Wow! I'm in North Central Florida. Last month's electric bill was $165. sm
Posted By: nm on 2006-07-09
In Reply to: $256.00 for June electric bill in Calif. - Skyrocketing power bill?
I have electric everything and keep the thermostat set at 73. Some folks here with a different electric company have had bills triple to quadruple their normal. You may want to do some investigating.
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Yes, our electric bills have been outrageous. Last month was $199.00, and my new bill came in and is $256.00 also! I too live in California, and we get shafted with the utilities in this state. During winter months my gas bill was as high as $175.00 which is almost five times what it used to be 7 years ago, and my paychecks keep going down in the transcription field!.
I'm in North Central Indiana
and have used ATT/yahoo DSL. Not sure if this would work for your or not, but I've used it for years and very rarely have problems.
Bern
PS- GO ND
$256.00 for June electric bill in Calif.
Am curious if anyone's else is outrageously high. Mine typically is $150-200 for summer months.
I keep temp at 82 during day, 78 at night. Temperatures here soar to 95-100 though. But, I live alone and have gas hot water, gas stove.
Working at home has its pluses and minuses! Leaving the air off for 8-10 hours a day while I was at the hospital working saved me a lot of cash in this utility bills.
my bill in central California for June was $392,
last month was $299. If this year is anything like last year, July will be $500 and August $600. I keep it at 78 to 80 all day.
North & South Florida are radically different...
I grew up in the Miami area and agree with all of the negative posts here. It was always hot  and humid with lots of BUGS! There was maybe 6 weeks of pleasant weather in the winter.
I've been living in northern Florida for many years and love it. It is like a whole different state than south Fla. We do get hot and humid summers but that weather lasts about 4 months or so. We have a couple of months before and after summer where it is hot but not unbearable. Then the rest of the year is gorgeous. We get hard freezes a few times in the winter and the leaves change color (December and January) here. We experience the seasons without snow (once every 15 or 20 years) and have ice and frost only occasionally. Definitely wear coats and sweaters. Instead of palm trees everwhere, we live in a forested area and have oaks, maples, elms, etc as well as the pines. We are inland a bit but the beach is about 30 to 40 minutes away. Being inland, I never worried about hurricanes before. I just don't know any more though. These last 2 years were awful. Anyway, I'm rambling. Good luck with your move and I hope it is well north of south Florida and Orlando.
I feel your pain, $300, in Central Florida.
nm
I received mine from Zylomed North Florida. You may want to call them. nm
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PA...average$56 a month with central AC on all day...1800 sq. ft. house.
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I think it's unprofessional not to pay..I simply state, if you don't bill, I bill directly...
This has only happened once, and I had my check cut same day. This is business and I will not beg someone to give me my money. I simply stated it as a fact.
I'll trade you your $88 bill for my $350 bill.
I would love to have such a small bill like that.
I pay $35/month through Vonage for unlimited LD. Local phone co. charges $50/month. NM
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Our electric went up 68% and gas sky rocketed. sm
I have gas heat and with the heat wave and humidity now and in the summer, my air conditioner will be running and my monthly bill is $380 just for air conditioning. My heating bill in the winter runs about the same.
That is $4500 a year for gas and electric. So, I would take your oil contract any day compared to my bills.
Wow, that's really high for electric
We have total electric (includes heat, air, and all appliances), and our bill is around $200 in the winter, $100 in summer. We get a break on the rate for having total electric. I feel lucky......
About $125 in PA - total electric, about
Pretty happy here, bill runs about the same in winter and includes heat :)
Used to, but compared electric bills
I used to never turn my computer off. Then my grandchildren visited me for 3 wks. Because I did not want them playing on my computer (they had their own laptop), I kept mine off when I was not working. When the electric bill came it, it was almost $60 less, so from that point on, I began turning it off between the hours of 5 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. plus my days off (and I get more done around the house as well) -- continued with the same savings. Figured I can buy a new tower for $720 a year in savings.
I think those descriptions are for electric and gas (heat)...
Not internet. Internet is different because it is not based off of square footage. To me, that would sound like because my living room is larger than my office, I use the internet more in my living room, which is untrue.... Plus, I never use the internet in my bathroom or kitchen.
I write off the percentage that I use it, that is how my tax guy said to.... I mostly use the internet for personal use about an hour a night and a couple hours on weekends. Otherwise it is work only. That is where I get the figure for 75% work, 25% pleasure use.
Ditto, electric went from $120 to $205 in this nonstop heat!- nm
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But, yes to all that you have and the room, electric, heat, just remember though
you have to keep the house for at least a year or two once you start claiming it, if you think you may move in the next year, don't take the write off, just on your text books, software, computer, that you can but not the room itself. See your CPA for further details as to why.
