Going green!

I know I ranted previously about the tendency I've noticed toward lights being turned off by sensors. It is not only an inconvenience, but it is not safe.

I just walked out of my room to go to the elevator, at the opposite end of the hallway. Once the door to my room was closed there was zero light in the hallway. 

Actual picture taken just now!

I could not see to put the key in my door to lock it. Braille finally prevailed and I successfully made tumblers fall in the darkness. But when I turned to walk down the hall there was absolutely nothing leading the way. Had a maid left a vacuum sitting there, or if a wino was passed out, I would have tripped. Nothing to help until, when at last I had felt my way to the other end, the small cubby on the right where the "lift" was located had a call button with an illuminated ring around it. .000000001 candle power! And when I pushed the button, the light went out!

Ok, so this is all part of some Master Plan to save the earth from the global warming that has kept the daily high temperature below 13 degrees every day, going into June!

Europe is pushing the concept of a 90 second shower. We used to call it a Navy shower, but that's so old school no millennial will listen, because they are convinced that, if it ain't their idea, it ain't gonna work. The idea is that you step into the shower and turn the water on, quickly getting your body wet, then turn the water off. You then lather up, rub down and whatever else you do in the shower. To finish, you turn the water back on, quickly rinse off, and shut the water off again. No need to warm the water, that's wasteful!

I have two more evenings on the Camino. During that time, the Governor of Galicia has asked the 2.7 million people of the region to cut back to an 89 second shower to compensate for the time I will be spending warming the water to a point where I won't drop a nipple down the drain when I step into a stream of ice cold water!

There is also flyers in the rooms reminding everyone that it takes 6 gallons of water to launder a towel! Here again, I am willing to do my part! Each night I drag 5 additional towels out and soil them, knowing that you can easily get 6 towels in a washing machine at a time, thereby reducing the water per towel to only 1 gallon. Now if everyone else will get on the band wagon, we'd save enough water to take a wonderful 91 second shower each night!