Saved by the Sun

For a while now, I've wanted to blog about the solar electric system I use to power my garden implements (mower, string trimmer, etc.) but I'll leave the details of that for another day. Today, however, the Sun started my car. Well, not personally, of course... You see, the Sun's a very busy fellow, what with all the fusion, and the sunspots, and the massive flares of plasma... there's a lot to be done.

Last night, my son was digging around in my car looking for Master Chief's head. Who is Master Chief, and why is his head in my car? Well, suffice to say that yesterday I bought the Halo 3 Legendary Edition videogame. I'd love to go into those details as well, but I'll leave it for... you guessed it... another day. So, as my son was digging around looking for this most cool of objects... he managed to turn on every interior light in the car, and leave them on.

Cars these days are smart, they dim the interior lights when not in use, and turn them off if left on for long periods. (I guess that's one of the handy things to which engineers have been applying themselves rather than making cars more fuel-efficient.) But I've got one of those old-fashioned stoopid cars without such nifty features, and my battery was quite dead.

Fortunately, the device I use to power my lawn implements can also jump-start a car; something it did with great efficacy this morning. Even more excellent is the fact that I thew this device into my car, so that should it fail to start at work, I don't have to go begging strangers to, er... jump me. I suppose if you can't afford to drive a car which runs on the power of the sun (yet), at least starting your car with solar power is some kind of a beginning to that end. Ironically, when I got to work this morning, a co-worker sent me an article describing a new generation of cheaper, more efficient solar panels.

Thanks for the boost, Mr. Sun!

P.S.: Oh, and I forgive you your temperamental flare-ups and occasional spotty blemish.