The older I get, the more I understand how important it is to be able to forgive yourself.
It turns out that a lot of people are their own worst enemy.
It’s really easy to beat yourself up and hold onto grudges from 10 or 20 years ago if you aren’t careful. The messed up part is, nobody else in your life would ever treat you this way. That’s why I make a point of forgiving myself for my mistakes every single day. It’s not always easy but it is always effective. Recently, I had to forgive myself for a major financial mistake that I made which was related to my indoor air quality. For years, I had been fawning over my thermostat every moment of the day. I’ve always enjoyed my indoor air quality and I have had to strike a careful balance between my energy bill and my central HVAC usage. I know that it’s a slippery slope between touching the thermostat and driving your savings account into the ground when the electrical bill shows up. That’s why I have carefully programmed my thermostat to have the ideal temperature setting for an eco-friendly HVAC experience. The only problem is, apparently I completely forgot about my professional HVAC inspection this year. For months I’ve been living with an undiagnosed problem with my cooling system. The air conditioning unit has been limping along unbenounced to me. My unchanged air filters definitely haven’t helped the issue, either. I only realized my HVAC slip up when the energy bill arrived in the mail and I literally couldn’t afford to pay it. Well, I forgive myself. Even if I can’t use the AC for the rest of summer.
heated floors
I think it’s completely shocking that there are so many hospitals forcing their workers to take on extra shifts right now.
I know that there isn’t much of a choice because our viral pandemic has continued to rage on for the past several months.
In fact, it seems like new cases are climbing through the roof every single day. It has to be getting extremely dire and dangerous for these critical service workers, including doctors, nurses, and hospital staff. Not only are they on call all the time and working extra hours, but I’ve also heard that they’re taking away staff break rooms. There is such a shortage of hospital beds available that they’re literally commandeering the normal break rooms to turn them into ICU facilities. Where are the nurses going for breaks? Into the supply closets. That’s right, these overworked humans are now being shoved in with the air filters, ventilators, and respiratory devices in the storage closets. Not only are they trying to keep themselves sane while they stand next to the forced air furnaces and ductwork, but I have questions about the ventilation that’s available in these supply closets. Surely, there is not enough circulation provided to a regular closet. There can’t be an abundance of air vents or access to the high quality indoor air that’s circulating through the rest of the hospital. I doubt that they have any air conditioning or air purification and reaching these tiny, claustrophobic break rooms. When these poor medical professionals just need a moment to breathe, it sounds like they are completely devoid of even normal HVAC systems.
electric heater
It can be really easy to get down on yourself and assume that life is never going to get better.
If you’re basing your future expectations on how things have gone in the past, it’s quite likely that you’ll feel pessimistic about everything.
At least, that’s the case in my life. Things have never been very easy and I often assume that that’s an indication of the future. However, it helps to recognize that there are always new opportunities coming your way if you’re open to them. This has been the case in my own personal experience as a recently fired heating and cooling technician. When the pandemic began, the air quality control shop had a steep decline in business. People didn’t want to invite strange heating and cooling workers into their home which would increase the chances of transmitting the virus to their families. They wanted to increase their air purification measures, but obviously they were afraid of the HVAC technicians transferring germs from one residential HVAC repair to the next. Unfortunately, this meant that half of the heating and cooling technicians on staff were laid off. I honestly started panicking right away, thinking that I would never find another air quality control job that could pay my bills. Well, you never know when opportunity will knock. Shortly after losing my job, I was contacted by a local trade school who wanted to hire more remote professors for their HVAC certification program. They said I could teach the professional HVAC repair courses from the safety of my own home and transmit all of my expertise to up-and-coming air quality control specialists. Best of all, I make twice as much as I did at my old job.
heating service
I nearly died that summer due to dehydration and overheating.
