Imported storage units

March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Thank you for the reply. I am going to work on this idea and see if I can develop some kind of storage system behind my sofa. I may even look into building something that would fit behind the sofa but remain completely hidden. Anyone out there have any thoughts for developing a behind-the-sofa storage system? The fun ones are from imported shipments. Someone I know found a pallet used to ship something from Africa; it was made from an exotic gold- colored wood. Another guy I knew a long time ago worked next door to a motorcycle shop; all the motorcycles imported from Asia were in crates made of Philippine mahogany lumber, apparently all #1 grade–no knots, no sap pockets, etc.

 

The shop was just throwing the crates away, so he started hauling them home and breaking them down. He had a lifetime supply of nice wood.Around here they seem to be red or white oak if not pine. Since I changed jobs, I don’t have easy access to a good supply of pallets any more, but while I did, I salvaged enough to build a bunch of shelves in my garage, the lathe base, and some smaller projects. It was a good thing while it lasted; we were doing volume PC manufacturing, so we had large quantities of matching size pallets.

 

Having quantities of consistent-sized pieces makes it a lot easier to build things. Could you hang all of your cups/mugs on the kitchen wall? That can look pretty nice. Also, you know those shoe holders? The kind that you hang on the door? Well, don’t limit yourself to shoes! You can put anything in them, toys, kitchen gadgets, tools, even smaller food items. If you get the clear ones you can see where everything is at a quick glance or you can label them to help w/ organization.

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Lot of tiny storage spaces at home

March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Side tables that can be covered with fabric and stuff stored under there. if you own the house, maybe you can put in banks of drawers/shelving into the walls somewhere (we have it built into the wall next to the stairs–bookshelf blt in under the stairs). can you put up an extra shelf high in the closets you have? low, wide units for under the windows? install a cabinet sink instead of a pedestal sink (or make a skirt for around the sink)? do you need all 4 bedrooms? can you make one into a storage room? Pat have you considered getting an under bed storage unit?

 

That’s what we have and we just love it! Its basically that the mattress or box-spring mattress combo are placed on a frame work that has multiple drawers, they can be configured to have from 3 to 16 drawers, 3 or 6 to a side 2or 4 in the middle at the foot of the bed, one sided only, or 2 sided or even double tiered. Ours is 6 stacked drawers to a side, 3 on top of 3 and on both sides to = 12 side drawers, and 4 at the foot of the bed that pull out. Its the only piece of furniture in our bedroom. the side drawers are only about 2 ft deep.

 

Possibly you could get it configured to have one set of side drawers and the foot as drawers or just an open storage are?…Worth taking a look for….Hag k The answer to the “men only want to protect women” spiel is in a great quote by Dr. Mary Edwards Walker Civil War Medal of Honor recipient – “You men are not our protectors… If you were, who would there be to protect us from?” Scout around construction/demolition sites for scraps of exterior siding / plywood. Leftover pieces from what were once full sheets are often tossed by the contractors. In one remodel job I worked on, about 10 years ago, I rescued enough new siding off of a burn pile to build quite a few tall, skinny shelves. The wood can then be painted, varnished, or otherwise finished, if desired, and edges finished with a router or dorm sander – but I just left mine plain, with the textured faces facing up and out.

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Safe storage under five meters of water

March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Once again, it’s up to the person. If you run the numbers, and try to factor in obscure costs like the extra fuel in a tow vehicle over what you would be driving if not for the boat trailer, and other associated costs, a slip in a marina might not be that expensive. On the other hand, if you’re concerned about re-sale value, and like the looks of a freshly waxed new boat, but don’t want to wash and polish it every weekend, you may not want to have your boat exposed to the elements.

 

There is an extreme solution in that case; a covered slip with a boat lift. I have a friend that does this. It’s more expensive, but he has the advantages of a slip, without many of the drawbacks. To the rack storage situation, I would also add the risk of having the marina personnel use your boat. Unlike most of the other situations, in rack storage it is common for the marina personnel to be aboard your boat as part of the “normal” process of their work in getting it in and out of the water for you. This may lead to them taking it for a ride on occasion.

