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3-28-18: New page/video: My 2018 EDC (Every Day Carry) Update

11-1-15: New page: Names and ideas for anything and everything

5-22-15: New pages: The Best Free Roku TV Channels

4-17-15: New pages: The Quest to Make a Simple Internet Slideshow in Windows 7 for Free, and A Hero's Life

4-12-15: New page: Dead USB ports and/or flash drives; signing up for cloud storage; incorrect time/date-keeping on my Windows PC; a dead network router; and severe eye strain

3-27-15: New pages: Household Starter Kit and How to Stop Buying Crappy Coffee Makers

2-7-15: New page: My own day to day anti-depression strategies

BACK into the archives for mid-2007 through 2014...

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3-28-18: New page/video: My 2018 EDC (Every Day Carry) Update

It's been literally years since I made any significant updates to my web site. But at least I'm doing it with a bang, now! Ha, ha.

Readers of my supercar books may recall me sometimes mentioning on-person gear I carried back in those days. Especially the scary collection in one story, when I wanted to be prepared for anything. But I don't think I ever detailed anywhere on-site my normal daily complement of tools and accessories, in that era.

Fast forward to the present, and there's a whole category for such stuff on Youtube, titled 'Every Day Carry', or 'EDC'. So maybe I was little ahead of my time, back 40 plus years ago.

So for my very first video, on my new Youtube channel, I lay out my present day EDC collection, recently revamped for the first time in decades.

It's My 2018 EDC (Every Day Carry) Update, by the real Jerry Staute, and my channel is Last Chance Bar and Thrill (the EDC video is my first and only video there, so far).

I also include a link in my video description there to My Bargain 2018 EDC (Every Day Carry) Update and More, where I offer more information about all the items discussed, as well as Amazon links for purchase, if visitors want. And yes, I get a small cut of any purchases made that way, thanks! :-)

I hope you like the video!

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11-1-15: New page: Names and ideas for anything and everything

Since I write books, I often need a ready source of things like story character names and similar items. Sure, you can often come up with such stuff on your own. But it can speed things up considerably (plus often give you more pleasing results) if you have access to an infinite catalog of such things already available and waiting for you, to choose from.

Over past years I've collected a number of links I use to help me with such matters. Now, I've finally gotten around to compiling them all in a single page for your convenience and mine, in Names and ideas for anything and everything. I hope it helps you create your own scenarios for stories, games, and more!

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5-22-15: New pages: The Best Free Roku TV Channels

We here at WebFLUX Central have been using Rokus for at least three years now. There's lots to like about the platform, such as the plethora of channels available for it. However, with that bounty has also come lots of 'junk' channels, so that it can be tough indeed for a new Roku user to separate the wheat from the chaff without a minimum of a hundred hours or so of channel browsing and sampling.

Today I present my own attempt at making this process easier and faster for everyone, with my page The Best Free Roku TV Channels, which offers up the best FREE channels for:

Full length films, shorts, documentaries, video clips, and/or TV shows

News and Weather

Music or talk radio

Primarily instructional, educational, how-to, presentations, and sometimes real world videos

Hopefully I'll be able to update and improve upon these pages as warranted by events.

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4-17-15: New pages: The Quest to Make a Simple Internet Slideshow in Windows 7 for Free, and A Hero's Life

In my previous post I listed lots of tech problems I'd faced lately. But I've also dealt with plenty of other issues as well. Among them was the creation of my first ever internet slideshow version of a comic book story. The Quest to Make a Simple Internet Slideshow in Windows 7 for Free describes some of the difficulties encountered along the way, while One Hero's Life is the slideshow itself, version 1.0, as it exists today. I hope you like it!

If you encounter problems with it, please let me know: I intend to improve the slideshow code if I can.

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4-12-15: New page: Dead USB ports and/or flash drives; signing up for cloud storage; incorrect time/date-keeping on my Windows PC; a dead network router; and severe eye strain

As can be seen from the title of the new page, I've had better months than the one just past. The link is Dead USB ports and/or flash drives; signing up for cloud storage; incorrect time/date-keeping on my Windows PC; a dead network router; and severe eye strain.

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3-27-15: New pages: Household Starter Kit and How to Stop Buying Crappy Coffee Makers

We here finally got fed up with coffee makers which only last weeks or months before conking out, and quit using them forever. Here's how you can too: What's the Best Instant Coffee Maker? Or, How to Stop Buying Crappy Coffee Makers.

Someone I care about a great deal recently found herself abruptly uprooted not just once, but twice, in very short order, and in need of starting over again practically from scratch, in terms of many of the personal and household items lots of us more settled folks take for granted to make every day life easier and more manageable. She was also left with only an old and somewhat in disrepair mountain bike for transportation, too. Atop all that, being a small woman in unfamiliar territory and alone, she didn't feel very safe much of the time either.

I wanted to help, despite being 1000 miles away, and offered to come get her and bring her home with me to stay for a while, to give her a chance to save up some money for making the transition to a new place. But she's fiercely independent, and wanted to try to just tackle things head on where she was.

It took me a couple months, but I finally talked her into letting me send her what I called a 'care package', to help with the process. Once I had her permission, I naturally sent her everything I could afford that might help her have an easier time of it down there. I couldn't send her anywhere near as much as I'd have liked to, of course, but I definitely surprised her with what I did.

Afterwards it struck me that others too might benefit from the thought and planning and online shopping around I did for her particular circumstances, so I wrote up the composition of her 'care package' for folks in similar circumstances. The link is A household starter kit for impoverished college students and others starting from scratch (especially those whose main transportation will be a bicycle).

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2-7-15: New page: My own day to day anti-depression strategies

My anti-depression, anti-suicide page brought in an especially touching email last year, which spurred me to write a whole new and different perspective on the matter for the sender. Now I'm posting a slightly edited version of my response to them on my web site, in case it might prove as helpful to others as it did that particular visitor:

My own day to day anti-depression strategies

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