AAAAARRRRGGGHHH!!!! Sorry for the ridiculously tardy posts here, everyone — I just got stuck in the blizzard of all blizzards, the snowsquall of all snowsqualls, with 90 km/h winds, 0% visibility and about five feet of powder. Sometimes, I really do wonder whether this whole global warming business actually exists (KIDDING).
Anyway, to make a long story short, getting my computer — by the way, white laptops and snowbanks do NOT mix well — sorted out was one thing, but then the Internet connection fizzled out, and in the Middle of Nowhere, Ontario, in the middle of the night, sorting out logistics like this isn’t easy.
Finally, at 2:51 p.m., here I am, back in Toronto, back in the online community and back in business. Your devoted Thistle is soggy, stressed and somewhat ruddy-cheeked, but otherwise alive and sentient.
I figured, in light of this snowy insanity, I should make a green change today that fits the theme of, well, cold. In my condo, I had these floor-to-ceiling windows and only the filmiest of drapes, which meant the place got cold pretty easily. Fortunately, in my new house, there are smaller windows, solid blinds and room for curtains (used ones, of course, from the old hotel furniture depot).
This is important, of course, when it comes to saving energy. It means less heat needs to be pumped by the furnace (or, if you’re living the Walden life, less wood will need to be burned. And, naturally — or rather unnaturally — there’s always the Fire Log Channel).
So from now on, I’ll be making sure the curtains are shut, especially at night (during the day I might leave them open to let in some natural light; otherwise I’d have to turn on a lamp, which would sort of defeat the whole energy-saving purpose).
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