Saturday, March 29, 2008

I hope the polar bear cubs appreciate this person's partial hour of sacrifice

From this post:
My earth hour experience began alone. My mum and brother went out for dinner and so I happily walked around in the darkness with the steady flickering of 2 candles and the steady glow of my laptop [unplugged from the wall] to guide me. About 20 minutes into Earth Hour mum and Aaron return home and then my Earth Hour experience transformed into somewhat of a interesting 40 minutes.

It started with the constant questioning of ‘why aren’t the lights on?’ to the constant suggesting of ‘i need the lights on’ ending with the sudden sound of ’smashed glass’. And as you can imagine glass + broken + the floor + the darkness = shredded toes! So you can probably guess that about 35 minutes into Earth Hour we had to break the darkness by switching on the lights. But after it was all cleaned up the lights went back off and the questions and suggestions came flooding back.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I like the idea of running the laptop on batteries. Presumably recharging later doesn't use power.