by Arthur Breur | Mar 30, 2022 | HOMM Newsletter
If you stay at someone’s house, like in a VRBO or AirBNB, they are your host. They give you a space to stay, with a bed and bathroom. Depending on the place you’re staying and the terms, they might give you access to their washing machine and dryer, and they may even...
by Arthur Breur | Feb 16, 2022 | HOMM Newsletter
Email. Such a simple word. And it seems like such a simple concept. Mail that gets delivered, electronically. Brilliant! So why does it seem to cause us so much frustration and headache? Why can’t email just be as simple as it sounds? The complexity comes in...
by Arthur Breur | Feb 2, 2022 | Newsletter
I’m excited to announce that I have put my technological interests together with my musical interests and started a new podcast. The idea for “The Melodology Podcast” is to have a guest composer on to discuss a famous melody together, then to invite...
by Arthur Breur | Feb 2, 2022 | Behind The Curtain
You may remember that Brian and I had some drama with our Floating Home back in February when the unusual heavy, wet snow added too much weight to the roof of our house and it tilted in the water.Well, we almost immediately scheduled work with a company called Harbor...
by Arthur Breur | Dec 27, 2021 | Behind The Curtain
I wanted this to just be an update about Oscar and Felix but, while there is plenty to say just about them, the story would be incomplete without mentioning that the construction to “shore up” our floating home is in progress right now.You may remember back in...
by Arthur Breur | Oct 29, 2021 | Behind The Curtain
My musical foundations, laid down in my earliest years, were “kids” shows (like Sesame Street and The Muppet Show), church choir, and film scores (like John William’s music for “Star Wars” and Jerry Goldsmith’s music for “Star Trek the Motion Picture”).Jump forward in...
by Arthur Breur | Oct 7, 2021 | Behind The Curtain
I met my husband, Brian, 25 years ago when we both lived in Southern California, he in San Diego and me in Los Angeles. I had been raised in between the two, in Orange County, and while I was not a California native, I definitely considered myself to be a Californian....
by Arthur Breur | Oct 7, 2021 | HOMM Newsletter
All websites hosted by FireSpike now have an additional layer of performance and protection included, at no additional cost, provided by a global service called Cloudflare. As a speed booster, Cloudflare works in a few different ways. First, it can deliver a copy of...
by Arthur Breur | Aug 9, 2021 | Behind The Curtain
I’m very excited that I seem to have figured out how to keep our Bearss lime tree happy and fruitful. Last year I ended up with only two limes on the entire plant. This year it looks like it will be closer to 20. Here’s one standout, to the left, and you...
by Arthur Breur | Aug 9, 2021 | Success Stories
We frequently ask our clients to fill out a questionnaire so we can include them as a success story in our monthly newsletter.This month, for our 20th Anniversary in business, it felt appropriate to have me answer the questions and to share about our own...
by Arthur Breur | Jul 22, 2021 | Behind The Curtain
So many plans were cancelled last year, and that included our trip to the Hawaiian island of Kauai. Fortunately we were able to postpone, and Brian and I finally were able to take that trip early this month.Kauai is a stunningly beautiful place, and has suffered so...
by Arthur Breur | Jun 11, 2021 | Behind The Curtain
Twenty years ago (the same year that I started FireSpike), Brian and I were living in our first “owned” home at 11414 Galleria Drive in Tampa, Florida. It is a townhouse neighborhood, and our home was on the end of one of the buildings. Each unit in one of the...
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