This collection of entries is from April 20, 2004.
Woke up this morning and it was 61° in the house.
We've got one of those situations that's impossible to handle at this time of year. Our upstairs gets very hot in the winter (duh, warm air from the furnace rises), so we close the vents in all the rooms upstairs. That allows us to heat the first floor (where the thermostat is located) to a comfortable level and any excess heat eventually finds its way upstairs. It never gets hot up there - in fact, it's always a bit cool which is fine for sleeping.
In the summer, it's the exact opposite. Turn on the air conditioning, open the vents upstairs, and cool air falls to eventually cool the first floor, still leaving it nice and cool upstairs for sleeping.
Then comes this time of year, where we turned on the air and opened the vents over the weekend and now it's getting down into the 30's at night and we no longer have that perfect mix of warm/cool in the house. Turn on the furnace? We'll be sweating in the bedroom... Don't do anything? Freeze on the first floor...