I actually turned OFF the heat today. It is 63 out and it was 77 in my bedroom and hotter downstairs. I had to open windows. Too much! (It's radiant heat, so there's only so much I can adjust it).

I turned on the heat for the first time yesterday. Finn was very quick to plant his fat, fluffy butt on the heat vent.

Toke has one specific heat vent that is her vent. It's a big square vent (our house is old), and she almost covers it entirely.

I am ready to face humans!

Maria, I forgot to actually post it, but thank you for the info; I feel like I made the right decision by cancelling the ticket!

I've turned off the outside water supply but I still need to unhook the hose from the house spigot. I don't want a repeat of this spring's burst pipe.

I just changed my HVAC filters today. They're supposedly good for 3 months, but with the cat hair and the not vacuuming a whole lot, I change them every two months. They're usually kinda furry.

Off to have fun, dammit.

I've been watching 80s and 90s game shows on YouTube, for nostalgia and stuff, and you guys, Alex Trebek is such a jerk. In this episode of Concentration, he asked the contestant if she'd keep teaching kindergarten after she got married. When she said yes, he said "Until you start a family, right?"

Later, he made a big deal about how she didn't find him funny.

I feel very similarly to you sometimes, meara. I'm always worried I'm forgetting something important to do with the house.

Forgetting to turn off the water led to the broken pipe after the first winter we were in the house in Frederick. I swore the water was turned off after Rob died, but evidently it wasn't, which led to the great basement flood of January 2014. Here? I haven't turned ON the water outside yet. We get enough rain that I don't have to water my grass, and my landscaping needs no additional hydration. I was going to redo everything this year, but then the job uncertainty made me wary about spending money on frivolous things.

Ack, I need to change my filters too. Thanks for the reminder, Zen. I'm glad you were able to cancel the ticket. Have fun!

Trebek is the worst.

Appropriately, the Clue costume team won. Second place went to the person who did a pun costume on our founder's name. The other significant group costume was the finance team as dominos, and they would have had a better shot if they had done anything funny with it.

I just read an article about a local entrepreneur which called him "a fan of water sports".

!!!!

No falling line of dominoes? Come on finance team.

And !!!!, Sophia

In further adulting, I voted and dropped off my ballot.

Oh, I need to remember to mail in my ballot---it's in my bag, I just haven't remembered to put it in a postal box.

I slept wrong or something, and woke up with a huge neck/head pain that was driving me bonkers for hours. Thankfullly, after attempting a nap, heating pad, painkiller, caffeine, other painkiller, and rolling out with a tennis ball, something finally worked and I feel mostly human again. Managed to get my one overdue thing done, and am now doing some laundry.

I live on the edge of Denver. To the point where I have a non-Denver zip code and across the street from me is a different county. I wanted to drop my ballot off because I was too lazy to find a stamp. I went through the whole list of drop off places to discover that the third from the last is right around the corner from me.