An experiment in heat

Before I get into this - I know that electric heat costs more than gas. Save the lecture.

However, I'm a single person living in a very large 2 bedroom apartment (full size living room, full size dining room, etc) so I have decided to experiment with my utilities a bit this winter. I've turned my gas heat very low and have purchased a space heater. I have had the gas set at 55 for the past week. It has been a bit chilly in my apartment for sure, but not unbearably so, and I've actually gotten used to it. Even if I had it set at 68 or so, I'd still be wearing socks, slippers, pants and having a blanket on my lap. That's pretty much what I'm wearing now with the temp set much lower so why have the gas on if I'm essentially going to feel the same, right? Right???

Last night it got quite cold outside and having the thermostat at 55 was a bit too low because it actually WAS 55 in here. Again, I was okay because I've adjusted to the cooler temps in my apartment but it really was pretty cold and I knew getting up to a 55 degree apartment would seriously suck. I keep the space heater in my room overnight and have it programmed to come on about an hour before I wake up but the rest of the place is chilly! I gave in and turned the gas up to 60 last night just so it would be tolerable in here.

Anyhow, all the cold temps aside, my experiment is to watch my gas and electric bills for a month or two and see if there's much change (much reduction in gas and much increase in electric). I can't see how my electric will go up all that much since I'm not running the space heater all the time. A few hours at night at the most, and an hour or two in the morning. We'll see.

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A new attending physician started with my med team today. I like him a lot, though he reminds me a lot of Markus (my ex) so that's a little disturbing. I know I turn red when I talk to him because he's very handsome (to me at least), and again there's that whole Markus resemblance.

All of that aside I like him a whole lot because he's (again, like Markus) a bit rough around the edges. He swears, he tells it like it is, and he told me today that there's a fine line between his teaching and ball-busting (his words, not mine). I thanked him for making my job harder in terms of trying to determine what are good clinical questions. hahaha.

He also informed me that I'm to call him by his first name which a lot of the attendings do but still, very cool.

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My remote control zombie is awesome.