Author: Flenn Foster

After living most of my life in one of the largest cities in the country, I am very watchful when it comes to security and safety. Friends from small towns find it odd when they come to visit and I tell them to keep my home’s door locked at all times. I also tell them to be aware of their surroundings, too. When my hubby said we were moving to Delaware, he pointed out that we could get Delware ADT if I really wanted it. But he also pointed out that the state has a small population, and the city we would be living in there would not have the high crime that the large city we lived in for so long has had.

I pondered what my husband had told me. We were told we would need to pay all of our own moving costs, so we really needed to save money. Not only that, I was giving up my job and would need to find a new one once we settled in. That means that even less money would be coming in for awhile. Continue reading No Matter Where You Live, Security is Important

Prices keep going up for everything. What did you start doing when the gas prices went up? Remember when it was costing a small fortune to fill up the tank? I bet you looked around town for the lowest price you could get on gas. The same thing goes for other stuff as well. We got a better price on the programming that comes into the three television sets in our house. We were paying too much for cable so we switched to satellite so we could view more at a lower price. Hey, as some companies raise their prices, I just go with the ones that offer me more for a better cost.

I asked the cable company if they could give me a box that would let me record more than two things at a time. Continue reading With Satellite TV You Can View More and Do More but Not Pay More

It was probably 90 degrees out and I was trying to do a few chores outside around the house. I walked by the electric meter on the house and could hear a faint buzz. I walked up to it and the dial was spinning fast. I went in the house and the AC was running, a bunch of lights were on, TVs were going and someone had the stereo and TV going in the living room. Our electricity usage and bill was out of control. We did two things. We called Reliant Energy in Killeen to get a lower monthly rate on electricity, and we started to bring the kids into compliance of using less.

I grew up in a house where my dad was always on us about wasting electricity, gas and water in the house. Continue reading Saving Money on Electricity and Being More Socially Responsible

I am moving to Texas in the near future, because I finally got a job offer at this company I have been trying to get a job at for years. I was actually about to give up when they finally offered me a job. Kind of incredible really, and I am glad that it worked out. But I am a bit confused about electricity in Texas and all of the different companies, so I have been reading http://choosetexaspower.org/energy-rights.html and trying to get a better grasp as to what my rights are as an electricity customer in the state of Texas, as well as all of the companies that I will get to choose from when I pick my power provider going forward.

I am not going to be moving for another few weeks, but I would like to stay on top of things, and make sure that all of the things related to getting a new place do not pile up on me. After all, moving is a big deal and it takes a lot of effort, and a lot of planning as well. To be honest, I am not looking forward to it, but I guess that it could be worse. Anyway, I am going to check into the different electricity companies, see what their prices are, and see if there are any other things that I should take into consideration when it comes to choosing one of these companies to provide me with power. Of course, I want to make an informed decision, but at the same thing, there are a lot of other things that I need to attend to, so it is my hope that i will not spend too much time on this matter, and that I will come to a decision without a whole lot of deliberation.

I was not sure this was going to work at first, but so far it has been pretty good. The other guys wanted me in on this deal because they needed me to help them to fix this place up. It works like this, the one guy inherited this big old house from his grand dad. It is not quite a mansion, but half a dozen people can live in this place without really getting in one another’s way. It has a satellite dish with and there is Directv on demand from a whole house DVR. It has about five different satellite boxes, so we all got our TVs in our own rooms, and there is another one in the living room. Of course this place has at least a thousand and one things that needs to be done to it. The other guys are paying rent, but for now I am paying with my skills.

The place has three bathrooms, but these were built in the pre history of plumbing. That is a bit of a joke, but it is not really that funny. We are starting out with the main one which is seeing the most use. Obviously it is the one nearest the living room and the lower level bedrooms. I am going to do it this weekend and I am going to hope that those guys can help me out to some extent, but it is not something I am pinning my hopes and dreams to. After that I move up to the second story where they have two bathrooms. One of them is in really bad shape, so it is going to be done first. After I finish with all three bathrooms the kitchen needs to be done, but that is going to be expensive and might not be soon.

I have started thinking about whether or not I want to buy this nice little place in Midland TX. It is something that I always wanted, some people around here call it a cowboy starter, which means that it is big enough so that you could put a house and a horse lot on it. This is not quite five acres and there is a little pond on it that is probably around a third of an acre. The guy told me that it had a lot of fish in it, but I did not check. I went to http://www.texasenergycompanies.net/txu-energy-texas/m/midland.html and figured out who supplied the power. Continue reading Looking at a Little Place in Midland

I don’t like to take chances. I grew up in a city that was less than friendly to the people that lived there. A day or night didn’t go by that I wasn’t exposed to the sound of gun shots outside my window or the shouts of people fighting or even hearing of a neighbor being robbed. Even our home was robbed twice back to back resulting in the loss of nearly every single electronic device in the house. It was a terrible place to grow up. After moving I looked for the best home security in Fort Worth – I wasn’t going to allow myself to be a victim again.

