George the cat came home with a bloody leg the other day. Apparently he had been fighting, again. The Vet sewed him up, but now he has to wear a collar for a couple of weeks. The good news is that this time he got a much better collar. It is a soft, flexible vinyl instead of a ridged one so he can eat, drink, go up and down stairs, and not get snuck up on by Gracie. Alex says he looks like he is getting ready for a haircut. George doesn't seem too bothered by it, except that his instinct is to lick his leg, which he can't reach, so he licks the collar. He can't seem to quit doing this. When I picked him up at the Vet, the ladies there had also dressed him in a bandanna that had pink hearts on it. Uncalled for! He was in for fighting. He is a mole catcher - a tough guy - and they dress him up in little pink hearts when he is under anesthetic? Poor George.
For Christmas my wife gave me a Netatmo weather station because I am a home weather station nerd. The Netatmo is very cool, but it has an unexpected feature: it measures indoor Carbon Dioxide (CO2) levels. As soon as I set it up, the Netatmo began to alert that our indoor CO2 was at an unsafe level. The notes said that outdoor CO2 is usually around 400 ppm, and numbers above 1500 ppm could be unhealthy. On that first day, my house was at around 1300 ppm. Prior to that, I never gave indoor CO2 levels a thought. I began to do some research and discovered high levels of CO2 can cause symptoms such as fatigue, headache, breathing difficulties, strained eyes and itchy skin. My family does have all of these issues, especially on the weekends when we are home all day, but I never connected that to indoor air quality. Previously, I installed a Nest thermostat . The Nest is very smart and saves energy by learning your habits and programming itself. Unfortunately, it is so efficient, that t
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