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ScottMP

Two weeks ago I started the week by telling the guys to get ready for the cold. Fill up the trucks, get some dry gas, get ready to work late, and load up with slip couplings and compression ball valves.

The guys came thru with shining colors. Worked hard. Took care of our customers and picked up some new ones by showing what its like to deal with pro's.

That being said ... Enough Allready.

I came home late for my valentines dinner. Worked all day Saturday. Went out to dinner at my favorite Chinese resturaunt and they came and got me at the table to fix the HWH. Worked all day Sunday and came home at 11:00 PM. Got paged at 6:00 AM this morning for a coffee shop with no hot water and now we're out all day before the storm with Freakin Freeze ups !!!!!!

Enough ALLRIGHT !!!

No More WOOD Stoves instead of the baseboard.

No MORE turning the heat down while you go sking for the weekend.

No more turning the HEAT DOWN at night when the weather man says theres a wind chill.

I want SUNSHINE and RUM and BATHING SUITS and STEEL DRUMS ahhahhhhahahahahh.... wwaaaahhhhhhh..........

Help Me Mr Wizard ...... I don't want to play anymore..

Scott

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Dana

I agree with all of what you said. Had 122 emergency pages over the weekend. Called them all back and said,!your on the list!. You wouldn't believe the offers I got from some of them to move them up on the list. Last month during that really bad cold snap we had 134 on one weekend. The guys are dragging, but hanging in also.

paul lessard_3

hey danna

Do you live on pine st ?if so I need to appoligize for the behavior of one young punk who interested in a girl there.
he was a visitor from the farm in canada and did not get out much. you guys would have done him a favor and opened a can o whoop **** on him. well i guess you cant blame him we were all young dumb and full of stuff once.
see ya around....paul lessard 144 pine

Jeff_9

sick& tierd

I'm with you steve.Same thing here in RI.)Only good thing is my bosses sons are in the buisness now and are taking the bull by the horns and doing alot of the calls.

Sounds like a trip to FLORIDA (RED SOX SPRING TRAING )is in order

Jeff

Gary Fereday

One mans treasure is anothers .............

Here in the west, we'd just about jump up and down for some snow. The mountains are essentially empty of the stuff. Oh there is enough to ski on but without a LOT more, summer is going to be not nice. The Mountain west relies upon snow to drink from all summer. 4 years of no real snow! and now here we are in another very dry beginning of the year. The weather has been, and is just too nice here. I bet the insects will be launched against us again this year as there has not been frost into the earth like it should have been, to freeze off the bugs. There fore what might make it to green, may well be eaten by insects befor men or other beasts can get to it. Oh we have saved $$$ on not having to plow streets this year, but the ranchers have been selling off their herds since feed will be short on the range. Just 60 days left till the normal spring season gets here; Which is dry anyway, and without Snow, summer, shall be a waterless program.

Thank Providence for your blessings, of enough snow and cold to have a very nice welcome summer. Remembering that else where things may not be as like unto your situation!

hot_rod

Yikes Bigugh

no snowpack in the second driest state in the nation! I'll bet the golf courses stay green, however. Funny how that works.

May be time to get into the cistern business, or desalinization.

hot rod

Unknown

One of the Reps in Colorado told me...

that the golf courses had to shut down for the year last month...the COMING year, unless it gets wet out.

Noel

J.C.A.

Boat Drinks !

"This morning....I shot 6 holes in my freezer ...I think I got cabin fever ....Somebody sound the alarm ." Jimmy Buffett

4'high plow remains about 6 ' wide in front of the walk and driveway . Ain't this grand ?

Patrick_11

This to me shows how the earth is tired of the bacteria called humanity. I feel that humans have plagued the earth and now she is pissed. We have strip mined sections of the world that look worse than war, we fill in the holes with garbage that no one wants, we tear down a wooded areas for a strip mall when the building next to it is vacant, we fill the air with polution, we take a precious resources like water for granted, (let the sink run while brushing teeth or heaven forbid that your grass is not as green as the Jones's), we level a forest so we can produce paper - the same product that fills the above mentioned holes, we dump hazardous waste in our oceans so that the fish become contaminated so we can not eat them, our great lakes are a prime example of this. I know some of this is by-product of progress of the human race, but at what cost. What will the world be like for our children and their children. Can we look past the almighty buck and stop some of this?? Can we devise a plan to turn it all around?? If we did and it was harder to do than just pitching something would we all do it?? It is time that someone look into the effects that we have made on our planet, can it take more??

