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Cold, here, now. Raining, not snowing, the last I looked a few minutes ago. I could turn up the heat but I am trying to use cold (62 F) as my an incentive to sleep. It often works, to a degree. And yet, this is my time of year. Of course, there is some work I want done before it cannot be done. I am simply not sure if it is possible. Such is life.
I did more dishes, I ate a couple more times after the oatmeal (all good high fiber foods). I enjoyed the day with Sassy, but Sam wanted out when it was not raining and has not let me know she wanted back in. It is raining and cold, so I know she wants in. We must have missed. I will keep trying to get her in. I never did set beans to soak, so I will do that as a last thing before trying to get to bed. Yesterday was a disaster, seeing me in bed not at 20:00 or 22:00 as I had attempted, but not until 4:50 or so this morning.
I still have a number of things to set up with the computer. Bills need to be paid and it seems that when my computer crashes, some of those bills I had set on automatic stop being paid. Huh? Yes, for whatever reason, automated payments seem to end. I honestly think companies have been corrupt enough that, if they think you have lost control of your machine and payments, they will kick it off so that you have to pay late charges. Yeah, I suspect so. Anyway, I will do more work on that tonight. Right, one of the bills is my mortgage. I have been trying to get a payment through but their "system" keeps refusing. Trust know company these days, banks and financiers least of all.
So, beans set to soak and a few business connections to work on, Sam to be let in, then on to bed if I can make it. My bung hole is really sore, legs are improving though. Not ripped, simply... stretched. A good thing as even slight tears can be very unhealthy I would have to guess. Laugh, I do, am, sort of. It is times like these when I realize... it's great to be straight. I used to have a donut pillow, though not for this reason. I wish I could lay my hands, and seat, on it.
Good night.
So far I have firmly resisted turning on even my small wall furnace in the bedroom, even though it is dropping to 40 degrees outside many mornings. It dismays me what propane costs these days, and I am going to see how cold I can tolerate and still sleep well. I have historically been a warm room sleeper, but so far so good.
ReplyDeleteI have a decent quilt though I am looking at getting materials and having Momcat sew me a woolen quilt. I have that thick robe that Daisycat bought me for Christmas last year, for when I get up, and with that all I need to do so far is use a small electric heater in the bathroom for my shower.
At some point I will have to turn on the furnace if only to keep the pipes from freezing. I set the whole house thermostat to 55 last winter and I may see if 45 will be sufficient. I may not be able to tolerate much less than 55-60 in my bedroom though, so the wall furnace will make up that difference.
It would turn out to be nice to find I can tolerate lower, and maybe even no fuel-based heat. One less thing to worry about when TSHTF.
I like the notion of going lower. But I have heard that pipes may well freeze at even a setting of 50 to 55 (and some heating systems do not actually work at that setting, despite what gages and dials say), depending on how your plumbing is set up and your heating system. So, for me, 62 is as far down as I will go. Further, I have a lot of problem functioning at much lower than 66 F in the day, to live and work and such. Actually, 66 might be a little low anymore. What I can survive, or even enjoy, is another matter. Assuming I do not need to function to any great extent, I can live in my unders, often, well below 60. I just sleep a bit more and am much less active. When I have had the opportunity in places without cost, I simply closed my bedroom door and opened the window during the winter. (Uhrm, women do not like this, by the way.)
ReplyDeleteI need to do some reconfiguring of my home before I can do that too much. My bedroom is not heated by the furnace, but it has plumbing into the master bath, so I am a bit limited there (as I see and understand things). Still, with a little work and some thought, I suspect I could eventually close off the bedroom with a weather door and live in that as cool as I like. Having the rest of the house nice and warm(er).
I like the idea of efficiency but I will not pain myself for it now. That may come by needs, but I have been there too. It just so happens that I like cold to sleep in, and can tolerate the cool very well in other ways. Just not when I need to do things. I will be watching your progress into the cold. Write about that from time to time. I have never really tracked how cold I have slept (though winter in Iowa is witch tit cold, perhaps even a rabbit hair cooler). Still... curious.