We're on the second floor of a six floor building with steam heat, so it can get pretty warm in the winter and we end up cracking a window.
Yeah, its weird, but it keeps our skin nice.
Oh, at first it was confusing. Just the idea of computers was like — whoa! I'm eleven hundred years old! I had trouble adjusting to the idea of Lutherans.
Anya ,'Get It Done'
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Trudy Booth - Oct 24, 2013 11:41:51 pm PDT #10057 of 30000
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Beverly - Oct 25, 2013 12:57:02 am PDT #10058 of 30000
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
When we were on the third floor, military housing in Nurnberg, the rads went full blast from October through April, and we had to keep a window or two cracked, too. I miss those views, actually.
I do keep an electric oil-filled rad in the back corner of my bathroom. It's set very low, but that's a chilly corner. It's also where the toilet is, and I can put up with a lot, but I've made do with outhouses and now, up with an icy toilet seat I will not put.
Calli - Oct 25, 2013 1:04:08 am PDT #10059 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I have the heat set to come on when it drops below 63 or so. I'm not proud. I also have throws on every piece of soft furniture, as well as a snuggley cat. I just love feeling cool and cuddling up under things. My apartment is below another unit, which makes for some good insulation above. But I have little faith in the R value of the walls and windows.
hippocampus - Oct 25, 2013 2:04:18 am PDT #10060 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
Ginger, I would read the heck out of that blog.
I am fighting the sads this week because of a bunch of dumb things and my brain sees fit to deliver a series of dreams where DH leaves (on a trip; on a boat; on purpose). Not on, brain.
I'm doing nano to do a huge rewrite on something because if I don't fix it now, I don't know when I will. Always glad to have more people to cheer for.
hippocampus - Oct 25, 2013 2:07:04 am PDT #10061 of 30000
not your mom's socks.
Coffee: on the upside, I get a Raq this weekend, with bonus HPF and Mal entertainment.
Theodosia - Oct 25, 2013 2:11:39 am PDT #10062 of 30000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
We leave the automatic thermostat set through the warm months, so I have plausible deniability when it kicks off in October. Like this morning. And the house smells like hot irons for a while.
sarameg - Oct 25, 2013 2:15:29 am PDT #10063 of 30000
And the house smells like hot irons for a while.
Yup.
In Prague, most of the winter, we had to have the window open a crack to counteract the overzealous radiator. We had no control over it, it was city-wide.
sarameg - Oct 25, 2013 2:48:04 am PDT #10064 of 30000
One thing that annoys me about the new car: it's very naggy. Of COURSE the tire pressure is going to drop when the temp drops 20° in the space of a few days. Sure, it could use another couple of lbs per tire now. Light is sufficient, stop beeping at me!
Tom Scola - Oct 25, 2013 2:52:58 am PDT #10065 of 30000
hwæt
Laura - Oct 25, 2013 2:57:38 am PDT #10066 of 30000
Our wings are not tired.
I'm hoping to open windows this weekend, finally. Last night when I drove home at 10:30pm it was still 79F, but it was very windy and very comfy. I hate being closed in all summer and can't wait to start living outside again. Lots of my friends got snow yesterday. The pictures were very pretty.