This brings up another theory I have come up with. Take a solid ball and have it spinning (like the earth) and remove mass from one area and place it another (mining) and spin the ball. Does it wobble?? Could we be changing the earths orbit by development of cities and such?? If the earth has a wobble while it is spinning what would happen to the orbit?? If we changed the orbit what impacts would that have on earth?? Stronger more unpredictable seasons??

[Deleted User]

Oh well.

Looks like we have finally been found by the raw root eating, non-clothes wearing, sore footed, cold & damp cave dwelling types. So much for progress.

Patrick_11

Looks like i have been read by the dumb founded butt cracked plumber. Am I wrong?? You sure are.

I was just voicing my opinion on something I have thought about. Guess the cement in your head is to thick to let any voice besides your own in. So much for thoughts.

J.C.A.

Hey patrick....

We're having fun here ...Us crack showin' crack snorting heroin smokin ,pot shooters are trying to accomplish what your looking for . Complain somewhere else ! Chris

I know he doesn't deserve a response , but I know that Dan and his Sheriffs will find this "stalker" and make him read WHAT WE SAY !


Relax Patrick , life IS short in the big picture We want what you speak of ....BUT we do it less verbally to the board !.(Chris again)

Frank_17

Freeze ups and central air

in the same week , never thought I'd be doing that. another roof top unit this week between thawing pipes and broken mains.

Eric Taylor_8

Baby's Cryin'

Just laughed so hard I woke the baby. Wife is NOT amused! Keep it up Patrick, I love to laugh! If you want to save some water I bet there are plenty of folks here who could sell you some flow limiters for all of your sinks and displacement devices for your toilets. For a couple-three hundred bucks you can save $8.50 a year for life!

Patrick_11

You see how you missed my point, it is not just water conservation I am talking about. If you took time to think about what I am saying instead of just jumping on board to beet me at the whipping post then you might see that I was just voicing a opinion. And look at your comment, "for a couple-three hundred bucks......" is that what you would tell a customer, how do you know that I am not a potential customer of yours?? I rarely talk about my views like I briefly stated in the earlier post, I thought about it and said what the hell, Dan is a good man followed by good people no one will attack me for my thoughts and WHAM there it is. And for the record I have been in the industry since 1986 and have served in all aspects of the business.

Wayco Wayne

Hey patrick,

I loved your statement calling humanity bacteria. I feel the same. I once thought of comparing us to yeast. When you make wine the yeast eats any and all sugar until it finally drowns in it's own excrement, leaving behind what we drink. (Think about that when you are drinking your favorite lager) Ahh give me that yeast poop lite. I think humanity could be working on a big old vat of Wine. (and that might be poetically optomistic;):)

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Mark Hunt

It isn't


that bad Patrick. I would really rather not be referred to as "bacteria called humanity".

I think that you give manind more credit than it is due. Of course I do not promote pollution or the wanton waste of natural resources, but do you really believe that humans are responsible for EVERYTHING bad?

Isn't it possible that the things that we see happening in the environment(so-called global warming) have been going on for a long time and we just now started noticing?

You have the right to form and voice your opinions and others have the right to agree or disagree.

I'll do my best to keep my impact on the planet to a minimum.

Mark H

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Unknown

Think all you like, but do some calculations about the absolute ridiculousness of cities making the earth wobble. The Earth is a big fat ball of rock THOUSANDS of miles in diameter. Cities and strip mines can't even compare. It takes asteroid collisions to make planets wobble.

That said I'm a hippy too but you're out on a limb on this one.

Unknown

yeah to be absolutely fair the earth can make itself pretty damn inhospitable on its own with or without us, from time to time.

Ice Ages? Climate shifts?

It's not just us. Sure we need to watch our step!!! But we're not necessarily to blame for every blip in the world's climate either.

MURPH'

patrick......

If that really is your name!? are you just funnin with us. Tell us who you are......don't be a scared!!



