We have lights in the basement. Not a brag, here, just introducing the subject. In particular we got an overhead fluorescent light mainly so that the goldfish, wintering in the basement, would have light. And ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger noticed that the light was no longer going on, or off, as the timer dictated. We don't know just when that stopped. I have a suspicion it was one of the heavy rainstorms we were getting a couple weeks ago; we had a couple power fluctuations that did us no other harm. But the light fixture was off, now, and replacing the bulbs didn't do anything, so it was either get the fixture repaired or replaced.
Replaced was considerably cheaper. The catch here is turns out we couldn't get that kind of hanging fluorescent-bulb light fixture anymore, not without waiting for shipping to a nearby store. Since we wanted the fish, and plants in the tanks, to get light as soon as possible that was out. Instead we got an LED overhead fixture. This one is that integrated design that I'm not fond of --- I like replaceable bulbs --- although given that it cost less than we've spent at Taco Bell some nights I suppose we can bear it. (Still don't like the waste.)
Replacing the fixture was but the work of a moment, although I spent a few more minutes fiddling with the chain so it didn't seem to dangle quite so low. I don't want to bang my head against it just doing ordinary fish-care stuff down there. Also there was ripping out these U-shaped cord holders that kept the old fixture's wire running along the ceiling. The new cord is dangling a little more loose --- I couldn't get the old ones out cleanly to be reused --- but we can fix that when convenient.
The LED seems brighter than the old bulbs. I don't know how much of that is actual difference in lumens and how much is that it approximates sunlight rather than whatever a fluorescent bulb provides. I don't know if that's doing any good for the plants, but we'll find out.
The annoying piece of this is the fixture broke just after Recyclerama, the big chance to turn over huge pieces of scrap metal. Although this year I got to Recyclerama late enough in the day that they'd already closed their scrap metal collection.
Next up: the mystery of photos at the fair and we'll see just whether we get to bunnies and Himalayas today! (We don't.)
The photographs exhibit spilled past its normal bounds and had this extra tall poster board off at the end of the embroidery/knitting/etc stuff. The most mysterious thing about it is this big empty space; shouldn't there have been pictures there? They were where someone standing at the railing could have grabbed, but there's other pictures in range that weren't.
The Future Adults of America did their best to label the elements in one of those little decorative skeletons. Note that they do not address the figure's bone-ear-tis.
Here is the Fair Lake. Not pictured: the Unfair Lake.
And here's a duck with plans of mischief against Fair Lake. (The cord runs into the water and I believe is powering the fountain at Fair Lake's center.)
I said this was the photo I was going to enter in this year's County Fair, under the 'County Fair' category.
Here's a group of ducks discussing their plans.
Trivia: National Cash Register sold 359 registers in 1884. It sold over a thousand in 1886. Source: Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created 1865 - 1956, James W Cortada.
Currently Reading: Miscellaneous comic books picked up on Free Comics Book Day, some of them free and others bought.
