Reply #112: Actually it isn't too cold here, in the 50s during the day now

[Urban Prairie]

And just a little uncomfortably cool for my wife. I hate heat and humidity but don't mind the slight chill in the condo, though, I just hope that I can find a way to pay that damned electric bill by June or so, or it will get quite hot inside.

Guess we're lucky that they didn't shut us off in January. I doubt if the anal-retentive condo association would let us run a noisy generator on the balcony for long. Kind of makes me feel like we are squatters with no electrical service. I was worried about finding an apartment to rent with our credit in the crapper, and homes were too high priced here to rent, but my wife's cousin bailed us out.

I can't feel bad for being broke all the time now, as it isn't like these are boom times in the US. I know more about what is going on in the country than my wife, and I get a bit upset when she complains about our situation, she just doesn't understand what is going on all that well, even when I explain how many others are much worse off than we are.