@jcboy,
The opposite here - well, not quite the opposite, today one of the warmer days of this week, a week that started out strikingly cold. Yesterday my thermostat went out. It was easy enough to figure what was wrong (needed new batteries), but took me another couple of hours - with rest phases since I was so aggravated - to program the thing again. Criminy. Anyway, like this kind of thing usually goes, once you don't have something like heat, you have renewed appreciation when you get it back. Going down to 24F tonight.