William Scammell wrote: >heh heh... i have a bunch of friends in the utica, oneida, syracuse >area. there was quite the hullabaloo when WallyMart tried to build >not 1, not 2 ... but 3 WallyMarts in utica about 8-10 years ago. and >i'm sure you know how small utica is. yeah, the local small biz >assoc. went ballistic. > > >> >>BJs wholesale sounds national. I'll look around. The deals I saw >>were all from 200 to 400 bucks. (mainly big variations in BTUs, but >>I'm in a very small room here, so i don't imagine I need more than >>9k BTUs, or so). >>Thanks.. > >i just checked their site ... >http://www.bjs.com/locations/clubs/045.shtml ... right in E. >Syracuse. > >i think the unit i was looking at was rated at 5k BTUs. > >HTH William, Thanks a lot for that research. I'm at loose ends a bit, so it's real helpful. You know, my life here, hasn't been too sweet, but the people up here are awfully nice, as a rule. Lot of history in New York, too. The funny thing is, i work on a military project, here, and, coutesy of the Dept of labor, i realized my salary puts me on par wit a full-time Wal-Mart employee. It's funny, in a way. The company cannot 'export' the work (for obvious reasons) so they basically imported the salaries. heheh, you got to have a sense of humor. brian s