Cold incompatibility

I can confirm that with the temperature getting down into the 20's here in the greater Orange County area, that I am incompatible with cold. I do not care for it.

I woke up to a nasty surprise, because it was down to 65 indoors, which might as well be freezing for me. It turns out that these newer Nest thermostats have a setting in which it uses "alternate heat" below a certain threshold outside, which defaulted to 35. I don't know what that's supposed to do, but it meant that the heat pumps were not engaged, and the two units together were pulling like 10 kW doing nothing. When I got up at 8, we had already used 80 kWh of electricity, when a typical day is at worst 60 kWh all day, charging both cars. I changed the setting and it went back to heating properly. In fact, the heat pumps are actually pretty efficient, more so heating than cooling. The upstairs unit, which we replaced about a year ago, is two-stage and runs pretty low for heating and cooling.

HVAC aside, I find my body reverting to my Ohio ways in the cold. I want to hibernate, even when the sun is out. I just want to lay around.

On the plus side, it'll be 50 degrees warmer on Wednesday.