lordkeystroke

Our bill was around 170.00 a month when we moved in. I replaced every light bulb in the house with CFL's and LED's, and that helped. Recently, the bill has jumped to 350, and we have less people here, and no one is home during the daytime for 3 days a week. I have smart strips on the tv's, and all of the appliances I have checked are drawing normal amounts of electricity. The water is hot enough at the start, but seems to go away faster and takes longer to recover than it used to. I'm thinking that if it is malfunctioning, and running constantly to heat that 80 gallon tank...it will eat voltage like there is no tomorrow. Any thoughts?

I have a Pondmaster Proline Hy-Drive 6000 gph pond pump which died Thursday after being in use for 2 months or less. Pondmaster just shipped this unit to me as a replacement for my original which went 3 months before failing. Has anyone else had this issue? I've used Pondmaster pumps for years, and my 4000gph unit is still going strong after 4 seasons. Any thoughts?

I despise it! Moving the mouse over anything makes that thing expand and I have to continuously click out of it, it is just ANNOYING!

GRRRR

I keep getting the following message "Account Unavailable

Your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience." Anyone else having or had this issue and if so how did you fix it? I should mention that my wife's account is FINE, we can log into her acct using either of our computers. WTF?!

I have an interesting dilemma. Shortly after we divorced, my 1st wife was killed in a horrible car accident. Our daughter and our youngest son were with her at the time, the baby got whiplash but is fine now, but my daughter was pinned in the car, and has scarring on her legs and head now and her right arm as well. Her mom's insurance company has determined that my daughter sustained injuries that surpassed a set threshold and they are offering her a settlement for her injuries. Now here is the problem. My ex-mother-in-law has told my daughter that if she takes the money, then she is disrespecting her mother's memory, and the entire family will DISOWN my daughter! I have had full custody of all our children since the accident, and I gotta tell ya, those folks hate me. I and my new wife have spoken with my daughter regarding this, and have repeatedly told her that the money is there, she is NOT suing her mother, as her grandmother says, nor is she disrespecting her memory in any way. She's in college now, and that 10G would help her immensely. What would you do if you were her? I should mention that her grandmother lives over 5000 miles away, and has done nothing to assist my daughter with school. NOTHING. Not that that is an issue for me, my wife and I are helping her with what she needs, and she works after school. The issue is, the money is there, it has been offered on a PLATE, and it will help my little girl pay her school bills, and possibly help her get a jumpstart on her life. My ex's family doesn't call the kids, or write, except maybe once every 2 months the grandmother will call and talk to the kids for MAYBE 5 minutes. To say you will disown your grandchild over offered money..... It boggles my mind. What would you do?

I have an interesting dilemma. Shortly after we divorced, my 1st wife was killed in a horrible car accident. Our daughter and our youngest son were with her at the time, the baby got whiplash but is fine now, but my daughter was pinned in the car, and has scarring on her legs and head now and her right arm as well. Her mom's insurance company has determined that my daughter sustained injuries that surpassed a set threshold and they are offering her a settlement for her injuries. Now here is the problem. My ex-mother-in-law has told my daughter that if she takes the money, then she is disrespecting her mother's memory, and the entire family will DISOWN my daughter! I have had full custody of all our children since the accident, and I gotta tell ya, those folks hate me. I and my new wife have spoken with my daughter regarding this, and have repeatedly told her that the money is there, she is NOT suing her mother, as her grandmother says, nor is she disrespecting her memory in any way. She's in college now, and that 10G would help her immensely. What would you do if you were her? I should mention that her grandmother lives over 5000 miles away, and has done nothing to assist my daughter with school. NOTHING. Not that that is an issue for me, my wife and I are helping her with what she needs, and she works after school. The issue is, the money is there, it has been offered on a PLATE, and it will help my little girl pay her school bills, and possibly help her get a jumpstart on her life. My ex's family doesn't call the kids, or write, except maybe once every 2 months the grandmother will call and talk to the kids for MAYBE 5 minutes. To say you will disown your grandchild over offered money..... It boggles my mind. What would you do?

I have an interesting dilemma. Shortly after we divorced, my 1st wife was killed in a horrible car accident. Our daughter and our youngest son were with her at the time, the baby got whiplash but is fine now, but my daughter was pinned in the car, and has scarring on her legs and head now and her right arm as well. Her mom's insurance company has determined that my daughter sustained injuries that surpassed a set threshold and they are offering her a settlement for her injuries. Now here is the problem. My ex-mother-in-law has told my daughter that if she takes the money, then she is disrespecting her mother's memory, and the entire family will DISOWN my daughter! I have had full custody of all our children since the accident, and I gotta tell ya, those folks hate me. I and my new wife have spoken with my daughter regarding this, and have repeatedly told her that the money is there, she is NOT suing her mother, as her grandmother says, nor is she disrespecting her memory in any way. She's in college now, and that 10G would help her immensely. What would you do if you were her? I should mention that her grandmother lives over 5000 miles away, and has done nothing to assist my daughter with school. NOTHING. Not that that is an issue for me, my wife and I are helping her with what she needs, and she works after school. The issue is, the money is there, it has been offered on a PLATE, and it will help my little girl pay her school bills, and possibly help her get a jumpstart on her life. My ex's family doesn't call the kids, or write, except maybe once every 2 months the grandmother will call and talk to the kids for MAYBE 5 minutes. To say you will disown your grandchild over offered money..... It boggles my mind. What would you do?

I got hurt a few months ago and things have gotten so bad that I can't walk for more than 10 minutes at a time using a cane, so my Father-in-law has graciously lent me a wheelchair his Mom used when she was alive. This chair is one of the lightweight ones, and seems quite solid, and is rather comfortable to sit in. My problem is this: It seems to need an alignment. When rolling, it pulls to the left. It is a rather pronounced pull, not something that only happens once in a while. Does anyone have any suggestions on what may be causing this, and/or ways to correct it? I am pretty handy under normal circumstances, but my darn tools are in the basement and it is very difficult for me to get to them, however not impossible. Thanks in advance for any and all help.

They have been told repeatedly to stop. They have not. What should the UN do to add some teeth to their threat of action against Iran?

My dvd writers are dead. Tried to update the drivers but Windows says I have the most up to date drivers. I can't reformat using the Windows disk because this pig of a computer says "windows can not use this item because the drivers are corrupted or missing." Both drives light up at startup, disks spin when inserted, then stop. HELLLLLLPPPP

Here are my specs:

System AMD Athlon 64 FX-60 Dual Core, 2600 MHz

Memory 4096 MB

Disk 139.73 GB

Video Resolution 1280 x 1024, 32-bit

Vista only sees 3182! How can I fix this?

My sugar is 125 when fasting and my Dr. said to stay away from white bread, potatoes, and PASTA!!! OMG I love pasta! How about the no-yolk types...or any good ones anyone knows of? I'm worried because I'm so close to being diabetic and this scares me.