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I kept hearing the dog yelp in the middle of the night, but I thought he was just having a nightmare.

I closed my eyes and went back to sleep, only to be awakened a few minutes later. I went downstairs to see what was wrong with the animals. When I saw him, I didn’t know if I wanted to laugh at him or cry for him. He had small burn marks on his face, where he had been chewing on the electrical cord that connected to the space heater. I was angry that he had destroyed the cord and the space heater would no longer work. The space heater was less than a year old, and now I needed to replace it. A part of me wanted to laugh at the dog. His head was hanging, and he had his paws over his eyes. I knew he didn’t mean to destroy anything. It was hard to look at the burns on his face, but he was the one who chewed on the cord. I looked at the cord and wondered why he hadn’t caught something on fire, which included himself. There were small burn marks on the carpet, which came from the sparking wire. My dog was lucky he didn’t burn up himself or my home. When the HVAC company ductwork cleaning crew arrived, they quickly cleaned the ductwork. They told me I needed to call the HVAC. With all the dirt they removed, it was possible the furnace may have overheated and been damaged. That was not something I wanted to hear.

 

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There is something about an ice cream cone that makes summer so much easier to deal with.

Feeling that cold ice cream melt over your fingers makes me chuckle.

When I lick the cone and it slides along on my tongue, I have to smile. An ice cream cone makes me happy. Last week, I found out that an ice cream cone makes my puppy happy too. He took the entire thing out of my hand and walked over to the air vent to eat it. The cool air coming from the air vent was enough to keep it from melting so easily, but some of the ice cream was still getting inside the air vent. I was sure that even with the air conditioning on, it was still going to get inside and curdle. Ice cream is mostly milk. I was imagining the smell of sour milk permeating throughout the house. As soon as my puppy was done with his ice cream, I pulled the air vent cover to clean up inside the air duct. Ice cream was in the air duct and dripping off the air vent cover. After cleaning up the mess, I made a mental note to never let my puppy have an ice cream cone. I noticed there was more than ice cream inside the air duct. I called the HVAC company and told them how this air duct was almost clogged shut. I started opening up the air vent covers and looking inside. The air ducts were clogged with dirt. I was glad I had given my puppy the ice cream, or I would have never known my ductwork was blocked with dust and dirt.

 

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My mom and dad had their own ideas about what I should do when I grow. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, but I would not tell them until after I signed up for the classes. In the meantime, my mother was bombarding me with suggestions. Her first thought was that I should be a lawyer. Once she settled on that being a career for me, there was no stopping her. I was getting literature in the mail, and it all pertained to colleges that were local and had a good law program. My father was trying to convince me to join the family business. I didn’t want to work in a restaurant. Dad’s restaurant sold the best hand made Greek food in the state, but I didn’t want to work there. I just wanted to eat there. I didn’t enjoy working there when I was in school. I wanted to be an HVAC technician. I had been saving my money, so mom and dad didn’t need to contribute. Honestly, I didn’t think mom would give me money for HVAC school. She was so focused on me being a lawyer that I was sure she would be angry when I told her my plans. She would probably walk away if she saw me studying at home, if it wasn’t for law. My girlfriend told me we could get our own apartment, and then no one could complain about me becoming an HVAC technician. I just wasn’t ready for that kind of commitment. I told her I’d think about it when I got out of HVAC school.

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I told him that once he got the right customer and learned the area a bit more; I was sure he would love the job

I saw an HVAC technician wandering aimlessly up and down our street. I went out and sat on the porch to see if he was lost, or if he was looking for something. When he got close to my driveway, I asked him if he was looking for someone or something? He showed me the address they had written on the paper and said he couldn’t find it. He was supposed to be at the address two hours ago, but he couldn’t find it. When he told me their furnace was broken, I looked at the address again. I didn’t think they had an address like that on this side of town, and told he may want N. Pfahler St, and Pfahler St. I suggested he call the HVAC company and get more information. He said he had the cell phone number for the customer, but no one was answering. I put the phone number in my phone and tried to call. The number went right to voice mail, and either the phone battery had died, or I turned it off. After calling the HVAC company, they told him it was N. Pfahler St. and they had given him the wrong number. He said he was a new HVAC technician, and so far, he didn’t like his job. I told him that once he got the right customer and learned the area a bit more; I was sure he would love the job. Not all people are nasty, and the HVAC company was good. I had used them for the last twenty years, and I didn’t have a single complaint.

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My uncle owns a local HVAC company.

After I graduated from HVAC technical school and had my certification, he invited me to work for him.

I talked to my dad to see what he thought about my working for Uncle Raul. I knew dad had started the HVAC company with him, but within a year, he quit and went with the HVAC company he is still working for. Dad told me that if I wanted to go with an HVAC company, I should talk to my instructor. Normally, the instructor would ask some students if they wanted to do an internship at their HVAC company. I hadn’t received an invitation from mine, but I will go to the school and talk to him. When I walked into the classroom prior to other students arriving, my instructor smiled and shook my hand. I told him my dilemma and asked if he had any information about other HVAC company. He didn’t know I was the nephew of Raul of Raul’s HVAC. He told me he wouldn’t work there, because they didn’t have a teaching program for new hirees. They didn’t pay very well, either. He said about two other local HVAC companies which he could recommend. He then asked if I was interested in an internship. He had hired two of the students as apprentices, but he had an internship which would get me prepared to work for them. I took the internship. Within three weeks, they hired me as a full time HVAC technician. My father was glad I didn’t go with Raul’s HVAC.

 

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I had been living in the city for almost ten years now, and I still haven’t gotten used to it.

• There isn’t a day goes by that I don’t wish I was living back on the farm.

It doesn’t matter what I do, my apartment is never comfortable. I can smell the fumes of the city, and it makes me sick. I tried a portable air purification system, but it didn’t help. The odor is on my clothing and skin when I get home, and I need to wash my clothes every day and take a shower twice a day. I bought three suits so I could have one to wear, one for the next day, and have one in the dry cleaners. I just don’t like how they smell when I get home. Of course, this apartment will never really be my home. It the apartment above me is having guests, I can hear them. There is an older couple that lives below me, and they love their heat. The heat comes up through the floor. I seldom have my thermostat above sixty because the heat from their apartment keeps me warm. Unfortunately, during the summer, I need to keep the thermostat lower, because they use little air conditioning. I remember the breeze blowing the kitchen curtains during the middle of summer. We didn’t need air conditioning on the farm. The only odor was when my dad was working in the fields, and they were far enough away that you had to be outside to know he was working. I am stuck in the city, and trying to figure out how to rectify it, short of moving back home with my parents.

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I’m getting a tan, listening to some classic music, and making cash all at the same time. Whoever said that work can’t be fun? This sure beats kneeling in our cubicle at our desk task as an engineer back in the day I tell you what! Yes, I don’t make anywhere near what I made back then, even though I have split our residing expenses way down and I am able to live a fantastic quality of life only laboring section time and laboring where I want to work and when I want to work. Heating and cooling components are what I mainly write about, although periodically I write about air cleaners and things love that. I tossed our engineering degree in the garbage a long time ago and never looked back, and I am much happier now than I was with all of that cash back then. I would spend most of our cash on things love smart temperature controls and geo heat pumps, when I easily didn’t need them in the first place. But when you work a lot of minutes at a task that you easily don’t love you look for ways to reward yourself love I was doing back then. Now I don’t worry about whether our and heating plan are brand new and top of the line, I am more distraught about having free time and time to do things that I easily appreciate doing. I spend a lot of our time with friends and at the beach, and I think that is a much better life for me in the end.

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