I like to sleep with the windows open in the winter, especially now that is getting cold here in NYC. I just can't fall asleep otherwise.
Does anyone else feel this way or am I a freak?
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I like to sleep with the windows open in the winter, especially now that is getting cold here in NYC. I just can't fall asleep otherwise.
Does anyone else feel this way or am I a freak?
I dunno. Maybe I'm just a freak, too.
As many of the regulars know, I am the stereotype. 21, living in his parents' basement. Yeah. Read my damn profile.
Anyway, for some bizarre frikkin' reason, the legal owner of my domicile looooooooves to crank the heat up to EIGHTY in the winter. Ergo, I've spent the the past few nights with the basement door cracked open (my house is on a hillside--the basement opens up into the backyard. AKA the middle of the woods.)
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I did when I was in Basic training. They had these heater units in the rooms that I thought were for weaklings at the time. I thought that we should sleep on marble slabs and be tough like Spartans.
The heaters also made my head feel real stuffy and gave me a hacking cough, but that's not the reason. I did it to be tough.
Now I like it toasty; I'm old and my bones hurt. Too much tough guy style living, I guess.
you're OLD???!!!
But i always thought you were a YOUNG were-poodle!!!
Growing up in San Francisco, I'd have the fan on and the window open wide. Now I live in an area where Summer starts in February and ends in mid to late November. Triple digits are common. During the night, if the windows aren't open, I sweat buckets. So far, it's a pretty hot, dry, and boring winter.
I don't sleep well when I am hot and apparently I thrash around and keep my wife awake too. So we keep the house cold enough for me to sleep which means my wife has to have an electric blanket all year long.
I have a devil of a time sleeping at room temperature (say, 68 degrees Fahrenheit) or higher. I try to keep the temp closer to 60, though I don't always open windows since the moisture makes things nasty (I live in a basement). Too bad that sleeping in low temperatures makes it easy for me to catch cold even if I can't feel cold . . . .
I am a human furnace, so I like it about 70 or so in the house during the winter, as long as it's not drafty. In the summer, 65 is better.
My room more or less stays at the very comfortable temperature of 50-60 degrees farenheit. Sometimes it dips below 40 degrees or so. Thats when I put on a sweater.
I live in Florida. I like it cold at night. I love it when what passes for winter here arrives.
Anyway, for some bizarre frikkin' reason, the legal owner of my domicile looooooooves to crank the heat up to EIGHTY in the winter. Ergo, I've spent the the past few nights with the basement door cracked open (my house is on a hillside--the basement opens up into the backyard. AKA the middle of the woods.)
Christ. I hope you don't have to pay that heat bill. Have you tried pointing out they keep it colder than that in the summer?
I live in the tropics. I keep the windows closed for mosquitoes. I am on the 15th floor, but still they come. I have aircon on in winter.
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My room more or less stays at the very comfortable temperature of 50-60 degrees farenheit. Sometimes it dips below 40 degrees or so. Thats when I put on a sweater.
Dude. I live close enough to the Canadian border that the water tastes like cheap beer. Nawthen FXkin' Nu Yawk. I put on a sweater when it drops below ZERO. Cold is when your thermometer freezes.
Erratic f+@#ing weather. Summer high is around 100, while in winter it drops down to around -30. The funny part is some of the local yokels wear Carhartt gear year-round. One time I walked into the barbershop in November, and one of those starry ancient farmer-types was sitting in a chair wearing a wool hat, parka, bermuda shorts, and steel-toed boots.
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I live in Florida. I like it cold at night. I love it when what passes for winter here arrives.
Anyway, for some bizarre frikkin' reason, the legal owner of my domicile looooooooves to crank the heat up to EIGHTY in the winter. Ergo, I've spent the the past few nights with the basement door cracked open (my house is on a hillside--the basement opens up into the backyard. AKA the middle of the woods.)Christ. I hope you don't have to pay that heat bill. Have you tried pointing out they keep it colder than that in the summer?
Thankfully, I don't have to pay the heat bill, though the basement isn't heated. (I do chip in for the TV/utilities bill, though. I guess that some people figure that that's cheaper than kicking me out. No idea why.)
On your second point, I think I'll do just that.
Dude. I live close enough to the Canadian border that the water tastes like cheap beer. Nawthen FXkin' Nu Yawk. I put on a sweater when it drops below ZERO. Cold is when your thermometer freezes.
You are fast becoming my idol.
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You are fast becoming my idol.
Dude. I live close enough to the Canadian border that the water tastes like cheap beer. Nawthen FXkin' Nu Yawk. I put on a sweater when it drops below ZERO. Cold is when your thermometer freezes.
In Ticonderoga, 'really cold' is when you throw a cup of water into the air and it flash-freezes. This has happened twice in the past decade.
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In Ticonderoga, 'really cold' is when you throw a cup of water into the air and it flash-freezes. This has happened twice in the past decade.You are fast becoming my idol.
Dude. I live close enough to the Canadian border that the water tastes like cheap beer. Nawthen FXkin' Nu Yawk. I put on a sweater when it drops below ZERO. Cold is when your thermometer freezes.
That's around -50F, isn't it?
Edmonton, Canada.
Cold enough to leave forever.
BTW,
I have been tobogganing in -45 C.
Why did I go?
Because I could.
Baked Country Ham
14-16 lbs smoked ham, fully cooked,spiral-cut
6 cloves garlic
8 1/2 ounces mango chutney
1/2 cup Dijon mustard
1 cup light brown sugar, packed
1 orange, zest of
1/4 cup freshly squeezed orange juice
Preheat oven to 350°.
Place ham in a heavy roasting pan.
To make the glaze, mince garlic in a food processor.
Add remaining ingredients; process until smooth.
Pour glaze over ham and bake 1 hour, until ham is fully heated and glaze is well browned.
Serve hot or at room temperature.
Edmonton, Canada.
Cold enough to leave forever.
BTW,
I have been tobogganing in -45 C.
Why did I go?
Because I could.
There too.
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That's around -50F, isn't it?In Ticonderoga, 'really cold' is when you throw a cup of water into the air and it flash-freezes. This has happened twice in the past decade.You are fast becoming my idol.
Dude. I live close enough to the Canadian border that the water tastes like cheap beer. Nawthen FXkin' Nu Yawk. I put on a sweater when it drops below ZERO. Cold is when your thermometer freezes.
Something like that. The root cause of the ridiculous winter temperatures is the fact that the Champlain Valley is basically a giant wind tunnel that catches the frigid breezes coming off the Canadian Shield and funnels them down, across the border, through Plattsburgh, St. Albans (VT), Ticonderoga, Whitehall, Glens Falls, and as far down as Albany.
You mean it's supposed to get cold in the winter?! I guess that 2 days of iced over roads we had last year could qualify for my Texas winter. ;o)