I have never been one to just spend money without really thinking it through. That even goes for a twenty dollar shirt that I see on sale. While I’m very thankful to make a decent living and have a nice financial outlook, dumb spending can ruin that situation for sure. At the same time, I need to just get over myself a bit when it comes to spending sometimes. Not every purchase needs research and scrutiny from the air conditioning of my home office. Sometimes, I need to just let it rip and go with my gut. But my gut, other than being prodigious, isn’t all that spot on really. The smart thermostat situation is a great example. I had this idea in my head that the smart thermostat would be obsolete withing years of it first coming out. That has not proved to be the situation at all. If anything, the smart thermostat has flourished in the intervening years. So I was just dead wrong about that gut feeling. But, when I’m wrong, I’m wrong and I can live with that. I don’t have a problem with admitting a mistake or miscalculation. That’s just part of life. So, I called the HVAC company and asked them to send out an HVAC technician to install a smart thermostat that I had recently purchased. I did do my research on this smart thermostat and didn’t even wait for a sale. But I know I got a good one with a great track record. The installation by the HVAC technician didn’t take very long at all. And he didn’t have to input much more than my most basic heating and cooling parameters. From there, the smart thermostat has simply figured it out.