Tools, Tips and Tricks

Now that you mention it I’ve noticed the Slovenians use a comma above s and e - I think. I wonder if they have ready available keys for that as well - and what it means. @Tone @KristijanL.

As for our å - I think we’re completely alone using that one. It’s just a way to separate the o-sounds in for example sore vs tool.

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I hadnt used a keyboard probably since highschool so l had to check :smile:

Yes we got Č (ch as in church), Š (sh as in shoe) and Ž. For the last one l spent a while to give an English example but l cant remember one. Guess its a unique sound. Kinda like J in jargon but much more harsh. The above two are just writing simplificators. For instance, SHOE wuld be writen ŠU. Efficiancy :smile:

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Simply google this string to see all of the accented and other special character codes:
“ascii code for accented characters”

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They aren’t ASCII, that is only 128 characters, and some aren’t even readable characters. They might be part of the extended ascii which is 256 characters. 16-bit unicode definitely has them. that is 2^16 characters. :slight_smile:

You can access them with a “compose key” but both macos and windows require 3rd party software.

Most countries with different characters in their alphabet have their own keyboards.

The hardest one is either chinese or arabic. Because there are 1000s of chinese characters. And arabic support is hard because it is read from right to left.

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Okay. My bad.
Google: “extended ascii code for accented characters”
Or: Google:
“extended ascii code table”
to see the whole list.

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Well, heres a tip.
This car belong to an old lady, she lives next to a big chicken “farm”, and this makes her car exposed to mice.
They started to eat rubber hoses, wire insulation, and nesting in insulation and heater.


We installed a mouse trap (pink arrow) and juniper twigs in places they get in.

Heres on of their “entrys” blocked.

Under this the mice had a real “trail path”, no juniper twigs on the hot engine.

Blocked with steel wool instead.
This has really scared away most of the mice, she states it smells better in the car now.
Today i did oil change, and replaced the dry juniper twigs, and also checked the mouse trap. Pretty odd checking points on the service protocol? :smirk:

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With the juniper twigs it looks like it is decorated for christmas. :slight_smile:

Choosey Mice Choose Jif. No joke. Peanut butter works well, but Jif works the best in mouse traps. :slight_smile:

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Twice I’ve had to become a human pretzel to access the blower for the HVAC ducts on our Nissan. Mice build nests in the fan shroud. You have to remove the gas pedal assemble to get into it and feel around for the retaining screws. A lot of contortions to free the fan from it’s enclosure. Fish a big wad of crap out of it and pray you can get it reassembled by feel. I saw on line that this is a $600 plus dollar repair at a shop. Its be three years since I"ve had to do one. Not sure I could today. It’s an all day job for me. Now I pour peppermint oil down the ducts and that seems to deter them. I didn’t know about the Juniper. I’ll be sticking that in the engine compartment because I’ve never been able to figure out how they get into that fan housing.

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I guess there is no such standard box to tick in her service protocol :rofl:

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I’m thinking that since it cost over $100 to plug a scanner into your OBD port then a hand full of juniper probably goes for about $40 with installation. :grin:

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He he, this old lady is in fact a millionaire, she brings her own juniper twigs to save.
We told her many times to call the pest control-too expensive :roll_eyes:
Cheaper when car burns because of mice stripped wires?

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I finally broke down and bought a bucket of those bait cubes, that poison the mice. I hated to do it because I thought they’d eat it and die in the vehicle. But leaving them to nest and pee in the cars was making the cars unusable too. Turns out I was wrong. They eat the bait and go somewhere else and die…no stinky cars.

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They get thirsty and look for water. You have to be a little careful something doesn’t try and eat the dead ones because the poison will carry over.

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I use these with peanut butter for bait, and about 4’’ of water in the bucket to drown them. :mouse_trap: works for chipmunks too. :chipmunk: Mouse Rat Trap Flip & Slide Mouse Trap Bucket Catcher Mousetrap Slide Bucket Lid | eBay

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Gee, I wonder if this video, created by Matthias Wandel nine years ago, that has 15 million views, had anything to do with the design of that trap? :grin:

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Maybe. Here is a knockoff of the bucket trap. But if you DIY it, you won’t have a certified humane trap. :slight_smile:

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I really did not know where to put this.
I’m sure it has happen to you all at some time in your life. You will have a thought that comes into your head and you try it and it works.
Well it happen to me just today and it was amazing.
I was sitting on my bed checking my blood pressure. I using AMLODIPINE blood pressure msdicine. It has been running between 150 over 90 to 140 over 80 the pass few days. Why you might ask WHY. Well I did not like the side effects of this medicine. Because I quit taking my blood pressure it when up some and I been trying a non prescripition medication.
Now I was sitting there and my first reading was higher then I like it.
The next reading was not much better.
Then on the third reading a thought came into my head to look up at the ceiling, so I rised my head and looked up. I also heard in my head head " look up for you redemption draws near" that is a quote right out of the bible. When I read the blood pressure reading it was low 127 over 65. Okay what just happen. I spent the next few readings looking up or down. Everytime I looked up my blood pressure was nornal. And every time I looking down with my head lowered it was a much higher reading.
I realized that I have always had my head down when taking my blood pressure and not my head rised up with my eyes looking up.
Is it only me I wonder? Please let me know if any of you that monitor your blood pressure if this is happening to you.
The bible is full of places where it says to look up to the Yehovah for your healing, strength, salvation, praise, when pray, even when you walk.
I know one thing for sure, I am going to start looking up more, and hold my head up in a good way. The meek will inherit the earth.

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my mother for a lot years measured her (too high) blood pressure by herself, the doctor takes the money for this work, but she, for making a favour to the doc, she measured by herself…the doc asks only how is the pressure, and writes it somewhere in…a comfortable system for the doc…and she takes the medicine continously…
than, one nice day, she compared her blood pressure controller with the controller of his sister…this controller shows the opposit result, her controller was wrong comes out, when controlling than with the doctors controller, than she takes a medicine for low pressure…
so or so, the doc and the structures behind makes money…
my wife has also a controller, but uses it rarely, but the controller shows often different results.
better natural things to use against high pressure, garlic , olive leaves, curcuma…and avoiding the daily poison coffe…
but very interesting your observation, bob, maybee because when you look upwards, the blood arteries are more open and allows a more free flow as when the head is bended down for observing the instrument.

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The whole blood pressure monitoring system is fraught with inaccuracy and diagnosis issues as far as I am concerned. I am not a doctor, but I am a patient. So I have the most to lose if the doctors get it wrong, don’t I?
I am in the process right now of preparing a youtube video on the subject, by the way. I even contacted the medical school of a major state university with my concerns and findings to ask them If I was mistaken in my analysis. But, after 3 contacts to them, they never answered at all. Seems to me that they know there’s a problem but are afraid to answer for fear of legal ramifications. (They are the ones who TEACH the system, aren’t they?)…
So, what do I do? ---- I have 2 devices. One for the wrist and one for the arm. The one for the arm is the exact model recommended by my heart doctor. They both read close to eachother and to a commercial device at the drug store. The problem for me is that, when in the doctor’s office, my BP reads a lot higher. “white coat syndrome” is what it is called.

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White coat syndrome is the result anxiety level of being in the doctors office. it is normal for most people. You are out of your element and don’t really like being there as no one ever wants to know there is something wrong with them.

There is some truth to that. It also wouldn’t surprise me if there equipment might be off. They are ballpark ranges, it isn’t absolute, and getting BP work done at the Dr’s office if it is off but high, makes you rethink your diet and suh so you fix the problem before it becomes an actual problem.

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