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So Tumblr uses a fuckton of data and I’m on my cellphone when I’m staying at the farm, if I’m in the yurt, which is about the only place FarmBaby doesn’t crawl into my lap and demand I show her videos of squirrels if she sees me on my computer. (She’s very snuggly this trip. I’m enjoying it, but only because most of the time I have plenty of personal space. She’s so sweet except when she’s s c r e a m i n g … Guess what three and a half year olds can do a lot louder than two and a half year olds? Scream!)
I’ve discovered that if I use the Xkit function where you tell it to scroll to the bottom of the page endlessly, and do that for a while indoors on wifi, then go out to the yurt and scroll back up offline, I can mostly get in as much Tumblr browsing as I care to, without using any data. Except if I want to like or reblog or reply to something. In which case, I have to get online, do so, and then get offline again. I’d just get online and stay that way, but I know Tumblr will reload the fuckin page while I do. Browsing offline, there are a lot of autoplay videos that don’t work, and most photosets load partway blank– not because the photos didn’t load, but because the goddamn site wants to reload them while you’re scrolling, because it’s designed to use as much data as fucking possible.
But anyway. That’s why I’m mostly offline; I’m doing slightly better than normal at at least passively browsing on y’all’s lives, but. Let’s be real, I’m probably not going to sign on just to like your selfie. Rest assured, normally if I see a selfie, I like it. But it’s just too much data to do it just now.
I’m so tired, and I’m getting a cold, but everything is going well here, and I finally got my yurt insulated– at least, the preliminary part, which was putting a radiant barrier insulation layer up. I got the whole roof, and the walls, but there’s a huge gap around the transition between the two– I’m talking, like, a foot, all the way around the 30 feet of wall circumference, so that’s a whole bunch of heat loss. But the whole roof is a big start, and I’ll work on that gap.
Just lighting a couple of candles now can bring the temperature up a couple of degrees, which is nice. I don’t feel the cold if it’s 45 or warmer. I missed the one night it was 38 here already– that was Harvey spillover, I’m told– and I don’t look forward to that. But the next step is to fill that wall gap, and then I’m going to hang curtains down the center of the yurt, and only heat the half that the bed is in. I think that’ll help a lot. My ideal is to have it well enough insulated that just my body heat and maybe a candle can keep it up five to ten degrees warmer than the ambient air. That’ll be enough for me to sleep through about the worst of the weather I expect to put up with before I take that thing down in mid-November.
I do have a tiny electric space heater, but when I turn it on, the LED lightbulb dims, and I feel like that’s a bad sign for the carrying capacity of my extension cord, so I don’t let it run more than maybe half an hour at a time. That’s enough to take the chill off when it’s 45 at dawn, and that’s all I really ask for.
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