Eric F

I have a Kenmore Elite gas dryer. It was working fine the other day.

Tonite.. when you push the start button, the dryer spins up and runs. when you let go of the button, the dryer turns off. I've tried all 3 modes on the timer dial and no change.

I'm thinking the start button switch is bad, however it fires up the dryer. Is there anything else that it could be?

This is long.. please bear with me....

My best friend since I've know her drinks alcohol constantly. It used to be 5-7bottles of beer every evening. She had weight loss surgery, and slimmed way down. she was told she was to have no alcohol whatsoever. She fought the urge to not drink and beat it. 7 months into the year, at a meeting a few people asked if they could drink and the answer was NO. after the meeting a few other people said they have been drinking hard liquor which had much less to nearly no calories. my friend started experimenting with hard liquor and got rehooked quickly. she is now into 1 bottle of wine per night. Weekends, sometimes 2 bottles. She also smokes very heavily during the day as well.

I have known her for 14 years. since she has lost her weight, she started going out to bars and lounges and has met an incredible amount of new people of whom she sees as her extended family. these people are constantly drinking and every picture I see with them in it is usually in a bar. They go out to the lake and camping and it's just a drinking frenzy.

My friend says she is a social drinker and it's not a problem as she swears she doesn't drive when she drinks, I know she has and her car is proof.

When she drank beer you'd never know she was drinking. She could walk a straight line in high heels. with the wine, I've noticed she doesn't have that ability. If she isn't at the bars, her house has 3-4 people of which bring some sort of booze.

I have tried to talk to my friend about her drinking and it becomes a huge verbal fight. At times when she's sober and we talk, she'll sometimes admit she needs to get her drinking under control and has admitted she's an alcoholic, but refuses to do anything about it. I think she's waiting for a pill or something to help her stop. she's trying this pill to stop smoking but it isn't working.

Several of us who know and love this lady want to help her. We have agreed that at least 1 of us at all times would accompany her to an AA type meeting for support and would be her support group.

We can't do an intervention because her family drinks "socially" and constantly. Her brother brews his own beer because there's nothing stronger that he can buy. Her family does not drink like my friend does, but she is always around alcohol of some sorts. her new found bar friends all drink, and I know she's drinking more and more because of them, not to fit in, but probably because it's there and "free flowing".

Her skin used to be flawless, now she has wrinkles showing and her voice is choppy and sounds like she has phlem in her throat all the time. Her son who's going to be 14 has asked her to stop drinking and he gets ignored as she says it's only 1 glass. (it is.. that he sees).

I need advice on how I can help my friend. she's a great person, and I only forsee things getting worse for her. I have been waiting for a chance to talk to her when she's in that "vulnerable" state, but it hasn't happened. and the times it has it's very brief and I'm not able to get the dialogue started.

I have to find a place to go for an AA type meeting that will actually help.

She's made several friends who were court ordered into a country AA type program. after they got out of the meeting they all went to the bars or went to her place & started drinking.

I'm afraid my friend will resort to this because she thinks she know the program and just has to follow the steps and she'll do it when she's ready.

I unfortunately have also been waiting for something severe to happen to where she has to face it. dents & scrapes on her car aren't enough. she crashed into a curb & hit a small tree. she lied & said she avoided a dog. Well she got away with it. I don't want anyone to get hurt, ever!

However something hard has to hit her that she has to face before I think she'll have to acknowledge her actions.

I have ideas & plans.. but her silver tongue seems to always prevail.

Please.. any advice will help! Thank You.

I'm trying to make up an excel template/spreadsheet for a friend who's going to be renting a stall in a hair salon and running her own show. She is getting her business license as a sole proprietership.

She won't be selling product, essentially just collecting labor and spending money for supplies and also her paycheck!

How would I go about laying this out so it'll be easy to do quick entry in a spreadsheet for each month?

I figure I could make a P&L tab as well and have everything calculate for that??

Thank you!

I have a 92 Taurus LX with automatic column shift.

The column shifter won't shift out of park.

the keylock collar spun in circles on its own, and the original key was very worn. I somehow got the shifter into neutral and started up the car, and drove it to my place. I replaced the ignition lock with a new one.

I removed the cylinder easily by putting the lock into the RUN position, pushed the little nub on the bottom of the column and the cylinder slid out with minimal effort. I put a new cylinder lock in and everything was good. However the existing problem is still there. I can't shift the selector out of park when the switch is in the RUN position.

I found that when the keylock position is in the RUN position, the selector will not move out of park, but if I crank the key back 1 notch, I can move the gear selector out of park. from there I can start the car in neutral. I can shift thru all gears even reverse. but if I shift into park, I can not shift out of park unless I turn engine off, crank key back 1 notch and shift back into neutral.

I imagine that something isn't aligned, the ignition lock is keyed so there's no way I could have put the cylinder in crooked. the switch that gets turned by the cylinder is also keys so I couldn't have, or rather I don't think I put it in wrong.

Either way the condition still exists...

How do I adjust whatever it is I need to adjust???

I use Winamp 5.2 for my avi and wmv video playback and for listening to mp3's.

I had to reinstall my windows xp pro and all went well. when I reinstalled winamp, it will play mp3's fine, but for video, all I get is a black screen and the audio. I have downloaded and installed codecs for Divx, quicktime, microsoft, etc..

windows media player itself will NOT lay these AVI's. I have no idea what the heck is going on, and am at my wits end.

For half a second the beginning of the AVI will flash up and disappear.

these avi's are not dvd rips, they are just like joke video's that people send around in emails.

Help!?

P.S. I also installed klmcodec385 as well.

Nothing.

I have a Clifford Matrix car alarm, works good, but I want to add 2 more flashing LED's in the doors. The matrix can only drive 1 LED, so I was told I need an LED Amplifier so the alarm can drive 2 more LED's.. I can't find one anywhere, my local car alarm shop knows of them but can't get them.

Does anyone know where I can get one, or how to build one? thank you!

Do you think/know if it will force the fuel guage to peg over past the Full mark?