Car #10

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Xist

ChrisFix says to use WD40

WD40 and a clean piece of cotton fabric can do wonders.

[Xist]

All that I have done with this car was drive, gas, get an occasional oil change, and try to clean up after my family, which keeps spilling red drinks in the back seat.

I keep having a frustrating day and deciding to buy 79¢ Frosters from Circle K.

I guess that I can say "Let's get sparkling water, you pick!" but I just realized that if I bought insulated cups, they shouldn't spill when dropped.

Apparently, a classmate bought one for $80.

Eight-eight dollars is far too much for a floormat for a 20-year-old car with hundreds of thousands of miles, but what is the right price for a cup?!

Anyway, I bought it, it fits, and if both Mom and my brother drop their drinks on the same side, it should contain it.

If I drive a Camry of this generation for 10 years, then at least I will get a lot of use out of it.

I made an effort to clean my original rear carpet floormats, but I don't think that I have ever fully cleaned the car.

I will have a spill in one area and clean it.

I vacuumed the car when I passed my classes and treated myself to a drive-through carwash.

I don't know that I have cleaned all of the upholstery, though.

Probably not, I continue to defer maintenance.

Yeah, I keep planning on doing that once I have Mom's house cleared out.

The floor on the other side, where nobody has spilled anything [recently] still has spots, so I will try to make a few minutes to quickly clean.

Anyway, I bought blue Dawn and hydrogen peroxide from Walmart, and poured them and just enough water in my water heater to cover the mats, soaked them, hung them to dry inside the can, soaked them in my bathtub, and scrubbed each for one minute.

There are still stains, but they are definitely cleaner.

I brought in the water heater, dumped it in the bathtub, and am soaking the front mats.

[Piotrsko]

The moment you mix the peroxide with anything it starts to outgas the O2 leaving just water. The stuff will go flat sitting on the shelf in the original container if unpressurized by opening. The fizzy might be capable of cleaning, by bubble collapse. Makes a great oxidizer for kerosene, though albeit at higher concentrations than commercially available.

[redpoint5]

$88 isn't terrible.

My dad just spent $225 like a sucker on the official Tesla Model Y floor mats. That, after spending something like $40k on a new Model Y like a sucker. Keep in mind he hasn't worked in 15 years, and never earned more than $35k in a single income household.

That's about the only criticisms I have of my dad, so he's pretty great.

I plan to throw the carpeted mats in the wash periodically rather than spend on the rubber ones. Possibly a mistake now that the 3rd girl has arrived.

[Xist]

I see multiple places that I mentioned that my second year is through Zoom, which transcribes if we request it, but I swear that I mentioned wanting to strip the timestamp from the transcripts to make it easier to read.

It seems like each time the speaker pauses it gives a new time stamp.

Everyone knows how William Shatner performed Captain Kirk, but I can't find examples on-line, I just see people referring to it when someone uses an unusual amount of commas.

This says that Shatner originally spoke that way because he was nervous and had difficulty remembering his lines, but when he returned for the movies, he needed to watch the show to relearn how to deliver his lines: https://heavy.com/entertainment/star...ch-style-fake/


I always remember a cartoon from when I was a kid with a Kirk parody saying "Set phasers to shake and bake," but there were pauses after each word, so it was more like "Set, phasers, to, shake, and, bake."

Zoom would transcribe it as:

[The Enterprise] 16:00:00
Set

[The Enterprise] 16:00:01
phasers

[The Enterprise] 16:00:02
to

[The Enterprise] 16:00:03
shake

[The Enterprise] 16:00:04
and

[The Enterprise] 16:00:05
bake

I found the page I saw before (and swear that I shared here) about using Notepad++ to strip timestamps, but it doesn't work.

She mentioned using another program, which I will try later, but I had over 6 pages from a little over 20 minutes.

There are many errors in it, too.

Either I need a vastly better transcriber or I need to record video.

We are prohibited from recording video.

Do you care?

Plus, my eyes really don't want to focus anymore.

I constantly need to move my head to adjust my progressive bifocals to focus my eyes.

[edit: Wildcards work. I swear that I tried this before and Word gave me an error, but searching and destroying ??:??:?? eliminated 821 annoyances.
edit2: I highlighted each section that was just my professor talking and used search and replace to remove the rest of the name tags. Then when a classmate talked, I searched and destroyed all of the name tags except the first one.

The professor said she was putting us in breakout rooms and I hoped to be able to figure out what was going on without bothering anyone too much, but nobody else joined, so I downloaded everything for today, and read a bunch of it before the professor hopped in and said that she put us in our groups for a project, but nobody wanted to work with me, so she was going to talk to my classmates.

I haven't heard back, so I guess she couldn't persuade anything, and I need to solo a group project--again.

Unfortunately, I forgot to save the transcript, and it didn't save automatically.

I lost the last hour and 13 minutes of a 3-hour class.

That's pretty wizard.

[redpoint5]

Never liked Shatner. He's lucky he got Star Trek. Probably my 3rd favorite captain (even Janeway is better).