Hoo, it suddenly became chillier than I expected Shenzhen could get. Currently it’s a nice 55 degrees Fahrenheit, which of course is balmy for back home in Washington, but then I’m becoming less used to those temperatures ever since I left home for Los Angeles. It’s the curse of the well-traveled: people from home think I’ve wimped out, and people in Los Angeles think I’m kind of inhuman for going out in a T-shirt.
It’s also a little inconvenient since that heater I thought my room had turned out not to work. Though of course I guess I shouldn’t have assumed that a sun symbol on my AC’s remote control meant that it could also act as a heater. I’ve resorted to turning on my toaster oven and leaving it running to warm up the room a bit!
I used to stick the turtles up against that toaster oven too, in place of a heat lamp, but they died two days ago when the cold front came in and I left them on the porch (which until then had been a warmer place than inside).
Also dead with the cold: the remaining battery life of my laptop. Looks like I’ll be spending more evenings in the office with the computer here.
