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I popped over to Iceland for a couple of cheaper-than-Sainsbury's bits this afternoon so the watch had already credited me with a few minutes of exercise. So I took a slightly shorter route, but on the way I passed a polling station, which reminded me I needed to vote, but I hadn't brought my polling card (though I suppose you don't really need it). Then, coming home, I checked the spare recycling bin in the side road where I dumped my boxes yesterday, and it still had plenty of room.
So I came in, grabbed my recycling (which hadn't been put out for a couple of weeks because of the neighbours producing loads of it), my polling card, and a pencil. Down again, popped the recycling in the bin, back the other way to the polling station (two corners along), did my civic duty, and finally home - and I ended up with roughly the same clocked up on the watch as if I'd done the normal route, but with added useful things done
Oh, today's other excitement has been fixing a car key
I've got two identical keys for the Toyota, and the buttons long since fell out of both of them, so I have to poke at the microswitches through the buttonholes. But when I've just trimmed my nails, I often have trouble reaching them - especially the Lock button. This happened last week at Sainsbury's, and in the end I had to use another key to poke at it.
Then, when I got home, I found that although it had worked, this had caused the top of the microswitch to fall off so the car couldn't be locked remotely with it; I had to lock it using the keyhole, like an animal, then come in and get the other key to lock it properly
So I had a look on Amazon, and it turns out there are many replacement kits available for c. 2001 Toyota keys, depending on which parts you need. I ordered one to be going on with which arrived today.
So the still fully-functional key now has new buttons, and unlike the originals these are connected on a very thin rubber mat, so it's almost impossible for them to fall out
There's also a couple of replacement microswitches in the kit. I've never tried soldering something as tiny as a microswitch, but the other key is useless with that one broken, so I'll give it a go at some point as I like to know I've got a spare key. If I mess it up, no great loss. But I'll watch/read a few more tutorials first and maybe find something to practise on, once I've got around to buying a soldering iron with a very fine tip
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