The Weather at Work - An Update

[akirlu]

When I checked the weather widget for Kent this morning, it was 17º. The predicted high for Seattle is somewhere in the twenties. Happily, the HVAC tech was by this morning to check our gear, and found that one of the thermal sensors in the roof/ceiling was reading the inside temperature (somewhere in the 50s) as the outside temperature, and

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[randy_byers]

That whole being cold while you're inside thing just doesn't make me happy. We don't turn the furnace on in the morning before we leave for work, so morning ablutions have been a bit of a trial these past couple of days. Feeling much sympathy for folks without power in the Northeast.

Hope you can get central heating online in your workplace. Brrrr!

[akirlu]

You might consider an oil-filled radiator in the bathroom -- that would make the ablutions a bit less awful. I need to get a new knob for the wall heater in our bathroom.

[randy_byers]

By the way, where do you get your silk finery? I guess I'm thinking of the thermals in particular.

[akirlu]

My most recent round of silk underlayers have been from Lands End because they've been offering more-or-less perpetual free shipping if you're on their e-mail list (and also because Lands End items can now be returned at Sears stores, rather than shipping), but I've also bought from, and been quite happy with, Winter Silks. Lands End also deals in higher-tech fibers for thermals, if that's your cuppa.

[randy_byers]

If it doesn't come out of a worm's a-- uh, is this a family journal?