well, *that's* interesting
Nov. 14th, 2003 08:14 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
psocopteraJust in case there is anyone who reads this journal who is not already aware that I am a giant dork, it turns out that after three years of living in this apartment unaware of this...
we have storm windows.
See, the heat is off, which would normally be a post in itself, of the "oh-fuck-my-heat-is-off" variety, but in the course of discussing this with the housemate (and tramping down to the basement to investigate, proving once again that I have no idea which heater is ours), the housemate has revealed The Secret Of The Storm Windows. Which is that in Massachusetts, screens can move. What does this mean, you ask. Well, I have long been aware that there was another sort of pane of window beyond the screen, but I assumed these could not be slid up or down because the screen was in the way. And we all know that screens can't move, having busted one when we were about twelve trying to open it to wash the outside of our bedroom window and having then had to brace the frame open with part of a yardstick ever since.
Apparently I learned that lesson a little too well. And perhaps it is not surprising that two kids from SoCal moving into a Mass. apartment together would have no clue how to work the storm windows. However! Storm window knowledge has finally come upon us, or rather me, since the other SoCal kid is long gone. I foresee an era of lower heating bills and cozier rooms, at least once the heat is back on.
(Actually I nearly foresaw an era of the storm pane toppling out of my second-story bedroom window and shattering on the pavement below, it seeming rather loosely attached (also missing a big piece broken out), but this did not happen. Am somewhat worried I'll never be able to raise it again but I suppose I have six months or so before I really need to worry about that, as there's another window in the room for general fresh-air purposes.)
we have storm windows.
See, the heat is off, which would normally be a post in itself, of the "oh-fuck-my-heat-is-off" variety, but in the course of discussing this with the housemate (and tramping down to the basement to investigate, proving once again that I have no idea which heater is ours), the housemate has revealed The Secret Of The Storm Windows. Which is that in Massachusetts, screens can move. What does this mean, you ask. Well, I have long been aware that there was another sort of pane of window beyond the screen, but I assumed these could not be slid up or down because the screen was in the way. And we all know that screens can't move, having busted one when we were about twelve trying to open it to wash the outside of our bedroom window and having then had to brace the frame open with part of a yardstick ever since.
Apparently I learned that lesson a little too well. And perhaps it is not surprising that two kids from SoCal moving into a Mass. apartment together would have no clue how to work the storm windows. However! Storm window knowledge has finally come upon us, or rather me, since the other SoCal kid is long gone. I foresee an era of lower heating bills and cozier rooms, at least once the heat is back on.
(Actually I nearly foresaw an era of the storm pane toppling out of my second-story bedroom window and shattering on the pavement below, it seeming rather loosely attached (also missing a big piece broken out), but this did not happen. Am somewhat worried I'll never be able to raise it again but I suppose I have six months or so before I really need to worry about that, as there's another window in the room for general fresh-air purposes.)
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Date: 2003-11-15 10:52 am (UTC)