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I tried to be good, but I've given back in to my sinful nature. I know better, understand the reasons why, and know it is physically possible to be good - but I just couldn't stand it anymore. I turned the heat back up to 68. I tried to keep it at 65. If I've talked to you on the phone lately, I was under a blanket when I did it. I wore 2 shirts and a jacket in my own house. Why I can hike in shorts and a t-shirt when it's 50, but in my house 70 seems chilly, I don't know. I'm sick of being flannelled. I'm sick of my hand always hurting when it's cold and I try to use the computer. Most of all, I'm sick of waking up all night because every time I move a blast of arctic (65 deg) fair comes rolling under the covers with me - prompting a short wake, cocoon roll, and shivering until the chill is fought back. Fuck all that - I turned the thermostat back up last night and got a good nights sleep. I want to save energy. I want to save money. I want to be used to a colder environment so when I go outside I don't feel the chill as much. I just can't stand to be that cold in my home.

I'm not going to the hospital as much, and today at 11:30 they move my dad to a Baltimore rehab facility (that he may never actually leave, long story, don't ask or comment).

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What do you do when you get home?
Yesterday I skipped the gym, had no events lined up, and just went home after work. Actually I stopped by the video store, but they didn't have grindhouse or Hero, so I gave up (does hollywood video suck?) I read and watched tv, did some telephone talking...but it just seemed like I had a full day there at home doing nothing. What do normal people do when they get home? Or, what do my friends do? Do you watch 6 hours of tv? Read 3 and watch 3? Work out every day? Cook? Commute so you only arrive in time to sleep? What are people doing when they only work an 8 hour day?
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A Note for Heat Pump Owners

When a heat pump is in its heating mode, setting back a conventional heat pump thermostat can cause the unit to operate inefficiently, thereby canceling out any savings achieved by lowering the temperature setting. Maintaining a moderate setting is the most cost-effective practice. Recently, however, some companies have begun selling specially designed setback thermostats for heat pumps, which make setting back the thermostat cost effective. In its cooling mode, the heat pump operates like an air conditioner; therefore, manually turning up the thermostat will save you money.

Mine is old - where is the link from?

http://www.doityourself.com/stry/thermostats

It may be worth asking at a hardware store.

It appears I'm back to square one. I try to manually make it efficient by slowing making it change in tiny increments, because if you move too much it turns on "aux heat." But it seems the constant efficiency thing is my best bet. That, and open windows in the day for the solar stuff.