The cost of HVAC services is out of this world

There is no doubt that the cost of HVAC services are getting higher and higher each and every year.

I feel like I spend twice as much money to heat and cool the building as I did 5 years ago when I moved to the industrial district.

I was doing fine when my business was located outside of the city. When I decided to get property in Glenview, Illinois, I started to run into problems. The cost for the rent was extremely high. I had to raise the prices of my services on all HVAC services. A couple of the commercial customers were upset about the price inflation, but I told them that a price increase was necessary in order to remain in business. I am still the cheapest place to call in Glenview, Illinois. I consistently check the market to make sure that I have the lowest prices.I call some of the additional service providers and ask them the going rates for services like heating tune-ups and AC repairs. Then I lower my prices by 10% so I know that I am lower than everyone else. That’s all I can offer to my customers sometimes. I can pledge to them that I will have the lowest prices in all of Glenview Illinois. I might not have cheap prices but they are definitely going to be the cheapest prices in town. When the cheapest prices are coupled with excellent service, it’s almost impossible to do poorly in business. I honestly and truly hope this will be the last time I need to raise service prices for a while.

 

 

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I didn't believe marijuana could affect brain development.

Right after they announced that marijuana legalization was passed in Chicago, IL, and across the state, we began seeing those old advertisements about this is your brain on drugs.

One of my favorite advertisements announced that you needed to protect your brain.

I knew it wasn’t safe for younger people to use marijuana unless it was medical marijuana and then it had to be closely monitored. I wonder if I was the only one who understood this, or if the government thought the citizens of IL were ignorant. The Protect Your Brain advertisement went into detail about what marijuana does to the undeveloped brain. It talked about how the brain continues to develop until the age of twenty-five. Studies showed that cannabis use in young people can impair brain development. The ad stressed that cannabis use by young people, more noteably heavy cannabis use can impair short term memory, learning ability and intelligence. The last statement in the advertisement was that the purchase and use of cannabis by anyone under the age of twenty-one, is illegal. What happened to the brain continues to develop until the age of 25. If the Chicago, IL government knew these facts, why didn’t they make purchasing and use of marijuana under the age of 25 illegal? I think the legalization of marijuana, especially medical marijuana is a good thing, but I wonder about the lawmakers. Did they read all the information about its safety before setting the law about age? If they had, legal marijuana in Illinois could have been different than they are now. I’m sure they would have heard a lot of angry people yelling about using alcohol at 21 but not marijuana, but they don’t know all the facts.

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They told me my arrest for illegal use of pot would be expunged.

Although I am too old to worry about going into the military now, I am still happy my arrest record has been expunged

When I was sixteen, I was arrested for illegal use of pot. I had enough pot on me that they tried to press charges for intent to sell, but that didn’t hold. I had purchased the marijuana for a party my friends and I were having. The six of us were arrested because the police followed me to my house. I was underage, driving a car without a legal license, purchasing illegal marijuana, and driving while under the influence. The Chicago, IL juvenile court threw the book at me and I ended up with an arrest record and had to do community service for three months. That arrest record stuck with until they passed marijuana laws several years ago. When the laws for legal use of marijuana was passed, they also added an amendment that would expunge all arrest records for people who were arrested for illegal marijuana use. I had tried to get into the service, but I couldn’t get security clearance because of my arrest record. They wanted someone who would be trustworthy, and I didn’t pass that test. Although I am too old to worry about going into the military now, I am still happy my arrest record has been expunged. I’m not sure if I’ll ever get anywhere now that my record has been expunged, but I am now eligible to run for a local government office in my home town of Chicago, IL, because I have no arrests on record to hold mew back. I haven’t used marijuana or done anything else that is legal since that night, and who knows, maybe someday I’ll be able to run for mayor of Chicago, IL.

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There’s a new dispensary selling strong concentrates near Ypsilanti

I was born in St.

Joseph’s hospital which is on the east end of Ann Arbor near Ypsilanti.

