{"id":37898,"date":"2021-03-03T09:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=37898"},"modified":"2021-02-15T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2021-02-15T22:25:10","slug":"whats-in-my-bag-karen-morrill-mcclure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/whats-in-my-bag-karen-morrill-mcclure\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s in my bag? \u2014 Karen Morrill-Mcclure"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Karen<\/strong>\u00a0was an engineer in the Space Shuttle program and is currently the IT person\/webmaster at Washington Sea Grant (WSG) at the University of Washington. They also co-chair the WSG Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Workgroup and spend their off hours playing Dungeons & Dragons and games on their Switch. Karen can be found on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0@kayjumnac.<\/p>\n

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About the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is my most recent backpack purchase. I mostly use it around the house since I\u2019m not going anywhere right now. It\u2019s from\u00a0Salish Style<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($65)<\/strong>. The design is called Raven\u2019s Cross Beam and is by Dylan Thomas (Coast Salish artist from the Lyackson First Nation). Besides the great design, I like the smooth front, the plentitude of pockets inside and the padded straps.<\/p>\n

What’s inside the bag<\/strong><\/p>\n

My\u00a0Diop face mask<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($15)<\/strong>\u00a0is comfortable, adjustable and looks great. I wear glasses, so I appreciate the nose pincher and it has fully adjustable straps. Diop is a black-owned company that makes clothing (and masks) from Ankara (a fabric used throughout West Africa).<\/p>\n

PowerAdd external battery<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($13)<\/strong>. It\u2019s small enough to slip in a pocket when I\u2019m worried about my phone running out of power and it comes in red.<\/p>\n

Hanote Spiral Notebook<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($19, 3pk)<\/strong>. I have exacting requirements for a notebook: thick pages (no ink bleed through), spiral binding (so I can flip the cover all the way to the back), plain front (so I can personalize with stickers), and hardcover (so I can write in it while walking around if necessary) which come from many years as a consultant and a teacher. These notebooks meet all those requirements, are pretty inexpensive, and come in a three pack so I can have one for my D&D adventure, one for personal notes (shown here), and one as a spare.<\/p>\n

Uni -Ball Vision Elite BLX<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0($10, 5ct)<\/strong>. My favorite pens in the whole world (right now). Bold tips and colors but infused with black so they are always readable. If you like a bold pen and haven\u2019t try these, you really should.<\/p>\n

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What’s in my bag? issue #91<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2303],"tags":[1553],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37900,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37898\/revisions\/37900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tkdev.kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}