We were told that this person wasn't going to be in the office one afternoon because he had to be at home for a person that was coming by to do some work on his house. This person is always getting work done on his house, and I was joking I was joking about how he was going to install granite siding. You hear about people putting granite counter tops in, a very expensive prospect, and the joke was meant to convey that this guy would be willing to spend very generously on his house. Then I realized that the first home men had, caves, had granite siding.
The funny thing about this thought is that it got me thinking. I know that stone is supposed to be a good building material because it slowly heats up during the day, keeping a house cool until the end of the day, where it supposedly re-radiates the heat, keeping the house warm at night. But years ago, when the home was a cave, you were underground. Now people that really want to save money on energy will build what they call an Earth-Contact home. This is a house like a basement with the earth piled up around it to keep it insulated. Basically, these supposedly high-tech homes are caves, just like the most primitive home.
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