Central heating is on holiday

I like this flat because it is on a quiet street, but living on the top floor of the building would be great because you get more sun and have a huge terrace to hang out on

I see nothing but blue skies when I look out the window of my office, and it will be this way for the next six months. The cloudy weather doesn’t come back here till the middle of October and then it will be cold and dark for the next six months after that. I like the seasons though because in my last town where I lived it was just hot in one season and warm in the other. Here we have four seasons but no snow, which is also nice because driving in the snow is no picnic. Heating is still needed here in the winter, but when summer comes there is no need for it as the air conditioning system will be running full blast. I think that I will stay in this flat for another couple of years and then move to a rooftop flat with my lady so that we can grow some herbs and fruits on the balcony. I like having a central HVAC system in this flat, but the next one may not have one as some of the units in this town only have space heaters to keep people warm in the summer. I like this flat because it is on a quiet street, but living on the top floor of the building would be great because you get more sun and have a huge terrace to hang out on. I will buy a mini split air conditioner for the new flat if there is no climate control system and then maybe get a fireplace installed in the living room.

 

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Lots of furnace filters to clean

I have another hour or so of work to do and then I am going to do a little meditation for an hour or so to clean and clear my mind.

  • Last night was a later than normal night for me because I ended up going to a club with some friends I met on the beach and got home a bit late and a bit buzzed from five beers.

I normally only drink two beers a night max, but last night was a bit out of the ordinary for me and so today I am a bit foggy. HVAC repair is on the agenda for today once I get my mind working again, and then I will go to the HVAC shop to buy a new filter for my unit. Other than that, I am just going to do my normal work for the day and maybe even get out to the beach to do some exercise with my buddy. I will be working with this new contractor later in the week, helping her with a residential furnace replacement. I think we can get the job done in two or three days and then we will take a few days off to relax and have some fun. This town is getting busy again with lots of local businesses opening again while my job at the HVAC company kicks off into full gear for the summer season. There will be a lot of work to do as the temps are heating up pretty quickly in this area. I think it will be a fun summer.
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Local business is open today

My flatmate just dropped the bomb on me that she is moving out soon, which means I need to decide if I want another flatmate or try and make it on my own. I think I am going to try a few months on my own, maybe for this summer, so I can invite friends over and have some small dinners here without having to worry about bothering my flatmate. I make just about enough to live alone, and who knows maybe I will meet my future wife and we will live happily ever after here! My HEPA filter saleswoman friend told me that you are never too old for love, so at 55 years old I am keeping an open heart while I work at the HVAC company. I am really just waiting for my ex, the lovely Kat, to return back into my life and make my story complete. I think she is working in a local business and is going through a divorce, so I am leaving her alone and just doing my job working with the local contractor. I think she will float back into my life soon so I am patiently waiting and just doing my thing. This should be a fun summer, as my band and I will be doing a lot of gigs around town for the next few months and making some money. That alone should cover my air conditioning usage for the summer while I live in this nice flat with a really good central HVAC system. It should be a fun and memorable summer coming up.

 

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Buying a new mini split a/c unit

Today I am going to do some HVAC maintenance on my unit in my flat because summer is coming and I want to make sure the A/C is ready to go in the next few weeks when it starts to get really hot here

Happy Monday to you all! I know Monday’s aren’t so happy for a lot of people, but for me it is a really good day because I am going to treat myself to a new djembe drum for $130. I’ve been delaying the purchase because of money issues, but I think I am ready to buy my third drum and sixth musical instrument for my flat. I just bought a harmonica from the store and now I want to buy this smaller djembe so that we can play outside without bothering people with the big loud djembe I have now. Zoned HVAC service is the work for today and then I am going to take my happy self down to the local business and get that little djembe. I gave my other little one away not too long ago when I should have kept it and saved myself $130. I think my bandmate bought one from this local contractor but I think it may also be too big for playing in the streets without causing a commotion. I will message him first to see if he still has the drum and maybe see if it is something that would work for us when we play. Today I am going to do some HVAC maintenance on my unit in my flat because summer is coming and I want to make sure the A/C is ready to go in the next few weeks when it starts to get really hot here. I think the real heat will be here in a month at the most.

 

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No air con needed today

We will be in April soon and the weather is shifting to the warm side of the thermometer.

I need to adjust to the new weather and also to the new influx of people in town.

It has been a quiet and cold winter and now the town is starting to open up and people are coming here to visit and to have some fun. Last night I met a group of actors and singers on the beach, who knew me from the year before when I was singing on the beach, and we all went out and had fun. Local businesses in town are opening up again and my HVAC business where I work will soon be giving me more hours. I am also going to be playing more gigs in the clubs in town, I just have to get my bandmate motivated because he can be a bit of a recluse and doesn’t have a lot of faith in our band. He works for the local contractor in town and has been for a while, but I told him it is time to hang up the HVAC tech work and start focusing on our songs and our band. I think we can do some great things with our music but my bandmate needs to be on the same page as I am or we won’t be able to do anything. He does a lot of ductwork cleaning and is alone a lot, and sometimes he gets trapped inside his own head for too long and gets down. I’ll work on him and get us going.

