Gee whiz. I'm usually pretty nice but your neighbors are seriously immature -- they've got the sensibility of small children who think the world revolves around their whims. If you're not willing to talk to your landlord, then I think in addition to protecting your plants, some other way of getting the critters directly to them is a great idea. Now trellis store bought is expensive, but maybe if you have help, you could get several real thin trim-type pieces of wood together literally like a little ladder, and fix it up so that it will lead ALL the critters directly up to their balcony. They can have the joy of personally feeding critters and cleaning up after them, they'll love it. Then take some pepper spray (nothing that will hurt critters, but which they might hate), I think you could work out some kind of pump extension, and anything that hangs over their balcony so much as 1 mm, spray the thing above you (don't look up -- there's gotta be a way to do it without hurting yourself!) so the animals will avoid it or at least all the part of it anywhere near the outside. Eventually if your neighbors don't figure it out (even if they do, so what), they will realize that for some reason the animals don't eat out of the ones off the edge and they do eat out of the ones on the porch. So they can just put out food ON their porch, since the critters are right there -- rather than hanging off it to try and 'get it to' the critters -- and falling into yours. They get the critters close up, and you get less hanging over you stuff. That doesn't address where they bury things of course, but it might deal with the constant droppings issue. Give the smallest slant to the 'ladder' and the cats can climb it too. I really like critters and feed them myself but wouldn't go about it in the way described, sheesh. PJ

Problems like this often occur with laptops because, while typing, you can accidentally brush the touchpad with your thumbs. If you go into Control Panel / Mouse, there is usually a setting to disable the touchpad temporarily. On my laptop I have a setting that allows the touchpad to be automatically disabled whenever an external mouse is plugged in. That way I still have the mouse function, but not the annoying jumping around problem you describe. If you need more info on how to get to these settings, just ask. Good luck.

neesie, obviously I was talking about the handicapped spots and not the entire parking lot! Geez. The way the law (in the US) is written the "van-accessible" spots have to be the closest *handicapped* (or "disabled") spots of the handi-spots and my point was that that is the wrong way to approach it. So let's not try to suggest I was saying the wheelchairs should park in the next county, OK? And I think someone riding in an electric wheelchair can handle riding "all through the parking lot while others are backing out" much better than someone someone on crutches, walker, cane(s), lugging an oxygen tank, using prosthetic devices, etc. Why should those people suffer so the rider can have the closest spot? Come to think of it, those people are *more* susceptible to problems since the rider can usually be looking around and paying closer attention to the surrounding activities than the others who have to pay close attention to the ground in front of them so they don't fall. Good grief, I never thought of that before! Thanks nessie! And that's for the person propelling themself in the wheelchair. When being pushed by someone else, they have yet another benefit. You're actually making my point and I'll have to remember that. For someone who is struggling to walk to have to walk farther so someone can literally "drive" into the store, is wrong IMO. I have sympathy for people in wheelchairs but I see very little sympathy from people in wheelchairs toward people who are trying to walk. And I won't even bring up the people who *can* walk, but use a wheelchair anyway. And as I said, not that someone in a wheelchair should have to, but if it came down to a choice of someone in a wheelchair parking on the far end of the lot (even if it's to have the extra room to load/unload) and having to ride, verses someone in any of the other situations mentioned and possibly more, I'd say it's still better IMO that the rider go the farther distance most of the time. And yes there's exceptions but for the majority, I feel it's better. The fact is if someone in a wheelchair gets tired even if they're propelling themself, they can stop and rest. They're sitting. If someone is in the other situations, not many are carrying chairs with them to be able to stop and rest. There's been times I've had to stop and lean against a car and even try to sit on a bumper or something when I've had to make my way through a parking lot. Maybe I should just say to heck with it and use a wheelchair! Jae_tn, not to get involved in your argument, but saying you wished people wouldn't park in the vandicapped spots gets contradicted when you said "If you notice, there will be a sign in front of the space saying " Van Accessible" and that means not to park there unless you are a van or there is no other space available." I haven't found the law that says that yet, post a link if you know one but the vandicapped spots aren't only for van use. It's that they're van-accessible by my understanding. I am going to keep looking though. Maybe I'll just call DPS and ask them.

That is called backscatter. See here > Backscatter or Bounced emails dadoes, Elmer J Fudd and zep516 and lazy_gardens are correct. How this happens is that someone who has your email address in their contacts list was attacked and their contacts list was harvested for the sole purpose of abusing to send out spam emails to the masses. Many of the emails the spams were sent to are dead email addresses that do not exist any more. Do use a known clean computer to change your email account password, though that will not prevent those spoofed emails from being redirected back to you. You may need to contact your email client support dept to see if their mail server admin has a way to enable some sort of bounce verification. I doubt they do since most don't. A few months ago this happened to me. I was in the process of deleting pages of these spoofed, bounced emails when my account was suddenly disabled by my ISP. Seems the backscatter "broke" their server. lol! The solution was to contact the admin of my ISP's mail server and tweak the settings in my account to prevent this from happening and to get full access/control back to my account. The funny part is that the email server admin had never heard of backscatter and insisted that I allowed remote access to my computer so he could run malware scans, which is totally against my beliefs to allow any stranger access my computer remotely. To prove my point, I went ahead and allowed him access so he could run his scan, which of course all scans came out clean. After swallowing his pride and me sharing the link to Pieter Arntz's (Metallica) blog above he learned something new that will hopefully help other ISP client that may find themselves bombarded with backscatter. Good luck!