Re: [at-l] Personal Hygiene

["Poor Writer a.k.a. Ern Grover" <ern@tick-tock.com>]

I've recently started to carry the gel bottle, but I learn right off,
replace the pump with a cap.  

However, now I touch the clean bottle with a dirty hand, smear the gel to
get my dirty hands clean, then touch the contaminated bottle...... it keeps
going, and going, and going.....

We can only do our best, I guess.

Poor Writer a.k.a. Ern Grover
http://www.tick-tock.com/morgan.html
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At the cocktail party, one woman said to another, aren't you wearing your
wedding ring on the wrong finger?"  The other replied, "Yes, I am, I
married the wrong man."


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> From: Mayer, Jim <JMayer@crt.xerox.com>
> To: 'Poor Writer a.k.a. Ern Grover' <ern@tick-tock.com>; Christian
Outdoors <christianoutdoors@makelist.com>; atml@trailplace.com;
at-l@saffron.hack.net
> Subject: RE: [at-l] Personal Hygiene
> Date: Thursday, July 16, 1998 8:48 AM
> 
> Ern's comments make a lot of sense to me.
> 
> I've recently started carrying a repackaged bottle of hand sanitizer
> (the alcohol gel stuff).  I use it after finishing up with my cathole (I
> wash first or use a handiwipe, but I doubt my washing is all that
> effective) and before meals.  You only need a small amount, so a one
> ounce bottle can probably be nursed along for about a week.  You don't
> have to wash it off like soap, so it's environmentally friendly (at
> least to the water supply).  I don't clean up before snacks... it just
> wouldn't be practical.
> 
> Out in the "real" world, most giardia is spread by the feces to hand to
> mouth route, NOT through the water.
> 
> I also filter my water.
> 
> -- Jim

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