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TRB on Thu November 23, 2006 2:28 PM User is offlineView users profile

Just wanted to wish all my friends here on the forum a very wonderful Thanksgiving.

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Karl Hofmann on Thu November 23, 2006 6:30 PM User is offlineView users profile

Happy Thanksgiving Tim and all of you over there......Have a good one

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Chick on Thu November 23, 2006 7:51 PM User is offlineView users profile

Happy Thanksgiving guys..The bottom sure dropped out of AC work in my area... but it was a great season, and i'm looking forward to the next..So I'm thankful for all of it, including the good friends here...Best to all..

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MrBillPro on Thu November 23, 2006 11:42 PM User is offlineView users profile

Ditto on what Chick said, only the bottom did drop out for a week or so but we just sold a commercial job setting 6 new carrier 5 ton package units on a big Karate studio last week were going with the spiral duct, roofers just got the curbs cut in guess we will set the units up there next week, man I have never known God to be early, he is always right on time, hope all you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Mr. Bill

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NickD on Fri November 24, 2006 10:59 AM User is offline

Wife was questioning our Thanksgiving day, more of a national than a religious holiday, but should be a day set aside to say, thanks. may be some debate to whom one should say thanks to. Easy on this board, thanks guys for the company, and the help, I did get help from this board this last year, thank you.

But really not good to remember how Thanksgiving was started with the pilgrims, a group of religious people escaping religious persecution from England that were much better at printing pamphlets than fending for themselves in the wildness. These are city folks moving to a strange land that lacked grocery stores.

Fortunately for them, the native indians took pity on them giving them fish, deer, and yes, even a wild turkey or two. Where the real crime is, is how these indians were treated when more white people from Europe came here. One may feel the indians would have been better off for their own survival to destroy the white man rather than help them.

Helping people can really backfire, giving a couple of bucks to a charitable institution ends with being swamped by calls for more money, helping a person on the road can backfire with a lawsuit or being robbed. Shouldn't be that way, but it is.

TRB on Fri November 24, 2006 11:27 AM User is offlineView users profile

Think positive Nick, its better for the soul.

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Edited: Fri November 24, 2006 at 1:53 PM by TRB

MrBillPro on Fri November 24, 2006 1:49 PM User is offlineView users profile

Well some folks glass is half empty and some half full, No matter what has happened in the past the past is just that "The Past" I have yet to meet someone that can turn back the hands of time "but I am still looking" so we must move ahead make the best of what life has given us and like Tim said think positive because it is better for the soul. trust me been there done that were I used to be negative about everything I really think it's an illness but I was able to get well and now I am probably the most positive thinking and optimistic person you will even meet. I really think the reason I was so pessimistic and negative is I always thought someone owed me something "sorta like a democrat" but when I found out the hard way no one owes me anything and I need to work and I can buy what I want and be what I want to be and life has been really good to me since them.

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Edited: Fri November 24, 2006 at 8:50 PM by MrBillPro

Karl Hofmann on Fri November 24, 2006 8:18 PM User is offlineView users profile

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Happy Thanksgiving guys..The bottom sure dropped out of AC work in my area... but it was a great season, and i'm looking forward to the next..So I'm thankful for all of it, including the good friends here...Best to all..


The AC season died here months ago, had a quiet few weeks during the holiday season but had a few frosty mornings and so its heating season for me, lots of servicing, maintainance and of course repairs to domestic central heating systems but still been putting in a few heat pumps, we seem to have the perfect weather for air to air heat pumps. I recently became a Toshiba approved installer and service engineer, still got to find time to upgrade my electrical qualifications and register myself for part P of the building regulations (Domestic installer competency), my CORGI ticket to cover LPG aplications, Get my ticket to allow me to work on unvented water storeage systems and obtain my ticket to comply with Part L of the building regulations (Energy efficiency and conservation).......Which takes us right back to AC season



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NickD on Sat November 25, 2006 6:14 AM User is offline

Gee, what's pessimistic or negative about telling history the way it was? Besides, said we shouldn't think about the history, just be thankful.

My wife laughed when I made about the indians helping the pilgrims volunteering to help them, she volunteered to help the UW then was suddenly swamped with calls to help other organizations for free. At first the UW gave her dirty jobs to do, but when they found out she had more efficient organization and office skills, was doing the work as their paid workers and doing it better, but was doing it for free.
Somehow, that doesn't add up, LOL.

Ha, the more money you make, the more taxes you pay, the less benefits you receive, and the more you have people coming over trying to take it away from you. Don't have time for your family nor do the things you want to do and you end up with nothing, anyway.

Ha, this year the Lord has been good to me with lots of lightning damage to airport systems, or has he? Have to worry now about losing VA benefits and paying taxes on my SS.

Son and daughter-in-law are looking at new home construction, wow, everywhere they tried, a new home costs at least 3-4 times the building materials. Wasn't that way 35 years ago, a contractor would pay the same for materials as the lumber companies and could nail in a 2 by 4 at the same price it costs the store to take it off the truck, put it on the rack, and pay to have someone check it out. Coupled with the high mortgage rates, can easily pay 9-10 times the cost of the building materials just for the home, plus somehow, your property taxes go sky high with it. Thinking about building a home, have all the tools and skills, what the heck.

