At 09:21 AM 1/24/03 -0600, you wrote:
 >fluorescent

Aaack!  Flee!  Since I had that surgery several years ago, I notice 
flickering and flashing more than anyone, and it gets to me sooner or 
later.  Those tube things flicker at 60 cycles per second, and it makes 
things kind of eerie.  Try standing in the otherwise-dark under a kitchen 
light that's fluorescent tubes and holding up a plastic clothes hanger over 
your head--then bring it down and up, up and down, like waving a 
flag.  You'll see the strobing effect as you look at the hanger.  Eeek!

That said, though, what I broke in to say was that you can get warm 
"daylight" tubes for about three times the price.  Philips makes one that 
we used in the fixtures in our little house (Weeks Cottage), and when the 
other lights were on in the room, or sunlight was streaming in, that was 
fine.  It did make a difference in color perception (although they do still 
flash.)

 >Mom has her own ideas about organization.

  Mine thinks that the way to organize books is to throw them on the 
Salvation Army truck as it passes. She keeps the occasional stained 
cookbook or one with a picture of her hero, John Wayne, but that's it.  So 
count your blessings.

 >I actually prefer the warm tones in my light.

Go get those "Sunlight" or "Daylight" Philips bulbs for
about $7 to $14 a 
stick (ouch, when the others are around $1 at the good hardware 
stores).  They still save money and last a long time in operation.  Just 
initial cost is higher.

There's also a "Reveal" incandescent that is a lot more interesting in 
color, again lots more $$$. . ..

 >OLD hardback. So long in the tooth ("foxed" don't they call it?) and 
moldy in the cover that you
 >can't read it except in certain light: "Bulwer's Works" (carefully 
turning a less than fully flexible page)
 >The Works of Edward Bulwer Lytton (Lord Lytton) Volume VIII. No pub. date --

You probably have a collectible there.

 > > I think I'm part dragon, sometimes....
 > > my sparkly (sorted) hoard! tygress

There are worse mixes than dragon/Choctaw/Celt/Germanic. . . .  (me)
thinking of Pit Bull/Rottie/Dragon, for one.
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