Maxine T. Blewett
Visits should be short, like a winter's day.

I have always had a dream to live in Las Vegas and now I am about to make it happen. After looking for job openings in the area for over a year, I finally managed to get hired and I will be starting my new job pretty soon. It is all rather excited, and I can't wait to get started. But I need an apartment and I have been looking at Alicante Villla as a place where I might live, but I do not know enough about it yet. I have gone to their website to look at floor plans and some of the other details.

One thing that is important to me, is that I want to learn more about the area. I am going to look online to see what is close to it in terms of dining and shopping options. But I would also like to go visit the place for myself and see what it looks like and get a feel for the area in that manner as well. Since I am going to have to start my new job soon, it would be a good idea for me to make a decision on this place relatively soon.

I expect that I will be able to come to a decision by the end of the week, because I really can't afford to wait much longer than that in any case. I hope that i make a good decision, because where ever I decide to live, I am going to likely have to live there for an entire year, so it would be a good idea to make a good decision. But you can't always see all of the consequences of the decisions that you make, until further down the road from the point at which you made them.

I have been disappointed in the United States for some time now. With our politicians locked in a battle with each other which has only driven our country further apart in ideologies or understanding, I realized that I wasn't happy here. It bothered me to such a degree that I began to feel like the only way to find some sort of content would be to move somewhere else for a time so I could gain some insight. A close friend of mine told me about the Condo Gallery in Singapore, a place that he had recently moved into, and suggested that I might find Singapore more to my liking.

Due to the mobile nature of my career, I have the luxury to move whenever I desire. I've never quite gone to such a length to move myself or my career but with the mounting frustration and stress that I've been experiencing through the past five years, I was desperate and ready for something else. I needed a breath of fresh air. I wanted to feel like my home wasn't going to crumble around me into rioting. That's how it feels for some of us who live in the United States.

Singapore isn't like that. There is a sense of control here - they don't have much in the way of social programs like America does. Instead they encourage the individual to be able to provide for themselves and for those that are unable to do that they offer them education, a place to live and opportunity to improve their lives. It has completely changed the way I see social programs; they are both good and bad programs. I have realized that what people need more than anything else is opportunity to improve their lives and the tools in which they are able to utilize to take advantage of that opportunity.

My boyfriend and I have been dating for a year, and this past week we decided to move in together. Neither one of us has lived with a significant other before, so we had to decide what kind of changes we need to make. Because we were moving into my place, my guy told me that we needed to look into DSL in Montpelier where I live. I kept trying to hold off because I assumed my Internet service was fast enough and I already had a monthly fee that I was comfortable with. But once he moved in, I quickly learned why he was so firm about me getting faster service.

My guy loves video games. He has played them for many years, and he loves to relax with his friends and play them. But he had never played them at my house because my Internet is not very fast. I always thought he was making excuses, but it turns out that I assumed incorrectly.

A couple of nights after he settled into my place, one of his buddies came over and they tried to play a video game on his computer. I could see the screen freeze up often, and his character in the game froze up a lot. Wow, I feel so that bad that I did not get better service much sooner for him! Maybe he would have spent more time at my place if I had done so.

I apologized and quickly gave him the go ahead to call the company I am with now and get an upgrade. He did so that very night, and someone came out from the company and gave us a new router and got us all set up just days later. Now that my boyfriend is playing games at our house, he has now helped me to become interested in playing them with him, too. It's a lot of fun.

My kids were complaining about our Internet service. The holidays added two more laptops and two more tablets to our already strained bandwidth. I was okay with their complaining until my wife started in. When your wife complains, you do something about it. If you have teens or preteen kids, you probably have already learned how to ignore their complaining since they were five. With our Internet service being so slow I checked online to see what the local CenturyLink broadband connection would cost. Our old DSL had outlived its usefulness to us as a bandwidth hungry family who is always online.

I looked at what we had connected to our Internet. Except for one desktop connected with an Ethernet cable, everything was connected wirelessly to our router that was connected to the broadband DSL modem. We had two desktops, four laptops, four tablets, four smartphones, five security cameras and the satellite TV box all connected to the Internet. Well, that was what I remembered until the kids were playing the game console. Then I realized that we had two of those connected wirelessly to the Internet as well. That is a lot of data going back and forth over an Internet connection. No wonder it was slow.

My casual use of social media and light browsing was not usually a problem for me. However, when my wife told me she could not stream her favorite TV show she watches when she is riding the exercise bike, I looked online for local CenturyLink to switch to a faster Internet service for our home. I figure that my wife has to put up with the kids more hours per day than I do so I better listen when she complains about anything. We had new Internet service a couple of days later and now everyone is happy in the house.

