What Annoyed You Today?

[MiTasol]

I got an e-mail from Florida Power and Light informing me that they would be withdrawing $30 from my bank account to pay the hangar electric bill. That is about twice what it is for a month, and most of the usual $16 or so is the fixed charge; I only use about 35 KWH a month over there. I wondered if the problem I found with the GFI not being bolted down in the receptacle was worse than I thought and we had more than a momentary short.

No, turns out that henceforth FPL will charge you for at least 239 KWH/Month, even if you use only 30 KWH, or even if you use none at all. That also applies to people who have solar power systems that can give them a net cost of $0 by selling their extra power back to FPL; they'll still have to pay for at least 239 KWH/Month.

In at least one state here you pay a minimum monthly fee if power is "available" to your property - meaning the lines pass along your boundary. There was a big stink some ten years back when a large eco-village that was totally off grid and in the middle of nowhere was sent a bill because the power company ran the lines for a great distance right up to the boundary just so they could gouge them. No other customers on the line. I am not sure if the politicians did anything about it. Unlikely.

 

[Greg Boeser]

They probably green lighted the project.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

There may be one draw back to hitching a ride. You're hitching a ride to a Porn Shoppe only to be picked up by two Drag Queens on their way to a Stag party next door to the aforementioned shoppe. You decide not wait for a return ride so you proceed to take a bus while carrying a life size doll and a stack of dvds. The driver then demands additional fare for your "date".

Sounds like you know what you're talking about.

 

[at6]

No, but I do have a very fertile imagination.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

No, but I do have a very fertile imagination.

I managed an adult store for six years. You're not foolin' anyone, pal.

 

[MIflyer]

In at least one state here you pay a minimum monthly fee if power is "available" to your property - meaning the lines pass along your boundary.

A friend of mine and his wife built a cabin so far back in the woods in VT that they had no electric power service. They installed a photovoltaic solar system with battery storage, augmented by a propane powered generator located under the cabin in room cut into the side of a hill. Of course, they had a very nice house in FL where they spent the winters, since to live in VT during that time would have been fatal. They took a lightning strike that blew out everything, including the generator. That is in VT. In Florida the lightning season is only 12 months long.

 

[special ed]

Is that fertile as in fertilizer?

 

[at6]

Is that fertile as in fertilizer?

Some people through the years have expressed amazement at just how imaginative I can be. As a kid in school, I was a nerd and nerds are very creative.

 

[MiTasol]

If you think you had it tough today - how would you think your day was compared to this woman

 

[MIflyer]

If you think you had it tough today - how would you think your day was compared to this woman

There is young lady like that who flys her own Ercoupe.

 

[Marcel]

I've got what they call a "mouse arm" since a few weeks. Problem is mostly the shoulder and it radiate through to my pinky. Hurts quite a bit. Driving the car is difficult, doing my work even more so.

 

[Wurger]

Sorry to hear that Pal. Get well soon.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

Know the feeling about finger tingle, not nice. Are you getting physio to help?

 

[Marcel]

Know the feeling about finger tingle, not nice. Are you getting physio to help?

Yeah, I do. Also have an inspection of my workplace to see where I can improve. I ordered a trackball that I can use with both hands to be able to switch between the mouse and the trackball. Putting the mouse in the other hand, stuff like that.

Sorry to hear that Pal. Get well soon.

Will take a while unfortunately.

 

[Vic Balshaw]

These thing do and good luck.

 

[cvairwerks]

Got a few tricks that will help, but too hard to type them out on the phone. Will add them in when I get home later this morning and am at a full size keyboard.

 

[cvairwerks]

A couple that should help in a hurry... If you are a rightie follow along. For lefties, reverse the location
Raise your desk chair as high as you can, but not have your knees hitting the center drawer.
Drop the arm rests low enough, or switch to chair without arms so you can get your elbow on the desk comfortably.
Move the mouse pad to where you rest the elbow on it in a relaxed state.
Clear the arc of your finger tips from the keyboard to point about 45 degrees from the desk edge.
Decrease the mouse motion scaling to where an arc of about 60 degrees will move the cursor from one side of the monitor to the other.
Now, as you work, keep the wrist rigid and use whole forearm movements instead of the wrist for most things. Only use the wrist motion for fine positioning.
When you are reading, unless you need to move the mouse or click on something, let your arm hang by your side and not be on the desk or the chair.
Move your keyboard far enough back on the desk that you type with both elbows on the desk and not the forearms.
Give yourself arm breaks every 15 minutes or so and let them relax.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Give yourself arm breaks every 15 minutes or so and let them relax.

That could incur some large medical bills, no?

 

[Dash119]

I had "Mouse Elbow" for a while. In addition to the trackball, which I found did not help much, look into a vertical mouse. The vertical mouse did help significantly. Also a pen and tablet works wonders.

 

[Marcel]

I had "Mouse Elbow" for a while. In addition to the trackball, which I found did not help much, look into a vertical mouse. The vertical mouse did help significantly. Also a pen and tablet works wonders.

Had a vertical mouse for the last 2 years, but that doesn't help your shoulder. I guess it depends on which problem you have.