Recent content by SteveLa

My mom recently had her house on the market for over a month and had attracted little repeat interest from people viewing the property. Her agent suggested maybe installing new carpeting, so she had some cheap carpeting and pad put down. Result: the house sold the following week.

If they are taking I-90 from MN (it's a toll road in IL) they can stay on it until it turns into the Kennedy Expressway near O'Hare airport. If they are taking I-94, it will become the Tri-State tollway in Illinois. Eventually I-94 splits off by itself, becoming the Edens expressway. Take the...

There was a story on the national news last week (CBS, I believe) about a guy that buys these foreign Kit Kats and other candy bars advertised as "special editions" and makes a killing selling them on the Internet. They showed one oddball that keeps a two-year old box of dark Kit-Kats in the fridge.

I've been tossing around the idea of getting a new vehicle soon and I'd pretty much decided to go with a smaller sized SUV. The two models I'd been looking at until now were the Chevy Equinox and the Hyundai Tucson. However, I got a look at some of the CR-V's on the Honda lot when I went with my...

Turned out very well. Brushed them with olive oil and shook some Montreal steak seasoning (which I always use on everything else) on each of the filets. The only thing that went wrong is that the instant read thermometer sucked. Some people that wanted a steak rare or medium got medium-well or...

So I have these filets from Omaha Steaks that I want to throw on the grill tomorrow. I've always used a marinade when grilling steaks, but these particular filets come wrapped on the outside with bacon. I'm thinking the steak marinade may make the bacon taste funny. Would it be better if I just...

Found a box of Omaha Steaks that I received as a company gift last Christmas buried at the bottom of my freezer. Anybody know how long these things can be kept frozen without going bad? Each bacon-wrapped filet is in its own vacuum sealed wrapper so there shouldn't be any air getting in. I'd...

Same here. I have dogs so I have to be very careful anytime I use chemicals. I bought some ant bait at the local hardware store called Terro. Amazing stuff. You put a few drops on a piece of carboard and leave it outside. Within an hour, it looked like a hundred or more ants had crowded on this...

After having an off year last year, it appears the ants have returned in force this summer. In years past, I used Diazinon to keep them at bay, but it's been banned by the EPA. What would be a good equivalent? I don't know what kind of ants they are--not fire ants but very tiny black ones. For...

Whatever is was has been resolved. I'm having no problem getting to the page now.

Interesting. I'm using a Mac so if is spyware or malware it will be a first for me. I had a tech from Comcast out yesterday to replace my cable modem. He also ran some software of a CD he had with him. Wonder if he could have left a little "gift" behind. Or maybe some sort of DNS issue.

Oh yeah...I love this place. I usually will go for a chicken queso burrito and a side of chips and queso. Rarely can I finish both.

When I try to get to Google I'm being re-directed to a site called SoGoSearch.com. Anyone else having the same problem?

FYI: The G5's use a serial ATA bus for the hard drives. Hopefully that's the type of drive you bought for the best performance.

If you can swing the extra couple hundred bucks, I'd definitely spring for the iMac. You'll really appreciate the extra power the G5 provides when crunching video. In addition, the serial ATA hard drives in the iMacs are far faster than drives in the Minis.