Product Testing Adventures in Pneumonia Avoidance

Happy Saturday; I remain calibrated.

Since moving my office / Sanctum from the unheated upstairs room downstairs to this former paint shop in the back of the house, the reality of forthcoming winter has loomed large: cement floor, one heating vent, large windows.

Thus my obsession with channeling warmth because I'll be damned if I'm going to let something like pneumonia keep me from working in this space, especially since I've gotten it more or less exactly the way I want it to be...

After goldilocksing the shit out of the great space heater hunt – much as I had done with the great pen quest (the Lamy Safari with fine charcoal nib still the winner; haven't looked back) of years previous, the current winner – after a cardboard cut (just now healed) from the box of the intended, more expensive purchase, immediately disqualified it – stands revealed: a little $30 fan heater (cheaper than the Safari) that has met and exceeded my required qualifications for Sanctum space heater supremacy: eco-friendly / steady distribution of warmth / quiet / fall and overheat protection / most unlikely to short out the whole room and/or incinerate all inside while also – also – keeping the under-desk dog bed area warm for necessary and fickle editorial assistants. That its box didn't draw blood was also a plus.

And so the sun rises: my feet are warm, my space a sanctuary... newsletter 0076 drops tomorrow.