5spdCab, around here, on the Great Lakes, it used to work out that, if it was 30 degrees in the shop, it was 0 or colder outside and, at those temps it only took about an hour to two at the most before my feet started to tell me it was time to head for the house. My shop heat prior to this year used to be an industrial electric heater and if you were anywhere in the shop that wasn't right next to it, then you froze. It also murdered my electrical bill, even though it was on a timer, because when it was running, it could never get the shop warm enough to the point where the thermostat would shut it down. My new gas overhead unit is the bomb! Should have scraped the coin together for it years ago but between Murphy and Reality repeatedly sticking their noses into things, it just kept getting kicked down the list.
Even if I were to head out there today, and the outside temps are in the minus thirties with wind chill, my shop is a comfy 57 degrees, perfect in a sweatshirt, and i can work until my body says enough and it's time to quit for the day. Right now the only limit is how much abuse my muscles and bones will absorb before they rebel and start trying to cripple me. The personal fee is about 50/50 meaning for each day i can get something done, I pay for it by having a day where I do nothing to let my body recover.
Right now i am giving the squirrel lessons in how to hibernate during the winter as I seem to be sleeping more than I am awake. There is a commercial running on the Boob-Tube that suggests we spend 1/3 of our lives sleeping; it works out to 27 years and change, based on living to about 80. Think I might out on the high end of the bell curve for this.
