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Spent last few years in February near Waikaloa Resort and Mauna Lani Resort. In those years only got rain during the day once, for less than a hour. Some rain during the night but that might have been water from the sprinklers for the trees, shrubs, and golf courses. Going to Hilo side it is...

Trouble codes are usually cleared (erased from memory) by the person working on the car. If the same problem occurs a few times again in series, then it will be recorded in memory again and set the check engine light on. Just because the check engine light was off after the "repair" doesn't mean...

Went to Maui two years ago. Went the twisty road to Hana like everyone else, but then continued to circle the island clockwise. It was very passible with just a few sections of dirt/gravel road. It was a much different (much straighter) road but no roadside stands. If we go back to Hana I would...

I have found that a F-F HDMI connector is useful if you can not get to the back of the TV but can get to the cable box. Just pull the HDMI cable off the box and attach the connector to change the cable end to female gender, the same as on the TV. I found one at Home Depot of all places. It was...

Touch tones coming through the phone are an artifact of using VOIP. It is not due to OOMA or any other VOIP phone hardware. It's commonly called "DTMF talk-off".

My house has a dimmer that ramps up to the desire brightness when you turn it on, and ramps down when you turn it off. With CFLs, the bulb just oscillated between on and off. I looked up the specs on the dimmer and it must have a load of 40w or more. CFLs and LEDs are not going to work, at...

Check out SpeedQueen. They have top load models with 'old' style controls. In my investigations, they had a lot fewer negative reviews than any of the newer HE washers. Not exactly inexpensive, I feel it was worth the money. The wife was skeptical at first (who buys a SpeedQueen!!?) but really...