When people talk about having OCD, I completely understand where they’re coming from. I also happen to be fairly neurotic and obsessive about keeping myself safe. I’m happy to say, I don’t know the same pervasive handicap that a lot of other OCD individuals do. However, it doesn’t stop me from being affected by my mental health affliction on a regular basis. Namely, every time I leave the house. You see, I became quite obsessed with my indoor air quality control system about 10 years ago. I had been through an unfortunate air conditioning failure in the middle of summer that nearly was the end of me. It was so hot and humid outside during that summer that it was literally a danger to be in my home without a central cooling system running. When I noticed that my central cooling system has stopped operating, I immediately tried my best to repair the AC system on my own. Unfortunately, I caused more damage to the massive AC unit than I helped myself. When I called out a professional heating and cooling technician for help, it took over three days before they could fit my appointment into their busy repair schedule. I nearly died that summer due to dehydration and overheating. Ever since that HVAC disaster, I have been completely obsessed with checking on my central heating and cooling system. I never want to live another day without indoor air quality control, so I incessantly check on my AC system and forced air furnace. Everyday when I have to leave the house to go to work it takes me several hours to perform my HVAC diagnostic rituals. I know other people worry about the oven, but I’m more terrified of my AC system.
propane boiler
It’s pretty funny to me that people prefer to listen to advertisements over experts.
Companies can put out any piece of written or video garbage and people seem to lap it right up.
If they do bother to check their facts, I feel like they would rather side with the corporation who’s out to make a buck off of their purchases rather than listening to the people who have years of experience in the field. At least, that seems to be how it is with my family and their extremely strange views about indoor air quality. Since this pandemic began, my family started going overboard with their indoor air quality concerns. I understand why you would want to make sure that you were breathing high quality indoor air as much as possible, but there are certain things that aren’t going to make a big difference. But doesn’t stop my family from purchasing expensive air filters, air purifiers, filling the air ducts with cleaning products, and buying UV light disinfection methods. It’s the last two air scrubbing policies that really don’t work. From my years working in a biological research lab, I can tell you that UV light is not the best way to disinfect your air. A brand new UV bulb can kill microscopic toxins, organisms, and airborne contamination. There is no doubt about that. However, UV lights quickly lose their powerful disinfection capabilities over time. Working in the lab, I had to oversee the ventilation in controlled fume hoods. If we had a UV light in use for air disinfection, the bulb had to be replaced every couple of months. I know for a fact that modern HVAC companies developing their air purification systems with UV lights are not advertising this to their customers. If they are, my family definitely isn’t listening.
geothermal heat pump
When I moved to these parts I thought that life was going to be a lot easier.
I was getting out of the conflict-laden South, where social issues seemed to be a real problem. I was happy to be moving closer to my family and looking forward to having more social support in my immediate area. Besides that, I was excited to get away from the burning heat and humidity that fills the air every single day. Down in the South, you have to operate your central cooling system all day if you want to have a livable residential home. You really can’t rely on overhead fans, box fans, or other forms of ventilation. Without a cooling system, you are doomed to be sweaty and uncomfortable all day long. The other problem is keeping your air conditioning system safe. Because I lived in a region with extremely tall and robust trees there were constantly branches coming down and breaking my AC unit. When I got up north, I was excited for the open space that could keep my AC system free of falling limbs. However, I didn’t expect that all of this open ground would result in garbage rapidly blowing across the plains and collecting against my AC unit. My cooling system is just as prone to breakdowns in disrepair now as it was before. It’s constantly being clogged up with empty bags, pop cans, and assorted plastic pieces. Now, I can’t even use a metal air conditioning cage to keep it safe… The garbage is so pervasive and the wind is so strong that my cooling system is always at risk.
air filter
I’m undoubtedly cheerful that we live in a great city where we can rely on our neighbors for help, the other afternoon when we lost power it was a huge help when our buddy allowed us to come over & shower at his arena, however he even let us take food & water from his refrigerator until we could get our own power reinstated, it was actually kind of him & it made us a lot more comfortable in the sweltering hot & humid climate that we have been dealing with all summer, of course, we should have known that our indoor air handling concerns were over with… Even when we had energy at our dwelling again the a/c would not work.
