Quiet Time.
Dec. 4th, 2007 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupI'm sitting in my office, reading my morning mail and stuff, and just reveling in the quiet. Its not totally silent in here, of course. There's the soft hum of fans and electronic equipment, but the A/C is off for the first time in many months, and the difference is profound.
Understand that my office is naturally one of the warmest rooms in the house, and I've got it cram-packed full of heat-producing electronics that need to be kept at reasonable temperatures. So, I often have to run the A/C unit long past the time when any other room would want or need it. A month or so ago it finally got cold enough outside that I could turn the A/C unit to just ventilate, but it was still quite noisy.
Now that we've regularly got negative temperatures all day, and drifts of snow against the office's second-story window. (The drifts aren't really that high. There's a ledge outside, and a gutter, both of which help the snow accumulate). The upshot is that there is a certain amount of cold radiating into the room from the frozen windows (I know that's not technically correct physics, but its what it feels like) and so the room doesn't really need active ventilation. In fact, if I turn it on the room quickly grows uncomfortably cold.
So, here I am sitting in my little electronic nest and enjoying the quiet, for a change.
Understand that my office is naturally one of the warmest rooms in the house, and I've got it cram-packed full of heat-producing electronics that need to be kept at reasonable temperatures. So, I often have to run the A/C unit long past the time when any other room would want or need it. A month or so ago it finally got cold enough outside that I could turn the A/C unit to just ventilate, but it was still quite noisy.
Now that we've regularly got negative temperatures all day, and drifts of snow against the office's second-story window. (The drifts aren't really that high. There's a ledge outside, and a gutter, both of which help the snow accumulate). The upshot is that there is a certain amount of cold radiating into the room from the frozen windows (I know that's not technically correct physics, but its what it feels like) and so the room doesn't really need active ventilation. In fact, if I turn it on the room quickly grows uncomfortably cold.
So, here I am sitting in my little electronic nest and enjoying the quiet, for a change.