Of course in theory it is not that hard to figure out what sort of house payment you can afford. In my case it is roughly what I am paying in rent now, but the problem is that you have to come up with a big down payment and you have to convince a bank to lend you the hundred thousand dollars that you need. Then you have to pay the home insurance companies for home insurance, which you are required to have if you borrow the money to get a house. It is a lot tougher to figure out all of the little details that you have to figure out to know what you can afford. There is more to it than just the house payment itself. In effect you have to think about what it will cost you to get in the house after you buy it as well. The big thing is that I will not have the luxury of cutting it too close it seems.

For example let's say that I save up all of the money I need for a down payment and the money I would need to get a house ready for me to move in. I would still need to keep some money in reserve for the just in case scenario. That is for example like a big car repair bill. It is not a big deal for a car repair shop to charge you a thousand dollars or fifteen hundred dollars to do repairs on the car. In fact it could be just about any seemingly minor thing and it can be hundreds of dollars in repair bills. It does not have to be a blown engine or a transmission going out on you. That sort of thing is what you have to be ready to deal with.

My husband and I kept going back and forth with where we wanted to live. We both agreed that we wanted to live in Columbia, but we could not decide between an apartment or a house. He thought if we moved to an apartment, we would be able to save money for a nice house down the road. I had never lived in an apartment though, and my impression of one was not all that favorable. I wanted a house, but I changed my mind when he did a search for luxury apartments in Columbia SC and showed me the kind of apartment we would be able to get.

It is still hard for me to believe that the apartment that we ended up getting is a lot nicer than any of the houses that I had looked at online. I guess my impression of apartment living is what I had seen on TV shows growing up, and nothing further could be from the truth. First off, the apartment is absolutely gorgeous. We have two bedrooms and two bathrooms, and it is all on one floor. The kitchen and living room are both spacious, and the ceilings are quite high. We have plenty of storage space too, and parking is not a problem at all.

Even better are all the perks that come outside of our apartment walls. We have a community comprised just of people living in the apartment complex, and we have gotten quite friendly with several other young couples. There are plenty of fun things for us to do from swimming and working out to shopping or dining at one of the places that are within walking distance. I thought that this was going to just be a stepping stone, but I have a feeling that we are going to be here for a lot longer than either of us thought. Why move when we already live in the perfect spot!

Whenever I fly I suffer from severe jet lag. This often leaves me nearly incapable of driving which is why I will typically hire airport transportation in Bergen County NJ in order to compensate. I'm not a huge fan of limousines but when it comes to something like this where my state of mind has been impaired to a degree that I feel is unsafe to operate a vehicle, I am going to do what needs to be done to keep myself and the other drivers on the road safe from me. A limousine is the best way to do this!

Why? Well, it allows me to actually catch up on some sleep. It might not be much, ten to thirty minutes typically but that is often enough to help me begin feeling better. I have no idea why I'm always left so crippled by jet lag but every time that I come home to New Jersey I am a mess. It generally will take me a week to catch up on sleep and resume my regular sleeping pattern but since I am out of the country at least a once every other month, it has been taking its toll on me.

I may simply resort to getting a full-time driver for whenever I'm home. I have enough work at all hours of the day that it would be rather nice to sit back, catch up on the small tasks like answering e-mails and reading reports, and let the driver handle the stresses of the road. In fact, I think I will have to speak with my CEO about this. It's about time that I am rewarded in some small way for the work that I'm doing as well as the huge time sink that I've agreed to. This should be easy enough for them to make happen.

I am considering switching to direct tv, but I am not really sure about it at this point in time, and I am going to need to read up some more about the service. My oldest son is really pushing Direct TV on me hard, but I do not want to just give into him, without knowing the facts. I guess that there are some channels that we would get, if we were to switch to satellite, that we do not currently have. I suppose that he really wants these channels, because of the nature of the programming that they have.

I do not care much one way or another, from my own perspective. That is because I do not actually spend that much time watching television. I am a busy person, and I do not typically have extra time, to use to watch television. I have a job that is very important; or rather, I should say that my position within the company that I work for, comes with a lot of responsibility. It takes up a lot of my time. What time I have left, I like to devote to spending time with my family.

As such, there really isn't much time left over for doing things such as watching television. But at the same time, I recognize that this is pretty important to my son, and some of the other members of my family. In fact, I suppose that all of my children enjoy watching television quite a bit. Maybe that is not healthy, but I try to keep them from spending too much time in front of the television. That is especially true of the younger children, who are only allowed to watch television for 3 hours per day, and that is after they have completed their homework.

