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[quote=vabeachcouple33]Here's an even better dessicant. You're gonna need to do some homemade chemistry and be a little careful, but this is the best you'll get.

You can make your own anhydrous magnesium sulfate from Epsom salt. I'll give the chemistry explanation at the bottom.

Put some Epsom salt in a glass oven safe dish in an oven at 475 F. Let it sit there for at least 2 hours. It will lose a little over half its weight. It will change from sparkling crystals to white powder. Shut the oven off and let it cool down with the door closed.

When it's cool enough to touch the dish with your bare hands, remove the dish and transfer the now anhydrous magnesium sulfate to a jar with a tight fitting lid (like a mason jar).

To use it, put the befouled electronic device or other thing you want dessicated in a lidded container (plastic takeout containers are great) about twice it's footprint. On the other side, carefully spoon some of the magnesium sulfate beside it. Be careful not to get it ON your electronics.

Close the lid and give it a couple of hours. Putting it somewhere warm (80- will speed it up.

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Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, meaning it has 7 water molecules for each magnesium sulfate ion pair. 1 "mole" (a chemistry unit for the quantity of atoms in something) weighs 246 g. Once those waters are all driven off, a mole of anhydrous magnesium sulfate weighs just 120 g. So if you want to know if you've succeeded, measure the weight before and after. 100% success means a 51% weight loss. Don't worry if you don't quite get there - it'll still work.

Fun Fact: Epsom salt is more than 50% water :)[/quote]God you’re so hot when you get all scientific.

Love the tip. Saving this to memos.

They are positioning themselves for mass electric car charging. Because if you need to stop for 20 minutes, at least Buc-ees gives you something to do while you're charging. The ones here are basically the size of a grocery store and sell huge amounts of hot food at all hours of the day, plus a lot of just general shopping stuff to look at.

I can't overemphasize how strong the draw it for bathroom stops on the highway. If I have any female in the car with me, I will purposefully make sure the stop it at a Buc-ees if that's possible.

[quote=vabeachcouple33]Have you ever stopped at a Buc-ees?

If you are anything like the restroom snob Mrs VA is, you'll never be happier with a restroom in your life.[/quote]We did on our recent East Coast trip. Was worth the stop just for the chopped brisket sandwich, but the bathrooms were huge and very clean.

Minimum pay at Buc-ees was $18/hr and $3/hr more for a Friday, $4/hr more for a Sat, and $5/hr more for a Sunday. Perhaps one reason the bathrooms are kept so clean.

Furthest north on the East Coast for a Buc-ees is Virginia, but they are supposedly expanding. The smallest Buc-ees to date has 40 gas pumps, and the larger ones have as many as 100. Worth a stop if you've never been to one.

Here's an even better dessicant. You're gonna need to do some homemade chemistry and be a little careful, but this is the best you'll get.

You can make your own anhydrous magnesium sulfate from Epsom salt. I'll give the chemistry explanation at the bottom.

Put some Epsom salt in a glass oven safe dish in an oven at 475 F. Let it sit there for at least 2 hours. It will lose a little over half its weight. It will change from sparkling crystals to white powder. Shut the oven off and let it cool down with the door closed.

When it's cool enough to touch the dish with your bare hands, remove the dish and transfer the now anhydrous magnesium sulfate to a jar with a tight fitting lid (like a mason jar).

To use it, put the befouled electronic device or other thing you want dessicated in a lidded container (plastic takeout containers are great) about twice it's footprint. On the other side, carefully spoon some of the magnesium sulfate beside it. Be careful not to get it ON your electronics.

Close the lid and give it a couple of hours. Putting it somewhere warm (80- will speed it up.

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Epsom salt is magnesium sulfate heptahydrate, meaning it has 7 water molecules for each magnesium sulfate ion pair. 1 "mole" (a chemistry unit for the quantity of atoms in something) weighs 246 g. Once those waters are all driven off, a mole of anhydrous magnesium sulfate weighs just 120 g. So if you want to know if you've succeeded, measure the weight before and after. 100% success means a 51% weight loss. Don't worry if you don't quite get there - it'll still work.

