Cool...Bill Montevecchi is an old friend of mine..I'll have to look him up in the NG...

I'm of two minds..definitely want some light for security..when I take the bus in winter from Ilwaco it is dead dark and scary...but I am also against unnecessary lighting.

And I hate with a passion flourescent lights. There could be a place for them..a garage or hallway or basement..and I am not keeping up with the research on the new generation of flourescent lights..but the ones I still see are so horrible..and have bad bad health effects...new ones might not be as bad but I don't know.

and speaking of music, they drive me crazy when I am trying to enjoy an evening of music..the music camps I go to are cursed with them as well as cursed with people who won't turn them off...

well, I am in a rambling mood..they have these things called solar candles now..great idea..you leave them out, they soak up the sun, then you bring them inside..and of course there are lots of solar lights that people can get.

I do think it is our responsibility if we have any discretionary income at all to look at these energy alternatives and buy them...and get ourselves as much off the grid with solar and wind etc. as we can with small, home-size equipment without waiting for GE to invent this humongous wind machine...

mg