>>> That's one way to get the temperature up.  What kind of temperature do
>>> you find you sleep best at?
>>
>> It seems I feel some comfortable (day and night) when the thermometer
>> says between 21°C and 23°C. Below 20°C and I'm actually shivering. Above
>> 24°C is too hot.
>
> But when you go to sleep, you have blankets and sheets, too.  A cooler
> temperature is usually a good thing.

I find if it's below 20°C or so, I have a still neck the next day.

>> Hehe, you Americans and your obsolete measurement systems...
>
> It's what we're used to.  You use miles rather than kilometers, so you're
> only partially on a sensible system.  We inherited our system from you. ;)

Yeah, well, we're working on it. ;-)

>> No instructions, but under the front plate there's a model number. I
>> imagine it shouldn't be hard to locate the instructions. That's what we
>> did with the washing machine. (Which, incidentally, has a drying
>> function. I've never heard of such a thing before...)
>
> A combo washer/dryer - that sounds handy.  I think that's what our
> friends in High Wycombe have.

Yeah, from what I hear, having a machine with both functions just means 
it does each of them less well than a dedicated device. But hey, it took 
a while to clean it, but it now seems to wash my clothes quite well. 
(Initially they came out dirtier than they went in!)

>> Few things depreciate faster than computers. ;-) I bought a £250 CPU. I
>> was thinking about selling it - until I realised that AMD still
>> manufacture it, and you can buy it retail boxed for £21.
>
> That's because of the advance in technology, and people buying computers
> value the latest and greatest.
>
> People buying real estate, though, have other factors they're considering.
>
> The counterexample to your CPU example is the Mona Lisa, or a Stradavarius
> violin.  Obviously those items are things that the value has not gone
> down for over the years.

Thing is, they don't constantly produce new Mona Lisas - in fact, there 
is only one in the entire world. Houses, on the other hand, are 
constantly being built. (Though, again, location counts for something.)

>> Since this grid-square is half under water, there are no local shops.
>
> Some people prefer having the shops farther away, too - because it means
> you don't have non-local traffic in the neighborhood (which can affect
> crime).

In MK, what they generally do is that each residential grid square has 
its own bunch of shops. So everybody just goes to their own local shops. 
(And then there are the retail grid squares, which have larger shops 
that people travel to. But nobody lives there.) It's actually quite an 
efficient system - which is why the county council is dedicated to 
getting rid of it ASAP.

>>> Then, too, there's improvements (as I mentioned before).
>>
>> It's a block of flats. You can't really do much to it.
>
> Well, yeah, flats are different than a house.

Well hey, like I said, I hopefully won't be selling it for a very long 
time. I haven't finished moving in yet!

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