Fun Fact: Epsom salt is more than 50% water :)

[quote=Goodenuff]"The seat up says “I am all that matters.” "

Or you've never dropped a cell phone in the toilet.[/quote]Omg I have serious phone water issues. If there’s water anywhere near my phones, the phone jumps in.

Sink, toilet, bathtub, dog’s water bowl and even a storm grate. The storm grate was a bastard of a recovery.

I tossed it in a bag of rice and desiccant packets once home, and voila! It worked perfectly for 2 additional years.

Auto-flush toilets that are too sensitive and auto-flow sinks that do not work, are pet peeves. The auto-flush toilet that will flush at the slightest movement or no movement at all/flush on it's own with no one in the stall, why are these not fixed by toning down the sensitivity level of the sensor? The auto-flow sinks that can't see your hand in front of the sensor, why are these not fixed by increasing the sensitivity level of the sensor? These two things are not relatively hard to do during the installation phase.

Cheap labor and laborer/contractor that does not care what their product looks like or how it functions when they are done with installation...

[quote=windowShopping7][quote=Over7Under8][quote=windowShopping7]If you sprinkle when you tinkle, you must be neat and wipe the seat[/quote]What seems odd is men that lift the seat won't put it back down. Though, I've sat down most my life... until grandpa had to show me to stand when I was 5. It got me into trouble so sitting was a natural acceptance for me.

I'm a little ambidextrous because of him. As far as I am concerned, I did not need his teaching of left/right and sit/stand. Thank god he never realized I was color blind. Else I'd prolly poke my eyes out. Well, I learned early just to ignore what I see. All colors are labeled "Yellow-Red-Blue-Green", when pointing out something. This way I can be 50% right over being wrong most of the time.[/quote]Bathroom inconsideration isn’t gendered.

That’s why both public facilities are abysmal.

What the behavior boils down to is simply whether someone cares about creating a bad experience for others or not.

The seat up says “I am all that matters.”

It’s same with any disaster that you leave for another.[/quote]If it's yellow let it mellow. If it's brown flush it down. My issue is with auto flush features. Half the time it won't flush automatically. Sone don't check before they leave, especially when a butt bomb has been deposited.

"The seat up says “I am all that matters.” "

Or you've never dropped a cell phone in the toilet.

[quote=Over7Under8][quote=windowShopping7]If you sprinkle when you tinkle, you must be neat and wipe the seat[/quote]What seems odd is men that lift the seat won't put it back down. Though, I've sat down most my life... until grandpa had to show me to stand when I was 5. It got me into trouble so sitting was a natural acceptance for me.

I'm a little ambidextrous because of him. As far as I am concerned, I did not need his teaching of left/right and sit/stand. Thank god he never realized I was color blind. Else I'd prolly poke my eyes out. Well, I learned early just to ignore what I see. All colors are labeled "Yellow-Red-Blue-Green", when pointing out something. This way I can be 50% right over being wrong most of the time.[/quote]Bathroom inconsideration isn’t gendered.

That’s why both public facilities are abysmal.

What the behavior boils down to is simply whether someone cares about creating a bad experience for others or not.

The seat up says “I am all that matters.”

It’s same with any disaster that you leave for another.

[quote=windowShopping7]If you sprinkle when you tinkle, you must be neat and wipe the seat[/quote]What seems odd is men that lift the seat won't put it back down. Though, I've sat down most my life... until grandpa had to show me to stand when I was 5. It got me into trouble so sitting was a natural acceptance for me.

I'm a little ambidextrous because of him. As far as I am concerned, I did not need his teaching of left/right and sit/stand. Thank god he never realized I was color blind. Else I'd prolly poke my eyes out. Well, I learned early just to ignore what I see. All colors are labeled "Yellow-Red-Blue-Green", when pointing out something. This way I can be 50% right over being wrong most of the time.

If you sprinkle when you tinkle, you must be neat and wipe the seat

Have you ever stopped at a Buc-ees?

If you are anything like the restroom snob Mrs VA is, you'll never be happier with a restroom in your life.

