I turned on my kitchen light yesterday evening to do... whatever (cook probably!) and the darn thing was flickering. Now it wasn't just .... flickering, it was flickering in sync to my wall clocks! So every "tick" was timed with the light flickering! Honestly it weirded me out.
For half a second I wondered if there was some ghostly connection like the light was mimicking my heartbeat as some kind of message from beyond or something, but then I thought it was maybe the (intense) wind doing weird things to the electrical so I turned it back off and sat down to google.
I think/assume my brain registered the fact that the other things in my apartment weren't also flickering once a second (like my living room stand up light) but I also am really very cautious about electrical stuff knowing it can cause fires and bad things so I didn't want to mess around. I did also need to cook though and so I turned it back on and just tried to deal with the flickering while also monitoring it.
Aaaaaaand then the bulb burned out. Well that answers that then eh? But... um... I have no recollection of changing these lightbulbs (have they maybe been in there since the renoviction? mayyyyyybe?) so... I guess I'll have to get Jason or someone to come over to help me in the morning? But let me just fiddle around a bit first.
The light is a dome light with three "clips" holding it up. I got one to wiggle but wasn't able to get it off. I texted Jason asking if he'd be able to help the next day and he said sure but also to send him a photo. Which I did. "One of the clips slides off" he said. But I'd tried that and hadn't managed to make it work. He further explained that the movable clip is spring loaded and probably stiff, so I (standing on a chair mind you, not anything hugely safe, ahem) went back to the "wiggly" one and gave it a pull out until it was far enough separated that I could maneuver the glass dome out of the other clips! (I felt quite proud of myself for this!)
And that's when I learned that there were actually TWO (of three) bulbs burnt out, oops! I'd not seen this style of bulb in a while (twisty loopy ones?) but I noted the "maximum wattage" sticker and luckily had the correct wattage of bulbs in my closet so I put on my headlamp for lighting backup (WOO HOO!) and carefully rotated out the old bulbs and put in the new ones (while trying really hard not to tip myself over on the chair, yikes) and then I carefully washed the glass dome and slid it back in and VOILA! I changed the lightbulbs on a ceiling fixture all by myself! YAY! (With some remote support of course.)
Now my kitchen is a whole lot brighter (I wonder when that first bulb went out, I certainly didn't notice it) and the "colour" (temp) of the light is not the same which is driving me a little bit batty but I'll maybe just have to get used to it as I'm not sure I can find any warmer 60watt bulbs out there (I've been googling.)
So yeah, if my flashing lightbulb was trying to send me any message it was probably "you can do this even though you don't think you can!" or something like that. And really, I can't see how anyone would magically just *know* how to get that dome off if you hadn't done it before or hadn't been told how it works, eh?
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