"making one end of the bin neutral with new bedding might give them an escape haven." This sounds like a good plan even for those with out Euros. "I believe there is enough oxygen inside the larger bins to hold the worms through the night." I was in a seminar room at the Energy Efficient Builders Association yearly event in South Carolina about 1992. The presenter had a monitor on the wall that measured not oxygen but the build up of carbon dioxide. By half an hour into the talk the monitor showed the carbon dioxide to be above that which is healthy levels. The worms may have enough oxygen but the build up of carbon dioxide by the worms and other processes in the bin may be what is driving them. If the lid must be on then how about using a fish tank air pump to pop some air into the bin and cycle out the carbon dioxide as a few week experiment? When people talk about keeping the lights on for more than a week I wonder if it is worth the expense. Then I think about low voltage lights that will probably do the job just as well. And then I think about back up. If the power goes out at night then what? LED's might be our friends here. Very Slippery Cellar Stairs? I do not have Euros. I know nothing about them.

I have the same (similar)Frigidaire microwave in the house I purchased a couple of years ago. It's a CPLMV169DCD (the newest one has the last 3 letters changed). Anyway, I was surprised to see steam venting from the front left corner of the "vent area" on this "exterior vented" system, when boiling something like rice in the microwave, which we do all the time. The situation got critical, when I realised it was ruining the cherry cabinets over top the microwave... replacing one cabinet door would, no doubt, be a major run-around with finding matching finishes from the (probably) discontinued line etc. etc... as always happens... so I want to get to the bottom of the microwave steam issue. I removed the microwave and took the thing apart, and found that there appears to be no way to direct steam from the microwave into the venting for the rear ductwork... and steam is very difficult to control once it starts flowing. So I contacted Frigidaire on their website and got the pat answer that the system is set up for front venting and rear venting and you have to change the orientation of the fan motor etc. etc. This appears to be BS... that stuff is obvious to manipulate during installation... there is no design feature for getting the steam from the microwave cabinet into the venting system... the venting system is only for air being sucked from the (very inadequate) vents on the bottom of the microwave cabinet... a sort of range vent system that works very poorly and does not capture much air-flow from the stove top (anything on the front two burners does not get captured by the "range hood" vents.) So I found an outfit in Calgary that just does installation for the large appliance retailers and got talking to a technician who finally remembered that he got the run-around from Frigidaire when trying to fix up the exact same problem for a client and he admitted that it seems to be a design problem that Frigidaire has not addressed and continues to act as if it is not a real problem. This is likely due to the fact that most people don't actually cook in their microwaves, but just heat the odd coffee-cup... and they call this microwave part of the "Professional Series"... that is laughable... no professional would consider such a very low-grade machine. In addition to the steam problem, here is the list of defects on this 2-year old machine... - fan for range-hood has only one speed (hi and very noisy) since installation (previous owner did not notice, before it was too late for warranty service I guess) - turntable motor broke after one year... very lightweight part which I removed from the bottom and fortunately is easy to replace... but it will burn out again! - inside light has burnt out after 2 years only When you look at the parts and manufacturing of this machine you find that it is substandard compared to something like Sharp even in the $120 range. Anyway, I am now looking at replacing the microwave with a proper range hood only and getting a microwave that sits on the counter. I managed to rig the inside vents etc. so that half the steam gets sucked out by the fan, but it's still not perfect and my wife continues to steam-burn the cabinets forgetting to turn on the fan or boiling something for 15 minutes or more. I'm not sure that this helps, but at least I have "vented my steam"! Cheers

Reading through this info, I checked in Add/Remove to see what Java version I have. I had 5,6, and 9. I removed 5 and 6. Guess I'll go get 11. I think I remember getting the popup but wasn't sure about it so didn't take it. Forgot about it til I read this. Also I have a long list of Windows Updates and HotFixes in there. Can I just delete those? I check in here quite often and find help I didn't even know I needed. :) grandms, I have XP Media Center also. Quite a change from WIN98 for me. But I think I have it "trained" now. Sue

1929Spanish - Love your kitchen! It's funny that you and your husband have different coffee makers. My daughter and her husband do too! We make fun of them all the time. It's really a stubborn thing on the husbands side. They had a drip, but it made a whole pot that they didn't need it. My daughter is a teacher and just wanted to make a quick cup on her way out of the house in the morning. She wanted a Keurig like her mothers. :) Her husband said it was a waste of money and they didn't need another. She bought one anyway - with her money. He said he didn't like the taste and would continue to use HIS drip model. One day my daughter tricked her husband and made a whole pot of coffee, but served him hers from the Keurig. He never suspected. But now that the cat is out of the bag, he is even more determined to use his machine. Good thing they have a large kitchen with loads of counter space.