My wife doesn’t actually believe this, but her conduct suggests she does:
The higher you set the thermostat, the faster the room will warm up
I don’t think mine does that. Do you mean there’s an app? Mine can’t download apps it doesn’t come with.
I suppose I could memorize its length and then use that as a sort of rough measure; but a) that’s awkward and imprecise and b) for that technique it’s easier just to have an idea of the length of my hand. – and c) I just measured my phone, using the tape measure that lives in the other pocket, and it’s 4 1/4" x 2 3/8" which would make for complicated math.
– I use lip balm several times a day. I was going to say this may be climate related because I noticed years ago that if I was visiting somewhere very humid I didn’t seem to need it; but it’s actually pretty humid by most standards where I live.
– I knew, I’m pretty sure, how my old thermostat worked. I have no idea how the new programmable-but-set-not-to-be-programmed thermostat works. And I wasn’t sure, reading the second part of that, whether the question was “do you understand the mechanism which physically makes your thermostat able to work?” or “do you understand how to make your thermostat do what you want?”. So I didn’t vote in that part. – I did vote that turning it down makes it cooler, but while that’s the overall result some of the time it’s dependent on the weather being colder outside than in, and also on what the woodstove’s doing. Much of the time turning it down doesn’t do anything except make sure it doesn’t go on sooner than I want it to. That would be different if I had central air.
My iPhone came with a “utility” called “measure.” It seems pretty precise. I rarely use it (I forget it’s there)
Ah. Mine’s a Kyocera Dura, chosen under the primary criteria of being waterproof and highly shock resistent, and the only slightly secondary criteria of taking up as little room as plausible in a pocket. I think the inability to download apps may be a security measure, so the phone can be used by people working in restricted locations/occupations – you can even get a version without a camera, though mine does have one.
Interesting. I don’t think androids come with that. I looked up measuring apps. Some have ads. Some share your data with third parties. One costs $20/year. I think I’ll stick with knowing about how big my thumb is.
My handspan is about 8 inches. That’s good for ballpark . However I usually keep a tape measure in my purse.
In the winter, I will carry my phone in my fleece pocket around the house and add the keys for taking out the trash because we have a security door. If the temp is below 20F, then I add a jacket which has gloves in the pocket. Leaving my abode, I put most things in a handbag because women’s pockets are pretty small. And the more stuff you add to the pockets, the more your knit pants sag…
Lip balm, twice a day unless it is really cold and I have to go out. Then I apply another coat. I have dry skin in the first place so twice a day is a winter and summer thing. I don’t do lipstick.
I had a hard time with the thermostat question as I think the answer really depends on the type of thermostat you have. Basically, it measures the temperature in your home. You set it to the temperature you would like your interior space to be, and it will send a signal to your HVAC to heat or cool the home to maintain that temperature.
My parents had the old round Honeywell thermostat which maintained within a degree or two. Mine is more precise. The game is that the thermostat can only measure the temperature of where it is located. Mine is on the wall across from the furnace 
so when it says 70F, where I am actually sitting is usually a degree or two warmer or cooler than that, depending on the season and whether or not sunlight is entering the room.
I gave my husband a two. I think he’s a two level worrier who often does not mention he’s worried about something. He’s one of these people with a very calm affect. But every once in a while he’ll hit me with something he’s been worried about and you would never know it from engaging with him. I think he keeps his worries to himself because…
I am a World Class Worrier, Anxiety Disorder Otherwise Specified + social anxiety. However, I’ve surprised myself by not having much Mom Anxiety. Before Wee Weasel was born, I would joke, “I’ve trained my whole life for this!” But since his birth I’ve been relatively chill. I thought I would be one of those Moms who constantly checked to make sure their baby was breathing in the crib, but these days it’s like… hears distant crash “Well, I can still hear him moving around, he’s probably fine.” (As any parent knows, it’s the silence that’s ominous.)
Although I am/both of us are worried about our kid right now, but anyone dealing with developmental issues in their children would rightly be worried. I don’t think it’s excessive worry. Most of the time.
The only correct thermostat answer is the “1 to 2 degrees” one, and then only if you have both heating and air conditioning. For example, if it’s 85 degrees in the house, and the thermostat is set to 65 degrees, and you then “turn the thermostat up” to 70 degrees, it doesn’t make the room warmer.
I’m pretty sure my thermometer’s “don’t do anything” range is more than 1-2 degrees.
I answered i don’t know how it works, because there are some technical details of how it talks to the furnace that i found understand. But i understand the functionality well enough.
I’ve never really thought of myself as a hyper-competitve person, but I like to work online jigsaw puzzles on a site that posts scores if you’re a member. I find myself getting ridiculously involved in getting the top score. Made me re-judge my self assessment.
Being competitive, and being confident that I am going to win, aren’t necessarily the same thing.
Well, I’m pretty confident that I can get the top score, since I get it a lot. But I still get overly invested in it, which I consider the “competitveness.”
There’s one particular person that often beats me if we do the same puzzle. Yesterday, I beat their score on three puzzles in a row. I wanted to message them and ask if they were o.k. 
As second out of four kids, I have always been very competitive. However, being a female with asthma meant I couldn’t compete with my three brothers in several areas so I would pick a different area to outdo them in, such as reading, dessert-making, painting & staining (big regret as I became the go-to person). However, I did have beginner’s luck at a lot games and would win the first time I played. And I was wicked-fast at air hockey, something my most athletic brother would brag about to his daughters.
I often say “I’ll be out in a minute” or “I’ll be right out”; but I do sometimes say “Occupied” or “I’m in here.” I don’t see anything inappropriate about some of the other answers, but I probably wouldn’t use them.
Yeah, unless i expect to be stuck in the bathroom for a while, i usually say, “I’ll be out soon”. If i did expect to be there, I’m more likely to say “I’m in here” or “it in use” or something along those lines. I don’t feel like there’s a single certified right phrase, though.
My mom couldn’t roll her tongue, and when we monsters, er kids, found out, we used to tease her about it. Which made her annoyed and fed our teasing.
I think I know now why I’m childless.
I’m really competitive at things I’m really good at.
Academics. I’m so academically competitive that it’s extremely difficult for me not to list all of my achievements here, but I won’t do it, I will simply say that I considered a full-time career in academia and realized I would be hyper-competitive and stressed all the time, so I walked away from arguably the thing I do better than anything else, for some peace of mind.
By the same token, it’s taken me many years to not be in a competitive mindset about my fiction writing. The writing culture can be really toxic.
Oh, and internet arguments. Especially your run-of-the-mill morons shooting off at the mouth on social media. I can trounce those guys so easily. It’s so tempting… so tempting… I had to cut it out. I had to leave social media. It’s embarrassing to admit, but I love arguing with people online.
Board games? No, I’m probably going to lose. I don’t care. As long as the person who wins is having fun. Sports? I’m laughably bad. Anything to do with strategy is out. I love video games but they aren’t hardwired into my neurons like they are for many people who grew up playing them, so I am never, ever going to have an edge there. In fact, outside of writing, there’s not a whole hell of a lot I’m good at. Even with academics, there were so many subjects in which colleagues surpassed me, and I regularly feel stupid in a wide range of contexts.
I’ve said “Ocupado” ever since I first heard it used on American Dad.
I can be very competitive if I think I have a realistic chance of winning. If not, I’ll just play a game to have fun or to be with others.
My wife is definitely more of a worrier than me, although never to excess. I’m generally the more confident/easygoing one.
And that three-way-folded tongue was freaky. 
Yup, that’s why I avoid crit groups and try to find actual supportive ways to engage with other writers.