The Thursday Thing

We have two Things this Thursday, because they are both cool, and the pictures are recent.

Thursday Theat

Last night I installed a new light switch and placed it out of the way yet easily within reach. The lights were put on last August.

Basically we were out partying in the Colosseum all night and got in just after sunrise, and since I wanted to get my night license and needed lights and figured I'd lose the day if I went to bed, I spent a long bleary sleep-deprived day stealing wires and cable ties and a switch and crawling around in the dust installing the lights I'd brought: blue LED strips that glow along the ground, white LED assemblies for headlights, and a red LED thing for a taillight (as required by the DMV).

I have plans (or intentions) for more lights as time allows. Or maybe not. I dunno. I didn't take time to fool my camera into taking a good night picture so you can't see how bleeping dark the seat is. Maybe I want it that way. I mean, a friend of mine says when I put on the sun shade, I should add a full curtain for, ahem, privacy. So, yeah. Lights?

Thursday Tholar

My employer's solar array caught my eye this morning so I whipped the car around to take a second look.

Yeah, my employer is the nation's largest purchaser of green power, or something like that. That plus the fact of still after all this time leading the world in semiconductor manufacturing just boggles my mind. I'm boggled in part because I am intimately aware of the high level of chaos that characterizes a typical day, and the constant sense of falling market share, and the stock price that has gone nowhere since early in Clinton's second term.

But we have a solar array, so we're cool.