Fall Days
What wonderful weather we’ve been having. Rainy, windy, cold. Talk about a typical fall day where you just want to curl up next to the fire with a bowl of chili. It’s quite funny walking around campus because you still see the people wearing shorts and tshirts. It’s as though their mommies had to remind them to take a coat with them when it started to get chilly, and now that they’re here, they simply don’t. Walking up and down the Quad watching them shiver always makes me chuckle on the inside.
The nice thing about these kinds of days, though, is that I can use my heated seats. It’s great, because my car takes forever to heat up. Since it’s a diesel, I simply can’t let it idle for a bit to warm up. Now, since I’ve been parking aways from where my office is, I’ve been putting my coat on the passenger seat and turning on the seat warmer. Then it feels like my coat just came out of the drier when I put it on. Makes the walk much more enjoyable. Now, if only they’d add a heating coil to the steering wheel.
October 15th, 2004 - 09:26
maybe they live far from home and haven’t had a chance to get their warm clothes from home yet… I always hated that, b-c I had to lose a weekend to visit the parents. On a side note, why can’t you let the diesel idle? Truckers do it all the time and we did it all the time with our old VW.
October 15th, 2004 - 09:40
I can let the diesel idle. It’s just that it doesn’t increase the temperature when it does that. It’s burning so little fuel that there’s no net gain in temperature. The only way to get it to warm up is to actually drive it.