Much like my previous apartment, the heat in my current place is unreasonably hot. There's no way to really regulate it; the thermostat in the house is purely decorative at this point. Even turned OFF, the house (which I learned is heated by steam pipes despite being built in 1986) gets too hot to comfortably sleep. Even with every possible valve to the house blocking the heat flow to the radiators, the heat still eminates through the walls. After not sleeping well for the last week (temps got into the 80's here yesterday), I awoke at 1 AM hot n' bothered...errr annoyed... and opened every window and door, turned on every fan and tried to get the place to cool down. Even though night time temps were in the low 40's, it took several hours before the cool air had any effect. My thermometer in my room went from 85 to 71 and when I woke up this morning, it said 69. The overnight lows according to the news were in the high 30's, yet my place was still somewhat hot--- I almost turned on the air conditioner in addition to the windows-- on a 38 degree night, mind you.
If I have any super-hero type weakness, it's being hot. It takes me a long time to really get cold, maybe as a result from swimming in Maine's 58 degreee water on a regular basis when I was growing up. But I've camped out in 12 degree weather in a sleeping bag rated to 35 degrees without waking. On many active winter trips, if I'm moving I can wear an undershirt and thin fleece in 0 degrees and be comfortable. But in any real heat, I wilt. My sympathy goes out to poor Ice Man when he gets hit by Fire Man's Fire Storm weapon in Mega Man, I can feel your pain brother.
