At least twice during the summer months, I use this here blorg to express my disdain for the hot hot heat of Texas. As the thermometer passes the 100 degree mark and my flimsy cotton shirt becomes drenched with both my sweat and the sweat of others, I say things like "I want to move back to Massachusetts" and "Fuck I hate the heat." Well, I'm sitting in my house right now freezing my arse off. COLD! It's 27 degrees and my car is cloaked in ice. I'm not going to attempt to drive it, as some fucknut would plow into me and I'd have to take a trip the Ye Olde Hospital with a broken sternum or whatnot, but the last time Austin got a serious ice storm (Feb '02), I recall being iced out of my car. The doors were frozen shut, and I could not get to my booper job at CM. So icy were the sidewalks that I had to run back into my apartment in my socks, as my shoes were not providing enough traction to make it up the stairs.
This house is not exactly well-insulated. Well, it is and it isn't. We got all new plumbing the summer before last, during the bathroom remodel, so we don't have to drip the faucets. And Bob had the attic insulated, more for preservation of air conditioning than heat. But we have problems with our front and back doors being drafty sieves instead of well-sealing, functional doors.
The front door has been a matter of contention for awhile. I went to price out doors at Ye Olde Home Dee-Po and Loez, came home with a write-up for a reasonable door at a reasonable price AND a full-color brochure from my pals at Anderson, and Bob got all whiney and snively because HD and Loez traffic in metal doors and he absolutely must have a wood door or else his jumbies will fall off. Now, wooden doors are dandy, but the quality ones are expensive, and while my main contention with a door is that it keep extreme temperatures and intruders out of the house, Bob's main requirement is that some poor oak had to die for it. Plenty of new homes have attractive and economical metal doors. So instead we have been living with the cracked and drafty door for a long time, even though it bugs me and is proving to contribute to my colditude on this, Austin's three-day foray into the wonderful world of winter.
BRRRR! I have the hood up on my hoodie.
I guess we are stuck in the house all day. Booya!
Posted by Zerd at January 15, 2007 12:29 PM