Keeping Warm
Kiara and I were snuggling on the couch watching Earth 2 last night, and I noticed she was shivering. Huh. It was a little colder than I expected. I have the thermostat set to drop to 60 after 11 p.m., figuring that if we’re not in bed by then, which we rarely are, it’s our own damn fault if we’re cold. But Kiara was really cold.
Turns out the batteries in the thermostat needed to be replaced, and the furnace wasn’t running. It was below zero last night, so yeah — we were cold. Easy enough: turn the heat off, replace the batteries, replace the batteries again because the first set didn’t work for some reason, reprogram the settings, and go to bed.
Did you notice the step I missed? Yeah, neither did I until I got up in the morning and saw that it was now 50. Brrr! It seems that it helps to turn the heat back on.
So there. A little tip, from me to you. Sleep well.
12 Feb 2008 Sam
scary. It seems wrong to me that all our furnaces depend on the power being on and in many cases (mine included) batteries in thermostats.
how was Earth 2?
We like Earth 2. It’s another one of those good series that Fox screwed up through scheduling or whatever, then cancelled it after only one season, right when the show’s potential was becoming clear.
Tim Curry plays a thoroughly despicable character. Delightful.
Weird, I rented that series out of nostalgia probably some time in January. I guess we were on the same wavelength, creepy, its almost like we’re family or something. :)
The “bonus” episodes of Cleopatra 2929 and Sliders on the final disc really drove home how good Earth 2 was at the time.
Okay, so now I’m going to go on a weird tangent, but it was odd seeing Terry O’Quinn who now plays John Locke on Lost. When I started watching Lost I knew I’d seen that guy somewhere but never really looked into it, so stumbling across him on Earth 2 was fun. Further tangent, the actor Jeremy Davies on this season of Lost plays a very similar character to the one he played in the movie Solaris starring George Clooney, sort of the ‘spacey physicist’ type. Solaris is a fine film, if you haven’t seen it, btw, and is based on a Stanislaw Lem novel, also good, and is a remake of a 70’s flick that I have yet to rent. There you go.