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Originally posted by SignyM:
Aren't LEDs great??! So much light, so little power! when we replaced our garage fluorescents with LEDs it was like... er...night and day.

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They're so awesome.

I was wrong too... I just looked at the boxes today and mine use 65 watts and put out 6,000 lumens each.

I got the last two installed today, so that means I'm rocking 36,000 Lumens now!

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You're right about needing light from all angles. There is general lighting... enuf to get around a room... and then there's "task" lighting. People need bright light for detail work like marking and cutting, o'wise they really can't see what they're doing.

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Yeah. I actually had a taste of what it's like now today...

I had turned off the two over the garage door track after installing them just because for the work I was doing out there I didn't think I needed to be burning the full 390 watts (the reason why all 6 of the lights have porcelain pull chain sockets).

But rather than start trying to work on any of the exterior electric today since it was raining, I decided to clear out some of the junk that I had on the rafters and cut it down. I found all of the extra downspouts I had from the gutter install 2 years ago and didn't want to get rid of any of them, but some of them weren't long enough to span the rafters without the junk I got rid of.

So I had some 15" wide garbage boards of 1/4" plywood that was in the porch and I hadn't gotten around to cutting down and throwing out. I was able to make a 45" x 49.5" shelf up there to put all the aluminum in a spot where it won't be on any of my new conduit.

But when I was making my line on the first cut I said "damn"... and I was about to move my table so I could see the line but then I remembered my two new lights and turned them on and I didn't have any problem.

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Glad you have a lot of photons in your garage now, SIX!

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Me too! It's so freakin' great.

All I had in there before were the four dim flourecent bulbs over the large work bench in the 1/2 garage part, and a plug in LED bulb that mimics a flourescent light hung in the center of the garage that I had to get on a milk crate and plug in next to the garage door opener when I wanted to use it.

Now you can see my garage from space at night.




One of these days I'm going to get around to removing the florescent lights and just putting two more of these up over the large work bench on the other switch. I'm in no big hurry on that right now because I'm not paying $17 per bulb when I got the other ones on sale for $5 each. I'll be sure to stock up on them next time they go on sale.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I didn't do anything today. So I have stuff to do tomorrow.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I didn't do anything today. So I have stuff to do tomorrow.

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That quote sums up about 3/4 of my life, Brenda.

Although you can probably switch the days with years or even decades.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I didn't do anything today. So I have stuff to do tomorrow.

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That quote sums up about 3/4 of my life, Brenda.

Although you can probably switch the days with years or even decades.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I didn't do anything today. So I have stuff to do tomorrow.

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That quote sums up about 3/4 of my life, Brenda.

Although you can probably switch the days with years or even decades.

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You've made a great turn around in the last couple of years and for that you should be applauded.

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Originally posted by Brenda:
I didn't do anything today. So I have stuff to do tomorrow.

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That quote sums up about 3/4 of my life, Brenda.

Although you can probably switch the days with years or even decades.

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You've made a great turn around in the last couple of years and for that you should be applauded.

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Thanks Brenda.

Can't let it get to my head though. Still got my ups and downs for sure, although I'm pretty confident that the worst is behind me now.



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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hung out with my friend half the day today. Haven't seen him in a few months, so that was cool.

Helped him get an awesome desk for his new home office back to his place. Proud of him for spotting that at a local thrift store instead of buying it new like I'd expect him to. $75 for a beautiful marble top table that used to sit in a law firm. A table like that would probably cost over $1,000 new today.

We stopped by the local hardware store and got that 4"x4" extension box for my garage electric that was out of stock at not one but two hardware stores by me (and I REFUSED to pay $10 for on Amazon). So now I can finally wrap that box up tight and safe.

He bought a bunch of Chinese food and we ate at my place when he dropped me off. There's enough leftovers for a snack tonight and dinner tomorrow.



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Hung out with my friend half the day today. Haven't seen him in a few months, so that was cool.

Helped him get an awesome desk for his new home office back to his place. Proud of him for spotting that at a local thrift store instead of buying it new like I'd expect him to. $75 for a beautiful marble top table that used to sit in a law firm. A table like that would probably cost over $1,000 new today.

