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I need to get up and have a salad and get outside while the sun is out and get some fresh air.

I’ve been working on songs for hours this morning and my mind is fried now.

I need to get off of this computer but I still need to write three more articles before my workday is done. I guess I can write this one and then hit the beach for an hour or two and then come back and knock out the other two. Hang in there with me and keep me company while I write this okay. HVAC system writing can be a bit monotonous but when you have a good space heater next to you while it is a bit cool outside it makes it a little easier. I am happy with the music we made last night and even happier that I got it all edited this morning and uploaded online. I will go to this beach bar and hang out next to their portable heater because it is still a bit cool out and it is nice having a little climate control while you relax by the beach. We made a really cool song last night on the pier and I wish that we filmed it, but at least we got the audio recorded so the song is not lost. On Monday I’ll play the song for the other heating technicians while we do some ductwork sales and while we program the smart thermostats for customers. I will see you in a couple of hours after I hit the coast.

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I feel deflated today after the police told us we are no longer allowed to play our music in the streets anymore.

I just want to play drums and sing and now I don’t know where we are going to practice. This town is supposedly an artistic haven, but when you can’t play your bliss in the streets then where are you to go? I don’t like that we can’t play in the streets, as we have some good crowds having fun, but now what are we supposed to do? I’m just dumbfounded that the local businesses can’t have us play outside while people sit next to furnaces and clap and cheer us on. I guess there are a few unhappy people that don’t want others to be happy so they call the police and try to spread their anger around. The cooling corporation said they would be glad to have us play there when they have an open house for their HVAC equipment that is on sale. I think that is a nice gesture but not being able to play outside anymore just doesn’t sit well with me. My HVAC tech job is still good, but I was making good money playing music in the streets, so now I will have to work more hours doing heating and cooling equipment repair and just singing to myself. I guess it all works out somehow but it is just a bit deflating to know that the police don’t want us doing something that we love and that other people seem to love too. Ugh.

HEPA filter

It is about 15 minutes to 2pm and I should be done with my work around 2:30, then I will do my yoga and go to the beach for a bit and get some sun while I eat my salad.

We are playing in the band later, but I am not sure where because last night the cops scolded us again for playing music in the streets. I don’t want them getting angry and taking my equipment or giving us a big fine, all for just entertaining people and having fun. I’m not sure what to think, my HVAC rep buddy was there last night working on the commercial a/c system when the cops came, and he told them it isn’t right what they are doing. I’m confused because I feel that what we are doing is a good thing for the world, yet the police seem to think differently, and now I don’t know where we can play. I could just quiet music and work at the local business doing heating and cooling system work and just get old and die. What kind of life would that be? This world needs music and us musicians need a place to practice, and playing in the streets is a good spot because there are people. The heating dealership owner is going to go to the police station and tell them he will give them a free central heating and a/c system if they let us play in the streets again without bothering us. I guess you call it bribery, but whatever works right!

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We put out another cool song last night on this rock pier after the cops told us we could no longer play music in the streets.

• We both felt rejected and lonely and we made this cool song about being alone.

I wish I could tell you how to find it online but I don’t want to play the look at me game in these articles. It was a good song and it showed that we can do emotional songs and not just fun and childish type songs. I like trying to do all different kinds of music in local businesses, as long as they have some good climate control systems when the weather is really hot or cold outside. I’ve done shows in a lot of clubs that were so hot I almost passed out on stage. Now I prefer some good a/c or heating when the temps get drastic as I don’t like to be uncomfortable when I am doing what I love. I think this winter I’ll just bring a space heater when we do shows in the ski lodges that don’t have a fireplace or heating, because being ice cold and trying to drum is not a fun thing to do. Your hands hurt if you have no heating device and it can be really painful to play for hours in an ice cold room. I don’t know if I can do the same for summertime in the beach bars, but most of them have fans to keep us cool while we do our thing.

 

 

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I just want to sing songs and not have to worry about money or bills or taxes or any of that stuff, but this world requires you to be accountable and responsible so it is tough to avoid it all.

This month is critical for my EV stock as they are finally going to start building cars after being a company for almost ten years now. The stock is at 58 cents a share, up from 50 cents yesterday morning, which is a good sign. If it hits the dollar mark it could really skyrocket from there, so I am kind of glued to the iPad this month to see how it is reacting to the approaching production date of March 30th. I need it to hit $10 and then I am selling and calling the investing quits. HVAC repair doesn’t lose me money like the market does, even if it is kind of boring working on space heaters and propane boilers, at least the money doesn’t disappear like it does in the market. I just want to sing songs and not have to worry about money or bills or taxes or any of that stuff, but this world requires you to be accountable and responsible so it is tough to avoid it all. Maybe a desert island with a fireplace in my cabin is all I need, along with some type of natural air conditioner in the hot summertime. Then I could just play music and not have to chase paper all of the time. I should have sold my HVAC company when it was worth a lot of money, but I thought I could grow bigger by selling HVAC equipment online, yet it didn’t happen and I lost my heating company when the world crashed in 2008. I guess life goes on.

 

New HVAC systems

Today is Saturday and it looks like the cold weather is going to be gone soon.