 

This happened to a friend of mine. The kids at the rack storage were putting some extra hours on his engines for him when they knew he was 1500 miles away up north. I cannot possibly add to the technical comments about the various forms of storage, but I will say this: one of the things I like about keeping our boat on the trailer at the house during the season is that we can choose where to take it. We are 15 minutes from the Delaware River and 45 minutes to an hour from the Chesapeake, depending on which ramp we want to use. For a quick outing, it’s down to the Delaware; for a whole day’s relaxation, it’s off to the Chesapeake.

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Water proof storage facility while shipping

March 26, 2012 By Leave a Comment

IMHO that is the least attractive option of them all. You still have to drive a tow vehicle to the storage area, and do the launch ramp thing, so you have none of the conveniences of a marina, plus still having to tow. What you are doing in essence, is paying to store your boat away from your home to save you the costs of the extra fuel you would use pulling the boat the extra distance (and it would be doubtful that you’d save enough in fuel to pay for the storage space). You’d also lose the piece of mind of having the boat with you at home. Keeping your boat at home on a trailer.

 

If you can manage to fit it into a garage, you have the best possible storage solution. The boat is kept away from the elements, and will look as good 10 years down the road, as it does today (providing you have no other “accidents”). It is also secure from thieves. If you can’t fit it into a garage, you may be able to construct a carport to keep the sun and rain off of it. Trailing a boat means that you can take advantage of lower cost fuel, and the piece of mind of knowing the boat is right outside, is calming. Plus, if you like to go to different waterways, you just hookup and go, which you can’t easily do at a marina.

 

Drawbacks to home storage/trailing: 1. Hassle. Getting the boat ready, hooking up, driving to the water, and the 3 ring circus at the launch ramp is enough to ruin many otherwise good boating days. 2. Maintenance. A trailer is a high maintenance item. At least if you want some reasonable safety, and reliability. 3. Tags and insurance. While registration and insurance costs for trailers is usually low, it’s still something that should be considered. 4. Tow vehicle.

 

Not many passenger cars can pull more than 1500 Lbs any more, which means an SUV or pickup truck (Which many people seem to like anyway). But you now have the costs of the tow vehicle to consider. If it’s your daily driver, you have to deal with the lousy fuel economy. If it’s a “second” car, then you have the costs of multiple cars and insurance. Many people, who tow once a year, can get away with renting a truck for the day. But this isn’t cost effective for the weekly trailer boater.

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How to move your business to a new place?

March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

More serious are the strict constraints associated with IRA accounts. Demands for certificates from IRA’s are treated as a premature withdrawal and are potentially subject to strict tax consequences if not returned within 60 days. “This effort has indicated that shares held in IRA’s are unwittingly offering a “safe haven” of almost untouchable stock in “street name” against which market makers and large institutions can sell short,” said Kinkead.

 

According to Andle, this is one of many stocks on the OTC bulletin boards that is facing heavy short selling and the efforts by the PCBM Shareholder’s Group prompted similar efforts at Finder’s Keepers [OTCBB: FDKP], Titan [NYSE: TTN], and may be expected to generate similar efforts in other stocks suffering from perceived shorting. About Kinkead Law Offices and the 363 member PCBM Shareholder’s Group: Kinkead Law Offices is located at 6937 S. Bell, Suite G, Amarillo, TX 79109. Bill Kinkead, managing attorney of the firm, may be contacted by mail at that address and by to provide information and a forum for the 363 member PCBM Shareholder’s Group and other PCBM shareholders worldwide. Telephone inquiries should be directed. Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements:

 

Except for historical information contained herein statements in this press release are forward-looking statements that are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties, which may cause the company’s actual results in the future periods to differ materially from the foretasted results. These risks and uncertainties, include, among other things, product price volatility, product demand, market competition, risk inherent in the company’s domestic and international operations, imprecision in estimating product reserves and the company’s ability to replace and expand it’s holdings. This press release is based on the best available data and is subject to potential errors of reporting or counting.

