How housebroken is the dog? Does she regularly have accidents? A dog who pees in the house more than once or twice a year is not a good fit with an apartment with wall to wall carpeting. If you think you will really need the rug shampoo unit, maybe you need to find a different apartment. About the dog noise--currently I live above a dog and below another dog. Their running around really doesn't bother me. They are dogs; they run around. The occasional bark doesn't bother me. Their owners, who slam doors and drop heavy objects on the floor, they bother me a lot, because they are humans and can control these actions, but they chose not to. I wouldn't pre-warn people, because that sounds like you are going to warn them that your dog makes noise, but you aren't going to do anything about it. Instead, as you meet your neighbors, tell them that you have a dog and to please let you know if the dog is ever too loud. I suspect that your building will have a fair number of dogs and people who have dogs should be more willing to accept the occasional noise of another dog. I know nothing about video games, but can you use headphones when you play them? If not, you should be prepared to keep the sound very, very low after 10 or 11 at night. Listen carefully to how much you can hear from the other units. If you can hear every sneeze and whisper, you will know that your neighbors can hear your video games. When you play them at hours that other may be sleeping, you will need to find a way to play them as quietly as possible. Tell your neighbors, "Hey, I play a lot of video games. Please let me know if the noise is ever a problem." And be prepared with a solution if they mention the noise. For your early morning/late evening comings and goings, I wouldn't say anything. Just be as quiet as you can--close doors softly, speak softly to your dog, have her on a leash, try to figure out how to keep her from barking as you leave the building. You have every right to enter and leave the building when you choose. Telling the neighbors about this might give them the idea that they have some say over your time schedule--and really, they can't. So just be as considerate as possible. If someone does complain, ask them what can be done to solve it. It might mean taking a different route to the front door of the building, for example, so that you don't pass their apartment. But someone walking down the common hallway at an odd hour is just a fact of apartment life.

it's the trial game...but I've found on many of them, if you go to another game site and download the same game (after uninstalling at the previous game site) that it will continue. With most newer games they have gotten smart and it's not just an hour trial but if you are a fast player you will get to the end of the trial. I've finished the trial in about 35 mins on some of them ...lol...and then feel cheated. patti

Kat, here's the link to the daily games at Shockwave. My favorites (in addition to the hidden object game) are Daily Diff, Picturrific, Picturrific Facts and Figures, This Day in History, Jumble, Jumble Crosswords, and Word Roundup Frenzy. Plus they have a very good jigsaw puzzle each day. Yesterday, the games were scrambled as an April Fools joke--they should be OK today. Here is a link that might be useful: Shockwave Daily Games

I'm sorry, I can't imagine why it's still charging you. Make sure you haven't signed up for their game club, or requested a CD copy of the game. I downloaded the free 1 hour trial of Return to Ravenhearst, it's a good one. I think Dh's is getting it for a C-mas gift, he's been hounding me to buy it since we had the trial. I'll have to get the strategy guide, also.