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Conserve
 Every single day on the news the top story is: Today is the big test - we could run out of power - conserve your energy and water. The Ontario government is freaking people out, saying if we go over a certain limit, we're going to have rolling blackouts. I'm wondering if the government is just trying to save money or if we really could run out of electricity. Since you can't trust politicians, who knows what is truth and what is fiction.
Despite our disdain for Ernie Eves et al, my brother and I are doing our part: we haven't turned on the air conditioning once since the blackout, only one light is allowed on in the house at any time, we haven't used the stove, we're not flushing the toilet every time we use it (implementing the if it's brown flush it down, if it's yellow, let it mellow rule, yuck) and we're washing our clothes in cold water and hanging them throughout the house to dry. In other words, we're living like a couple of hillbilly's. It's working out well though and we're pretty sure we're conserving more power than most Ontarians. On Friday morning, when we were still 12 hours away from getting our own power back, our sister called to tell us her electricity had come on at 4 a.m. Friday and that she and her husband had the air conditioner running. "How can you do that when your brother and sister still have no power at all?" I asked her. "Well, we have a two-year-old," was her reply. Fucking energy hogging bastards. According to the Independent Electricity Marketer, as of 11 a.m., the Ontario demand for electricity was 18,020 MW. Our available supply for the day: 21,743 megawatts. Wish us luck...
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