I depend on it to keep me comfortable and my house healthy year round.
I labor as a volunteer at a local retirement facility. I labor with the residents on craft projects, help with social events, and even spend time visiting or just learning to them. It is genuinely rewarding on several levels however one of my number one things to do is just listen. They cherish sharing their stories from the past and I find much of what they have to say fascinating. The life I have grown up in has been completely controlled by one form of electronic device or another. The world is at our fingertips, thanks to the internet, and my associate and I carry a iphone that is basically a small laptop, however we can control our world remotely through websites and apps. Not only is this technology foreing to several of the residence, the items my associate and I control are too. Many of them grew up without things like laptops, security systems, Heating, Ventilation and A/C systems and even cars. I can’t imagine my life without any of these things, and most notably, my Heating, Ventilation and A/C system. I depend on it to keep me comfortable and my house healthy year round. I have it completely controlled by my Smart Thermostat and I can log on at any moment from wherever I am to adjust it or ensure that it is running officially. When I listen to a resident telling me about the difficult labor they had to do to keep their homes moderate in the winter and how excited they were when the first electric boilers came on the market I am simply astounded. I am really blissful that my associate and I don’t have to go to those lengths any longer.