They might have some practical understand of what really drives the economy or even some understanding of what the grass roots might really want besides a dole.

All of your data would be at their disposal...If you did NEED to give them VNC access, you could set up a guest account that they could tunnel into, just make sure it does not have root access.Cheers,Mark

OK- Everyone knows I root for the underdog (namely non BCS teams) and my heart belongs to BYU.

I've seen these put in for drain-fields when there has been a lot of tree roots.

I do almost everything from my phone (rooted myTouch 4G, thanks T-Mobile!)

My ac guy said that will probably be the root cause of her bill being high since the AC has to work extra hard to drop the temp when its turned back on rather than it maintaining a constant temp during the day and having a smaller drop when occupied.

I really think this was the root cause of our problem because what you have described was not possible with our capitalization.

To test that, you actually have to run water for several minutes down the drains and make sure it doesn't back up, indicating a blockage (tree roots, pipe collapse, foreign objects, bad vent, etc.).

If you estimated $5 - $10,000 in repeairs that's the remaining balance from $200k to $160K.Also, to the root issue in this question - liquid savings.

Jon and others give consistent advice to prepare for "unexpected expenses," it's the root of the 50% rule.