Implants When I was a kid, it seemed like I was the only one with teeth issues. The dentist, who's chair side manner was absolutly horrible, made a lot of money off my parents. He always seemed to find yet another issue with a tooth on just about every
One Year In Business Well, we settled on a name, as you probably already know, Synergy Power. That was my last post, over a year ago, trying to come up with a name. We have quite a rough few months, 2 of the major sales pieces up and left. The worst part about it
Company Name Piekarczyk Construction Company, yeah that's a mouth full, we need a new name. Names can be difficult because California is a large state, and they all have to be registered with the state. I've read a couple articles about creating a business name, here's
Brisket Smoker Choices Let's stay focused on the goal, smoking a great brisket! Choosing a smoker is like picking out clothing, everyone has an opinion. So here is mine. As I considered all the options, I centered around 2 ideals. Those ideals distilled are, real wood burner and a well crafted
Brisket Personal Notes for Smoking a Brisket Been reading Franklin BBQ & Meathead. It's 2:19 and I'm turning off my 2:30 alarm. I'm excited and can't wait for it to sound. I check to see if the towns need a bottle. They seem okay for the moment,
Brisket -First Attempt As much as I love BBQ, the gas grill has taken all the soul out of it. To me, I'd rather use the stove if I'm going to use a gas grill. These days when I BBQ, I use the Weber. It takes just a few
cooking How to grill a perfect steak in the kitchen I got tired of using the propane barbecue. In my opinion, there just isn't any advantage. Don't get me wrong, I love to kick on the BBQ, but if I'm going to go to all that work, I'd rather fire up the
Ginger Ale Isn't The Cure Well after having one of the worst cases of the flu I can ever remember this week I have some new knowledge to pass on. I'll spare you the details of the flu, let's just say I got a real ab workout. I've known
The Real Ultrasound When you find out by a non doctor that you are having triplets, you're a bit skeptical. Well, at least part of me was. You see, my wife had this great idea of finding out the gender at 14 weeks with one of these 3D or is it
Running Pain Free When I first decided to get my act together and start getting healthy. I decided it was time to exercise. Typically, I join a gym, go a few times then get busy go on and off for a few months, if it even lasted that long. So I decided my
Backsliding The sayings are many; 2 steps forward, 1 step back. As we try to push forward, change long ingrained habits and start new ones, there always seems to be a tug of war for progress. For myself, it's key I stay aware of what causes backsliding. I have
Practice With A Goal I played golf for the first time in about 4 months today. I shot pretty poorly, over 100 for sure. Having fun today wan't about shooting par, clearly. Even though I expected lot's of poor shots, I still found myself trying to get frustrated. I constantly
Elevated Heartbeat The Wife and I went for a walk not to long ago. She really isn't into logging her efforts like me, so usually I have to remind her to hit the start button on Strava. This particular time though I had an extra Bluetooth Heart Rate Monitor. I
Always An Opportunity With the current selloff happening in the stock markets, due to "Brexit" last Friday. I'm again reminded there is always an opportunity to be had. With what seems like panic again grabbing the stock market, I'm taking advantage of some awesome home loan pricing.
The Costly Habit of NO Since I'm in the solar industry, people like to ask me all sorts of questions about the subject. Usually the questions are regarding whether or not they'll actually save you money. Recently I read a story in my new favorite Seth Godin book that well illustrated
Mediocrity is Self Inflicted I think about starting quite a bit. Whether it's starting to train for an IronMan, losing a few pounds, buying peace of mind (saving) or a new business venture -there is fear stopping me. I have all sorts of excuses, it's too much, I need to
How to Shave I can remember learning to shave in my teens, the process always seemed to result in cuts and bleeding. It wasn't long until I bought an electric razor, this only resulted in more issues, in grown hairs, razor rash or poor quality shave. By the time I was
Triplet Girls Yesterday, Sunday June 19th, we revealed to everyone we were having triplets, not twins as we had been told by our doctor. Not only did we reveal we were having triplets, but we also did a gender reveal cake cutting party. My wife and I had a 3D/4D ultrasound
One Surprise After Another Well today is Thursday June 16, 2016. I'm sure it's the most shocking day of my life, finding out we were having twins was pretty huge along with some other items. Anyway we are doing a gender reveal party this Sunday for the twins. It'
You're Always Right Perspective is unbelievably powerful. I'm standing at the counter across from someone else. We are both at a gathering for some friends. We are munching on some amazing hors d'oeuvres and he says, ah I missed all the bacon wrapped dates, I point to the one
Home Audio I finally completed a project, well as much as these types of projects ever finish. Either way, I'm done working on home audio for a bit. I installed flush mounted ceiling speakers in every room (bedrooms, bathroom, kitchen, etc.) and I also mounted Niles speakers outside in the
Leading by Course Correcting Part of the problem with telling someone what to do, if you are a "manager", is you rarely even get what you ask for. It never ceases to amaze me how what seems like simple directions can be misunderstood or at the very lease, not as expected. Maybe
Packing Less You know my laptop is from 2008, it's a MacBook Pro, and while I've upgraded the hard drive to a 1 TB SSD, it's otherwise original hardware. I've upgraded the OS each time there is a new version, and it can edit
Twins! When you find out your wife is pregnant, it's always a bit overwhelming. Yes we wanted another child. 2.5 kids just sounds messy and we already had 2, so one more sounded perfect. I mostly didn't want my wife desperately wanting that 3rd child when
Cadence One of the biggest issues I consistently see with strong guys while on the bike, whether road or mountain bike is trying to power up a hill with low rpm pedaling. I can't tell you how many times I have seen new guys out there trying to power