Murph'

Eric Taylor_15

Your Point

I didn't miss it, it just made me laugh real hard. I used the water saving device comment to show how our system exploits those who are so concerned about the environment. Not contractors as a rule, just the system as a whole. We demand, they supply and make a few bucks in the process. Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to manufacture photovoltaic cells or produce those flow limiters? We are chasing out tails there. This planet weighs 1.3x10^25 pounds! That number written out is 13000000000000000000000000 pounds! All the dirt we have moved isn't even 1%. Plus we have mountains and oceans and such, so the planet most likely isn't balanced anyway. Add the moon to the picture and things get really complex.

There are two main schools of thought concerning the environment and how we affect it on a global scale. One says we are killing this planet and ourselves in the process. This line of thinking scares people into wanting to be environmentally friendly, sells products, causes protests and whining. The other school of thought is that we are insignificant and will not possibly have a lasting effect because this planet can take care of herself. Raise the temp enough to begin melting the ice caps and the melting releases trapped ozone and other gasses that restore the balance. Think of it as a TRV for the Earth! Polloution is naturally filtered by the ecosystem. It takes time, but it is a BIG ecosystem.

The only thing I am afraid of is mushroom clouds!

Eric

ScottMP

HEY

This was MY post and I was doing the crying here.

No fair changing the subject, but since you guys have....

Look back in history, we've had huge snowstorms, droughts, floods and fires. Yea I am sure we are not doing the earth any good but I think we've gotten better and are certainly more aware of are actions.

Now who wants a RUM drink ?? I'm buying !!!!

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Patrick_11

yep, that is me. not sure what else to tell ya about me or why it matters(aren't you the sheriff??). came in to the hvac field straight out of h.s. and have not left, thought about it a few times but never left. i used to come here a lot and sort of stopped for a while, read this thread and thought i would try to add to it. and just to clear up things a little, i am not a tree hugging bare foot hippie nor am i trying to be a........(well you can fill that in, dont think DH would like it if I did). i think about what i can do to make this a better place for my kid and your kids for that matter. this was just a attempt to see if there was any merit to what i stated earlier, apparently it is a mixed reception. I understand that if mama earth got pissed enough we would all be pushing up daisies, i just was thinking that maybe we are hitting her buttons, over and over again. and also to clear up this, i dont think we are responsible for all that is wrong in/with the world. humor me for a minute and just suppose that there is mining going on near some plates, would that aid in plate shifting?? what is your take on that??? i feel i must say this THESE ARE JUST THOUGHTS, wanted to be sure that that is clear.

and NO, i dont think that all progress should stop and that we are all bad men for wanting to move forward, all this was was a thought that i always wonder about. the sad thing is that this is not my most outrageous theory.

Patrick_11

make mine tequila and i will shut up for a while.

Eric Taylor_18

Scotch

Been developing a taste for the single malts...

This is a good topic-- the environment that is, well drinking is too!

Cheers,

Eric

Mike T., Swampeast MO

Anthropocentricity

How's that for a mouthful?

"The belief that the universe revolves around man."

No matter what WE do, the world will go on. No matter your take on religion, the earth really is our playground for the time being.

All of the well-meaning conservation, environmental protection, etc. ever done or ever to be done will be negated in a near instant by calamity or war--both as inevitable as the rising of the sun, I'm sorry to say.

Of course we should be respectful of our playground and mindful of the effect of our actions. Just like in grade school the playground WILL have bullies, wimps, braggarts, activists, squanderers and polluters--NONE of whom are capable of ruling by themselves but ALL of whom think that THEIR way is the RIGHT way.

Americans in particular could probably get by with far less but if history is any indicator we won't until we either collapse or are toppled. (That sunrise thing again.)

I'm not trying to be defeatist and say that "reduce, re-use, recycle" is senseless; just that it should be applied sensibly.

You can send me a Johnny Walker Black by the way...

Mark Hunt

One last point


You said, "how do you know that I am not a potential customer of yours??"

I wonder how potential customers like being referred to as bacteria?

Mark H

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Gary Fereday

Carefully clairify a point ?

Main Entry: bac·te·ria
Pronunciation: bak-'tir-E-&
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -ri·as
Etymology: plural of bacterium
Date: 1884
: a group (as a genus, species, or strain) of bacteria -- used chiefly in nontechnical writing and in news broadcasts
usage Bacteria is regularly a plural in scientific and pedagogical use; in speech and in journalism it is also used as a singular . This journalistic use is found in British as well as American sources