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OMG!! You guys stay safe!!!! I cant even imagine. Crazy, as good as your offer sounds, I'm going to pass on shoveling your snow. Just light a camp fire and it will all melt.
What a horrible, terrible, awful, dreadful, not-so-good two days.
I had an electrician come out yesterday to give me an estimate on repairing the microwave wiring. Eveyr do often it trips the circuit breaker. I think it's on a circuit with another large appliance -- either the fridge or the oven.
$4,000 !!!!!!!
Most off that $$$ is because I have aluminum wiring and he cant tie into it -- so he has to do a lot of extra work.
I have to have that work done. Every time the breaker trips, I worry about a fire. So he'll be out here all day tomorrow (Sunday) doing that work. He said it will take at least eight hours.
I had a lot of electrical work done in 2007 (by another company). I thought they had pig-tailed all my outlets/switches, to make the aluminum wiring safer. The electrician yesterday (whom I've been using for the past few years and whom I trust) told me none of the outlets are pig-tailed -- in 2007 they did something else, which doesnt make the aluminum wiring any safer at all. To pig-tail them all now will cost another $5,000.
I told him I'd have to wait on that for a while.
And, before the electrician came out yesterday, there was a power outage in my area. When power was restored, it fried the Comcast cable box in the living room. Comcast came out this morning for what I thought would be a simple replacement. Not. It turns out that the guy had to replace all the cable wiring outside and all the cable wiring inside, as well. It took five hours but at least it didnt cost me anything.
Hello all! Ready to change the clocks again? Seems like I just did it a few months ago......my how time flies!
Moving the clocks ahead is happening earlier and earlier. And moving the clocks back is happening later and later. It used to be that we turned the clocks ahead in April and turned them back in October. Soon we'll have Daylight Savings Time all year round.
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We finally received the price of the excavator's part of the leach field system last night.....over $12k. SOOOOO, total, it is going to be @ $15k. This is NOT an expense we thought we'd have when we moved here........
Ouch. Dont you hate it when you have to spend $$$ (especially a lot of $$$) on stuff that doesnt even show??????
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I had never heard of low lights but that makes sense and I'll bet it's pretty!
I'd never heard that term either. I thought they were called "reverse high-lights". But they are so pretty. They're very subtle and cover almost all my gray. My hair now looks like it did when I was in my 20's-30's. Too bed I cant get something that easy done to make the rest of me look that much younger.
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I have a Roomba....one of the originals, not one that washes a floor. I named her Rosie, as in the Jetson's. With this dog, I haven't even used it on the main floor....some of his hair is 6-inches long.
I have so many Roombas. I need to join a support group for those trying to kick the Roomba-buying habit. I like the Scoobas (floor-washing Roomba) but they dont begin to compare to the Roombas in effectiveness. So I gave my Scoobas away and got the Hoover Floor-Mate, which is awesome.
I dont know how you keep up with Winston's hair. My daughter had a Golden Retriever when she was young and that dog shed so much. She was a sweetheart but it didnt break my heart when she moved out with my daughter. I couldnt stand all those hairballs on my floors. Dobermans shed, but they're closet-shedders. You never see the hair -- unless you're dumb enough to have whitish-greyish porcelain tiles installed in every room of your house. I keep saying my next dog will be an albino.
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I am still annoyed with Win 8. There is too much on it that is not needed. And at this time, I hate clicking on a pic sent in an email because it's hard to get back to where you were before you clicked it. It takes too many steps.
Win 7 -- and now Win 8 -- is why I'm so against getting a new computer. Why dont they offer new computers (new hardware) with Windows XP for those who like it so much? Too, I have the font sizes/colors, the internet page colors, etc all set up exactly the way I like them. I did it all by trial-and-error over a period of years and didnt make notes -- so setting up a new computer that way would take forever.
What a horrible, terrible, awful, dreadful, not-so-good two days.
I had an electrician come out yesterday to give me an estimate on repairing the microwave wiring. Eveyr do often it trips the circuit breaker. I think it's on a circuit with another large appliance -- either the fridge or the oven.
$4,000 !!!!!!!
Most off that $$$ is because I have aluminum wiring and he cant tie into it -- so he has to do a lot of extra work.
I have to have that work done. Every time the breaker trips, I worry about a fire. So he'll be out here all day tomorrow (Sunday) doing that work. He said it will take at least eight hours.
I had a lot of electrical work done in 2007 (by another company). I thought they had pig-tailed all my outlets/switches, to make the aluminum wiring safer. The electrician yesterday (whom I've been using for the past few years and whom I trust) told me none of the outlets are pig-tailed -- in 2007 they did something else, which doesnt make the aluminum wiring any safer at all. To pig-tail them all now will cost another $5,000.
I told him I'd have to wait on that for a while.
And, before the electrician came out yesterday, there was a power outage in my area. When power was restored, it fried the Comcast cable box in the living room. Comcast came out this morning for what I thought would be a simple replacement. Not. It turns out that the guy had to replace all the cable wiring outside and all the cable wiring inside, as well. It took five hours but at least it didnt cost me anything.
They will have to repace all the aluminum wiring to copper.
I would get a couple of estimates at least and see what they say it will cost.
$4000 is a big job and shop around before you do anything!
And for those of you who are still suffering with winter, I'm so sorry. I thought the groundhog didnt see his shadow this year -- so Spring was supposed to come early.
Houston didnt have a winter this year. While that was nice (for old-timers like me, who are getting less cold-tolerant in their advancing age), it means a terrible summer for ants, fleas, insects and hot, hot weather.
They will have to repace all the aluminum wiring to copper.
I would get a couple of estimates at least and see what they say it will cost.
$4000 is a big job and shop around before you do anything!
They're not even going to do that. I got an estimate on replacing all the aluminum with copper and it's at least $12,000. That doesnt include all the damage to the walls/ceilings.
They have to do all new wiring for the microwave circuit because they cant tie into the aluminum. And, whenever they've added additional outlets over the past few years, they've had to add new wiring for that too -- which has made those simple jobs very time-consuming and expensive.
I used to shop prices for electrical work. That's how I got ripped off by that company in 2007 -- thinking they were pig-tailing all the switches/outlets when all they did was install new switch/outlet hardware -- which didnt do anything to increase safety. And I cant go back and sue them now because too much time has passed.
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You guys stay safe!!!! I cant even imagine. 
Crazy, as good as your offer sounds, I'm going to pass on shoveling your snow. 
Just light a camp fire and it will all melt. 
I doubt it:
