Stay Green...Pee in the dark...

So I guess this only applies to bathrooms with windows but, how many hours of the day do we actually need a light on when we go and pee? Unless it's pitch black no light is really needed yet switching the light on seems to have become some kind of learn-ed behaviour.

Walk in
switch the light on
Pee

It is like an instinctive set of instructions but do we really need the light on at some times of the day?

So this got me thinking, could someone invent some kind of timer system. Like opening hours when your light switch will work in your bathroom?
10pm-6am summer times
5pm-7am winter time

So if you tried to switch the light on out of hours nothing would work. Granted there maybe some time when you need it on out of hours but they are so far and few that you could just go to the monitor and click override. Obviously the monitor would have to be somewhere else in the house.

Same goes for bathrooms at work places.


If one million people, who normally switch the light on to pee at 9am when they get to work, pee with the lights out imagine how much of the worlds resources we can save.

Wowzers.


What do you think?


Stay Green! Pee in the dark.

The same sky...

I struggle to last the day without a nap, sleep comes where it comes, but the naps, the naps are are vital. So today's nap took me outside on the lawn. I figured my sinus' were murdering me anyway so balls to it, I'd take a nap outside for the first time this summer. Pre nap I partook, partake, (hmm) in a hobby I like to call "stare at the sky, then stare at the sky again through a lense, then stare at the sky through the gaps in your fingers, then just stare at the sky" (I am working on a more catchy name at present but for now that is what it is affectionately known as)
So whilst staring at the sky. my overactive (but ready for a nap) brain, pondered....

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I mean we don't really have our own patch of sky...you could never ask a neighbour to move their tree because it was on your patch of sky. Whose to say the patch of sky you're looking at isn't the same patch i'm looking it. I mean, it's up isn't it. So it's all about angles. You may in fact be looking at the exact same patch of sky as I and claiming it as your own. Granted there is plenty of sky to choose from but it's all about the angle you're looking up. Obviously the who hemisphere, longitude, latitude ladeda plays an important role too. But at any given point in time a a mass of people may just be staring at the patch of sky you'd secretly claimed to be yours...just for a short while anyway.