Random thread: Where's your postcount now, (tpd) bitch

[Naylzie]

We're trying really hard not to turn the actual heat back on; won't lie, we're cheating, we dragged the space heater out again, but no heating-bill-inducing heat.  Fortunately, or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it, *I* am the one that's always cold, so *I* am going to be the one that's more miserable for keeping it off, but the likelihood of my fiance saying that we should turn it back on before I get too desperate and do it myself is pretty slim.

[Goose]

Just out of curiosity, how is your place heated (natural gas, heating oil, other)?

[Naylzie]

Gas.  I honestly have no idea what the heating bill looks like because our landlord bundles all of the utilities into our flat-rate rent.  It's nice, too, because for where we're living, we've got it damn good even in the summer, nevermind the winter when we're actually making heavy use of the gas (our stove is gas as well, so we do use the gas at least marginally year round).  It's just too bad that the area sucks 

[Goose]

I live in a natural gas heated place too. Unless your electricity is 90% cheaper than mine, using that space heater is about twice as expensive as turning your furnace back on for a few days.  Those things chug juice like a teenager in a Sunny D commercial.

[Naylzie]

That's a very good point, particularly given the fact that, both being geeks, and having netflix as our primary source of televised/movie entertainment, we're powering 2 computers the majority of the evening on top of the heater, not to mention the mini-fridge and more standard household electricity consumers.  We kind of tend to use a lot

Thanks for that, Goose.  And my landlord doesn't know it, but he thanks you too.

[luna]

Hellooooo inheritance

[videodrone]

I have gas heating this place, too. I don't have the luxury of having utilities included with my rent, but considering that my rent is unheard of for a two bedroom apartment in Worcester, I can't really complain.

And I don't know if it's cuz I'm drunk, but I just scrolled over the face and it says "I hate your face". It made me wet a little.

drone

[r00]

yesterday we had 3 inches of hail that covered the roads for a bit.  Even for this state, winter is hanging on with a late death grip.

[Naylzie]

And I don't know if it's cuz I'm drunk, but I just scrolled over the face and it says "I hate your face". It made me wet a little.

I almost snarfed my coffee at that.

r00, that is freaking insane.  We had some hail last week, but it didn't accumulate, much less THREE INCHES!   

I'd really like for us to move to upstate NY somewhere, but the whole moving thing is kind of expensive, and I don't want to move broke like we did when we came to this place.  This time we have a choice (last time we lost a housemate abruptly and the rest of us couldn't make the rent without that one more person to split it with, so we all started frantically apartment hunting) so I don't want to be stupid about it.  Beloved disagrees 

[Goose]

And I don't know if it's cuz I'm drunk, but I just scrolled over the face and it says "I hate your face". It made me wet a little.

drone

I was wondering how long it would take before someone saw that handiwork.  I made sure every emoticon got something unique.

Oh wai...

[Hydra]

yesterday we had 3 inches of hail that covered the roads for a bit.  Even for this state, winter is hanging on with a late death grip.

That's exactly how I have been feeling.  Winter was rather mild and then it's like when spring came winter just couldn't let go and is still hanging on.

As for indoor heating, that is never a problem here, we have geothermal energy that is cheap so even during the harshest winter we never get cold indoors.

~hydra

[Nadia]

I guess I'll stop complaining about the endless gray and rain we're having here if other people are still getting ice. It's warm enough to go out in short sleeves these days, but I like to have my electric blanket on at night year-round.

[dee]

Wait til I get home and find the cord for my Kodak. We had 3-4 inches of hail bout 2 months ago that scared the piss out of all 3 boys. And I don't care what time of the year it is, who's ever heard of hail in a friggin desert? I mean c'mon, it barely rains. Hail? 

One thing I'm NOT looking forward to once we move to Cape Cod is the heating bill. I'm used to cheap-assed hydro-electric power. Over there, everything seems to be gas and/or oil, neither of which gets my vote.

[r00]

That's exactly how I have been feeling.  Winter was rather mild and then it's like when spring came winter just couldn't let go and is still hanging on.

Yeah we had a very mild winter too, so this must be payback.  The nice part was the mountains still got hammered, so we didnt lose our summer watershed.

[Nadia]

Yeah, we have gas heat here, which basically means we all huddle in one room with the space heater all winter, and never leave our coy beds. Spring time means remembering what the rest of the house looks like and getting the piano tuned. And even though we keep our thermostat on tundra, we can barely afford to pay the gas bill. I plan for this upcoming winter to be my last here, then I'm heading south.