Though that rant pokes me in hard in one of my secret insecurity painful places, the fear that all my atheist and agnostic friends are just being polite and secretly they think I'm a dipshit and an intellectual fraud. Which I know is most likely not so, but guys like that ranter make me paranoid that it actually is.

Is not. I can only speak for myself, but whatever my personal religious (or nonreligious) beliefs may be, I've got nothing but respect and admiration for my friends who are religious. That rant made me want to throw things at that person for being such a smug, insufferable asshole. He's made it clear that he'd respond about as well to a cluesticking as to a nuclear bomb, but I still want to shake him and yell, "You're missing the fucking point!" I ask you: between that dude and JZ, who's the idiot?

The only religious friends of mine that I occasionally think are idiots are the ones who keep trying to convert me. Or the ones who actually are idiots. For reasons not pertaining to their chosen brand of religion.

I ask you: between that dude and JZ, who's the idiot?

I want to say "that dude by a long way, in the way that travelling to the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is a long way compared to travelling to the coffee cart upstairs," but I'm afraid I'm just an idiot religious type whose opinion doesn't matter.

Hivemind survey: have you turned on your heat yet?

Nope, though I'm sensing that we may be this weekend. And I was hoping to make it through October without turning on the heat.

What do you set the thermostat to?

I would like to set it at 68 during the day, 58 at night. But Susan is closer to the thermostat 40 hours a week.

ETC: my idiot transposition.

Hivemind survey: have you turned on your heat yet? How do you decide when to turn on the heat? What do you set the thermostat to?

The furnace has kicked on a few times. It's set to 68.

The heat came on in my building the weekend of the 15th, even though it didn't have to -- apparently the rules are by temperature, and it hadn't been that cold yet. I don't control or pay for the heat, which means I keep windows open a lot.

Another day, another rejection. I'm down to two left to tell me no.

I wish i had stayed home.

We've generally got the thermostat set to 62 or 64. Sometimes we'll take it up as high as 68 if it's really cold.

I ask you: between that dude and JZ, who's the idiot?

I want to say "JZ by a long way, in the way that travelling to the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is a long way compared to travelling to the coffee cart upstairs,"

Heh. Although I'm assuming you meant it the other way around?

We have a weird situation wherein the heat for our whole building (2 apartments) is controlled by the people in the downstairs apt., so if we desperately need it turned down or up while they're out, tough luck. They tend to keep it pretty warm; it's been on for a week or two by now. On the bright side, we don't have to pay for it!

Oh, and night is set to 60, which is as low as I feel comfortable having it with a baby in the house.