Too many books out there to list. I have some oldie but goodies, like Arnold Schwarzenegger's Exercise book (from the 1980's I think). It has a beginner's section, which covers the range of basic exercises to do before you work up to working out at a gym. I have an old Jane Fonda's workout book. It's excellent. And if you've ever seen any of her exercise tapes, she usu. had a section in her workout tapes (which were aerobics) of floor work. Don't forget that you can do the same resistance exercises usu. with or without hand weights. So even though a book might have hand weights being used, you can always do them w/o the weights. Another thought: The U.S. Air Force has a recommended routine. This used to be given to patients by doctors for working out. Amazon.com has a book on this, as well as other floor workout/resistance workout books. Don't forget about using exercise BANDS. They are perfect for traveling and add resistance. Any book on Pilates would be good, I would think. I have basic Pilates tapes, and there are a number of the exercises that do not use exercise balls or any equipment at all. A plus is that these are not time consuming. Good luck!

I just finished. I put the step counter on my shoe instead of waist and counted steps to make sure it was fairly accurate. Shoe seems to be better than waist for me- guess my budding fat roll gets in the way of it measuring, LOL. I just did 1,200 steps marching in place, doing side steps, and using the bottom step of the stairs. Took about 15-20 minutes. Skipped the treadmill because my legs were not happy but I wasn't going to completely skip doing anything. I also had oatmeal for a late lunch- that should count for something! I have a coffee bean grinder that I use to crush pecans. I pulverized the dry oatmeal and some apple chip. Mixed them together and added some cinnamon. It wasn't great but I ate a good size bowl without gagging. Janie

DEFINITELY what PG & CN said!! Paint is only as good as the weakest-link. In THIS case, that fail-point is the layer that lifted. It ain't the tapes fault! The green Frog-tape has been VERY popular here for yeeeaars. It's in the medium-to-firm-adhesion level. This year (?), they introduced a YELLOW tape...for delicate/suspect surfaces. Faron

Yes this has been covered many times! It is of course not necessary to tape wire nuts IF they are installed properly but taping may help if they were improperly installed as it may stop a wire from comming out and shorting out a ground wire or whatever! Here is the proper way to use wire nuts (imho). First make sure you are not trying to install too many for the wire nut size, trying to get just one more in that tan wirenut if you don't have that red one! Make sure they are ALL stripped of insulation evenly and that they ALL are of equall length. (sometimes it is good to strip way more insulation and use your linemans plyers and twist them all (here is another "controversal" subject) together and then cut the ends off square. Make sure to tighten the nut really tight, if you did twist the wires before twisting the nut and squared the wires at end, you will never find a wire loose. The above is foolproof with all solid wires. When you have stranded and solid mixed you have to be very observent of what is happining to the stranded wires! They don't twist equally with solids, so you have to check that they are properly twisted with them all and have not twisted more than the others making them not be even with the rest.