It’s a terrible way to live. The constant fear, I mean. Living night after night with one eye open and your body tense with the readiness to respond at the slightest noise. Continue reading How to Keep Ourselves Safe

So we got to thinking about this after there was some bad stuff going on down the street. I have one of those Burlington adt alarms and I pay ADT to monitor it, but I am not sure how much safer that makes you from some person who is truly determined to harm you. You can use a steel door and put steel bars over your windows, but of course that makes it look as though you have something in the place that is worth going after. It is all a matter of how much effort you want to spend to keep a person out of your house and how much effort they will take to get in a place. Of course a lot of locks are no deterrent to a person a least bit of knowledge of how to defeat them. It is true that you can open a lot of locks with no more than a credit card. In other cases all that you need is a good pocket knife or a multi tool.

I have seen that myself. Continue reading How Safe Can You Make Your House

If you have ever been to Singapore, you know the island is mostly urban. Space is limited. So much that the government is actually adding to the land mass of the island to increase our footprint out into the ocean. If you have visited, you know that our buildings are built with natural spaces such as gardens and swimming pools built right in the buildings themselves. In an environment like this it is best to move groups of people in buses or by rail. St. Lee is your trusted transport company in Singapore. Their line of charted buses make it easy to move any group of people from point A to point B and back again safely.

There are many reasons to need a charted bus service for a group. Church groups, corporate groups, teams, school functions and community events are just to name a few. Community Days held at park areas are best served if the people travel as a group. Continue reading Choosing the Best Chartered Bus Service in Singapore

I want to find a beautiful and expensive condo for sale in Texas because I want to move to that area, as it is seems to be a very nice area, and I am looking to relocate away from where I currently live. I do not mean that I want to find an expensive condo in terms of, wanting to actually pay a lot of money for it. I will click here on this link, to learn a bit more. I know I will have to pay a lot of money though, and since I want to get a really nice condo, I am going to start by looking at the most expensive ones that are on the market right now. I need to look for an energy provider as well, and so I went to click here on a link for a site with electricity rates in the state of Texas. That should really narrow things down a good bit, and help me to figure out where I am going to live next. Continue reading Power Provider Rates in Texas

I have started working on a home theater computer. The idea is not original. You can go on the Internet and find a lot of communities of people who talk about how to use them. In fact it is supposed to work in a way that is like the Digital Video Recorder you can rent from the Cable TV company in your area. It is not that simple to do though. To start with you need a menu, the thing that shows you what shows are coming on over the next week or so. You can be sure that the cable company is not going to help you with that little aspect. Continue reading Working on a Home Theater Computer

I have decided that it is not a good idea to live in a house that does not have a security system, and it seems like it just invites trouble. I have wanted to get one in the past, but my wife has talked me out of it. It seems like generally, the husband would be the one to do that, because of some macho belief about his ability to protect his family. I don’t know, but I want to look into sparta adt security systems and how much they typically cost to have installed.

I want to get a pretty nice system, so that I will feel confident in the level of protection that it affords for my family. I know that the crime rate is going up in this area. Continue reading ADT Security Systems in Sparta

Finding an excellent resource on utility companies has been a pain in my neck! I just moved to Texas and boy let me tell you for the first couple of weeks I couldn’t find a darn thing about prices without having to call the companies around the area! Who wants to do that? I just needed some information on texas electricity companies in mesquite for goodness sakes! A friend of mine who knew that I was getting to the boiling point sent me energyprovidertexas.com before the steam started to burst right from ears. Whew! I’ve been raised on the web so to find myself faced with such a lack of modern information that didn’t rely on talking to a real live human being was starting to really grate on my nerves. Some information like this should is so simple that it really shouldn’t require the facilitation of communication between two people. It’s a waste of time if you ask me, and you probably arn’t. That’s okay!

