Abide

Not having the plans for our house in hand has kind of taken the wind out of our sails. To work that metaphor a bit more, I find myself in the doldrums. The gorgeous weather offers some relief, but I still find myself spending time online and it's depressing. Time was once when you could "surf the web," and find new and interesting things. Kottke still manages to pull that off, but a lot of his content is also the depressing kind. I dug into some more content about building science and the debate around ventilated versus unventilated attics. One of the more well known PhD mechanical engineers has a huge presence on YouTube, and I was watching a number of his videos yesterday when I happened on one from just a few months ago. For the most part, building science is fairly apolitical. "For the most part," may be doing some heavy lifting there, because some people go to great lengths to make everything political, which is very tedious if somewhat true. In any event, I was watching an…