Just back from a brisk walk around our locale with the Missus. At one point, passing a new office block on North Buena Vista Road she asked: Are there people working up there, or are the lights just for show? I'm afraid the answer lay in the latter part of her astute question. You wouldn't think this is the weekend of the year on which we're meant to be observing Earth Hour, would you?
Mind you, this Far Place is so excessively bright all the year round that it might be deemed somewhat hypocritical to dim the lights just for an hour. Certainly we enjoyed our walk, there being much to commend about this area, above all the fact that we felt entirely safe wherever we went. But the achievements of the city are surely undercut to a considerable degree by the sense of waste one feels at so much of what is on display.
It didn't help that I was already in a negative frame of mind on this matter upon realising that an initiative to go digital as far as telly viewing is concerned means we'll have to off-load two perfectly good sets. I don't mind having to shell out for new ones; it's just the thought that I was perfectly happy with what we'd already got that adds to my unpleasant sense of the sheer futile waste involved.
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