A Quick Survey, and More!

[ellyssian]

Of course, I can't do a "real" survey, but here we go:

What temperature do you keep your house at in the Winter?

Speaking of temperatures, it was a balmy 65F this morning, and that was with mists, rain, and a sun that was still catching 40 winks and had yet to poke its head over the horizon. Good MayNovember weather!

The bridge between our office and the garage is often the victim of brutal coffee spills - this morning, stepping on one I *thought* was weeks old, I discovered a hitherto unknown slick spot, and did an impromptu softshoe routine for the enjoyment of my fellow commuters. A combination of awkward clumsiness and (*ahem*) amazing grace, I recovered without needing to break my fall with my nose, and without hammering the laptop into the floor or, worse, my kneecap. A little shuffling dance, and all is well. My left ankle is emboldened by the affair, and is considering a circus career as a contortionist, but the arch of my right foot - which stoically stopped the fall and grabbed solid purchase outside the ring of coffee stains and sticks - hurts like hell.

You'd think that, after spilling five to forty ounces of steaming hot coffee, the mostly-professional level crowd that uses the walkway might actually be aware that they spilled, and would attempt some kind of clean-up, or, at the least, would notify the cleaning staff. Thankfully, we live in a world where no one has to take responsibility for themselves - the coffee containers have warnings that the contents are hot, but not, alas, that they might spill - and just because they spilled it, doesn't mean they clean it. Not in their job description, donchaknow.

Comments

[la-belledame.livejournal.com]

What temperature do you keep your house at in the Winter?


Somewhere around 65-67. We wear lots of sweaters.

[luis-mw.livejournal.com]

The HSE[1] are running a series of radio ads at the moment. They all have the basic plot of person walks into scene, slips/trips/falls and injures themselves, person nearby expresses concern, then says, I saw that spill/cable/box earlier and thought, somebody is going to slip/trip/fall, somebody should do something about that... why is verybody looking at me?

So I guess is is a common problem.

[1] Sort of UK equivalent to OSHA

[celticess.livejournal.com]

about 23C in the day and 15C at night. I forget what that is in non metric but 20C is aproximately "room temperature" as the saying goes. I'm arthritic so unless I'm under alot of cloths or blankets I need my place warm. When I get the hedgehog I have to keep the house at 23C day and night because otherwise it may hybernate.

[d2leddy.livejournal.com]

Usually about 66 degs. Maybe 64 degs this year. **sigh

[windswept.livejournal.com]

62 - 68 degrees, depending

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Too damn cold, that's what!

Last year, we were keeping it between 66 and 68. With the advent of our first gas bill this year, it is now 57 during the day and the automatic thermostat turns it up to 66 at 4:30, then down to 57 again at about 10:00.

I shiver. A lot. I wear long johns most of the time at home now.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

Out of everyone on my flist, I expected you to have the highest setting, maybe somewhere in the 80s or 90s! =)

[kay-brooke.livejournal.com]

Last year I had it set at around 68 degrees F, but I'm living on a fixed stipend and it's seriously starting to become an issue of either eat or be warm for me. So it's going to stay down around 62 the rest of the winter, no matter how cold I get.

[mythweaver.livejournal.com]

What temperature do you keep your house at in the Winter?

our house is usually at 60F at night (which in my room means 58F) and 65F during the day. Needless to say, I'm always freezing.

Currently it is 30 something F with a windchill I'm guessing of 20F and it has been snowing for about three hours. *frustrated sigh*

*once again shakes fist at Wisconsin*

[wisedonkey.livejournal.com]

My Vaxen keep me warm.

[(Anonymous)]

Southern WI? Up here in the North Woods we're sitting at 18F (with a 5F windchill) *looks at funky white stuff blowing past window* yeh. Lot's of that going on too.

[wisedonkey.livejournal.com]

I'm actually not joking. I have a uVax-II, Vax 4000/500 and an old AS/400 that I use for heat. Let's just say it can be sub-freezing outside and my room will be quite comfortable.

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

M-F: 68F from 6:15 to 4p; 72F 4p-9p; 54F 9p-6:15a
S-S: heater comes on a little later in the morning, and then we keep it at 68-70 all day depending on who's chilly/home/hot.

If we start going through propane too fast, the day and night time temps will come down a degree or two, with the evening temp staying the same.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

The question is, do you have to keep air conditioning on to keep them from overheating? =)

Bah humbug.

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

The anon reply (which may or may not be unscreened) was me. Silly LJ logging me out like that.

[thewrongcrowd.livejournal.com]

Heh. I thought that's what the standing order for dry ice was all about. ;)

Re: Bah humbug.

[ellyssian.livejournal.com]

I was wondering! =)

[wisedonkey.livejournal.com]

I have a window unit, just in case.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Low 60s.

Re: Bah humbug.

[mythweaver.livejournal.com]

^_^ yes, southern Wisconsin. I think that funky white stuff is still floating by...

[malinaldarose.livejournal.com]

Heh. Oh, believe me, if I could, I would, but the husband would die of heat prostration if I did, and I'd be bankrupted by the gas company.

[nolawitch.livejournal.com]

Mine's going to be a bit lower this year to keep from paying too much money to Entergy. I usually keep it around 72-74F, but I'll probably bump it down to 68-70F and get fleece or somesuch warm stuff to wear. I'm also going to snag a bunch of the wood laying around from the hurricane to burn in the fireplace.

[opakele.livejournal.com]

I keep the thermostat at 60 during the day. I kick it up to 63 when I'm at home and back down to 60 when sleeping. Yes, it is chilly in here. We are just getting into the high 30's at night and 50's during the day, so I don't feel justified going higher.

When Nightsky gets home, this place will be at 70. I can't wait.

[kk1raven.livejournal.com]

Given my choice, I'd keep the temperature at 68-69 during the day and 65 at night, but I don't get a choice. It is 73 now. I spent the afternoon resisting the urge to open the window and let some heat out.

The current 70-73 is better than the 75-76 that it was for a while though. The landlord (aka my mother) let the downstairs tenant break the lock on the thermostat because she misplaced the key and the heat couldn't be turned on without unlocking it. Getting a new thermostat key would have made more sense and been much less expensive in the long run, but it would have taken a little effort. So the heat got turned on a month earlier than it should have been and the downstairs tenant who said she liked it "cold" set it to 75. I complained. It supposedly got turned down to 62. I complained again because that will make it too cold to work in here. In all honesty, I doubt it stayed set at that temperature past the time my mother walked out the door downstairs. I thought for sure that I'd get my way about not being hot this winter, given the price of oil, but apparently not.

[nhmetalchick.livejournal.com]

70 most of the time unless its warmer in the day, then we turn it to down to either off or around 65 depends on the outside temp.