I wish that I was flying with them

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When I moved in I prompted some little changes in how bunnyhugger does things. Most of this is just because I didn't know how things were done before, like, what drawers to put miscellaneous kitchen tools in after they've been through the dishwasher. A few of them have been good changes, though, like when I started putting up the storm windows because I didn't know she had never been putting them up. There were a bunch of storm windows in the basement and I took the time to figure out where a bunch of them fit and the house got more pleasant in the winter is all.

One that we never got sorted out was the front door. There's the screen door in front and we agreed that the vestibule would be a lot less miserable if we put a glass window on there instead for the winter months. So earlier this month I got enough gumption together to go take the screen out of the door, with the intention of taking its measurements and figuring out where we could buy a piece of glass the same size.

And then I thought to check downstairs, just to see. We've got a bunch of windows that don't quite fit anything. For example, there's one that ought to fit our bedroom window but doesn't because the brace for our air conditioner is in the way. And in moments I could call up, ``We have a match!'' Turns out there was a storm window for our screen door all along.

This was a little irritating to replace. Partly because we were doing this by night. Partly because one of those little metal brackets that holds a screen or storm window in place was frozen up and couldn't be dislodged. Partly because the metal chain at the top of the door kept falling into the way. But we had it done without too much cursing on anyone's part, and without my dropping the glass and breaking my foot. And the front vestibule is now considerably less drafty and unpleasant to be in.

Later we were starting a fire, and the chimney was not having it. The thing to do for this case is to open the front door and let some cold air in, until it starts drawing. Now? It would not draw at all. This is because we forgot, there were windows in the way, instead of a screen letting cold air pour right in. Turns out these panes of solid glass work and that's nice to know. The smoke alarm went off.

Now let's get to some more walking around the Wonderland of Lights. We're coming near the end of this, don't worry.

Looking up again at that tree reflecting the light of the skating-bears figures, where it looks all the more like one of those Mandelbrot set figures way away from the big lumpy sea parts of the shape.

And a look back at the skating-bears figures from where they look most nearly flat.

This is just a neat set of colors in the dark, really.

Trivia: George Westinghouse bought the Tesla Electric Company in 1888 for $20,000 in cash, $50,000 in notes (paid in three installments), plus a royalty of $2.50 per horsepower on every alternating-current Tesla motor, with minium royalties of $5,000 the first year, $10,000 the second, and $15,000 the third. Source: Empires of Light: Edison, Tesla, Westinghouse, and the Race to Electrify the World, Jill Jonnes.

Currently Reading: Pierre-Simon LaPlace, 1749 - 1827, A Life In Exact Science, Charles Coulson Gillispie with Robert Fox and Ivor Grattan-Guinness.

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Do you have any good ways of marking the storm windows, so you can tell later which window goes where?

Not the screen door's window --- it's too thin --- but most of the storm windows yes. Those ones have wooden frames, to match the windows, and there's enough space that people have written in thick black marker what windows the rooms go with. Unfortunately, they're labelled things like 'JOEY'S ROOM' when we have never known a Joey here, or there's one pair that's 'EL7 LEFT' and 'EL7 RIGHT'. I don't know why those two are labelled like they were space shuttle cabin window compartments, but since there's only the one room with two windows-that-we-can-replace side by side like that, it's not too hard. Just have to reason whether LEFT and RIGHT is from the perspective of someone outside the house or inside. (And it's from the outside perspective, since the storm windows can't be put on from the inside.)

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