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What Could Go Wrong?

We learned from the pandemic that education is available in many more places than just at live seminars. Webinars, for instance, are safer because you’re watching them al...

Published on 07/17/2020 10:36 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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What's In A Name?

We have so many names for common things and tools that we use in this business; and because I have way too much time on my hands, I started wondering how those names came...

Published on 06/15/2020 2:19 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Lime Day

Some years ago, back when my joints didn’t crack when I dragged myself off the couch, I was father to four little girls. The last two are twins and there’s just a bit mor...

Published on 04/09/2020 1:39 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Technology

Our daughter, Erin, bought our business in 2016 when Marianne and I retired. Erin is of an age where she is more comfortable with technology than I am, and she was the br...

Published on 03/06/2020 10:22 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Thieves

We had a warehouse break-in over the weekend when I was young and working inside-sales (read, order-taking) for a manufacturers’ rep on the Isle of Long. We had just move...

Published on 01/08/2020 10:57 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Thermostat Adventures

Twenty-five years ago, I wrote a story for this fine magazine I titled it, "Only Gus Touch." Over the years, many people have told me they still remember that tale and as...

Published on 09/18/2019 10:10 AM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Why My Hair Is Brown

I’m 69 years old and my hair is as brown as it was when I was a teenager. A bit of it, mostly around my ears and the back of my neck, sneaks in as gray, but some Russian ...

Published on 03/20/2019 2:04 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Bailey’s Great Experiment

It was the spike in the cost of paper that eventually led to Bailey’s Great Experiment. The printer blamed the 50 percent increase on El Niño and lousy weather in the Pac...

Published on 01/29/2019 9:51 AM
Posted in The HVAC Business
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25,000 Days

On July 8, my body’s odometer went over 25,000 days. When life’s dial flipped to that number, I woke with wonder and thought, once again, that I probably should have chan...

Published on 07/24/2018 7:42 PM by Dan Holohan
Posted in The HVAC Business
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Buddy's Beaters

It wasn’t a very long list – just 25 people in all – but it nagged at Buddy in the night and robbed him of his rest. He’d toss and dream unsettling dreams of Mrs. Gibbing...

Published on 05/17/2018 2:37 PM
Posted in The HVAC Business