I'm Just Riffing Here!
Stop f'ing with my light bulbs!
1/24/24
Lord Jesus, why must I live in darkness?
Seriously, they (the IPDITs in government, corporations, deep state, whatever) need to stop messing with light bulbs.
STOP IT. STOP IT NOW!
I am just riffing here, and since I am an old dinosaur who is lazy, I am not going to go into the whole freaking history of light bulbs, if interested one can read this boring wikipedia page, or not.
When I was a kid in the 1970's I only remember the use of incandescent light bulbs for lighting. Loved 'em. Cheap. Easy to buy, easy to replace (if the light fixture had a standard Edison base). They gave off a nice yellow glow and were hot to the touch. You got light and warmth at the same time.
Since I became a useless adult in the mid 1980's, the IPDITs of the world have been messing with the simple incandescent light bulb, because:
They use too much energy
Kids are burning their fingers touching the evil hot bulbs
They cause the earth to boil and turn into Venus
We are all going to die if we continue to use incandescent light bulbs. It is a God given fact, doncha know.
Wait, we all die? Say it ain't so.
In the year 2024, all light bulbs are bad and are being banned (incandescent, halogen, fluorescent) except LED bulbs, just 'cause.
In my tiny house, I currently have:
Some evil incandescent light bulbs still glowing yellow and hot in my bathroom and bedroom fixtures.
I also have:
Some evil curly Q light bulbs (CFLs) that were supposed to save the world 20 years ago, in my basement and ceiling fans.
I also have:
Three evil halogen light bulbs in my kitchen fixture over my breakfast bar.
I also have:
Some evil fluorescent tube light bulbs in my utility room and bedroom closets.
Finally, I have:
Various "they last forever and will save the earth from boiling, but cost more and emit crappier light and flicker" LED light bulbs scattered throughout the house, which have replaced the blown incandescent bulbs.
I HATE, HATE, HATE when a light bulb blows in my house.
That means a trip to the crappy hardware store to stand in front of the seizure inducing light bulb aisle and get a migraine trying to decipher what light bulb to buy.
I HATE, HATE, HATE it.
The light bulb in my refrigerator blew after the latest Electric Boogaloo two weeks ago, when the power in my house went out for 12 hours because a hurricane force windstorm damaged power lines from fallen trees. (bury power lines? whacha talkin' 'bout Willis?)
Off to crappy Lowes I go to buy a light bulb for the fridge.
Ugh.
After staring at the light bulb aisle for 10 minutes, I finally found two LED fridge light bulbs. TWO. Out of the hundreds of life saving LED light bulbs flickering at me on the shelves I could only find two LED bulbs that would fit the fridge (smaller base). I bought both. Because you never know. I hope no one else went into Lowes that day to buy a fridge light bulb as I wiped them out purchasing the last TWO.
Who needs light in their fridge anyway? What is a fridge? Just get take out food. Problem solved. This is where humanity is going, I swear...
Two days ago, my fluorescent bulbs in my utility room decided to flicker and dim. I have two old school 4 foot long fluorescent tube bulbs in a recessed fixture. I messed around with the bulbs to get them to work properly. No luck.
Ugh.
I HATE, HATE, HATE messing with light bulbs.
Especially 4 foot long fluorescent tubes that have been banned by the EPA because they are boiling the earth, or something.
I spend the rest of the night researching the dead internet (my next riff coming up!) on how to replace a 4 foot fluorescent fixture with a 4 foot LED fixture, that is the future, right?
Ugh.
Most 4 foot LED fixtures use integrated LED bulbs, meaning you cannot replace the bulbs, should they blow, dim or flicker. You have to replace the entire fixture.
Nope.
Not going to happen. Those LED integrated fixtures are NOT cheap and it is not a walk in the park for a dinosaur, like myself, to replace a 4 foot light fixture on the ceiling.
Oh, but Pug...LEDs have a life span of 15 years!
Do they? LEDs are not God's gift to humanity. This is my experience with LED light bulbs:
They flicker. YES THEY DO. They may not blow, but a bad LED will flicker, a flicker that does not go away. Once an LED light bulb flickers I need to replace it. I can't deal with a flickering light bulb.
If I put two different LED bulbs in a fixture, they do not turn on simultaneously.
The color on LED bulbs are not standard - daylight, warm light, sunlight, it is different for every manufacturer. I have various LED bulbs in my basement that shine all different colors, even though I always buy the sickly blue daylight LED bulbs.
LED lights bulbs are expensive. But that is because they last forever, right? I have replaced LED bulbs within a year because of flickering. Where are the cost savings?
Don't get me going on the whole "wattage/lumens" conversion headache. In the old days, a 100 watt light bulb would shine brighter than a 60 watt light bulb. More wattage used, more light. Makes sense. Now they are pushing lumens on LED light bulb packaging to show how efficient the bulbs are.
Sigh. I am old. I just want to know what is the brightest light bulb I can buy, that won't cost me an arm and a leg, won't flicker, and won't cast off a sickly light.
No wonder humans are grey and sickly looking, we spend too much of our time in front of sickly LED screens/bulbs, and when we do go outside the chemtrails are blocking out the sun's life giving heat and light.
I want God's light. Bright, shining, warmth giving light.
RIP incandescent light bulbs.
The way humans are going soon we won't know what light is, and we won't care.
LOL! Bulbs. Just another demonic tact to make life chaotic and unbearable. Jesus is the light of the world, satan is darkness. Would you put a candlestick under a bushel? Apparently YES! It saves the planet donchaknow.
well report back when you do find the good bulbs.
I stocked up years ago but those bulbs are all used up.
I hate the new bulbs too. Most of them are made in CHINA
What is the matter with our country?