We stopped by the local hardware store and got that 4"x4" extension box for my garage electric that was out of stock at not one but two hardware stores by me (and I REFUSED to pay $10 for on Amazon). So now I can finally wrap that box up tight and safe.

He bought a bunch of Chinese food and we ate at my place when he dropped me off. There's enough leftovers for a snack tonight and dinner tomorrow.



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That was a really cool day you had SIX. And that was a great find for your friend at that shop too.

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Hung out with my friend half the day today. Haven't seen him in a few months, so that was cool.

Helped him get an awesome desk for his new home office back to his place. Proud of him for spotting that at a local thrift store instead of buying it new like I'd expect him to. $75 for a beautiful marble top table that used to sit in a law firm. A table like that would probably cost over $1,000 new today.

We stopped by the local hardware store and got that 4"x4" extension box for my garage electric that was out of stock at not one but two hardware stores by me (and I REFUSED to pay $10 for on Amazon). So now I can finally wrap that box up tight and safe.

He bought a bunch of Chinese food and we ate at my place when he dropped me off. There's enough leftovers for a snack tonight and dinner tomorrow.



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That was a really cool day you had SIX. And that was a great find for your friend at that shop too.

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Yeah. They actually had another one that wasn't sold sitting right next to it too.

I'm trying to pare down my collection of things though, and I've already gotten rid of a lot of really nice furniture. I've gone 6 years without my crappy old computer desk and I don't need to be dragging something that heavy back up on the 2nd floor even though there's plenty of room for it.



I guess that law firm was trying to give away two desks that were even larger than those two were, but the thrift store said they were too big for them to handle.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
"Ups and downs are a part of life"

Truer words were never spoke, BRENDA. I feel sorry for people who expect life to be as much fun as a beer commercial, all the time. How do they deal when life inevitably gets in the way?

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"Ups and downs are a part of life"

Truer words were never spoke, BRENDA. I feel sorry for people who expect life to be as much fun as a beer commercial, all the time. How do they deal when life inevitably gets in the way?

BRENDA: Don't know. I learned the truth of those words after my dad died and as such has been the way my life has gone.

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Offices will do that. That's how I got this old now office chair I am using. Friend of my Blair's, his office was clearing out old furniture and seeing what I using as a computer chair asked me if I would like one from his office. Seeing as how it would cost me nothing I said, "Yes!". He brought it over a day or so later. The thing now though is this chair is well over 10 years old and I really need a new one. But I also need help and that is the hard part.

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SignyM:
"Ups and downs are a part of life"

Truer words were never spoke, BRENDA. I feel sorry for people who expect life to be as much fun as a beer commercial, all the time. How do they deal when life inevitably gets in the way?

BRENDA: Don't know. I learned the truth of those words after my dad died and as such has been the way my life has gone.

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But we move forward as best we can.

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Offices will do that. That's how I got this old now office chair I am using. Friend of my Blair's, his office was clearing out old furniture and seeing what I using as a computer chair asked me if I would like one from his office. Seeing as how it would cost me nothing I said, "Yes!". He brought it over a day or so later. The thing now though is this chair is well over 10 years old and I really need a new one. But I also need help and that is the hard part.

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Damn Brenda... I wish we lived closer together.

I really don't have a solution for you since you don't have credit card access. That really opens up a whole new world.

Maybe somebody in your building could help?

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Sounds like you got my weather pattern from a few days ago.

Maybe you luck out and it doesn't get hot again for you.

91 here again on Thursday.

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Originally posted by SignyM:
SIX, I know this is quite a bit in the future, but what are you going to do once your house is done? Have you ever thought of becoming a handyman? (I think I asked that before.)

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Sunshine would be nice.

I was just cleaning out my gutters of other people's tree-crap during torrential rain. That was after almost getting stung by hornets that made a hive in an external electrical box I was trying to map where it would have been coming from outside the garage. When I finally killed them off and cleaned it out I got my multimeter out and turned the breaker back on, only to be suckerpunched by buckets of rain with zero forewarning and it's been raining ever since. None of this was in the forecast.

At least I didn't get stung or electrocuted.

Today sucks. I'm done working until tomorrow.

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