Author: Phil

I had a very sticky situation at work the other day. I have literally never run into anything like this before, and I wasn;t sure how to handle it. I told the man and woman who owned the house, of course, and then I called it in to my boss. Part of me feels like […]

It is just large enough to cool me off. My folks raised me to be self-sufficient, and while I am not on their level, I think I do okay for myself. My folks were super old school, and I mean they hunted meat and grew veggies in the garden. Mom would hand make all of […]

My roommate is my grandmother, who is still acclimating to this country. I was born and raised here, because my parents immigrated here before I came along. It was only a few years ago that they finally convinced my grandma to join us in the United States. She is still getting used to it, but […]

Let me give you a little inside scoop, that most people don’t define themselves by what they do for a living. I was at a party the other day, and someone said to me “so what do you do?” I responded by saying “I am a father and husband, and that takes up a lot […]

I have been reminding myself over the past year that what my wife plus I are going through it just temporary. This has sort of become love a mantra in fact. But, reminding myself that I’m in the midst of a process really helps me to deal with all of this. I just wish the […]

I guess we can all agree that our pandemic year brought about plenty of swings plus sacrifices. This was really tploy for me. While I don’t have a family to care for, I still wanted to be sure that I was doing my best to follow protocols for Covid. That meant that I had to […]

I actually don’t like spending more money than I need to. Actually, I do my very best not to spend on anything that isn’t of value or needed. And while I do spend on fun as I find that essential, I don’t throw away money on too much entertainment. Being this conscious of my spending […]

Both of us are well into summer time here. But I’m still a mixture of glowing and gloating over the Heating plus Air Conditioning savings I made happen this past winter. This was the first time since living this far north that I have seen the Heating plus Air Conditioning heating costs go backward at […]

I can’t really explain the hesitation I have been back plus forth on this Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C machine replacement thing for months. The people I was with and I had the Heating, Ventilation, plus A/C serviceman out last fall to do the heating maintenance as we regularly do. However this time, the Heating, Ventilation, […]

But when I finally did, it was love a milestone! I felt love I just won the lottery. In the frigid winters the first thing I love to do in the morning so long as it is not freezing, is to go and take a morning run, and running on a frigid however not freezing […]