UK trade industry sounds like our FAA, a pipe is a pipe and a wire is a wire, change the application a tad and new certification is required, either you know what you are doing or you don't, either have the skills and knowledge or you don't, the rest is BS, LOL, now is that being pessimistic or realistic?





Edited: Sat November 25, 2006 at 7:06 AM by NickD

MrBillPro on Sat November 25, 2006 11:06 AM User is offlineView users profile

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Gee, what's pessimistic or negative about telling history the way it was?

Absolutely nothing Nick, and trust me years ago I would have brought a bad part of history, but now I would probably search my mind for the good positive things that happened in past history because there were some. I can remember when my Dad and Mom both worked and brought home $175.00 per week between both of them and man we took vacations had a nice home and always had a least one new car and another one three years old. I had a wonderful childhood and we were a close family these are the good things I remember and try to focus on when I look back. Nick this Country has grown at a faster rate than probably ever expected and things have also changed at a faster rate and all we can do is ride along and do our best to make due with what we have been Blessed with, it's not your fault or mine these are things that happened "we" had no control over this. I would love to still be living back in the 50's when things were much slower and it even seemed like the days were longer and a person was able to enjoy life so much more. I don't have a clue at this point how to change this Country to were it's fair for all I think it's to late for that, but if I can keep a positive attitude and try and be optimistic it can help me cope much better without taking a toll on my health, because once your health begins to fail unless your a Mexican or have a $1000.00 a month health insurance policy you may as well dig you a 6' hole in your back yard " if the government will let you"

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NickD on Mon November 27, 2006 7:12 AM User is offline

I am kind of a history buff, read that a pre-human skull was found dating back 7 million years, that's a long time. Mostly interested in the technical advancement of man. So far nothing like a transistor was dug up and from all indications, man depended on his feet or an animal for transportation. Incredible that within a span of forty years, man went from a few sticks and fabric for the first heavier than air flying machine to the B-29 bomber dropping an atomic bomb! Add another twenty years to that and man landed on the moon. Such progress is mind boggling on how everything has changed. But for the first seven million years, not much change.

Man's desire for permanence on this earth is also incredible in building large structures out of stone, and that is found in all cultures spread over remote sections of the earth. With not even the best engineers being able to figure out, how did they do that?

There has been more books written on computers in the last twenty years than on religion over the last 3000 years. For thousands of years, the definition for how stuff works has been contributed to created gods or deities. Also true of all isolated cultures from the past. It wasn't until the 18th century that just a very small handful of men demanded proof of such statements, as basic as asking questions and trying to find the answers and proving them. It is a miracle that a few have survived the establishment getting even more men to think to change the entire course of history.

Moses was considered original in that he came up with just one god where every other religion had a bunch of gods, but not really original as a pharaoh a hundred years ago invented that concept, but the priests didn't like that and completely tore down images of him and the city he built. This is a vengeful god that is replaced a thousand years later by a prophet that has a loving merciful god, far more attractive to the masses, but still with pain and suffering.

Find it curious that in all civilizations, man has to put one guy in charge and constantly wonder why it has to be this way, many are elevated to the status as a god. Even in the good old USA we still think that way, and can be good or very very bad. And why the bible teaches us that we are stupid none thinking sheep when each of us has a brain. The psychological profile of a leader is one that has been born highly aggressive, is power seeking, and egotistical even putting to death thousands to remain in power. Such people should rightly be in a mental institution and not making decisions for the vast majority of introverted people.

Ha, a good definition of history is so we can learn mistakes from the past only to repeat them and with the same consequences.

Bad part of studying history, leaves a lot more questions than answers.

TRB on Mon November 27, 2006 10:25 AM User is offlineView users profile

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Helping people can really backfire, giving a couple of bucks to a charitable institution ends with being swamped by calls for more money, helping a person on the road can backfire with a lawsuit or being robbed. Shouldn't be that way, but it is.

This comment is what I was referring to when I said think positive Nick. While I agree we have to be careful these days I'll still stop and help someone if it looks like they are in need of some help. Never even crosses my mind that I would be sued for helping change a tire or giving someone a lift for some gas.



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powerflite on Mon November 27, 2006 6:03 PM User is offline

To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
To the optimist the glass is half full.
To the engineer, the glass is twice as large as required.

Chick on Mon November 27, 2006 6:16 PM User is offlineView users profile

And to me, someones been drinking my stuff.!!!!

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NickD on Mon November 27, 2006 11:20 PM User is offline

I get the point, will turn myself in to my psychotherapist as soon as they release him from the mental institution as a patient, LOL.

Never said I didn't stop to help stranded people, in particular where a family with young children or old folks are involved. More cautious when a very attractive woman is flagging me down parked next to bushes where a gang can run out. A guy flipped his truck trying to avoid hitting a dear, had to tell him, that was stupid, but he wasn't hurt, did use my cell phone to call the police and a tow truck, wasn't any need for me to hang around, was 2:00 AM on a remote county road, but sure he was okay. Did say some people set up traps and it shouldn't be that way or meant to say that.

I didn't want you to get drunk, Chick, so I drank out of your glass.

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