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Fresh new day and good air quality

Today is Monday and this is a big week for my car company hopefully.

They have been a company since 2014 and in two days they are supposedly going to finally start producing cars.

I bought the stock a while back when I thought they would start making cars, but there were delays and the stock tanked yet I kept holding it. Now it is worth 40 cents a share, and for a luxury car company, this price is ridiculously low. I think a lot of investors have given up on them because of all of the delays. My HVAC rep is holding 10K shares, just like me, and we are buying more with our heating and cooling repair savings in hopes that the stock will fly once production begins, if it begins that is. I’m not sure what is going to happen, but in three more days I should know something. I will keep doing my cooling equipment service calls and keep buying more shares, but if the stock tanks even more then all of that HVAC system work and savings will all go down the drain. I guess it will be a big learning lesson for me, but I plan on holding the shares for years if that is what it takes for it to come back up again. I will keep working for the local contractor and hopefully save more money from the heat pump sales and other work I do for the business. I will just keep pushing forward and forget about this money that is locked up in a sinking ship.

 

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Running the a/c cooling system only at night

I have 27 more minutes to go before I get to take a break for a bit.

I will write this article and then do some other work online for 20 more minutes or so before I head off down the small streets of my town to make my way to the shore.

There is something magical about the coast that opens people’s minds and souls up and makes them feel a bit lighter. I’ve always lived by the coast for this reason and will probably die somewhere along the coast one day, then just sprinkle my cooling ashes in the sea. My dad was an HVAC worker and a fisherman and his dad was also an avid fisherman, so I grew up on the water and will live the rest of my life by the sea. The weather is heating up and I just got a small window a/c unit yesterday, which is a bit loud, but my earplugs seem to block most of the sound. My flatmate likes it warmer at night for sleep so I bought this little unit and hopefully will save money and pay for the unit over the next two summers. I like the really cold air conditioning in my room at night, and last night my little mini split a/c system almost made it snow in my room. I just hope that the noise is not annoying for her because her bedroom is located right beside mine, but if it is too loud she has some earplugs to help with the sound of the climate control system.

 

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Tomorrow is the cooling system sale

Tomorrow is yet another holiday over here on the Spanish coast.

They have more holidays here than I’ve ever seen anywhere and I think it is just great, unless I am trying to get some shopping done or need something fixed.

This is why I moved over here though, because the pace of life is less frantic than back in the States and I feel like I can take the time to slow down without feeling guilty or feeling like I am getting left behind. I work part time for a local business in town and have a lot of free time when I finish working on HVAC systems for the day at the job. Many people would call me lazy if they looked at my weekly workload, but I spend a ton of time working on the band’s projects and have no energy to put into working more for the company. I discovered long ago that heating and cooling equipment repairs were not going to cut it for me, so I changed gears from an HVAC repairman to a comedian and haven’t looked back since. It is so fun making songs and trying to come up with new sounds and it never seems to get old, and besides, women really like music. We play gigs for the new contractor in town and I’m not doing it for the women, but meeting women from music is proving to do better than Tinder and all I need is one special woman then I call it quits searching. Okay, off to clean the HEPA filter, see ya!

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Sleeping better with ice cold air conditioning

Life can take you places you never would have guessed.

Twenty years ago if you told me I would be a drummer and singer in a band in Spain I would have thought you had the wrong person. Back then I was running my painting company thinking there was no end in sight, but how life can turn on a dime and change the storyline completely. I broke up with an ex and was really depressed living in the States eight years ago so I decided to move overseas and ended up quitting my comedy career to pursue music. HVAC equipment repairs replaced my painting company job and now I am over here working on space heaters and things like that and playing music in a band. We have made about 25 songs so far and uploaded them online for our growing fan base, which is growing very slowly because I am not into the online promoting game like so many others. I would rather fix an air purifier than sit online trying to get more followers, which is why we have only 45 followers but I think that is going to change over the next few months as we trim back hours at the HVAC business and cut our first album. I just saw a new album by Pearl Jam and they inspire me to keep pushing because I am still younger than the lead singer by three years. I was living with his uncle Freddie at one point when I was a local contractor in the States doing heating and cooling work in town.

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Sunday is mini split a/c day

I am going to work till 11am, which is another 45 minutes, and then I am going to go for a ride and take a break for a bit before coming back to knock out another hour of work before calling it a day.

I am a bit tired after playing music for a few hours last night, but I had a blast and made some new friends, so it wasn’t all in vain. My bandmate was upset with me because he keeps thinking my voice is louder than his, which is true but there usually is one main singer. Heating and cooling work is my main gig but with the music venture growing more and more, I may be putting the HVAC system work on the back burner sometime soon to do music more each week. I also will have to put volleyball in the background, which is going to be hard to do because I love the sport so much, but music is going to need more of my energy and time soon as we get set to do a tour in our new RV that we are buying. Yesterday, I got a new window a/c unit for my bedroom to save money on cooling costs for the summer, as my flatmate doesn’t like it cold so I will just cool down my room each night. This should save me $30 a month and pay for the new unit within eight months of use. I keep the thermostat on 68 F each night and seem to sleep much better as a result.

 

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