thermostats

You see we live in a new house with radiant floor heating which is governed by 3 of the cheapest thermostats known to humanity. Add 2 young babies and a woman with a strong cold paranoia, you get me walking around the house in my underwear sweating bullets while the rest of the residents are about to become deathly ill from the phantom arctic winds rushing around. Indeed, i need some digital thermostats so we can set a temperature that the local health authorities would call reasonable to sustain life. So i did what any rational person would do on a holiday sunday and rushed down to home shit-hole to suss out their supply. Did you know that most quality thermostats come with a CD-ROM so that you can "interact" with your thermostat? Doesn't that sound like fun. Me in my sweat soaked underwear with a computer disk trying to interact with my new thermostats that cost 80 bones. A perfect working example of what is wrong with our society. You see, I am one of those old school losers that wants a device with a quality thermometer that will tell my heating system to come on when the temperature drops too low. I certainly don't need some complicated programming guide to set some small plastic device so that it can "monitor the temperature every 7.3 seconds" with the help of a computer program. Next question... when was the last time a computer interactive program brought on a ulcer? The other problem i am faced with is what to do with the old thermostats when i finally replace them seeing as they have a spot of mercury in them. Mercury is the liquid metal that has come to pollute our environment so much that you are not encouraged to eat too much fish anymore, and if in fact you are pregnant you are encouraged to avoid some fish entirely. How about that... here we are living like world class people in our $600 thousand dollar homes that are stocked with useless, cheap, cheap, cheap mercury loaded thermostats that give us no satisfaction what so ever. In the end i left the store empty handed as the last thing i need is another more expensive useless piece of shit that i can't operate and have little faith in it's ability to help me attain everyday happiness. Perhaps i shall go on the internet and order one from Germany.

On the plus side my bogus thermostat hunt got me out of rebuilding the staircase that creeks from time to time and apparently ruins everybody's lives and needs to be fixed in order for us to live a normal life.