I finally shut the Central Heat off for the year in my apartment, or so I hope. The weather is going to be above freezing (or within a few degrees of freezing) for the foreseeable future.

All I can say, is some much needed relief after this cold weather. I need my heating bills to go down so I have money to spend on gasoline for road trips. While it’s true I ended up spending a lot more on gasoline in summer than I ever do on natural gas heating in my dumpy old apartment in winter, it psychologically seems to balance out — and indeed the difference between the winter heating bill and summer electric bill is almost equal to one weekend a month being on the road.

Now I just need to get some good weather to go camping. I have things to this and next weekend, but I am really hoping we have nice weather for the weekend of April 12th.