22 Oct 08 Three Beautiful Things
1. The way the abundant sunshine shines through and reflects off a fern that is on the sun-room shelf outside.
2. How easy it is to post to a wordpress.com blog from my Blackberry.
3. Wasn’t sure, but now I think I like this new Guatamalan coffee that we purchased yesterday evening at Gloria Jeans.
Three Beautiful Things is the opportunity to write about three things each day that have bought personal pleasure in some way. The original site can be found at Three Beautiful Things
Tags: abundant sunshine, blackberry, coffee, com blog, gloria jeans, opportunity, sun room, three beautiful things, yesterday evening
02 Apr 08 That Time Of Year
It ‘s getting warmer.
Now, I’m never one to complain about the heat. I’d love it to be summer all year around. I don’t care about the seasons. I don’t want crisp frosty mornings, and I’ll be a happy camper if I never see snow in real life ever again.
Having said that, I don’t like stuffy. Somehow the heat at the beach or even in main street in the middle of August is better than a hot house.
A hot house? Yes, you know, when it’s not really that hot outside but indoors it’s really sticky.
The condo here is the pits for that. It’s two levels, and while downstairs is usually fine, and can even be fairly cool in the summer, upstairs is a different story. Recently, we’ve had the regime fees hiked up to an outrageous amount to pay for much needed and long neglected repairs and maintenance.
We’ve got a new roof, which has ridge vent tiles. It’s not made one iota of difference to the temperature upstairs. Right now, I have the sun room door open, and the front bedroom windows. There’s no real breeze though. It’s only 68F outside, but it’s 82 in here at this desk. According to my little gizmo on the desk here, the humidity is only 58% too.
Well, the strange thing is, it’s been around that most of the day, but now, around bedtime, it feels really warm and sticky in here. OK, I hear you say, what’s wrong with running the air conditioning?
It uses too much electricity.
No, I’m not a tree hugger. I’m a dollar hugger. The electricity bills hover around the $100 a month mark at this time of year, but once that a/c kicks in, I know it’s going to be on until well into the fall, and that monthly bill creeps nearer to $250 then. Working mostly from home doesn’t help, as I can’t turn it off in mid-summer, but then again, with the gas prices heading up and up, I’m saving more on gas than I’m spending on the electricity.
I guess I should look for a job within walking distance, then I’d save gas and electricity. Thing is, there doesn’t seem to be many IT companies within this immediate neighborhood, and anyway, I generally like my independence.
Still, it’s time to quit computers altogether for a few hours, and go take up that horizontal book reading position for a while.
I’m still looking forward to summer.
Tags: bedroom windows, bedtime, different story, downstairs, electricity bills, frosty mornings, gas prices, gizmo, happy camper, home doesn, iota, mid summer, pits, ridge vent, strange thing, sun room, time of year, tree hugger, vent tiles, walking distance
05 Dec 07 Clear Out
Today’s clear out was not so much an item as junk. You see, in the process of clearing out the previous items over the last few days, I’ve been tidying up the upstairs sun room. I also ended up with a whole box full of trash – old paperwork, wrappers cartons, and various other small pieces of junk. It would be cheating really to photograph each small piece and claim that as a days effort – and I’d never achieve the ultimate aim of the project anyway, which is to get rid of the useless stuff around here that’s taking up space. So that was today’s effort.
Tags: aim, cartons, days effort, few days, paperwork, photograph, small piece, small pieces, sun room, taking up space, trash, upstairs, useless stuff
