I’m experiencing some problems thanks to our revolutionary new heating system.

A few weeks ago when I drew a perspective of my green chair I was planning to do an other one without the pillows. I didn’t because my day job took so much out of me that I was just to tired. But now I’ve been on holiday for a few days and I’m well rested so I should be able to do the drawing.
But it’s too cold.

The Netherlands is going through a cold spell with temperatures of 8 degrees below zero Celsius, which is very cold for Dutch standards. Of course I’ve heating in my house so that shouldn’t be much of a problem. But it is.

As part of the renovation my landlord upgraded the heating system in the building where I live.
I used to have a very simple system. When it was cold you turned the heating up and within a few minutes it would get very hot. Then you turned it back down and it would cool down again. Then you would turn the heating back up…
But thanks to the upgrade we now have a system that should keep your house at a constant temperature for the least amount of money.
They used all kind of trick to achieve that. From using a thermostat to varying the temperature of the water in the central heating system.
We’ve even been advised never to turn the heating off. To always keep the thermostat at the temperature you like even when you leave your house or go to bed.
Turning the heating down when you leave and up when you come back would cost more money then just keeping it on all the time.

So it’s quite a revolutionary heating system.
But not for me.
The problem is that my sensing of warmth doesn’t work as it should.
Last year I already discovered that I’m unable to feel heat on my back. When I wear a thick jumper or go to the sauna, cold shivers run down my back.

Now I’m discovering something that I suspected for years: Constant temperatures don’t feel constant to me. I feel as though the temperature is constantly dropping while my thermometer tells me it’s not.
Up till last year the temperature in my room felt as though it was constantly changing. Which actually was the case. Some times my room felt very hot and my thermometer would tell me it was hot. And sometimes my room would feel very cold and my thermometer would tell me that it that it was slowly dropping. Although it was always hotter then it felt to me.
But now it always feels cold. Even when I turn my thermostat up to the maximum temperature I still feel cold. (Although according to my thermometer it’s 23 degrees C.)
I only feel warmth the first few minutes after I’ve entered my house.

I’m tempted to either creep up to the heating or lie in bed the whole day. But experience has taught me that I get cold when I try the first and get bored stiff if I try the second.
So at the moment I just sit at my computer doing a game to pass the time and hoping that the cold spell will pass as soon as possible.