I use an electric afghan, safer than a heater
Hi: I paid about $35 for an afghan-size warming blanket I think on Overstock.com. I just make a little semicircle of blankie and keep the foot pedal in there. To warm my hands, I use 2 gooseneck lamps from Target, they were $10 each, one on each side of my desk, amazing how much heat from a light bulb. Wise
I just bought a new electric can opener at Wally World
and, get this, it comes with a "Users Manual."
This is the el cheapo $6.74 can opener and I'm thinking "hmmm, am I missing something here?"
My take on this is that if you don't know how to plug in and use a $6.74 electric can opener, there is a very good chance that you probably can't read to start off with.
It's 4 pages!
HOW TO USE: (Page 3)
1. Raise lever, place can under the guide bar and against the geared wheel (See DIagram A to identify parts)
2. Press down on lever to pierce lid of can (Daigram B). This automatically starts thye cutting action. the can opener will continue to cut until the lid is completely severed from the can.
3 Grasp the can, then raise the lever to release the can.
4. Carefully slide the lid away from the magnet, using caution to avoid being injured by the sharp edge of the lid.
I'm sure they do this so some stupid bozo won't sue the company because they weren't instructed on proper use of the can opener. 
Electric motor repairman. I'll never match his pay.
But the more you make the more you spend.
The old clunkity clunk electric typewriter days
Way back when, I didn't even know it was "transcription." I did some transcribing as a secretary at a clinic with 8-10 docs. Office manager showed me how to use "a tape player that you operate with a footpedal." (never heard the words "transcriber" or "transcription"). Only had a Dorland's Med. Dictionary and IBM Selectric. Wasn't until several years later at first actual medical transcription job, realized previously had already been doing medical transcription, "typing" the doctors' chart notes and letters (plus answering phones, sorting/distributing the doctors' mail & journals, bookkeeping/accounts payable, payroll, etc.) for ridiculously low file-clerk type pay for what was really an administrative assistant type job.
You wanted a laugh though: One time, in a hospital transcription dept., me & the other ladies were in the breakroom, giggling about something in the newspaper, someone made a great joke about whatever the subject was, & we were laughing so hard, the security guard came running down the hall and into our breakroom to see what was going on (he thought he heard screaming!) When he saw us all cracking up, he just shook his head, laughed, & told us to get back to work!
% of mortgage, water, electric, gas, trash pick-
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all that PLUS, when I started 13 years ago, electric typewriters were still used (smile!) no message
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deduct telephone, electric and portion of house payments.
Hope this helps!
My mother lives with us. We bought small electric space heater for her (sm)
as we usually keep the furnace at about 68 and keep a humidifier going. Makes a big difference. Older people get cold, so I have told her she might want to make sure and wear warmer clothes and don't hesistate to use the space heaters to provide comfort level in the family room and her bedroom for her.
They do that up north to.
I live in Illinois and there is a gas station here that posts the bad checks on this huge wall they have.
$2.25 in central PA...
Hope it eventually gets to $1.88 here!!!
M-TEC has a Basic program (12 month) and a Premier program (18 month). To WAH, you should take the P
:)
$2.29 in Central Maine
2.21 here in North Georgia
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Yep, so were we - the Metro North!
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North Carolina
brrrrr
North Carolina here too!
nm
Central Louisana MT
Avoyelles parish MT for 15 years
Only in North America
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By the way...I worked a 12 hour shift today. I really don't need the correction on my spelling. I realize I hit the 'n' instead of the 'm'. I'm done now...this is dumb.
Central Michigan
Central Michigan
Me, too! We're in north Fla so
still haven't had the worst yet. Can you believe it is starting this early? This is getting pretty old!! I guess this one shouldn't be to bad though (hopefully). Stay safe!!
Still 2.69 in central California. nm
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I know a director looking for MTs in central FL
She's an ex-boss who wanted me to work for them but I'm out of state. The facility requires the MTs to be in-state and wouldn't budge on that. She wants to depend on outside services/off-shoring as little as possible and hopefully not at all. Again, another I've found who is nauseated by the whole thing - do I see a hopeful trend? Cardiology background is necessary. Want me to check particulars?
No, I'm in the north (Michigan) and (sm)
really don't have any at this time, either; I've only had a couple of accounts over the years where there were lots of drawls, I think one was a V.A. in S. Carolina. I think now they've probably all been replaced by ESLs!
Are they located in Central CA?
I think this place might be local for me.
Central FL hasn't increased at all yet. nm
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North Alabama Transcriptionists
Are there any hospitals based in North Alabama who use at-home Radiology Transcriptionists?
Rad trans in central NC city - $16.40/hr
but with 16 years' experience in acute care and radiology
LOL ... 8 pm central, NBC ... but not in Little Rock or some town nm
in Indiana ... they are not showing it.
Falconer Central School, NY
Harrison Central HS, Gulfport, MS
nm
Any North Alabama Transcriptionists?
I posted on the state board, but I don't think many people go to that board. I was just wondering if there any home-based transcriptionists near me. Thank you for your time.
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