Smart thermostat and guy talk more than my wonderful friend and I do
I have such a difficult time understanding marriage on a philosophical and practical level.
I mean, I don’t know how people manage to stay together for 20 or 50 years without strangling each other (most of the time).
Honestly, I don’t know how people stay together for 5 years even. I really know that my guy drives me really crazy, and there are plenty of times I’m ready to get far, far away from him after 2. Maybe this urge passes with time, or maybe people just lose their fight or flight instincts after a decade of dealing with someone else’s bullshit. What I do know for sure, is he had better get away from our thermostat if he ever wants to see me again. I never thought that our basic thermostat replace, from an old dial model to a digital temperature control panel with the option to program your Heating, Ventilation, and A/C system, would be the straw that broke the camel’s back for us. I thought my wonderful friend and I were making an overdue update to our condo central heating and cooling system which would allow us to set basic temperature control demands for the thermostat. I thought this would reduce our energy expenditure enormously, considering my wonderful friend and I often forget to adjust the air temperature before my wonderful friend and I leave for labor in the day. I never thought that my guy would become consumed by the task of perfecting our air temperature control programming. These nights, I can consistently find him laying in front of the air temperature control device, looking at his detailed notes of our bi-weekly activities and changing the heating system and A/C by a degree or two here, a minute or so there. He insists its all in the name of lowering our energy bills, however at this point, the programmable thermostat knows more about his bi-weekly schedule than I do.