HomeHelen P. McAlpineSauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.Found a Temporary Place Here in SingaporeI am going to be here in Singapore for an indefinite period, most likely it will be something like 3 to 6 months. It is just a matter of how things develop as to what happens after that. I Found a temporary place here in Singapore, a guy from work has a condo at the santorini in singapore, but he is going to be in the United Kingdom for a couple of months and so I made a deal with him. He will stay in my place outside of London while he is able to do it and I will use his condo. Of course this is a much better deal for me as this is a tiny country that is not half as large as London, so I am going to get full use of the place. Read the rest of this entry »Blog this! Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Comments [0]Categories [Pieces Of Articles]The House is Almost BuiltWe designed this house so that it is pretty nearly free of the grid. txu energy in laredo, tx has a power line that runs out there, but in fact we are generating pretty much what we need from three moderate sized wind turbine on  the property and a bit of solar as well. The big thing is that the house is pretty much energy neutral so far as heating and cooling is concerned. Of course keeping it warm is hardly that big of a deal here, the climate can be brutally hot out here and the big thing is obviously keeping it cool. However we do not even need an air conditioning unit. Read the rest of this entry »Blog this! Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Comments [0]Categories [Pieces Of Articles]That Was a Close OneJust a few months ago my neighbor got robbed. A teenager broke into their house and stole many things of value like; a gaming system, a lab top, jewelry and a couple hundred dollars. A week later they caught the teenager but the gaming system and jewelry had already been sold, the lab top was broken and the money was spent. This got me worried about this sort of thing happening to me so I started looking at home security systems and found a good one: virginia adt. This seems to be the most secure system around. About a month and a half after my neighbors robbery I got my security system set up and I am very lucky I did because only two days after it was installed someone tried to steal from my home. It was about three in the morning and I heard a crash by my back door, I snuck down the stairs and saw a women with a metal bat in my living room. Read the rest of this entry »Blog this! Digg this post Recommend on Facebook share via Reddit Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Comments [0]Categories [Pieces Of Articles]Help Selecting the Best Internet Service ProviderIt was time for me to select a new Internet service provider and I could n