Despite living for a number of years west of Ann Arbor in Chelsea, my parents frequently took my sister and I on shopping trips into both Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. For instance, there is the Fountain Square Shopping Center on Washtenaw Ave and we used to frequent it for years to go clothes shopping in the late summers before going back to school for another year. After my childhood, it was a number of years before I drove into Ypsilanti again. I lived in Jackson County in a number of different places near Grand River and Center Lake. I loved kayaking on Michigan’s Grand River, not only for its beauty but also the pride of it being the longest river in the entire state at 252 miles in length. I still kayak now that I’m living in Ann Arbor, but I typically go out to the Huron River or Barton Pond. Yesterday I was driving back from Detroit and decided to stop in Ypsilanti again for the first time in years. I heard on an internet forum that a new cannabis dispensary had opened near Eastern Michigan University and it was supposedly selling strong and potent cannabis concentrates. I’m a huge fan of hashish and hash rosin products, especially those made from the live, fresh-frozen cannabis flower products. I was extremely happy with the products I purchased from the dispensary in Ypsilanti. They had a clean taste and presented me with strong effects overall. All in all, I was happy with the new dispensary in Ypsilanti.

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We bought pre-rolled joints to go hiking in the Waterloo Recreational area off M-52

It might be deceptive to visit Ann Arbor and assume there aren’t any great hiking opportunities within the city, even if you ignore Nichols Arboretum and Gallup Park.

The reality is that within 10 minutes of the city’s borders, there are rural communities with woodlands towards the north, south, and west of the city.

One of my all time favorite places to go hiking in Washtenaw County is the Waterloo Recreational Area. My family home was just east of Waterloo in a rural area called Lyndon Township. It’s a few miles north of Chelsea, a slowly growing city in northwest Washtenaw County. At some point in my childhood Chelsea grew from a village into a verifiable city. One thing I started doing in high school was taking long walks in Waterloo to smoke spots where I’d take pre-rolled joints of cannabis flower buds and smoke them in privacy in the woods. Even though I live in south Ann Arbor near Saline, I still enjoy driving out to Waterloo every once in a while to get exercise while chiefing away on my pre-rolled joint. I love the cannabis that I have access to here in Michigan, especially when I’m able to enjoy it out on hiking trails when I’m away from others and in total privacy. Nothing beats smoking cannabis out in nature, especially in the gorgeous Washtenaw County. Some of the neighboring areas and counties are predominantly flat farming land instead of hills and woodlands like the Waterloo Recreation Area in northwest Washtenaw County. I genuinely would not want to live anywhere else, even if I had the choice to move.
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Even a medical patient can’t smoke 8 ounces a day

In the state of Oregon, medical patients can possess up to 8 oz of marijuana in a day.

  • A person can purchase up to 8 oz of marijuana as well.

Even the heaviest marijuana smokers would have trouble smoking 8 oz of marijuana in one day, so I would find it strange for a customer to come to the store one day and buy 8 oz of marijuana and then come back the very next day for the same amount of medical marijuana products. I was working at a Portland marijuana dispensary a few years ago and I remembered seeing the same customer 3 days in a row. On the third day, I found it strange that the customer maxed out his order. I looked at the information for the customer which includes all of their previous orders. I was surprised that the system did not flag the system when the customer ordered 8 oz of dried marijuana flower 3 days in a row. I said something to the manager about the odd purchase. She told me that there is no rule on the amount of times that a person can come to the store for marijuana. There is no way to prove that the customer was doing anything illegal, so the manager told me to mind my own business and not worry about what the customers are buying. Shortly after that, I decided to quit the job and look for a sales position in a different Portland marijuana dispensary. I really didn’t care for the attitude the manager gave me when I was trying to be helpful.

 

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I moved to Oregon one year after weed was legalized

Back in 2015, the state of Oregon passed a law to allow all citizens access to medical and recreational marijuana products.

The state fully taxed the items and regulated the entire industry with rules and laws to keep everyone safe.