Moving to Texas has been a long dream of mine. Continue reading Raising Cattle and Taking Names

I have a house that was built in the 1960’s, and I would like to try to make it look nicer. I have been living in it for some time, and I guess that for awhile, I did not care much about its appearance. As a result, it has slipped into some disrepair. I would like to hire a painter in ridgewood nj at some point in the next few weeks, as I would like to get the house painted by a professional. I thought long and hard, about painting the house on my own, but in the end, I have decided that it would be better to leave this job to a professional. I guess that I will take on some of the other tasks around the house, and I should be able to do a good job on them. This is just such an extensive project, that I do not feel comfortable doing it on my own. Continue reading Home Painter in Ridgewood New Jersey

Our detached garage has a heater and window air conditioner in it that I sometimes use when working out there depending on the season. Most of the time it is at the temperature a building would get depending on what the weather is outside. It can get really hot or really cold. I think these rapid up and down temperature changes that could vary a lot from day to night hastened the wearing out of our roof. I called a roofing contractor in nyc to see what it would cost to replace the shingles.

It looked like moisture was causing some buckling of the shingles from underneath. The flexing seemed to be making cracks in the surface of the shingles. We bought this garage as one of those kits that a contractor puts up. It is just a simple slab of concrete and a wood frame on top. It is not finished inside, nor is it insulated. The vinyl siding looks great, but the roof needs replaced. I’m sure that the highest quality shingles were not used in the original construction. Continue reading I Called a Roofing Contractor in NYC to Fix Our Garage Roof

I just moved to Connecticut from the west coast due to a job transfer and I was told by a lot of my neighbors that I had Connecticut potatoes in my back yard, I had no idea what they meant so I decided to hire someone to till my back yard and use rotary filler if they needed to when they were using the roto tiller. They came up with huge rocks and I knew that they meant by the potatoes. It was really annoying as the landscaper said that the soil varied from place to place but he was going to recommend that I actually have someone go in with fresh soil and work that in where I wanted to plant my garden and that would make a very big difference and so I said sure.

I knew that it might not make a big difference to the rest of the yard but I did not care about the rest of the yard, I only cared about the area where I wanted to grow my fresh vegetables. I knew that it was going to be a lot different than back home where I could have fresh food from my garden year round but here it was going to be very different and I did not know how I was going to feel about that. I wanted to make sure that I could plant as early as I could and extend it into as late into the year that I could as well. My really old neighbor that has the garden of eden across the street was really happy to help me and I told her that I was really happy to have her help and I would do what I could to help her around her house in return.

When you live alone, you have to make sure that you are keeping your residence safe and secure. Any neighborhood can seem like a safe one but crime can happen anywhere at any time, even in gated communities. I’ve lived alone for most of my life which has given me the experience to know that crime is everywhere. We like to believe that our gated communities or our hired security patrols will keep us safe. They won’t always. This is why I decided to invest in mississippi adt security when I moved to the area. I had taken a close look at the crime statistics for the area that I was living in, noticing that there a significant amount of breaking and entering but little in the way of a home security presence. ADT is actually incredibly affordable and you can choose between several different security plans with varying price ranges. Continue reading Paying for Your Peace of Mind

Times are tough for so many people. I am not able to hold a regular job because of a disability, but I don’t get enough from my disability check to make it each month either. I am one of those people who is caught between a rock and a hard place, but I am able to make it each month because of things that I do to generate extra income. One way I do this is by checking scrap metal prices per pound on a website I have bookmarked at least once a week.

The reason I do this is because I have three scrap yards within 30 minutes of me, and there are a couple of more within 75 minutes of me. Because there are so many, they are a bit more competitively priced than what most people may experience in their own areas. Continue reading Using Scrap Metals to Make Ends Meet

With the constant advancements of systems technology and the globalization of common PC programming languages, reference websites specific to tech related issues are beginning to spring up at a rapid pace. For those that have spent time creating a masterpiece of syntax manipulation upon the pages of a powerful Vi text editor or fancy Windows IDE; attempting to remember everything quickly becomes a forgotten concept. Some programmers write their functions, methods, classes and variables on paper while they “!#Bang” and “Bash” their head against the monitor; attempting to remember the median of that last array (“Or was it the one before?”). A constantly updated domain is rare and usually eludes the more in-depth usage of complex C++ techniques used in advanced development systems. Continue reading An Encyclopedia for the Programmer in Need

If you speak French natively, you probably know how difficult it is to learn something new when it is written in a language that is not your own. In the past, all the good material about how to program computers was written in English and was very difficult for those who did not speak English to access. Now, fortunately, there is an encyclopedia written in French about programming languages and other computer related topics that you can use to learn with.

This encyclopedia covers everything that you would expect out of one that is written in English. All of the most popular programming languages are covered, from C to Python and everything in between. Programming techniques are also covered, such as object oriented programming, recursion, procedural programming, and more. On top of all of this, the encyclopedia also provides a refresher course on other computer topics that you may have forgotten about, such as networking and printing. Continue reading Learn to Program Computers in Your Native Language