I think that falls under "Things you didn't want to know.
I bought long underwear for dsrtao a couple of weeks ago. He kind of scoffed a bit since he's never had any before, but I think today made a believer out of him.
We had a fire alarm go off this morning and they chased us all out of the building. Temperature at the time was around 0-5. I saw someone leave the building wearing a light jacket and shorts. No, we do not have a gym on the premises so far as I know. :-)
The story of my college dorm life. (Just ask dsrtao) The RD pulled the alarm every time he smelled pot and wanted in someone's room. So we got used to standing outside in our bathrobes.
It got to the point where, no matter what, we grabbed boots and coats and pants on the way out the door, because after the alarm was pulled it would be 15-20 min before the firemen would give the all-clear and let us back in.
Some day I'm gonna find that RD and make *him* wander around campus at 1 am in bare feet, a silk teddy, and nothing else, in 5 degree weather.
I prefer the Celsius scale, and have my thermometers set to display that. Negative numbers there have been happening for a couple months, now, so this isn't such a shock to me. It's still pretty darn chilly out.
I wonder if that could be fixed by a Subaru dealer in Canada. It may be some small, cheap part they can replace. (The dealers around here can't do it because they don't have access to Canadian parts, perhaps.) Then again, it may be integral to some major assembly that costs hundreds of dollars. Still, it might be worth sending e-mail to a Canadian Subaru dealer. There's other things you could do up there to make such a roadtrip worthwhile.
I think less of Subaru that they don't make that a user preference option. My VW doesn't have a thermometer, but my Jeep did, and that let me choose between Fahrenheit and Celsius.
If it's an in-dash thermometer, the part itself may be not expensive, but replacing the entire dash face prohibitive for such a small gain. (One of our cars uses some sort of clips for holding the dash on which are destroyed in the process of removing it, and even when new, they were pricey.)
If so, send to Canada for the sort of thermometer that you stick inside the car with a wire lead out the door for the temp sensor. Those are around $10 at any Kmart type store.
Actually, most of these in-dash thermometers these days are digital. So I *suspect* that it's a matter of flipping a bit in an EPROM somewhere in the engine in most cases, although that's just a guess...
You have a dashboard thermometer? When I was a kid, we had to stick our fingers out of the window in the winter and calculate the temperature based upon how soon they'd break off at highway speeds!
Oh, that was an old problem in the northern climes where I was raised (well, some of the time: Limestone, Maine.) Metal smells really interesting when it's very cold, and I think that's why kids try it.
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Date: 2005-01-18 05:47 pm (UTC)I bought long underwear for
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Date: 2005-01-18 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 06:39 pm (UTC)It's true: married men live longer because their wives take care of them.
Would I live even longer with two wives?
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Date: 2005-01-18 07:14 pm (UTC)Now, if I could just rassle up a husband around the house, to take out the garbage and help me lift heavy things...
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Date: 2005-01-18 07:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 07:44 pm (UTC)It got to the point where, no matter what, we grabbed boots and coats and pants on the way out the door, because after the alarm was pulled it would be 15-20 min before the firemen would give the all-clear and let us back in.
Some day I'm gonna find that RD and make *him* wander around campus at 1 am in bare feet, a silk teddy, and nothing else, in 5 degree weather.
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Date: 2005-01-18 08:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 05:49 pm (UTC)::runs to check::
Oh. I thought it was warmer than that...
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Date: 2005-01-18 06:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 08:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 08:55 pm (UTC)I think less of Subaru that they don't make that a user preference option. My VW doesn't have a thermometer, but my Jeep did, and that let me choose between Fahrenheit and Celsius.
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Date: 2005-01-18 09:03 pm (UTC)If so, send to Canada for the sort of thermometer that you stick inside the car with a wire lead out the door for the temp sensor. Those are around $10 at any Kmart type store.
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Date: 2005-01-20 05:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-18 07:28 pm (UTC)Kids. ;P
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Date: 2005-01-18 07:49 pm (UTC)