Comfort Zone

[bjarvis]

I was feeling rather chilled while watching the TV weather report this morning. At that particular time, I wrote it off as (a) after-effects from my recent cold, and (b) the fact I wasn't wearing a stitch of clothing. When I began losing sensation in my toes and fingers, however, I decided to look more deeply into the issue.

Sure enough, our digital thermostat suffered a stroke overnight. At first, it seemed it was merely misinformed about the date and, believing it was Monday, was true to its programming to lower the temperature setting while we're at work. After it resisted all our efforts to fix the date, override the default program and reset the device, we realized it was something more serious.

Ultimately, by disconnecting it from the wall panel and removing the batteries for a period of time, we were able to clear the memory and reset the beast. Now fully reprogrammed, it seems to be behaving itself again. For now.

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

We LOOOOOOOOOOVE technology!

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Usually, I encourage sloppily built, shoddy electronics as it keeps me fully employed. However, when it inconveniences me... Grr...

[apparentparadox]

Were you watching 2001 recently? Do you call your thermostat "HAL"?

[ciddyguy.livejournal.com]

And we all thought electronics was going to simplify our lives, um, yeah... :-)

[tdjohnsn.livejournal.com]

So you gave your thermostat a lobotomy? Maybe it had just decided to accept that it is different than the other thermostats and that it was going to live its life according to its own beliefs rather than accepting societies definition of how a thermostat should and should not behave. As its first small step, it was exploring what it means to be a thermostat who does not feel any particular attraction to what day of the week it is.

Well. That is over now.

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Feel my, er, wrath!

[jss]

Oo! It's all hard and throbbing!

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

I hope - first things first - that you put some warmer clothing on before you began to attack the thermostat with pointed instruments. I'd hate to think of you starkers and shivering wielding a screwdriver unsuccessfully

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Definitely. Safety first. Besides, I was starting to worry about frostbite.

[bearfaced.livejournal.com]

I had the opposite problem the other week, the house ended up at 24C (75.2F) before I noticed and took the batteries out and put them back in again rebooted the thermostat.

[cuyahogarvr.livejournal.com]

How many ways do I love radiated steam heat.....
Let me count the ways.....
Oh, and did I mention, heat is included in my rent.