Kappell Family Blog

I have been in school for some time now. I have plans to start my own company as soon as I can. I have already started to some extent doing maintenances and small repairs. The biggest issue for me is lack of actual experience. Now I know I can trouble shoot to the point I could almost figure out any issues. The problem is I have not seen or been exposed to all the different possible issues that could occur.

So I have decided to try and go into business with an experienced technician and another student who seems very knowledgeable with HVACR. We have started doing small jobs offering Maintenances Tune-ups for $50.00. So far this is proving to be a very slow start. We have landed jobs, but have failed to make much money. Part of the problem has to do with the fact we have no truck stock for most of the potential issues that we recommend the customer have replaced. This means if the customer agrees for the replacement we have to come back and that cost money. 

Now even though the three of us are trying to start up a business we are all still trying to do our own thing at the same time. So the family and me walk around and place flyers where ever we can. I still have a problem that I don’t have any truck stock for recommend part replacements. I know what I am doing and am very confident in the work I perform. I just need to find a way to bring some money in to for truck stock. The old “You have to spend money to make money” analogy is staring me right in the face. Because in order for me to spend money I have to make some first! I definitely need to think outside the box and find a way to get the money to spend.

I just wish I had some family or friends that could help! It would be an investment for them and I know I could bring a profitable return on their investment in my start up company with-in a matter of months.

 Anyway I will keep everyone updated.

Hello World.

Today I have to share some bad news. Last night Carries Uncle Lee decided to end his own life. The call came in around 10:00 pm from her Uncle Ricky, Uncle Lee had shot his self in the abdomen and died from his wounds.

Uncle Lee was a great guy who loved everyone and would help you if he could. He always made me laugh he had a knack for it. He could make you laugh even when you didn’t want to. He was a great person to be around.

Lee had issues with alcoholism, and drank daily almost all his adult life. He did have periods were would stop, but would start back up again. I think Lee’s love was so deep, that when that love was taken away or broken it would send him into a deep depression that was over shadowed by his drinking. It was his mechanism for copping with hard things in life or just away to escape the way he really felt inside.

It doesn’t matter what the person’s flaws are when they are family! You love them because they are family, so you over look their flaws and except them for who they are and what they do. No one is perfect if you are then you are a self-diluted self-absorbed person, and are most likely not normal in anyway.

This is the second Uncle that Carries side of the family has lost in a year. One was accidental, and the other was suicide. No matter how or when it happens when it does it always seems so sudden and to soon! You can’t replace their unique personality nor can you understand why it happened when their life ended. All you know is you now feel this empty feeling inside. You start to do the, I should have or could have scenarios in your head. The fact is nothing can be done to change what has already happened. All you can do now is remember what that person meant to you, how much you loved them and how much you will really miss them!

We need to remember, that no matter what a family member maybe doing that might not sit well with us, or that we just down right disagree with, that life is very short and we are not promised the next second let alone the another day! So don’t find yourself in the “should have or could have scenarios”. Forgive the ones you love, except them for who they are and what they do no matter what, and tell them you love them.

WE ALL LOVE YOU UNCLE LEE! YOU WILL BE MISSED GREATLY!