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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.
 

Sounds like you know what you're talking about.
 
MiTasol said:
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.
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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.
 
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.
 
Vic Balshaw said:
Know the feeling about finger tingle, not nice. Are you getting physio to help?
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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.
Wurger said:
Sorry to hear that Pal. Get well soon.
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Will take a while unfortunately.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
Dash119 said:
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.
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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.
 
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