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Moving a share holding partner

March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Further to this effort, individuals within the PCBM Shareholder’s Group have collectively requested certificates on at least 6 million additional shares that are expected to be undeliverable by brokers and clearinghouses. The resultant “paper call”, according to Kinkead, is expected to have dramatic consequences on several broker-dealers and market makers that are believed to have enacted trades in which their clients sold the stock short. Additional certificate requests are anticipated by members of the PCBM Shareholder’s Group, above and beyond those reported in this release.

 

“Litigation may eventually be necessary to preserve the rights of several thousand shareholders of PCBM who are unable to obtain certificates for their shares,” said Kinkead. This action was taken by the Shareholder’s Group in response to a perceived short position of at least 40 million shares. Initially, starting June 19, 2000, the shareholders attempted to “buy up” the float; the effort met with increased selling pressure. “In conjunction with this effort, the company asserts that it has not increased the number of free trading stock certificates, which leads the shareholders to assert that short selling is still occurring,” said Andle.

 

As a result, the Shareholder’s Group determined that the removal of shares into certificate form would be necessary in order to stop the short-selling. Today’s announcement culminates a two-month effort by a loosely confederated group of over 200 individual shareholders in the US and Canada and another 163 individual shareholders in Belgium. Shareholders within the Group contend that they collectively own over 82 million shares while the company states that only 42 million free trading shares exist. The effort to request all of the company’s stock into certificate form was severely hampered by two factors. (1) The Belgian shareholders claim over 16 million shares; however they uniformly report that obtaining certificate form paper on US stocks is difficult.

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How to cope with moving?

March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Well I can’t really comment on your situation but I can perhaps give you an idea of how he is going to feel about it all. My parents had lived in the same house for 25 years – I had lived there for 21 of them. Last year Dad got offered a much better job in a town called Tamworth. Its a country town in Sydney and completely different from what they were used to. They had a months notice – and when Dad resigned from where we both worked, they fired me! That was not altogether a bad thing because it gave me a chance to spend some time with them before they left – helping to get the house – which I dearly loved even though I no longer lived there – and themselves ready to go.

 

My sister, her son and I both decided to go to Tamworth with them to help them settle in and find a place to live and all. They drove up and we flew to meet them two days later. We got them settled in a really nice house and flew back home where my sister moved in with me as she had not moved out of home yet! The hardest parts for me was – I had seen my Dad at work every day for seven years and now I spoke to him on the phone instead – I couldn’t just get in the car and drive five minutes away to go see them like I used to and because Dad had started work right away he couldn’t come back to help us sort out all the stuff in the house when it was sold.

 

My sister and I did most of that ourselves and I found myself on the verge of tears for most of that time. Three months later my sister got offered a job with Dad, so she and my little nephew followed them up there. That was really hard because she took my three year old nephew with her – who I really adore and who doesn’t like talking on the phone! I would have followed them myself if I didn’t have attachments here and I really miss them but it has taught me to say the things that are really important to the really important people – which is my whole point to you Betsy.

 

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Are you moving out?

March 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I got hit by some really weird emotions tonight. My SS is the one of the $19 phone calls a few weeks ago. We got over that, and he decided he was moving to his mother’s 10 hours away and wanted to go to a community college, even though he passed HS on a gift from his teachers. This idea came up suddenly and of course he would want money. This 19 year old then couldn’t work his summer job because he “hurt his foot”, conveniently. He’s been playing and driving all over for the last 4 weeks, seeing friends, going to amusement parks, etc. Finally he announced 2 weeks ago that he wasn’t going to the college after all, but moving there to get a job, eventually.

