Miguel Lombana

Earth day is coming April 22, are you ready to do your part?

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• I grew up in a household where coffee, milk and sugar were part of a balanced breakfast.
• I grew up in a household where my ADD and ADHD was treated with ‘en cuanto te coja te voy a dar una paliza’ instead of Ritalin.*
• I grew up in a household where all it took was just ONE look.
• I grew up in a household where we loved white rice and fried eggs.
• I grew up in a household where lentil soup was considered ‘comida de preso’
• I grew up in a household where Spanish was my primary language.
• I grew up in a household where Spanish was my only language…

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Well I can now officially confirm it’s the end of the world. Earthquake in Southern California about 40 minutes ago, felt it here in west Phoenix! It’s the end of the world as we know it … Sing Along!

I was sitting at my desk in my home office a knew what it was the second I felt my chair and desk shaking in opposite directions. Here’s more on the story <Click Here>

I’ve been making strides in a green lifestyle, solar energy, recycling, teaching my daughter about preserving the planet and it’s resources and I’ve really only just begun!

One of the areas that I recently targeted was junk mail and from what my postal lady told me yesterday, I can claim SUCCESS!

I was on my way out and saw her truck parked next to the boxes and pulled along side, asked for my mail and she said “Oh yours is easy, you’re the only one that doesn’t get any junk mail!”

About 3 months ago I looked for a way to rid my mailbox of junk that gets tossed every day and found a couple of websites that I can now confirm will live up to the task of stopping junk mail.

How: The Privacy Rights Clearing House this site at first glance is a bit confusing but start at the top and work your way down, it tells you exactly what you have to do to get off these mailing lists and best of all it’s free! You should not have to pay one dime to do this, which leads me to another site 41Pounds.org which at first glance will do what you want until you realize you have to pay about 8 bucks a year for them to do something you can do for yourself, for FREE!

Finally OPT-OUT! Check the websites for many of the services you use today, banks, credit cards, billing centers and see if they offer a paperless option, many actually give you a discount on your bill for them not sending you a paper invoice each month, my power company does this and every little bit helps.

This will take a couple of months before you notice the difference but in the end you’ll start to see that your mailbox will only contain mail and not junk-mail.

Remember, Think Locally and Act Globally!

I just got my APS bill for Feb/Mar where I was on solar for about 15 days of the billing period. I think it pretty much speaks for itself! Next month will be the real test as it will be a full billing period on solar, can’t wait to see what my purchased KWh’s will be vs 2009!

Back from a phenomenal weekend in Miami, the reunion was off the hook and brought back a ton of memories.

The biggest highlight other than the reunion was enjoying some of the best Cuban food in the free world outside of Cuba itself! Since there isn’t 1 single authentic Cuban restaurant within 100 miles of Phoenix, the experience of Versailles at 3am with Ivette, Terry and Ivette’s friend from PR, was amazing and all my taste buds were on overload!

Finally seeing some of my best friends and specifically a special day insulting the geeks at the Apple store in the Galleria after several Martini’s made it the best vacation I’ve had in a long time!

My Solar equipment is now officially live and signed off by the power company, you can even look at my systems real time stats on the following link!

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