I haven’t been happy with the performance of my radiant heat system over my crawl space, so I’ve been spending some time re-doing the insulation job underneath.

I was in Chicago for a business trip and had a 5:30 PM flight back. It was snowing in Chicago that day, so I decided to catch a taxi cab to the airport really early, at 2:00 PM. I didn’t want to get stuck in bad traffic and watch my plane take off from a…

We’ve had our Polaris high efficiency hot water heater active for about 10 months now. Yesterday morning I heard a loud popping sound from the basement, and a few hours later Shanna was complaining about not having any hot water. I went downstairs and the unit was flashing once, indicating that there was a problem…

Shanna and I spent all day Sunday shopping for a new TempurPedic mattress. I wasn’t looking forward to it at all – shopping for a mattress is like shopping for a used car, dealing with sales people, warranties, upsells, competition between businesses, etc. Sure enough, I was right. Man, what an experience, 6 hours long….