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...
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.
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.
Pamela, I'm curious with what you decided to go with for the analog->digital conversion. Did you decide to go with iMovie for the editing tasks or Final Cut?
Have mine checked in the Fall before the weather gets cold. Basically they vacuum it out, check the electronic ignition, check the condition of the filter, look for leaks and check to see if the water pad on my humidifier needs to be replaced (it's attached to the furnace.) All told it runs...
This happened to me a few years ago. Really pissed me off. To make things worse, it happened again two weeks later. I think I know which retailer stole my card data. I informed the bank, but they never told me how the investigation turned out. In any case, I got my money back both times. Still a...
Check different travel sites. Sometimes one site will have an exclusive fare. You've already gone to Travelocity so try Orbitz or Expedia. Or try a flight out of one of the other airports in the NY area.
Sounds like it's probably an American Eagle regional jet. If so, I'm already feeling sorry...
I wish I'd found a place that rented and analog-digital converter. Instead I broke down and picked up the Canopus ADVC-100 (an open box special at NewEgg.) It couldn't be more simple to use and the finished product is excellent. Still, I'll have to convert quite a few more tapes before I can...
When trying to print with Adobe Reader, have you tried printing the file as an image? It's slower, but it works pretty good on files with font issues or PostScript problems. From the Print screen, click the Advanced button and check the box that says "Print as Image" Other things I'd definitely...
Anyone ever read the reviews of "s.t.a." over at Amazon? I realize these reviews are complete b.s., but this guy (or girl) is a hilarious writer: The reviews of Smith T. Aames
I've only installed it on my desktop machine for now. Can't install it on my laptop until Cisco releases an update to their VPN client. First impressions are positive. The release is faster than the beta versions that I had tested. The Spotlight indexing in particular was significantly faster...
http://www.apple.com/retail I don't know anyone that walks into an Apple Store and expects to get hardware or software on sale, especially something on day of launch with lots of media coverage and great word-of-mouth. I've never seen anything on sale at an Apple Store except discontinued...
Coming in the next two weeks, the job I hate most...painting the house. Well, it's not the painting i really hate, but the prep work (taping, draping, moving furniture, etc) and the cleanup. A couple questions. First, has anyone used those trim pads that they sell for window/baseboard trim and...