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I run a small drafting service out of my house. I sent a proposal over to a gentleman this morning, and he called back and said "I'm having my lawyer draft up a contract for everyone involved in my addition so I'll call you when that's ready". I've never had to sign anything like that in the past, and the experience I do have with that type of thing isn't good. Most of the time when an owner does that on a small residential project like that it's usually because they plan on suing later to try and get some money back. I don't want to draw plans and have a lawyer pick them apart in a year for the sole purpose of me having to refund my plans fees. Am I freaking out for no reason?

I currently sleep about 9 hours a night, and I feel like I need that. Any suggestions on how I can cut that down to like 6 or 5 1/2 so I can work more.

I take in a good amount of caffeine over the course of the day. I am just wondering how bad (or good) it really is. My girlfriend and co-workers give me a hard time about it. I'm just wondering what the negatives and positives are to caffeine

I'd like one that does all the typical phone stuff, but also can deal with twitter, facebook, gmail, etc. I was wondering if there was anything out there that fit the bill that was not too expensive. Blackberry maybe? I don't know.

I've got a ton of little spiders in my house all of a sudden. The temperature just dropped here in phoenix. I'm sure that's why there here. I'm getting eaten alive at night, and I'd like to do something about them. I just don't want anything that will hurt my animals. I'd also like to avoid having to bomb the house every two weeks if they keep coming back. Any suggestions?

I'd like to be able to work from any were, so I was wondering if there was any way I could run Auto CAD 2008 LT from a flash drive. I'd like to be able to have the option to sit down somewhere and make a few changes on a plan no matter were I was, without toting a laptop.

I have a trek 9800 that I ride around phoenix. I paid six and change for it. I notice that I never bother to change gears. So I've been looking at single speed bikes. They seem to be fairly pricey considering. Does anyone know of a cheap one? I'll ride steel frames, it's no big deal. I'm just not ready to spend upwards of $550 for a bike right now.

Here's what happened. I got a call from a guy last night about my house that's on the market and facing foreclosure. This Gentleman "Know's a guy" who can file a fake mechanics lien on my house. Then when the foreclosure goes through this guy will split the money with me. Last night I just took his name and number then hung up the phone. Now I'm curious as to just how illegal it is though? It just blows my mind that people will blatantly throw that out there. Like it's no big deal. There's got to be serious fines or maybe even jail time involved with a scam like that. You're screwing over the bank for crying out loud!

I'm looking to get some back up software that'll back up my stuff to a external harddrive, or even an online backup solution for my home business. I'm in architecture and there has been situations were I've had file go bad and I've lost a week or so based on my own poor saving habits. i'd like something that would back up my work files nightly so the next time I get slapped in the face by reality I'm not completely screwed. I've done a little research myself and I'm just curious to see what you guys are using.

I'm planning on taking one of my old PC's and overhauling it so I can use it as a media center PC that I can hook up to my TV. I was wondering what type of operating system I should use. I know they had Windows XP Media Center Addition, and Vista has the same (or similar) gadgets built in to it. I was wondering if there was anything else out there that might be more efficient. Also, if there's an OS/program combination that works well I’m interested in that option too... I'm just looking for suggestions. Thanks.

I'm living in phoenix and wondering what type of residential construction (cmu, straw bail, ICF, etc.) would handle the heat the best. My power bills are better than 200 bucks pretty much year round.

I'm getting ready to start a pretty demanding work schedule for the next month or two. I'd like to get a couple good recipes together so I can cook for a couple hours and eat for a couple days. I was wondering if anyone had good recipe's that might help me through this. The only thing I don't like is Tuna Casserole. Thanks for your help!

Just wondering if there's a history behind the term.

I friend of mine has an 05' VW R32 (at least I think its an 05'). He's been having the worst time with tires, and the car didn't come with a spare! I don't get it honestly. Find an old rim, throw a tire on it and toss it in the back. Anyway, moving on. I was wondering if anyone know's were he can find 235 35 R19 run flats. I haven't had any luck online.

I have a Linksys wrt54gs. I recently had to re-format it and I forgot to ask the tech support people to walk me through the password stuff again. So if someone could give me a step by step explanation that would be super.

I have a ton of duplicates in iTunes. Is there an efficient way to delete them or do I have to do it manually?

I copied all my music from one computer to another using a belkin easy transfer cable, and all the music in my iTunes either copied or tripled itself. Now I have two or three copies of every song, and it sucks. Is there a way to fix this without manually deleting the copies? I have like 4000 songs. I don't want to manually delete the extras.

I have a pod cast and a buddy of mine up in washington listened to it and wants in. The only problem is he's in washington and I'm in arizona. Is there a way that isn't too pricey? If you want to listen to the pod cast let me know, i'll send you the link. It has swearing so I'll need to make sure you aren't a kid.

Assuming that they're the closest thing to humans when it comes to gene's. I've chosen the dark side of an arguement about marraige with a friend of mine, and I'm getting amunition.