Incidentally, I was surprised to be completely unable to find a decent YouTube tutorial for installing aluminum weatherstripping. It was not for lack of trying that I installed it backwards the first time.

This weekend I will seal the basement windows with weathersealing tape, and that will have to do until I can afford to replace them.

THERE IS NO COLD AIR COMING IN OVER THE TOP OF THE DOOR.
I feel so goddamn victorious.

At the very limit of my forearm strength, I screwed in just enough screws to hold the weatherstripping solidly in place for the moment, closed the door, and...

I wanted to give up here, because my forearms were really burning, but my stubbornness kicked in, I flipped the weatherstripping around, and I screwed it in properly this time. I was committed: I couldn't close my door until I was done.

OK. Unscrew the screws. (I am running out of forearm strength here, standing in the open doorway, in my bare feet, in below-freezing weather. I am praying that my neighbors don't offer to help.)

I try to trim back the vinyl - no luck there. I realize that I have installed my weatherstripping backwards.

Nevertheless, the installation seems to go OK. Proud of myself, I attempt to close the door.

The door doesn't close.

Time to screw in the weatherstripping! This is not easy because I can't find the battery for my electric drill (which is also an electric screwdriver) so I am doing it by hand, and it takes some forearm muscles to successfully drive a screw directly over one's head.

While looking for my screwdriver, I knocked over an entire box of sewing pins and cursed mightily. They remain on the carpet for the moment.

So, back to the home improvement store. Bought a hacksaw and some hacksaw blades. I learned how to use a hacksaw. I learned how to change a hacksaw blade.

(You actually need a hacksaw to cut the metal bit and good strong scissors to cut the vinyl bit, but luckily, I already had good strong scissors).

"...But it will be a while before we get to [famous band that just had a brief, weird cameo in someone else's episode]"

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The good news is that you don't need an infrared camera to find cold spots if you can just feel the cold air coming through

If someone is looking for something REALLY specific, and you're not just bringing up your own book every time it's even vaguely related to the question... then you are performing an Important Public Service by bringing up your own book. (But you should bring up other books as well.)

You'd think it would be falsifiable because there are demonstrably nice guys who are not particularly rich or tall or attractive who have great girlfriends, but if you just assume they're all secretly cheating with the people they're actually attracted to, you can make it work!