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From cold, to hot, to cold?

So our weather here has been very "spring like". Loosely translated means: "unpredictable". We had an ice storm last weekend, and relatively nice weather this weekend. Our health, on the other hand, has been fairly predictable. Sick, sick, sick. Maggie has been sick for all of April, and it was only a matter of time before Elsy and I succumbed to something. Both of us ended up with runny noses and coughs. I was more in the mood to sleep this past weekend than doing anything outside in the nice weather, but.. well, sunlight is good for you? To top it off, the warm weather highlighted a difficulty with living in some of these older buildings. The central HVAC is currently set to heating mode and as our unit faces west, the afternoons get uncomfortably warm. Opening the tiny windows we have helps a little, as do keeping our fans blowing at full blast. Sleeping has not been very comfortable at all for me, going from cold, to hot, to cold, to hot. (Being sick in this s