Today’s Business: 2012-02-15
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Today’s Activities
- Shower. DONE.
- Cat duty. DONE. Cat duty involves cleaning the litter boxes, bagging the excess, feeding, and house cleaning cat dirt of all types.
Log
08:35 AM: I’m up.
08:55 AM: Facebooked for a bit. Friend count: 632 (unchanged). Fan count: 113 (unchanged).
10:30 AM: Leaving now for Lowe’s home improvement center. Back later.
03:30 PM: I’m home from Lowe’s. I bought two trowels, an edger for smoothing out the corners around the basement windows I replaced last month, a couple of Honeywell RLV310A line voltage thermostats to replace those old units upstairs with, and some shellac-based primer for the plaster repair work on the north wall in my workout room.
05:00 PM: Replaced the ten year old mechanical line voltage thermostat in the 2nd floor bedroom with the Honeywell RLV310A digital thermostat. This new unit does not make those pesky clicking noises as it turns the heat on and off, and it more tightly controls the room temperature (within one third of a degree). The drawback of this precise control however, is that the heater come on and go off much more frequently (every fifteen seconds now as compared to every several to ten minutes). This means that they ping, pang, and pop more often. So while I got rid of one source of noise (the thermostat), it appears that I’ve increased another (the warming and cooling of the heater). Hmmmm. I’ll investigate how to overcome this problems over the next few days.
05:00 PM: Nap time. Back later.
06:15 PM: I’m awake again.
07:05 PM: Watched today’s episode of The Young and the Restless via the DVR.
07:30 PM: Watched tonight’s episode of NBC’s Nightly News via the DVR.
10:00 PM: Hung out in the upstairs bedroom, iPodding, and observing the heater operation under the control of the Honeywell RLV310A. Generally, I’m pleased with this thermostat upgrade. Here’s what I wrote on Facebook about it earlier: Replaced these two electro-mechanical thermostats upstairs tonight that control the electric baseboard heaters I have up there. I installed these ten years ago, but have since found that the rooms got very hot, and then very cold (large and uncomfortable temperature swings). Plus, these antiquated units click loudly each time they turn the heaters on and off. No more of THAT either. And, most offensively, sometimes, they’d get stuck in the ON position, which would send the rooms up to a sweltering 85 degrees in short order, not to mention the electricity bill into the hundreds of $$$. So, as of tonight, these are GONE. I replaced those old thermostats with two of this Honeywell computerized one. This unit features silent operation and very TIGHT temperature control. This thermostat replaces those “clicky” micro switches with an all-electronic triac. So it is much quieter. The temps in the rooms now hold within a half of a degree of the set temp. Nice. They claim that these new units will save energy. Well, we’ll have to see on that one.
11:00 PM: Talked with [Emmy].
11:15 AM: I’m heading to bed. Good night and do stop back tomorrow for more content. 
Good night.
Received Mail and Shipments
- Received a batch of drapes from the catalog department of JC Penney. However, they’re the wrong color (brush wood brown). I actually wanted slate gray. Oh well. We’ll take these drapes back and order the correct ones later this week.
Related Posts and Links
- Today’s Diet: 2012-02-15
- Tom’s Views –> Honeywell RLV310A Non Programmable Digital Thermostat Review