At this point you can relax. Avoid extremes and large temperature swings. Room temperature is ideal.
How about right near the end of primary, but not quite done? (I.e., no longer visible activity in the airlock, but gravity hasn't yet leveled off.)
I've had my very first brew (a red amber ale, extract with Wyeast 1056) fermenting for about 8 days, and have been using an electric heating pad plugged into a Ranco to keep it steady at 66F (recommended range was 65-68F). This has been fine so far, since ambient temps have been about 55-65F. However, today's high is 71, with the next two days expected to be 81 and 84 (and then back down to the low 60s by Friday).
Ambient temps in the basement where I'm fermenting should be cooler than outside, but I wouldn't be surprised to see it get up to 75 or so tomorrow and Thursday. At this stage do I need to worry about finding a way to keep my temps down, or is primary close enough to finished that a bit of a bump in temperature won't do a lot of harm?
(mmlipps, sorry about hijacking your thread, but since my question was so similar I figured it didn't deserve its own thread.)