The Fortuitous Residual Ambienceness of Neighborly Shiverlry

Friends of the blog know that I'm a cheapskate but am also trying to save money so I can buy my kid a hybrid rocket scootercycle when he turns twelve. So, every penny counts. If I'm gone for a weekend, I go so far as to unplug my clock radio.
So imagine my glee
go ahead, sit there and imagine it
done?
but my imaginable glee was garnered when the seasons changed with a thud here last week (we went from the sixties to the twenties in two days, and never the twain did shone) when although I fretted I would have to start paying electric heating bills, it seems that my good neighbors that surround me do a good enough job heating their apartments, mine never drops below 69 degrees. It even got down to a windshield-glazing 19 degrees Friday morning, and my thermostat narried a mind.
Maybe I can buy a tandem scootercycle!