Testing, again. I’ve been off-line for a month. My Blog is back. It’s been off-line for weeks because of a screwup with the DNS pointers. If you don’t know what that means, Count Your Lucky Stars. Get yourself to onechange.org. After months and months of thankless work, our little team of talented and dedicated volunteers is about to give nearly a million dollars in Hydro savings back to my neighbourhood (Ottawa South). We start to deliver up to 50,000 free compact fluorescent light bulbs this weekend. Project Porchlight, baby. It’s Change Within Reach. It’s SO GOOD TO BE BACK. I’ve been giving media interviews all week and I need a…

Elizabeth told me today that she is having nightmares about life-sized compact fluorescent light bulbs running around willy-nilly bonking into each other, suing us. Matters of event insurance and energy efficiency collide in the subconscious mind. (She’s President of the Porchlight Board). Meanwhile, I can’t touch my chin to my chest because of a pain in my upper back. I think it was caused by a fit of coughing the other day, but Jackie at work (fresh back from a honeymoon in St. Lucia) just smiled and said, “You didn’t hurt yourself, Stuart. You’re just in knots.” She pushed me against the wall and dug her thumb into a muscle…

I’m waiting for my light bulbs to arrive today. One hundred of them, boxed in beautiful Porchlight packaging. This is the first teaser shipment of the 49,900 that will follow. Project Porchlight is lurching ahead toward its October 29 launch. There’ll be a Giant Tiger, a ton of coal, a brass band, and (hopefully) lots of people who know that anyone can make a change. Our new Web site will be launched next week. Meanwhile, check out www.onechange.org. It’s still just sinking in how an idea became a movement that has attracted so many great people, and so much support. It scares the heck out of me. And that’s being…