Winter Is Coming

06:48 Monday, 10 November 2025

Current Wx: Temp: 28.35°F Pressure: 1010hPa Humidity: 95% Wind: 8.16mph
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Yeah, well, maybe it's here. 27.5°F out there right now. Should start going up soon. Won't be a significant accumulation, happily. But it is kind of a semi-welcome change of scenery.

The mini-split is keeping up, the house is about 66°F but the thermostat on the mini-split is set for 69° and it's blowing warm air. We keep the door to the bathroom closed because it seems that the vent fan is just a chimney that lets any warm air rise up and out of the house. I discovered that while Mitzi was in DC. If we keep both the bedroom door and the bathroom door closed, the mini-split heats the house just fine.

At night we draw all the shades and close the curtains on the sliding glass doors. That also seems to help.

I need to look into a spring-loaded vent damper of some kind, such that when the exhaust fan is on it'll allow air to escape, but when it's off it doesn't. I'm pretty sure something like that must exist, I'm not very sure it'll be an easy install.

The beat that can be counted is not the beat, but it goes on all the time.

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