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<\/p>\nSnap, crackle, pop.<\/p>\n
The sound wasn’t coming from my breakfast cereal.<\/p>\n
It, along with a brief flash of light, was coming from my bedside lamp.<\/p>\n
I rolled over, flicked the switch toggle back and forth to confirm. The lightbulb was burned out.<\/p>\n
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Periodically through the next several weeks, I would reach over to turn the lamp on, only to rediscover that the lightbulb was burned out. Since I generally only turn the light on to read in bed, I generally don’t feel like changing a lightbulb just then. So I’d reach across the bed to Daniel’s nightstand and turn on his<\/em> bedside lamp.<\/p>\n Finally, one lunchtime, I decided to actually change the bulb. <\/p>\n I pulled out my step-stool, climbed to the cabinet of lightbulbs, dug through the lightbulbs for prospective candidates. My bedside lamp has to have a low wattage, since I don’t want my body to think it’s daytime–and the bulb has to be able to handle the little wire clip that holds the shade on (something CFCs have a hard time doing.) After a bit of digging, I found two prospects: a CFC that might not work with the shade and an incandescent bulb that might be too high wattage.<\/p>\n I took off the shade, unscrewed the lightbulb. I screwed on the new CFC and flipped the switch.<\/p>\n Nothing.<\/p>\n Darn it all. I knew I should have been labeling those CFC that I was putting back in boxes until I could dispose of them at the Hazardous Waste place.<\/p>\n I unscrewed the CFC, returned it to its box, and screwed in the new incandescent bulb.<\/p>\n I switched the light on–and got nothing again.<\/p>\n Double darn it all.<\/p>\n Whatever caused the snap, crackle, and pop must have destroyed the lamp’s wiring. I like the lamp, it matches my blueware. I’ll have to rewire it some day–but for now, I guess I’ll just replace it.<\/p>\n I reached down to unplug the lamp–<\/p>\n and discovered that it was already unplugged.<\/p>\n That snap, crackle, pop?<\/p>\n My lamp coming unplugged months ago.<\/p>\n Yeah. Welcome to my life :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Snap, crackle, pop. The sound wasn’t coming from my breakfast cereal. It, along with a brief flash of light, was coming from my bedside lamp. I rolled over, flicked the switch toggle back and forth to confirm. The lightbulb was burned out. Periodically through the next several weeks, I would reach over to turn the … Read more A Lamp’s Tale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11917,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11914\/revisions\/11917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}