Hot water heater bit the dust

Yesterday around lunchtime the power went out while I was working online, and I thought that our whole building lost power and it would be on again soon.

But after a few hours I asked my neighbors if they had power and they all did, so it was just our flat that had no power.

Finally, after a few hours of investigation I figured it out and it was the hot water heater that was the problem. There must be some kind of short circuit with it and now we have no hot water, which is fine with me because I can take cold showers but my roommate isn’t happy about it. We will get an HVAC expert to come check out the heater to see what needs to be done. I guess we will have no hot water for a few days, but we will make it through this little problem. We will probably get a tankless propane boiler next and hopefully that will save us money with the water heating in the flat. I will ask my neighbor if we could use their shower for a couple of days while we wait to get the unit fixed. My neighbor works at the local business and actually sells hot water heaters and smart thermostats, so maybe we can get a good deal on one of them from him. It is good to have friends in the industry because you never know when something is going to break in the house. I’ll buy a HEPA filter from him while I am at the store too, why not.

 

 

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Keep on heating up your life

Who knows where this music path will take us but it is fun to create and make new art for the world and for ourselves.

We keep putting out new songs every week just to create new art and to connect with others, and we don’t care how many likes or followers we have, we just want to put it out there. Our latest song called Nobody’s Watching is a more solemn song about feeling lonely and I think it is one of our better songs. We make a lot of funny songs and kids songs, but we also want to make deeper music and songs with more meaning, and I think this latest song did a pretty good job of doing that. Heating up life with making art is a great way to connect, and the local businesses like when we play in front of their places because we bring people in. Who knows where this music path will take us but it is fun to create and make new art for the world and for ourselves. The HVAC company is great for coming up with material for our songs, and heat pumps and a/c systems can be fun topics to sing about. I think tonight we are going to make a video of us playing on this long rock pier that sticks out into the Mediterranean Sea, and it should be a good video. The heating and cooling rep is going to film us tonight and we will sing a song about HVAC equipment and working on ductwork. It will probably be a funny song and I think we can use it as a promo for the clubs that we want to play in.

 

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Local service provider having a sale

As soon as I get this work done I will do a meditation session and then go down for an hour long nap in my bed.

My cats will probably come in and sleep with me because they are always looking for a sleeping buddy during the day. I will turn on the small fan by my bed so it drowns out the noise outside and I will sleep like a bear for an hour or so. We are playing music tonight around 6pm and will play for a couple of hours and make some money too. The local service provider by my flat is having a sale on all HVAC technology and I want to go there to see if I can pick up a smart thermostat at a good price. They have been in business for a long time and have a lot of happy customers, which is why I like to shop there instead of just going online at home. It is good to support the local businesses here in town, and the HVAC company has been really good to the people in town, so we like to be good to them too and give them our business. They have been selling for years and have a huge customer base as a result. I think I would like to work there selling heating and cooling systems one day, as I have a lot of experience in the HVAC industry when I used to work for my local contractor father for many years. He taught me a lot and I appreciate him even more so now.

 

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Time for a siesta and a geo heat pump

That way I can use the extra money to fuel my band with some online advertising and signs for when we play out on the streets and in bars

I am feeling a bit sleepy as I write these articles, so I think I will do two more and then go hop in my bed for an hour nap. I need to recharge my energy as we are going to be playing music tonight and I am the drummer and singer. It takes a lot of energy to drum, especially at 55 years of age, and when you add singing on top of that it can be pretty exhausting after a couple of hours. The new contractor in town is going to meet us later once he is done doing his heat pump service job. Anyway, taking a nap really helps to restore my energy and helps to propel me through the jam sessions. I would like to ask the HVAC tech about some energy saving tips when I go to the HVAC business last week because I would like to trim our power bills down even more if possible. That way I can use the extra money to fuel my band with some online advertising and signs for when we play out on the streets and in bars. I think getting a geo heat pump for the winters would help a lot, and as far as the summer’s go, well I have a mini split a/c unit that cools down my bedroom really nicely at night. I try to keep the house moderate during the summer as I spend a lot of time at the beach and don’t need to cool the house down when I am not at home.

 

 

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30% battery life left and a fireplace

We haven’t had power for a few hours and the laptop I am working on is down to 30% power left.

It should be enough to get my work done but I hope the power comes on soon so all of our food in the fridge doesn’t spoil.

I just went shopping yesterday and bought a bunch of food, but luckily most of it is fruit and veggies, which will last for a few days even without a fridge to keep them cool. I also have kefir in the fridge, but that can go a while too without refrigeration. My HVAC system isn’t going to do me much good though, as it stopped heating up my flat as soon as the power went bye bye. I just need to keep the door of the fridge closed and the cold will stay in for quite a while. The local contractor will be out soon to look at our power and hopefully the HVAC system will still be working once they restore the electricity in our building. The place next to us is having work done and I am sure that some bozo cut a power line and doesn’t even realize that he did it. I feel sorry for the people next door because without heating their little baby is going to be cold. We will have power soon though and all will be well once again for everyone in my building. I have a fireplace to keep warm, so if it comes down to it we really don’t need a heating and cooling system to keep warm.