It took a long time before we had full access to marijuana in the dispensaries, but after a year, things were progressing along very nicely. That’s when I decided to move to portland. Portland is one of the largest cities in the state of Oregon and a hot bed center for marijuana activities. There are more marijuana dispensaries in Portland, Oregon than any other city in the state. The prices on recreational and medical marijuana in Portland are lower than any other place in the state and they are lower than half of the places around the country. A person can possess up to a whole ounce of cannabis when they are out in public. Adults are allowed to grow plants as well. One of the reasons why I decided to move to Portland after marijuana was legalized was to start a small farm. I had a very large piece of property in Oregon and I didn’t know what to do with it. When marijuana was legalized, I immediately thought that the land could be used to form marijuana. Unfortunately, the rules and regulations in Portland regarding marijuana farming make it very difficult for a regular person to obtain a license. The filing fees for the licenses are $6,500 and that doesn’t include the cost to pay a lawyer to help with the paperwork.

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The old man was dancing in the street and smoking a pre-roll.

While visiting Las Vegas, NV, I cursed myself for leaving my cellphone in the hotel room while we were out for dinner. There was no one I wanted to talk to, and I thought that since my husband and I were on vacation, we didn’t need to call anyone from back home. If they needed us, it could wait an hour while we finished our dinner. An hour later, I wished I had brought my phone with me. We had an amazing camera on the phone, and I was wishing I could use it. There was an old man dancing in the streets outside the restaurant. He had a cold drink in one hand, and a pre-roll marijuana cigarette in the other hand. I knew it was marijuana because of the smell. He was offering to dance with every woman who was there, and was telling them he was the oldest Chippendale now located in Las Vegas, NV. Why that was going to make a difference, I didn’t know. I love Las Vegas, NV, and I told my husband I wouldn’t mind living there one day. It had a party vibe, but it was a quiet city when you got outside the city. I think he liked the idea that he could call the marijuana dispensary and have his medical marijuana delivered without driving to pick it up. He seemed to lean toward moving to Las Vegas, NV, but I didn’t think it was going to be ‌soon. He thought Las Vegas, NV, would be a good place to retire.

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I wondered if having a cannabis dispensary across the street from a restaurant was done deliberately.

I was sitting in my hotel room in Las Vegas, and looked out my window.

  • Right across the street from our hotel was a cannabis dispensary.

I contemplated their idea of putting marijuana dispensaries across the street from a hotel that had several restaurants inside, and one was open all night. People were going in and out of the dispensary, and many of them were coming to the hotel. I wonder if there wasn’t a reason for this and if they did deliberately it. Most people know that when you smoke pot, you get the munchies. With there being a restaurant right across the street from a pot shop, and that restaurant is open 24/7 and offers amazing sweet treats, you’re heading to that restaurant shortly after smoking pot. That’s what I would do, especially now that I was in Las Vegas, NV, for a short time. I grabbed my partner and told her we were going to the marijuana dispensary. She asked what brought that up, and I said there was a marijuana dispensary across the street, and we were in Las Vegas, NV. I was going to experience everything Las Vegas, NV, had to offer, including their legal recreational marijuana. That afternoon, we went down to the buffet and instead of eating our meat and potatoes for dinner; we got a sandwich. Our sandwich got wrapped up and taken back to the hotel room, but we made a pig of ourselves with all the luscious sweets they offered. My partner said that what we consumed in Las Vegas, NV, was nobody’s business but ours.

 

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I could stink the weed all the way across campground

My partner and I took our children camping in San Francisco bay last weekend before school started! We got the tents, kayaks, lanterns, and sleeping bags out of the garage.

We checked everything to make sure that it was still working and in unbelievable condition.

We had not been camping at all since the last season… Part of that was due to the quarantine and covid, everyone was ready to get out of the house for a couple of days! My partner and I set up many tents in the San Francisco bay camping spot, but one of the tents was for the many of us and our 3-year-old child and the other tent was for both of the older boys. We have a tent big enough to accommodate our entire family, but the guys appreciate to have a tent of their own… They know they can come get us in the middle of the night if there is any concern at all that makes them know scared! During 1 of the nights of our camping trip, the guys came to get us because they stinked a weird odor. They thought that it was a skunk, despite the fact that I recognized the stink of marijuana right away. We were in San Francisco where marijuana is legal, despite the fact that I didn’t believe it was appropriate for the guys to smoke marijuana in the campground… I told the guys to go back to bed because everything was just fine, but they were convinced that there was a stray critter in the campground and they brought their sleeping bags into the tent with us. I continued to hear voices and stink marijuana until 3am.

 

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