"Women's restrooms can be the worst!"

women's restrooms are pretty bad

One more tid bit of information. Restroom awareness... Being a gent, the public loo has been a concern for years. During college my job requirement was to clean the restrooms, for both men and women. Aware about 50% of men properly use the loo when sitting or washing up makes me sprry for the women they are with. The bad side is it doesn't matter with blue or white collar careers. Though most whites are prone to fit in with the dismal cleanliness.

Now for the WTF moment about all this. Women's restrooms can be the worst! Since I never been in one while in use, I can't say how bad women are at clean up... but I'd say 10% may skip it or splash water.

To me, it's a horror story. Makes me want to stay in my introverted celibacy.

[quote=windowShopping7][quote=Over7Under8]Tid bit of information... urine was the primary cleaning agent for whites, in the middle ages. Also most wine made by slaves had urine as an ingredient. Due to slaves not allowed to leave the stomping of the grapes. Brits call champagne fizzy piss. For a good reason. Ha![/quote]You dislike champagne?[/quote]I don't have a taste bud for alcohol, but will join in on celebration. I rather have a root beer or mtn dew. Oddly enough I use to get Cold Duck ice-cream at 31 flavors.

[quote=Over7Under8]Tid bit of information... urine was the primary cleaning agent for whites, in the middle ages. Also most wine made by slaves had urine as an ingredient. Due to slaves not allowed to leave the stomping of the grapes. Brits call champagne fizzy piss. For a good reason. Ha![/quote]You dislike champagne?

Tid bit of information... urine was the primary cleaning agent for whites, in the middle ages. Also most wine made by slaves had urine as an ingredient. Due to slaves not allowed to leave the stomping of the grapes. Brits call champagne fizzy piss. For a good reason. Ha!

[quote=PhoebertAndWife]"I'm just impressed that an actual typewriter still exists for her to pee on. I haven't seen one in years."

Probably an antique one used as decor.[/quote]Now rusty

"I'm just impressed that an actual typewriter still exists for her to pee on. I haven't seen one in years."

Probably an antique one used as decor.

I'm just impressed that an actual typewriter still exists for her to pee on. I haven't seen one in years.

[quote=windowShopping7]She should pee on her own damned furniture.[/quote]Just thought only if she was Amber Heard, then the carnage would be worse. Air BNB should require Depends worn on all customers.

She should pee on her own damned furniture.

[quote=vabeachcouple33]31 year old Nicolette Keough is accused of peeing on furniture at 2 Airbnbs.

You might think this is a case of a ruined couch or something. But was rather:

"an antique Crown Royal chair, rug, typewriter, four dining room chairs, coffee maker, bed, TV, record player, toaster, and electric fireplace"

At another Airbnb, she is accused of befouling "a vase, green rug, accent wall, chair, and a tiger rug.

Investigators were informed that she had uploaded videos online of her whizzing on the items.[/quote]I just had to look this one up:

"One of the homeowners was made aware of the situation after receiving a message on the Airbnb app from someone claiming the current guest was actively damaging the space. How did they know? Because apparently, Keough was uploading the videos to an unidentified OnlyFans-style porn site...

..Keough was arrested and charged with criminal mischief because, legally, peeing on the contents of two homes is considered mischievous in the eyes of the law."

• vice. c om/en/article/florida-woman-accused-of-peeing-all-over-airbnbs-then-posting-the-videos-online/

Quote from Florida woman: "Hold my beer and watch this."

Also, "Subscribe and follow me on my PeePorn channel".

31 year old Nicolette Keough is accused of peeing on furniture at 2 Airbnbs.

You might think this is a case of a ruined couch or something. But was rather:

"an antique Crown Royal chair, rug, typewriter, four dining room chairs, coffee maker, bed, TV, record player, toaster, and electric fireplace"

At another Airbnb, she is accused of befouling "a vase, green rug, accent wall, chair, and a tiger rug.

Investigators were informed that she had uploaded videos online of her whizzing on the items.

Hell... H- E-double hockey sticks.

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