 

I know for a fact that his stepfather really doesn’t want him down there, and is going to make him grow up and pay his way, which is going to be a real shocker. So he’s been putting this move off for weeks now, saying “I’m moving next week” for the last 4 weeks. His mother and I have been e-mailing about stuff concerning him and she finally bought him a plane ticket to fly to her place on Sunday, to live permanently. So I came home tonight and hear this announced, that’s he’s moving Sunday, and he’s in his room cleaning it out and packing. Now the weird part. All of a sudden I felt this wave of disbelief that he was actually leaving us, and sadness because he’s going, and the feeling I’m actually going to miss him. I was so shocked by these emotions I couldn’t believe it. My husband is incredibly irritable and cranky, and I think it’s probably because his son is leaving.

 

The event (moving) that all along I’ve felt would be best for him and the best for my husband, me and our 2 little ones, is now happening, and really throwing me for a loop. I know my 3 year old son, who adores SS will really miss him. He talks about him all the time. How do I explain to a 3 year old that brother is moving and maybe we’ll see him at Christmas? What’s it like when the SKs finally grow up and leave home? How does it change the relationship in the house and with your husband? What do I have to look forward to and why am I feeling that I may really miss him when he’s been a real pain in the

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Moving Office XP to a new Computer

March 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I have Office XP for Students and Teachers. I need to move the program to a different desktop computer, and I know it can only be installed on one system at a time. How do I go about moving the program?Clean up the old machine, and uninstall XP. Install on the new machine, and it’s going to ask for the activation code. One of the options for the regular version is to call Microsoft to get a code…you probably need to do that and tell them your story. (what a job that must be) Hard to tell if they go easy on you or put you on telephone-trial.

 

but that’s probably the only way. The activation people have been really great the couple of times I’ve had to call. In fact, on one call, I was trying to install using a CD from a different system in the office because I couldn’t find our IT guy to get the right install CDs. The activation girl didn’t even call me a crook or anything! (But she wasn’t able to help me activate, so I had to call the IT guy to come back and get the CDs. Ah, well.) I was actually pleasantly surprised. The only time I called they were great, too. Tech support has to be a lot easier wih the mandate they must be working under. Something like: anybody who calls is probably legit, so help them out.

 

Frankly, when I was a CSR I looked forward to those great stories…I wish I had kept some of the good ones. “Dear Sir, Would you please fix this Heathkit. The cat run behind the TV & knocked it on the floor, & it hasn’t been working since.I’d not expect many. Primary is to make sure you’ve hired a quality cable installer and quality patch cables. Have someone shoot all the cables to make sure they’re good ahead of time. Installing the Ethernet cards in the clients should not be any more work than installing a Token Ring card. Same for the card in the server. Remember Ethernet uses a maximum packet size of 1518; you’ll have to modify NET.CFG on the clients anyway, adding an entry for the net card. Make sure you change Maximum Packet Size if it exists.

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Moving office, Exchange & T1 Line

March 20, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I need to know the steps to go about moving our exchange server which is connected to a T1 line to another building. When I call the providors, what do I need to ask them?? How do I go about getting new IP address and etc?? Please help. You need to ask your ISP (or whoever registered your existing mail domain) to create another MX record for your e-mail domain in DNS. This record should point to new IP addr of Exchange Server. What is the proper way of moving Office 2002 applications to Office 2003?

 

I think the VBA codes are mostly forward compatible, but do we need to copy and paste VBA codes from, for example, a Word 2002 document to Word 2003 document? And what if we open a 2002 document in Office 2003? If we do so and recompile the application, can it become a 2003 document? Are the format of 2002 and 2003 compatible? The file formats in 2003 are the same as XP. There is no need to cut and paste VBA project code into “new” blank modules. I still have some access 2000 format databases, and Excel spreadsheets with thousands of lines of code in multiple modules and those still work in 2003. We are in the process of getting ready to move buildings on the weekend.

 

The site is part of a large corporation and we have our container partitioned with replicas local. Under this we have numerous partitions, again all replicated local. Approx 20+ servers in total. Anything I should be aware of prior to move. Only one replica will be down at any one time: All servers will be synchronised prior to downing the next server and so forth. Maximum downtime expected is approx 1 Hour for each server. Will follow TID on NDS Health checks etc Than I cannot see any problems with it. Assuming you do not have nay problems in NDS to start with. Are you going to change any network addresses?

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