New apartment, new improvements
So I haven’t posted here in a while.
Been busy. Work was very busy with lots of websites to make and edit. Now I’m working on a completely different website that hopefully will be huge and popular and useful. Its a site where people can go to download and submit specifications, manuals, and brochures for test equipment and other things. Hopefully it’ll take off when its launched. I hope I hope.
And I’m trying to get back into the librivox.org stuff. If you don’t know what Librivox is, its a bunch of people who read chapters from books and short stories that are in the public domain. So you might get an entire audio book read by 30 people. Its really awesome. I’ve read poetry and some chapters and short stories so far, but I took a big hiatus when I moved this holiday, and I have started playing Wow more, so I have gotten behind on my obligations. I need to finish half a chapter of Don Quixote and read a few more sci-fi stories I offered to read.
But the big thing today is that, since its supposedly going to be 90 degrees tomorrow — maybe — I went to Home Depot and purchased another programmable thermostat to replace the old manual one in my apartment. I’m assuming, since its a fairly basic thermostat, that the wiring will not be complicated. Hopefully. Though I think I figured out after having the AC in the old apartment replaced that I purchased the wrong thermostat (it supported heat pumps, and I think I just had an AC/furnace instead). But this one I know is an AC/furnace so I purchased the less expensive “universal” model. Looks and is programmed just like the other I bought, just without the heat pump features. Yay. I’ll install that tonight hopefully. My electric bills haven’t been bad so far. I think the highest yet was just above $40, but I didn’t have the heat on much at all when it was cold, and even then it was only up to 65 if it was on. Seeing as I’m out of the house half the day, I don’t want to have to remember to turn my thermostat up in the morning and down in the evening. Much easier to just set it and forget it.
I’ll update when I’m done how it went, and if I broke anything in the process. Yay.