Happy "the first time the heat gets turned on for real this season" day. It's only going to be 49F (9C) today, and rainy, and the husband will be at work, so I turned the heat on this morning before he left (and he complained that it was 'too hot' as the temperature slowly rose to 67F (19C) inside). Northerners. But anyway, off to the home office ( Read more... )

Finally up in the 90s here, yesterday and the next couple days. Got up late yesterday and ran around noonish, which kicked my butt. I did a 5k for the first time in a while, with a lot of walking (and, because I frequently wear DC Tri Club gear, a short discussion with a cyclist about the old Nation's triathlon), but I finished it. Was looking at ( Read more... )

Had a 3M window film covering installer in this afternoon to measure the bedroom windows and show us samples. Just raising the shades in there heated the room by several degrees while we chatted (and even after we close them we can still feel heat coming off the windows). So sometime next week they'll make the appointment and we'll hopefully ( Read more... )