What are you doing today?

Not long after we got married my wife mentioned to my mom that I kept the bedroom a bit too cool.

My mom responded by ordering us a comforter with two different weights. Her side had 25% more fill than my side. 😊
 
I can't stand heat really. I've never lived for a long time in a hot environment, so I start melting when it gets up around 75ºF (24ºC) outside (and I loathed living in NYC every summer). In winter I feel like I'm dying when I go into stores or to appointments in places like a dentist's office where they jack the heat up into the 70s. You can only take so many clothes off in public!

My bedroom in winter can get down to around 45-50ºF (7-10ºC) since it's not heated up there, but I'm plenty comfy under a couple of thermal blankets and quilts plus a comforter. I keep the house downstairs around 62ºF (17ºC) in the daytime and knock it down to mid-50s when I head upstairs.

The mid-60s are above usual inside temp in my house in the non-heating season anyway, except for heat of summer when the house might get up to 70. So why would I make my house warmer in winter than it is in summer without the furnace running? It never made sense to me, so I just layer up my clothes and the bedding in the cooler seasons.
 
I am about to order a couple of screens, for the house, for the windows right off the downstairs entertainment room.

We measured several times, I chose the specific materials, screens, springs, pulls, got all the various sizes entered (H, W, D, lip specifics). This is sort of a test, and if these come in and work well, it's the same size for a number of windows (but there's at least 4 different sizes ...), so we could get about 75% replaced with just a duplicate order X <some_quantity>

Wish me luck :ROFLMAO:
 
During the daytime in winter I usually keep the house at around 69° and then at night I turn it down to around 60° -- I don't want to go any lower than that because I worry about pipes in the kitchen freezing (the sink area is on an outside wall). In general, the kitchen always seems to be about ten degrees cooler than the rest of this place during the colder weather so I'm not taking chances during the really severe cold in January and February, when there is the possibility of an expectedly severe cold snap causing the pipes to freeze. People in other buildings and other units in this condo development have had that happen.

At night in the wintertime I'm cozy under my goosedown duvet and a blanket or two as the need arises......
 
DT said:
We measured several times
Click to expand...
We stopped doing the measuring ourselves. That way if there’s a mistake, someone else has to replace all the hardware. We’re having screen doors put on 3 of our doors. Hubby measured many times and was convinced it was a custom size. With a custom size, he didn’t want to take any chances and had Lowe’s come and measure and take the order. Turned out it was a typical size. Sometimes he pays too much attention to detail.
 
Alli said:
With a custom size, he didn’t want to take any chances and had Lowe’s come and measure and take the order
Click to expand...

Very good idea! My screen door on the back porch is wood-framed, bought standard but oversized and then cut to make the damn trapezoid it more or less needed to be to fit the opening. :LOL:

With my old place, junction of interior walls and ceiling or floor could also be faintly trapezoidal so a lot of trim board joints involved some fussy cutting. Some top trim boards for windows and doors, instead of being joined flat atop the side trim, were instead joined with irregular mitre cuts to move the discrepancy to those junctures, and so make the outer edges of the side trim align visually with the walls and the top trim edge align viusally with ceiling. Never a dull moment with any house, but especially a really old one.
 
Alli said:
We stopped doing the measuring ourselves. That way if there’s a mistake, someone else has to replace all the hardware. We’re having screen doors put on 3 of our doors. Hubby measured many times and was convinced it was a custom size. With a custom size, he didn’t want to take any chances and had Lowe’s come and measure and take the order. Turned out it was a typical size. Sometimes he pays too much attention to detail.
Click to expand...

Yes, I need thoughts and prayers ... :ROFLMAO:

At least the measurements came out to a bunch of standard sizes (per the product specs page), but it's probably like one of the multiple choice math quizzes where they have the typical wrong answers listed ...

Speaking of screen doors ...

We had a screen door placement, like the whole frame, etc., sitting outside for like 2 (if not close to 3) years, hahaha, from Home Depot, it was ordered based on their guy's measurements, but it sat all that time and when we finally got them to come install it they were like, "This is all wrong". I kind of assumed with the age, we were going to just have to suck it up, but shockingly, HD gave us a FULL REFUND, well, credit which was fine, we got re-measured, new doors, and had them installed in about 30 days.

That was almost as good as our "free" TV customer service :D
 
Alli said:
I’d be very happy with that. But no one else would choose that temperature setting. Especially in the winter. I can’t sleep when I’m warm.
Click to expand...
I used to be a lot more tolerant of the cold over the heat. Now Im pretty intolerant to both! It can never be warm enough for Mrs AFB though. Her mediterranean blood loves the warmth.

Apart from looking for some replacement hiking boots online and in store, not done a lot else today. I'm back at work tomorrow, so already logging on to address a couple of things.
 
mollyc said:
cleaning up leaves today.
Click to expand...
A never ending project. Sometimes I have to wonder if it’s some kind of contest between leaves and pine needles to see which can make the bigger pile. And the damn pine needles travel!

Today I’m going to Lowe’s for something…I forget what, but hubby likes company (and a chauffeur) when he goes. Then gas up the car, and fulfill our obligation to Democracy and vote.
 
Since I already voted a few days ago (yay for early voting!) I'll be doing other errands today instead, including taking a set of SSDs with backups of my photo and data files to the safe deposit box at the bank and bringing home the set that has been in the box for the past month. Also will stick my newly-received freshly renewed passport into the box as well for safekeeping since no immediate plans to use it.

Tonight I'll be following the election results, fingers crossed for good outcomes....
 
I'd already returned my absentee ballot by mail awhile back, so all I have to do today is keep away from the popcorn until the polls close tonight and results start getting reported.

In NYS they extended the no-excuse absentee balloting through this year, and they set it up so that one could request ballots for all 2022 primary and general elections with just one application back before the primaries. Wish we always had vote-by-mail, I am thoroughly spoiled by it now, and the safeguards and ability to track receipt of one's mailed-in vote are also great. Maybe the state will still come around to making vote-by-mail the standard in future.
 
Heck, we thought "late morning" might be a good window, but it was still pretty crowded. Maybe 30-35 people in line, moved pretty quick, they have like 20 stations setup, so it was maybe 20-25 minutes.

Our location is at Serenata Beach Club, hahaha, fancy-schmancy, upstairs here:

1667929372664.png



(No, we don't belong "country clubs" are not our scene .... even if it was much cheaper ...)
 
Had my evening planned. Drive home from CMH and sit down and watch John King talk about the results.

But United had other plans. Such as being an hour late leaving Burbank. So we missed our connection.

Hope to be home by midnight instead of 7.
 
Just got in from a department drinks evening where we pretty much got pissed, put the world to rights and discussed new products to design that will make our company a €150m a year company. Can’t remember what was said but I drank 8 pints of Staropramen and two double Baileys. Picking my boss up from his hotel at 7.30am and have a Teams meeting at 8am [emoji2359]
 
Back
Top