An Hour a Day

The first sacrifice in our Go Green challenge is - drumroll please - the 7:00 hour. That's right, in honor of Earth Hour we are going to turn stuff off for two hours each and every day, with 7pm-8pm being mandatory. Admittedly, this will apply primarily to turning the TV off as we have become regular viewers of the Wheel of Fortune/Jeopardy! hour. Between the two of us we are far superior to the contestants in the former, but we still need to bone up on our random trivia knowledge for the latter.

Some things, however, will not be turned off. The refrigerator for instance, but that's for obvious reasons. Clocks will be left on because that would just be a pain in the ol' keister each and every day. And most notably, our aging and temperamental computer, which with every shutdown, we - meaning usually Tiff - have to take the back off and jiggle a cord while flipping a switch to start it back up... all the while risking electrocution.

We will also be limiting our light usage for these times. I can't say that we won't use the lights ever, because we aren't freaks and if the weather is crummy, I don't want you people out there to think we are sitting around doing nothing. But we will make an effort.

Anyways, while I doubt seriously that this will make a huge splash in our power consumption, let alone the consumption of our community, state, nation, or world, it's more about the principle of the thing. And who knows, maybe we'll find we like the time away from the electric stuff.