtaloon
He Who Fights with Monsters 5 by Shirtaloon
Highfire by Eoin Colfer
Immortality Code by Douglas E Richards
In Other Lands by Sarah Rees
Insane City by Dave Barry
Iron Prince by Bryce O’Conner and Luke Chmilenko
Isolate (Grand Illusion 1) by L E Modesitt Jr The Kevin Jenkins Experience by Hambone
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto / Alchemist’s Journal by Natsu Hyuuga et al
The Left-handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
Lock In by John Scalzi
Mage’s Blood by David Hair
Mark of the Fool by J M Clarke
Martian Abroad by Carrie Vaughn
Master Li and Number Ten Ox 1: Bridge of Birds by Barry Hughart
Master Li and Number Ten Ox 2: Story of the Stone by Barry Hughart
Master Li and Number Ten Ox 3: Eight Skilled Gentlemen by Barry Hughart
Mazer in Prison by Orson Scot Card
Memory of Earth by Orson Scott Card
Memory of Earth 2: Call of Earth by Orson Scott Card Millenial Mage by J L Mullins
Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pessl
Orc on the Wild Side by Tom Holt
Pact by wildbow
Penric’s Progress by Louis McMaster Bujold
Penric’s Travels by Louis McMaster Bujold
Perfect State by Brandon Sanderson
Powder Mage 1 by Brian McClellan
Primal Hunter by Zogarth
Quantum Shadows by L E Modesitt (in the style of Gene Wolf)
Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline
Recluse 1: Magic of Recluse by L E Modesitt Jr
Recluse 2: Towers of the Sunset by L E Modesitt Jr
Recluse 3: Magic Engineer by L E Modesitt Jr
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Red Rising 2: Golden Son by Pierce Brown
Red Rising 3: Morning Star by Pierce Brown
Remnant Population by Elizabeth Moon
RE: Trailer Trash by FortySixtyFour
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Rook and Rose 1: Mask of Mirrors by M A Carrick
Rook and Rose 2: The Liar’s Knot by M A Carrick
Salvaged by Madeleine Roux
Salvos by V A Lewis (LitRPG)
Scardown by Elizabeth Bear
Servant Mage by Kate Elliot
Significant Digits by Alexander Deebus
Sleep In a Sea of Stars by Chistopher Paolini
Solutions and Other Problems by Allie Brosh
Soulmage by meowcats734
Starsight by Brandon Sanderson
Story of My Life by Hellen Keller
Strange and Stubborn Endurance by Foz Meadows
A Succession of Bad Days by Graydon Saunders
The Starless Sea by Eric Morgenstern
Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
The Consuming Fire by John Scalzi
The Every by Dave Eggers
The Last Emperox by John Scalzi
The Philosopher’s War by Tom Miller
The Prefect by Alastair Reynolds
The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
The Truth and Other Stories by Stanislaw Lem
The Unspoken Name by A.K. Larkwood
Thief’s Magic by Trudi Canavan
Three Body Problem 2: Wallfacer: Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
Throne of the Five Winds by S C Emmett
Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng
Venemous Lumpsucker by Ned Beauman
Vigor Mortis by Natalie Maher
Ward by Wildbow
Weirkey 1: Soulhome by Sarah Lin
Weirkey 2: Rainhorn by Sarah Lin
Winter’s Orbit by Everina Maxwell
Nonfiction:
The Art of Computer Programming v1 by Donald Knuth
The Art of Computer Programming v2 by Donald Knuth
Attack and Defense by James Davies
Burning Wheel (RPG) by Luke Crane
The Economist (magazine)
Home Improvement 1-2-3
Illustrated Guide to Everything Sold in Hardware Stores (1988) by Steve Ettlinger
Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
Programming Crystal by Ivo Balbaert
Sigbovik 2021
Spymistress by William Stevenson
What If? by Randall Munroe
What If? 2 by Randall Munroe
