My Life as a Affiliate Marketing Blogger, Consumate Traveler and Jasper's Mom.
I finally made a change to my office that I should have made 6 years ago when I moved in. Of all the rooms in this house, the office was the darkest. Granted, the rest of the house is pretty much walls of windows, so it was hard for the office to compete, especially with the built-in cabinetry taking up half the window wall. Still... after having worked in ATC tower surroundings for most … [Read more...]
The easiest way to save heating dollars is to lower the temperature setting on your house thermostat, when possible. As a general rule, you will save 2 percent on your heating bill for every 2°F you turn down the thermostat overnight. Programmable thermostats have electronic timers that allow you to preset household temperatures for specific periods of the day and night. In a typical … [Read more...]
How do you know if the products you buy have a big carbon footprint? Enter Sourcemap, a volunteer-driven project that shares information about where manufacturers source their supplies. I checked the "Objects with a high carbon footprints" under Featured Collections, and found this information about a Nova Scotia cabinet maker. When I clicked the link, I saw where all their materials were … [Read more...]
To say that I like my food is an understatement. Therefore, when I learned that I was to have nothing to eat after midnight on the night before surgery, I worked out a meal plan for maximum dining pleasure. Today's plan included a nice big pancake breakfast, follwed by Pho for lunch, Vietnamese vermicelli for dinner and a tasty little snack of Mac 'n Cheese at around 11pm. Not exactly the … [Read more...]
Power Factor is a measure of how efficiently electrical power is consumed. The ideal Power Factor is unity or one. Resistive loads such as a toaster or baseboard electric heaters convert the electric power to heat. Here voltage and current are in phase. These loads do not affect Power Factor. Most electrical equipment such as motors, compressors, transformers and even switch start fluorescent … [Read more...]
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