shrink wrap

By anders pearson 20 Jan 2003

yay! 3-day weekend!

lani came up to hang out. she immediately decided that my apartment was intolerably cold and gave me a nice kick in the pants to actually do something about it. my apartment generally stays about 20 degrees warmer than it is outside. so when it’s 10 degrees outside, it is still rather chilly inside. i’d pretty much gotten used to it though and just spend most of my time wearing sweaters and hiding under blankets.

lani assessed the situation and decided that my main problem was drafty windows. for some reason, i have a lot of windows. (in my bedroom i have 3 30” x 84” windows.) they all face right into brick walls so they don’t provide any kind of light or view; they just make my apartment drafty. so we went to the hardware store and got a bunch of weather stripping and some of those shrink wrap kits. then we spent the rest of the night balancing precariously fighting with giant sheets of plastic and double sided tape.

sure enough, when we looked closely, we discovered that two of my windows were actually open a crack way up at the top. another one in my bedroom didn’t have so much of “draft” as a “breeze” coming in. it was almost impossible to get the plastic up because it kept billowing out from the air currents. in the end though, nature was no match for large quantities of duct tape.

now with almost all the windows in my apartment sealed off, the difference is astounding. my lips and fingertips aren’t even blue anymore!

in between our home improving, we also managed to go out for vegan food, watch Eddie Izzard: Dressed to Kill, and <a href=”http://us.imdb.com/Title?0087909”>Phenomena</a>, which was a pretty cool old horror movie that didn’t really make too much sense but was visually very interesting.

earlier this evening, after lani left, i also managed to meet up with <a href=”http://www.miromi.org/“>mimi</a> for a brief spell while she’s back visiting.