My Earth Day Post
Posted by TFG on 22nd April 2007
Maybe I’m an outlier, somewhere out at the edge of the bell-curve, but I’ve found Compact Flourescent Bulbs to
a) cost three or four times as much as normal bulbs
b) run just barely as long as regular 89¢ bulbs from Dollar General
I’m a good test case, because I currently house a bunch of wastrels who never met a light switch they could turn off. CFL bulbs burn out just as fast as regular incandescent bulbs in my garage, which is apparently a place full of monsters and home-invaders, given that the garage light is on 100% of the time that any member of my family is anywhere in the same county.
The fun part, as the breadwinner and billpayer, is having to suppress a desire to scream IDIOT! at them as they inform each other, in earnest tones about Oprah, Obama, organic foods, and all the rest. For whatever reason, there is an ImpeachBush.org yard sign on the dining room floor of the 3000sf house in Dallas they happily occupy, free of any fiduciary care in the world. Such is life here in the aughts (and my rapidly approaching fifties). I temper my disgust by remembering what an idiot I was when I was younger.
NB: Welcome to all you InstantMan clickers…thanks for swinging by. Enjoy the rest of the show.
SPOUSAL UPDATE: The Wife promised to turn off the garage light if I would help her re-enter the world of live webcasts. Red-hot pokers in my eyeballs seem more appealing…changing a light bulb, that’s cake.
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