Life Tips

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A list of tips for life learned thus far.

Outdoors:
1. In winter remember to tuck in your under shirt to stay warm.
2. Areas where you can take a pulse should be properly insulated in winter and cooled during the summer
3. A hot wet bandanna or shemagh can be cooled by quickly snapping the cloth.
4. Avoid ticks by staying off animal trails.
5. Know how to tie a clove hitch, slip knot, constrictor knot, and truckers hitch
6. A river is never calm.

Life:
1. If a girl is acting crazy or strange around you, then she might be flirting.
2. Directions are meant to be followed not ignored.
3. If it seems like a bad idea it generally is.
4. If you need to get out of a situation quick pretend to be sick and watch the sea of humanity part.

Technology:
1. Never tell anyone you know a lot about computers.
2. Avoid simple passwords and never directly answer a security question ( Your favorite color is dog2 not blue)
3. A carburetor is a mechanic term for $hit.
4. Google translate can be used as a proxy.
5. Use a penny to check your tires. If you can see the top of Abe's head you need new tires.
6. Check your spare tires pressure once a year. It is probably low.
7. The correct screw bit should fit all the way to the bottom and should have no play.
8. Keep a spare battery for your phone in your wallet or purse ( unless it's an Iphone )

one rule that has never failed me each time I employed it, is "'tis better to keep silent and as a fool be thought, than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt." it even rhymes

Never wear a coat outside in the winter. That way it'll feel even warmer indoors.

strive to keep a neutral mindset, neither dwelling upon potential sorrows nor joys. let all surprises be pleasant ones or at least foreseen ones.

Treat every day as the first day ever.

one must love oneself before one can love another.

Don't chew your hair, you will get a big ball of hair in your tummy.

don't let little stuff get to you before the big stuff.

drugs that relieve pain are to a certain extent a blessing, do not hesitate to use them, with caution.

Do not get yourself into all that confusing pain in the butt popularity stiff.

buy low, sell high.

Those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

find a passion in life and pursue it with both feet and all your mind and psyche. that will give you a why to put up with any how.