Not turning into an icicle outdoors and the virtues of Boiling water?

Today's view off the balcony:
the 'hood below freezing

#DeepFreeze day2+  #wawx 

True confession: RantWoman STILL has not turned on the heat in her apartment.

RantWoman has, though, boiled water a couple times for tea. After reading the Cliff Nass post above, RantWoman figures a good tea kettle full of boiling water probably helps up the indoor humidity at least a little.

Digression: RantWoman lives in multi-family housing. At one point during the pandemic RantWoman's sink clogged and a friend suggested pouring boiling water down the drain a few times a week. RantWoman home science project theory: besides loosening any potential clogs, probably regular gushes of boilind water also deter the sort of insect guests one definitely prefers not to invite in.

Back to surviving what is a deep freeze for Seattle but positively tropical compared to, for instance, multiple cities in MT.

RantWoman slept REALLY well!

RantWoman's morning info streams: much freezing of water for chickens, sugar solutions for hummingbird, clouds of boiling water and lattes. 

RantWoman's household temp indicator: the Nutella in the cupboard is MUCH harder than average.

RantWoman also evaluated her schedule and needed travel and decided to go ahead and wash hair.  

Task 1: comb out and braid hair without getting whatever one is going to wear out of the house wet enough to turn entire body into an icicle. RantWoman has a half worn-out sweater that is perfect for this.

Next, long pants and two layers of t-shirts. 

Then sweater long enough to cover thighs or hoodie.?

Hoodie and also hat partly to minimize heat loss related to damp braid.

Was the fleece vest overkill? The good glovers were in its pockets but RantWoman needs to remember to carry her phone on top of any layers she wants to zip or button.

Top off with the yellow allergic to getting run over raincoat and windbreaker.

Off to the bus stop.

Gloves definitely needed travelling with Ambassador Thwack, the badly behaved white cane. #CaneTravel

Cold air is SO energizing.

Live for once without obsessive need to check expected bus arrival time. RantWoman has seen cool gloves with velcro flaps on the index finger but decided to be perfectly happy keeping her hands in the bright pink gloves she has.

Coming home, RantWoman opted for a couple blocks walk over the closest bus stop. By this time, RantWoman was not super eager to flirt further with icicle status. 

The bus came, delivered RantWoman to her stop. RantWoman ALWAYS thanks the bus driver. RantWoman will always do this reflexively although RantWoman thinks that level of interaction would likely be missing from a robot bus experience. Sigh.

For reference about relative humidity indoors and out.

Cliff Mass weather blog about "dry storm."

And after watching a demo of a new product called BeMyAI, one of these days RantWoman is going to see what the AI makes of all of Cliff Mass' maps.