Wednesday, 11 October 2017

Grandma's Electric Fan

We’ve hit that time of the year again. The days, for the most part, have been sunny and pleasant. Normally I wouldn’t complain about that, but even with the blinds down, by three or four in the afternoon the top floor of my house and the music studio with a large west-facing window have become uncomfortably warm. So I turn on the air conditioning, or I open windows. Then night falls and the air inside and out gets downright chilly. I usually don’t notice until three or four in the morning, when I wake up with goosebumps and chattering teeth. When we replaced our heater about a year ago, it came with an impressively complicated new thermostat. You can program it for different times of the day, so it knows when you’ll be awake, asleep, at home and away. The one thing it can’t do is maintain the same temperature when the weather is schizophrenic.

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