The hard part of Saskatoon is knowing that it won't melt till May. Maybe April if we're lucky.

But if you don't do this the pipes will explode. Trust me.

We haz a warm.

"It was hairy" means that it was rough, and he was copying on the bad side of the vellum: the hairy side of the skin as opposed to the smooth inner side. This would have made writing extremely difficult to do, and very hard to make legible — like writing on resistant paper with a pen that's running out.

It's impressive but pretty ugly. I think it's partly because it's all about 'efficiency' and not about design. He has lots of tiny cut-up spaces, like the two stacked seating areas, each of which only hold a single chair, or the standing workspace (a shelf on the closet, in fact). Some of it is wonderful — the…