insulating is such an adult thing to do / rhetorical questions
1 JULY 2010
When you think about it. Adding a layer, packing a sweater, or remembering how a little moisture can totally change a day in the mountains. Those are things that people who evaluate and plan end up doing. A kid would leave it all open – un-insinuated, and burning it at both ends from the inside. So what’s the philosophy behind it – this leap of maturity? Why insulate anyway?
I’m a yankee, meaning I derive pleasure from solving small problems independently and resourcefully. It might be an eastern thing - the ability to be and to not buy, to surround a system with a round line, the empty donut hole, the ability to not kill oneself searching for a perfect metaphor. I’m hoping it will feel like a rational and justified expense once it’s through. The world is getting warmer anyway, might as well have some of that warmth in winter without coughing up a lot of unnecessary CO2. That said, I doubt I’ll be insulating it all myself- just wanted to throw it out there that being a yankee is more about conservation and a thinking revolution, rather than obsessive preservation of the rooflines of quaint cape houses in quaint villages. That and a crazy window here and there. (Just that one rant sentence for the night)
Yes, back to the less is more thing- it’s a different ball of wax, who knew I’d start liking homemade bread more than poptarts, and thinking of the Salvation Army as a department store with a vinyl section? How do I go about spending money to not spend it with out having to ask where it comes from in the first place? Or where did it go all that time before?
Speaking of which, what is the salvage value of the metal in a copper penny?
When you think about it. Adding a layer, packing a sweater, or remembering how a little moisture can totally change a day in the mountains. Those are things that people who evaluate and plan end up doing. A kid would leave it all open – un-insinuated, and burning it at both ends from the inside. So what’s the philosophy behind it – this leap of maturity? Why insulate anyway?
I’m a yankee, meaning I derive pleasure from solving small problems independently and resourcefully. It might be an eastern thing - the ability to be and to not buy, to surround a system with a round line, the empty donut hole, the ability to not kill oneself searching for a perfect metaphor. I’m hoping it will feel like a rational and justified expense once it’s through. The world is getting warmer anyway, might as well have some of that warmth in winter without coughing up a lot of unnecessary CO2. That said, I doubt I’ll be insulating it all myself- just wanted to throw it out there that being a yankee is more about conservation and a thinking revolution, rather than obsessive preservation of the rooflines of quaint cape houses in quaint villages. That and a crazy window here and there. (Just that one rant sentence for the night)
Yes, back to the less is more thing- it’s a different ball of wax, who knew I’d start liking homemade bread more than poptarts, and thinking of the Salvation Army as a department store with a vinyl section? How do I go about spending money to not spend it with out having to ask where it comes from in the first place? Or where did it go all that time before?
Speaking of which, what is the salvage value of the metal in a copper penny?
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