Incommunicado and lovin' it

My mobile's broken. The charger's bust, it's out of juice - in short, it's kaput. I really should get round to rectifying the situation, but the last few days have been bliss. No more cranking it up first thing out of bed, awaiting intrusion from the outside world. No urgent safe-keeping in my pocket as I pop out to the shops for 10 mins, because somebody might call or text. No putting it on silent while I'm out with someone (but keeping a sneaky eye on it) or monitoring it in the movies in case something oh-so-important crops up. What a relief.

Maybe there's a lesson for me in all this. A chance to create a little bit more space in my life. Hell, I even sat down to finish a song - twice - in the last few days! Now that's gotta be good.

I heard about last week's Earth Hour too late. So I didn't switch off my lights - that is, if they were, indeed, on at the time. I just checked onto the Earth Hour website to see what it was all about. Some of its suggestions, apart from switching off your lights for an hour, included taking a photo and uploading it to Flickr, taking a video and uploading it to YouTube and writing a live blogpost about it. Er, doesn't all that add up to a lot more energy consumed than an hour of lights-off?

I'm not knocking it, but I'll stick with the broken mobile for now. There'll be less brains and thumbs fried. And I may even finish that song.