Lately I'm more interested in being online. For a while it seemed like every minute on the computer would cost me three to five minutes of real life, but that feeling is giving way to an more relaxed holiday sense of time.

I guess not everyone associates holidays with relaxation.

Well in any case the seasonal social priority is kicking in just as I've been enjoying getting a few things done on my own, and recovering a sense of control over my time. I was able to test the insulation a week ago as the weather started to get cold, and with it ten degrees cooler may just do it again.

In near-freezing outdoor temperatures with the thermostat keeping it 68° inside I took a bunch of temperature readings. Using a remote thermometer I measured a good sampling of points on both the outside and the inside walls where we had insulated. The point is to get a general idea of the distribution of temperature variances and to try to identify patterns indicating excessive heat loss. I wish I'd had this device last year so I could have compared pre- and post-insulation measurements. All the same it'll be interesting to see later this winter how the same measurement points compare.