I don’t exactly go respirator-shopping super often, and I of course have no idea what stores around you stock, but dn my experience, yellow and black are pretty widely available, and I don’t think that I’ve ever personally seen white or green in the wild, but I’ve also never specifically gone shopping for them either, since my main use case is for things like spray paint so I’m mostly concerned with organic solvents fumes.
Another one I’ve gotten a lot of good mileage out of
I once joked to my wife that avocados need to get better prizes because I always seem to get the same one- a little wooden ball.
Now, anytime I’m in the kitchen preparing something with avocados, I’ll let out an audible groan of frustration.
Which always prompts my wife to ask, usually from the other room “What’s wrong?”
To which I always reply “Another wooden ball”
Always good for a groan and some eye rolls from the wife. She never seems to see it coming.
So you know how geese fly in that V-formation to reduce air resistance?
You know how sometimes the one arm of the “V” is longer than the other?
You know why that is?
Because that side has more geese.
Best told while you’re just out shooting the shit walking around outside when you can point out some geese acting like you’re just pointing out another fun nature fact.
N95 is probably better than nothing, but for these purposes it’s probably far from good enough
Most pepper sprays and such are oil based, and n-rated respirators are not oil resistant. For that you really want an R-, or even better P-rated mask for oily mists.
Disposable masks suitable for that do exist, but more often you’re going to find reusable cartridge-based ones which will have some additional ratings that probably aren’t relevant to specifically pepper spray but could maybe be relevant for other
White labeled cartridges are suitable for acid gases like chlorine
Black labeled are suitable for organic vapors like from paint thinners and other solvents
Yellow are suitable for both
Green are rated for ammonia and methylamine
There’s been a few studies on this, and most of the supposed remedies have been found to be little or no more effective than just rinsing with water or saline.
That said, in theory, I feel like baby shampoo is probably a pretty good bet, it makes sense on paper. Most pepper sprays are oil-based, soap/shampoo is a surfactant so it helps to rinse out those oily substances with water, and baby shampoo in particular is non-irritating to the eyes.
There’s a few purpose-made products for this, I’ve seen a few recommendations for sudecon wipes from first-responder types. I have no recommendations about how to best get your hands on those sorts of products in case you’re worried about leaving a paper trail.
For my own personal kit (that I just try to keep well-stacked for any eventuality, I have pepper spray on my dog’s leash so I figured I should know what to do if I even accidentally mace myself) I’ve settled on sterile saline eye wash and baby shampoo. Haven’t had to use it yet, so I can’t attest to the effectiveness, but I figure it’s gotta be better than nothing
And it makes enough sense on paper that I figure if nothing else maybe I’ll be able to placebo effect myself into believing it did something.
Most shoes aren’t really built to be resoled these days, they’re out there and if they can be they usually make it a selling point of that shoe, they’re usually a good bit pricier than other comparable shoes as well, probably gonna be about $250usd at the low end
Coincidentally I actually just sent my hiking boots out to be resoled. I have a pair of Danners, they cost probably around $450 new, and I’m getting their full recrafting service, so new heel counter, shank, resole, goretex lining, and if my shoe had any broken hardware that’d get replaced too, cost I think $260. Just a simple resole would be cheaper of course, and if you have a decent local cobbler they could probably beat that price.
I’ve had them about 4 years, and at this point the sole is pretty well-worn-out but the uppers are still in pretty good shape. They’ve been worn pretty close to daily, and have some hard miles on them.
I definitely feel that I’ve gotten my money’s worth, before these I probably got new boots every 2 years or so and usually spent about $200 on a pair, so if these last me another 4 years (and I don’t have any reason to think they won’t, but there’s no guarantee what misadventures my boots might go through in the next 4 years) I’ll have even come out a bit ahead on them vs buying cheaper boots.
These are hiking boots, so I’m not exactly keeping them mirror-polished or anything, so care is pretty minimal, clean them with saddle soap once in a while, wipe them down with mink oil or whatever your preferred leather conditioner/waterproofing stuff is a couple times a year (I generally try to do at least twice a year, maybe a bit more frequently if they’re getting a lot of hard use- getting really dirty, worn in the winter or near the ocean where they may be getting salty, etc.)
Also not shilling specifically for Danners, I’ve been very happy with them so far, but there’s plenty of other brands out there that are as good or better, and of course everyone has their personal preference. My next pair may or may not be danners, I do have my eye on some boots from higher-end manufacturers if my budget allows.
We’re already leaving the radio on for her (usually NPR, we figure that’s mostly a lot of nice, calm, friendly-sounding voices)
And as it is, she has free reign of most of the house, which includes some dirty laundry in the hamper and, more often than I’d like to admit, on the floor of our bedroom which she never seems to pay any attention to whatsoever
And it’s always really limited in scope, it’s always just one or two things she gets into, not wanton destruction, I can’t really know what’s going through her head but it feels a lot like she just wants to do something bad while we’re not there to tell her “no”.
And often it’s pretty benign with her not even trying to be destructive. She might steal a potato or a pack of ramen and carry it over to the stairs, not even bothering to chew on it, but the collateral damage of her getting into the potatoes might knock a bunch of stuff over and break a glass jar on the floor for example.
The time she got into the vitamins, I’m pretty sure her intentions were probably similar until she realized that the bottle rattled, and then she got curious and wanted to know what was inside.
As it is now, she’s got a lot of access to our dirty laundry and she ignores it, and free access to our bed, so I’m not sure that getting more access to our smell would really help matters. And the things she steals usually aren’t things we handle a lot or that would hold our smell. It seems like a lot of it is motivated by what she thinks would be fun to play with
Or things that would just cause the most confusion, although I think that’s probably too abstract of a thought for even a smart dog like her, but it’s kind of hard to explain why she fished a potato out of a bag to bring up to our bed otherwise.
And again, she’s not a particularly destructive dog, for the most part she’s not really even chewing on most of the things she takes, but her little acts of theft tend to cause other collateral damage and we really worry about her breaking something glass in the process (which has happened) and getting cut (which so far hasn’t thankfully)
She has so many toys, big ones, small ones, toys that squeak, toys that crinkle, plush toys, harder toys to chew on, balls of all shapes and sizes, she’s spoiled in that regard.
Another dog definitely isn’t in the cards for her unfortunately. She’s got some pretty bad dog aggression/reactivity issues from getting into a fight with another dog before we got her. We’ve gotten her to the point where she’s OK with a small handful of dogs, and can more-or-less ignore most of the dogs around our neighborhood from a respectable distance, but it’s very much on a case-by-case basis.
I’m sure it’s more complex than I’m making it out to be, but each gas in the air has its own freezing/melting boiling/condensation/sublimation points, so I’d imagine you could just kind of take advantage of that
Basically just cool it down to x temperature at y pressure, and all of the carbon dioxide should be solid, the oxygen a liquid and the nitrogen still a gas, and they’ve all sort of separated themselves out. Fish out the dry ice, siphon off the oxygen, and you’re left with nitrogen.
Might need to do a couple more rounds of that on each of those to account for other gases in the mix depending on how pure you need it to be, but in theory I imagine it could be that simple (again in practice I’m sure there’s probably a lot of details I’m missing)
My wife and I keep our heat pretty low, usually 60°F, which is usually pretty damn chilly for indoors
But when you step in from single digits outside, 60° feels downright toasty.
We have a heated mattress pad, keeps all of the heat inside the blankets
I tend to reply “Thank, I grew it myself”