That means the beaches will fill up and the seas will be filled with swimmers and life will be fun again on the coast.

We played last night at the church by the sea and the cops came and told us we aren’t allowed to play music with amplified sound, so now how do we practice? It is sad that they say we can’t play music on the streets, what kind of city do they want this to be without music? My heating dealer told me that we can play at the HVAC business to practice but we like to play outside in the sun with people walking around. I need to just regroup my thoughts and figure out a plan B for our band. The heating dealership is a good room for acoustics with all of the HVAC equipment but it isn’t easy to get people to come a few times a week to watch us practice. Why don’t the police like music? I don’t think it is the police, I think it is a few unhappy people locked in their air conditioned flats and they don’t want any disruptions while they sit alone in misery and stare at their air purifiers humming away. Stay young, even when you get old you can be young at heart and happy, it’s all in your mind and it is all in your control. Well, I’m going to go to this local business and ask them if we can do a show there.

 

 

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Today is Friday and round and round we go. Sometimes life seems to drag on very slowly while other times huge chunks of it disappear without notice. Well, I am in the slow section right now as I sweat from the high temps coming recently. I long for the days of cold nights again where I can sleep without tossing and turning from being too hot. My flatmate has a problem when the system turns on because the air handler is located in her bathroom just above the hanging ceiling, which is a really odd place to put it. HVAC systems should not be in a bathroom because of several reasons, one being that a lot of smells come from a bathroom and if the air conditioning or heating system is running then it spreads the smell to the rest of the home. It is also very tough to change the filter in the unit because you have to remove several ceiling panels to access the place where the filter is. I guess the contractor had no choice but to put the HVAC system above the bathroom ceiling and now we are suffering because of it. I told my flatmate to wear earplugs and then she won’t hear the system turn on but she said they fall out of her ears, which means she isn’t putting them in correctly as they won’t fall out if so. The heating supplier told me about these earplugs when my mini split a/c unit was keeping me awake in my bedroom, which I don’t have anymore sadly.

Heating dealer

I don’t have a lady in my life but I still feel good about life and I feel hopeful that I will one day be in love again with someone special

Today is a slow day with not much on the slate. I’ve done my work online, my yoga, my Spanish practice, and I just ate lunch. Now it is about 3:30pm and I will chill till about 5pm when I go to the beach and do a little back workout for 15 or 20 minutes. Then I will take my beach chair and go watch my buddies play volleyball while drinking a cold beer. They will ask me to play a game but I need to rest my knees and shoulders today and then I play tomorrow. Heating and cooling system repairs are always on the radar, which I will be doing this coming weekend when we work on a big commercial HVAC system. Anyway, today is an easy day and I am just appreciating where I live and what I have in my life. I don’t have a lady in my life but I still feel good about life and I feel hopeful that I will one day be in love again with someone special. I will just keep my head down and do my HVAC specialist work at the HVAC company and things will all fall into place. I am healthy and still fairly young and just want to enjoy the time I have left because who knows when I am going to kick off, but when I do kick off I want to kick off happy! My furnace filter is not so happy right now and it needs to be cleaned, which is easy because it’s a washable HEPA filter.

 

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There must be someone who loves me, as I got on Tinder for a few weeks recently and had no matches.

Boo hoo, I’m ugly and nobody wants me.

I have noticed as I approach 56 years old that I get a lot less looks than I used to, and when walking with my younger good looking bandmate I notice they all look at him. Oh well, I had my run when I was younger and now have to accept that I am turning into just another old man who walks with his hands behind his back like a prisoner of time. HVAC system cleaning still loves me because it is always there every day as I report to work for the heating and cooling supplier in town. I’m sure there are some women out there who find me attractive, but I am going to have to adjust my radar to older women now that I am approaching the golden years. There is a pretty HVAC rep who works at the local business and if I can get the nerve to talk to her maybe I can start up something. I had another married lady ask me for my number, but I am not going to go down that road for obvious reasons, as I did it once long ago and have regretted it ever since. It was an HVAC customer of mine when I was a local contractor 20 years ago and it ended up in disaster with them getting divorced and me getting ostracized from many of my friends and her friends. I’m learning as I go I guess.

 

 

air filter

Ahhh life.

• It’s amazing how much better I feel with a good night of sleep.

I need to duplicate my methodology of last night before bed, and one of them was not using the computer past 9pm, which is probably why I slept so well last night. The problem lies in the summer when we are on the beach till after 9pm and when I get home I don’t have any time to use my pc if I want to sleep. Maybe I’ll use my pc before the beach so that when I come home I’m done with it. Heating and cooling system work online is what I do during the day so I guess there is no reason to open my laptop after playing ball by the local business near the beach. I’ll just come home and listen to the radio and relax without using my laptop so my body can make the melatonin it needs for me to get a good night of sleep. Tomorrow we are going to play in this air conditioned beach bar, or maybe outside of the place on the beach if it is too full, and we are going to make some new songs about working for the cooling supplier in town. We will go to all of the beach bars soon and hand out our business cards to try and get some gigs in the clubs for the summer while the places are packed with tourists wanting to have fun. I just need a good climate control system in a bar as a prerequisite to playing.

 

Heating and air conditioning system