My lease is about to be up, and I am finally going to be free of this terrible apartment that I am currently living in. I guess that I shouldn't phrase it like that. It implies that the management is bad, when in fact, my biggest issue is with my neighbors. I will be glad to be rid of them and to never see them again. So I am looking for apartments and in particular, what i want to try to find is the best deals that are out there on single bedroom apartments. Because I do not want to get a studio apartment, because they are too small to accommodate all of the furniture and other stuff that I own.

I suppose that there might be a few studios out there that are of above average size. But really, what I am looking for, is a single bedroom apartment, because that is what makes the most sense for my current needs. I am not getting a very good deal on the apartment I am living in now, and so I hope to find another apartment that is available at a better price. One of the other reasons why I am so happy that my lease is almost over, is the very fact that I am not getting a very good deal, and I do know for a fact, that there are better prices out there.

When it comes to finding the very best price available, it is not going to work for me, if it is located too far away from where I am currently living. If I live too far away, then it is going to be hassle when it comes to getting to work and things of that nature. S there are some limitations that I have.

I am going to be out of the dorms this semester. It is fine with me. I did not hate the guy that I was rooming with, but he was a bit of a quirky guy and I never got used to staying in the same room with a random guy. It is not as though I want to share a room with any guy, I did not like doing it with my big brother when I was a kid. Me and three other guys are going to share this house, I'm looking for high speed internet in my area at this point, but obviously we are looking to be as economical as we are able to manage to be. It is going to be difficult for the four of us to manage this and we all know it. In fact they made me put up a deposit that I had to get from my Dad. He thought that they were smart to do it, but wanted to be sure that they were people that we could rely upon also.

In fact my Dad has told me this story about when he was in college. He went to share a place with a guy he thought was a real good guy, but that does not mean that you can count upon the guy to do his part of the deal. He was a real good guy who was broke and who was really bad at sticking to a budget. So he would have money to go out for pizza and beer with his girl, but when the end of the month came around he never had the money to pay for his share of the rent or his share of the electric bill. That obviously does not work for me.

2. Why is music for brass instruments and woodwinds usually written in flat keys such as B-flat major and E-flat major and sometime F-major? Does it have something to do with the instrument itself?

   Answer by ¡live out loud!
   i play a Bb clarinet, so i understand what you mean. these 2, sometimes 3, scales, are the least complex. for the clarinet & trumpet, the Bb major scale has no flats or sharps. the Eb major has 1 flat on B, and the F major has 1 sharp on F. these scales are easy to play and not hard to learn. when you start putting 3 or 4 sharps in there, it gets real hard to play actual music. that's why the music is written in the B, E, and F major scales so frequently. :]

3. I've noticed that a lot of energy vitamins have B vitamins or niacin instead of caffeine. Do these give the same effect as caffeine, or am I better off buying a pack of vitamins with caffeine?

   Answer by Jared
   B Vitamins are co-factors for cellular energy. That is they are essential for us to turn our food intake into ATP (our energy within the cell). Caffeine is a CNS stimulant. It directly stimulates the nervous system and rather quickly. It has nothing to do with energy production. Niacin is a B-vitamin, it is B-3. Unless you are deficient in B Vitamins, they will have no effect on you. It is more hype or marketing gimmicks with the 1000+ % of B-vitamins. The effect you feel off energy supplements is the Caffeine, Sugar, and some of the other directly stimulatory CNS ingredients. It isn't the B-Vitmains. You would be better off going with just Caffeine, but B-Vitamins are cheap to manufacture so it surely doesn't hurt you to take them in excess. Your body will excrete whatever it doesn't need in the urine. Take care,

4. A and B have a race on a circular track of 510 meters.A who runs faster meets with B in the middle of the 5th round. Now in a 3 kM race how much start A must give B so that the race ends dead heat, i.e. A and B reach the goal at the same time.

   Answer by kuiperbelt2003
   what do you mean by the fifth round, do you mean the fifth lap? I am interpreting your question to mean that A completes 4.5 laps when B completes 3.5 laps. This means that A travels 45/35 or 9/7 faster than B. Thus, we can write the distance equations for A and B as: A must travel x+3 km in the same time as B travels x km; A travels at 9/7v and B travels at v, so: x+3=9/7 vt 3=vt =>t=3/v substitute this expression for t into the first equation and get: x+3=9/7v*(3/v)=27/7 x=27/7-3=6/7 km A must start 6/7 km farther back; or A must travel 9/7 farther than B to finish at the same time, and 9/7x 3 = 3 6/7 km