The auto-immune disorder I have Thankfully, Charity discovered Pfizer’s ThermaCare HeatWraps – and boy are they miracle workers. You can certainly feel the heat (the one disadvantage being you’ll probably sweat through your shirt) and they last for hour upon hour (I’d say around eight to ten hours all told). Seriously, I tried the generic …
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Some folks don’t have central air – meaning that they have individual units which are used in individual rooms to heat/cool the area. This makes it hard to maintain uniform temperatures throughout the building – one room may be warm, another freezing cold. Trust me, I’ve lived in this sort of house. Many of us …
Microsoft‘s Visio is the product to have when you want to create diagrams. Your average graphic editing application just won’t cut it. I love Paint.NET, but you don’t want to make diagrams in it. There is the excellent open source Dia option, which is a viable alternative to Visio – but what if I don’t …
Introduction This article is a work-in-progress. Essentially, I’m looking for ways to implement a small library inventory, check in/out, overdue reminder policy, and so on. My thought is to use an Android application to accomplish this…attached to an old Android phone or tablet which can be used to maintain the inventory, etc. It could have …
How to Cancel TransUnion (Updated: 10/4/15) I recently received a helpful email from Carrie. She had spent thirty minutes looking for a way to cancel and wanted to share this method so others wouldn’t have to do the same. On the main page (tui.transunion.com) click on Customer Support. Click on General FAQs. Click on Payment (left …
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Okay, okay, it hasn’t happened just yet – but let me put a prediction out there: Microsoft has finally made a choice leading to its rapidly impending doom. I’ve already received the “get over it” comments from other posters when I complained about the UX, but now it isn’t me (nor has it been for …
Charity sent in a donation to NPR, which we both enjoy, and as a thank you gift they gave us a subscription to Newsweek. We had unsubscribed from Newsweek some time ago due to the rapidly decreasing quality of the content…but I figured I’d take another browse. The new magazine is certainly lighter and the …
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AHHHH! There is water dripping down from the ceiling into my office area! The bathtub upstairs has sprung a leak! Over the four years or so since we had our bathroom remodeled I brought in a plumber who replaced a leaky joint to the drain, removed and recaulked some of the tile around the bathtub, …
UPDATE: Gave up on it. 😛 UPDATE: I’m fairly satisfied with my CatGenie now and can recommend it. Nora from CatGenie contacted me and sent out a new hopper and a new robotic arm. Another CSR sent me a replacement processing unit. With these new items in place, and after having corrected the issue that …