That’s when we realized that when we lost power we also had an energy surge fry our costly central cooling device, and suddenly, it was looking like we were going to have weeks of unmanaged indoor air quality before we could afford to hire a professional heating & cooling professional for a maintenance maintenance or a full air conditioner substitutement. Obviously, we were devastated at the thought of living in this oppressively hot environment without any air conditioner control indoors! Again, this is when our buddy stepped up & saved our butts. Apparently he heard our upset discussions about the cooling system, because he came walking over with an A/C window component in hand 5 minutes later. My friend and I have been limping along with the A/C window component installed in our home office for some indoor air temperature control, however until we can afford a current A/C unit, we will be relying on my neighbor’s kindness.
furnace/heater repair
Most recently, I was aggravated after being sent out to an A/C repair job which was apparently a test of my air conditioner knowledge.
Sporadically it’s easily difficult when people want to challenge you in life. I feel like there are a lot of humans who want to test others to make sure that they live up to particular expectations. This is easily the case when you are starting to date somebody new, when you are applying for a job, as well as when you are dealing with difficult relatives. For me, I have been most majorly impacted by my employers consistent desire to test my practical skills in our specialized field. You see, I work as a heating, cooling, as well as ventilation professional for a large indoor air quality control supplier who tends to hire their Heating as well as A/C workers directly out of the heating as well as cooling certification school. Because they always want to hire the youngest teenagers in the heating as well as cooling industry, they are also always trying to test us for practical skills in repairing as well as servicing are handling devices. They want to make sure that my pal and I really know what we’re doing with forced air heaters as well as air conditioner systems before my pal and I are on the job as well as giving them a bad name for faulty Heating as well as A/C repairs. I understand their problems, although I am quite tired of their sneaky tests in practical air quality control management. Most recently, I was aggravated after being sent out to an A/C repair job which was apparently a test of my air conditioner knowledge. The owner of the shop sent me to his own house to inspect his cooling system after reportedly experiencing hot as well as chilly patches all day. After hours of toiling at the A/C unit… I found out it was all a test. There was nothing wrong with the cooling system.
a/c worker
I come from a family that incrementally acts incredibly difficult or is wildly complaining about every single thing! You never know what kind of a morning you’re going to have until you start communicating with my family members.
On Sunday they might tell you that they are strong, capable, plus undeterred by every challenge in life, and by Monday they will really be complaining about their task, their health, plus even the way the wind blows.
It’s a continual back plus forth between rejecting their troubles plus wallowing in them. This is why I was not surprised when my mom started complaining about her central heating plus cooling devices a few weeks ago. I knew that her central air conditioner was at least 15 years outdated because I remembered when the professional Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C dealership came out plus installed it. I also realized that her forced air boiler was well past its prime because the heating system existed when my associate and I moved into our house, however when I suggested that she called her local heating, cooling, plus ventilation dealership to arrange a professional repair appointment or repair repair my mom simply shook her head. She insisted that she could get by with the heating plus cooling devices as they were. She did not need to spend my money any upscale costs for a certified air quality control specialist to inspect her ancient Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C devices. My mom insisted that her indoor air quality control system was not that pressing to her to shell out the cash. That’s what she said one morning, however every conversation we’ve had since has been about her bad air quality.
a/c set up
When people talk about having OCD, I completely understand where they’re coming from.
I also happen to be fairly neurotic plus obsessive about keeping myself safe.
I’m cheerful to say, I do not know the same pervasive handicap that a lot of other OCD individuals do. However, it doesn’t stop me from being affected by my mental health affliction on a typical basis. Namely, every time I leave the house. You see, I became quite obsessed with my indoor air quality control system about 10 years ago. I had been through an unlucky a/c failure in the middle of Summer that nearly was the end of me. It was so overheated plus humid outside during that Summer that it was literally a danger to be in my household without a central cooling system running. When I noticed that my central cooling system has stopped operating, I instantly tried my best to repair the A/C system on my own. Unluckyly, I caused more disfigurement to the important A/C device than I helped myself. When I called out a professional heating plus cooling professional for help, it took over three days before they could fit my appointment into their tied up repair schedule. I nearly died that Summer due to dehydration plus overheating. Ever since that Heating plus Air Conditioning disaster, I have been completely obsessed with checking on my central heating plus cooling system. I never want to live another afternoon without indoor air quality control, so I incessantly check on my A/C system plus forced air furnace. Everyday when I have to leave the household to go to toil it takes me several hours to perform my Heating plus Air Conditioning diagnostic rituals. I know other people worry about the oven, however I’m more terrified of my A/C system.
temperature control