 

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Sun is heating up my feet like a furnace

It is amazing how much energy comes from the sun, which is over 93 million miles away.

I can’t even comprehend how far away that is, as a million miles alone seems like an eternity from here.

Imagine how big the sun really is, like if you could get close to it, you would probably cry at the enormity of the thing. I’m not sure how many earths could fit inside the sun but I am sure it is some crazy amount, maybe like 1000 of them, I dunno. I can’t use Google to search now because the local business next door knocked out the power to our building doing some kind of HVAC system work. We probably won’t have power for another week knowing how slow the power companies are in this country. At least I have a natural heating device with my cats at night, keeping me warm just like a space heater would do. They sleep in my bed all night and really keep me warm, as they both lie next to me under the covers all night long. I don’t have to use my electric heater at night because the cats do such a good job of heating up my room. I think we are almost finished with winter anyways so I really won’t need any heat to keep me warm much longer. Summer will be here though and the air conditioning will be running full blast again, which is great because I have a new HEPA filter in the thing and it should help with the air quality in my flat.

 

 

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Heating and cooling that tendonitis

I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of my cooling gel for my joints.

I will mainly use it on my knees and shoulders and I hope that it works a bit for the pain.

I played some ball last evening and was in some pain last night with my shoulders and knees and ran out of cold gel. I still slept pretty well but I can definitely feel the pain when I move during my sleep. I am getting the gel today and as long as I am home when they deliver it then it’s all good. Cooling down the joints after playing sports is a good idea and I should have gone in the sea for some natural joint climate control but forgot to while talking with the other players. Today I will work on them though and it should be fine tonight when I go to sleep with the gel on my joints that are hurting. Tomorrow I work at the HVAC business doing a lot of a/c system lifting, so I need to have my body back to normal by tomorrow or I may have a rough day at work. I think the gel will arrive in a couple of hours, and with my flatmate home we should be good with getting the delivery. Yesterday they delivered a package and left it beside my cooling system outside, which is great and I hope they do the same today. I have a tiny bit of Biofreeze spray left that I will put on my lower back while I wait for the other gel.
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Cooling down my joints with cold gel

Today is a relaxing day with not a lot on my plate.

I am doing some work online now but I am not in a hurry to do so as I am ahead of my work for the week.

I am giving myself an easy day today because we played a lot of music the past few days and I am a bit tired as a result. I will do some yoga later and listen to my Spanish for the day so I can keep my progress going with learning the language. I’m getting really close to knowing the local business chatter and soon I will be able to talk with the HVAC reps at work without switching to English all of the time. I have been slacking for a while with learning the language but I am reaching the point where I need to learn it no matter what it takes. I think this local contractor is going to help me a couple times a week with some private lessons in the air conditioned store where she works. I should have a good grip of the language within a few months and then I can ease off a bit on my daily classes I’ve been doing. The HVAC company has a lot of customers coming in who don’t speak English, and for me to help them with their heating and cooling equipment questions I need to know how to talk with them in their own language. I am giving it my best shot and hopefully it all works out in the end for me.

 

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Time for an air conditioned nap

I will join them in about three minutes and won’t come out till I get a good amount of rest

I will write one more of these babies and then I am going to sink in my bed for an hour or so and disappear from existence. My two black cats are sleeping on my bed now and I am a bit jealous, so I will knock out one more article and go join the sleep felines. They are both a year old and are such nice animals to live with, making no sound and being very lovable and kind to whoever they meet. We have a third cat but it is a bit mean, so we keep it in air conditioned comfort in its own room so it doesn’t attack my cats. It is about six years old and seems to be more set in its ways, so keeping them apart is a good thing for my cats especially. The heating supplier got my two cats from the street and they are really cool cats, keeping me company most of the days when I am working by sitting on my legs and lap while I do my work online. Today though, the office was heating up a bit too much and so they went back to my air conditioned bedroom to cool down and get some sleep. I will join them in about three minutes and won’t come out till I get a good amount of rest. My work is done for the day except for a trip to the produce stand to grab some fruit and veggies, but that won’t be for another couple of hours so for now it is time to rest a bit.

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13 heating filters to clean

My cats got a head start on a nap in my bed and I will soon be joining them to take a little nap to recharge for the day.

I think I am lacking about an hour of sleep from last night, so as soon as I eat my lunch in five or so minutes I will join the cats for a little catnap session. The bedroom is cool and I have two fans in there to circulate the air in the room and cool it down a bit. It is April and I don’t need air conditioning just yet as the fans seem to do the trick of cooling me down for now. In a month it is all going to change though as the temps go up and the whole town gets hot once again. I will have a good central HVAC system to keep me cool this summer and I am happy about that because the last flat I lived in had no cooling or heating system whatsoever. Things are a lot better now, and even though I pay a little more money each month to live it is well worth the extra cash. It is nice in the winter because I don’t have to haul a small space heater from room to room to stay warm, as the central heating system does a nice job of heating the whole flat evenly and quickly. I was paying $500 a month to live in a dumpy old flat and now, three years later, I pay $750 to live in a new flat with a new HVAC system.

 

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