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Our C02 monitor is a battery eater

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You know how they say that every home should have one or two C02 monitors? At least they do here in the north because furnaces are notorious for messing up and putting out carbon dioxide. Not that it happens often but if it does happen you definitely want to know.

Well, we have a gas and C02 monitor. It’s supposed to be able to run on a battery if the power fails, but ours won’t. We must keep it plugged in all the time.

Now, normally we do keep it plugged in, but if the power goes out for an hour or more – and it has been doing that regularly – the monitor starts to fail. I guess it just eats batteries for dinner!

Of course when the battery fails the monitor starts to wail and sends out a high pitched beep as well. It’s sooooooo loud.

I think I’m going to have to look for a new one. Perhaps by a different maker that doesn’t do this.

Oh yes, when the battery does run out on it’s own it almost always happens in the middle of the night. We’ve had more false alarms with this thing than I can count!

Anyone know of a really good gas and C02 monitor brand that we could try?





Our free monitors

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Years ago, before my husband and I moved to this neighborhood and both started working in the hospital my husband worked in the computer trade as a technician.

He worked for a fairly large company that sold computer related equiptment – huge orders of systems and associated peripherals, would go through their warehouse. Sometimes there was something wrong with the equipment and it either didn’t end up being shipped or it was returned by their clients.

The company often threw out the returned equipment. Not always, yes they’d return it to the manufacture most of the time but for some reason it was too much bother to send some of it back.

Well that’s how Chris and I ended up getting two viewsonic monitors. One is in use in our upstairs computer room. It’s a big 20 inch monitor. It had fallen and it’s got a crack across the top. It’s screen needs a lot of tinkering to get it to align properly but once you’ve put the time into it the monitor works great.

The second monitor is one of the first Viewsonic LCD monitors. As far as we know it’s in perfect working condition. Unfortunately it’s always been missing it’s cord so we’ve never been able to plug it in and use it.

I’d love to find a place that sold possibly obscure computer and monitor accessories as I might be able to find the right cord at one of these places.

Interesting how we got some nice freebies though isn’t it?

Keeping track of my finances

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As many of you know I earn my income through my websites. Whether it’s posts on my blogs, selling text links in my sidebars, affiliates, Google adsense or whatever else of the many things I do to earn an income.

Do you know how hard it is the keep track of everything? It’s not like I’m getting paid once a month by most of these companies. No .. I’ve actually got money coming in daily.

So I think I need to get some kind of financial reporting software. It would help me keep track of my income daily, weekly and monthly and if I found the right software it might even help when it comes times to create statements for tax purposes.

I’ve got to look into this further.

Great new home and garden products at Online Discount Mart

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Do you enjoy spending time in your yard? Entertaining guests or just relaxing and admiring your garden? Or perhaps you are planning on working on your yard this year to make it look a little nicer?

Whatever the case, if you want to get some very nice outdoor decor ranging from Garden Lighting or outdoor lamps, statues, fountains, wind chimes, garden furniture or decorative stepping stones then you should visit the Online Discount Mart.

I just love this online store. They have quality, creative outdoor items as well as a great selection of indoor items. I particularly love their kitchen and wall decor.

Visit the site and see which of their new summer items suit your home or garden.

I really have to clean the basement

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I really have to clean out my basement. Do you know what I just realized? I still have some of my old office furniture down stairs. Office furniture that I used when I had my business.

Sure it’s only my old desk and a few chairs, but I think it’s time to get rid of it.

I think I kept it either as furniture to use in the basement – in case we didn’t have much furniture for the basement or perhaps to use to set up a small office in the basement.

I don’t think that’s going to happen so it’s time for that stuff to go.

Anyone want a slightly used desk? It probably has gold dust all over it because I used it when I was a jeweller. LOL

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