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Oct. 17th, 2013 11:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dchenesI was warned, when I got the flu shot on Tuesday, that "body aches" could happen. Well, they certainly did. All day yesterday, my right leg felt like there was a deep muscle spasm going on in my hip somewhere, and another one in my calf radiating discomfort down to my ankle. I thought it was the shoes I was wearing, which are ancient and venerable and worn down in the heels, and should probably go in the trash anyway. (Add another expense to the list; it's time for new winter shoes.) Taking a very hot bath helped some. But after I went to bed, my left leg started to hurt and my right leg got so sore I couldn't sleep. I had to get up at 2:30 and take some ibuprofen, which did eventually let me get some more sleep. Besides that, the injection site still hurts a bit. And my coworker who also got the shot on Tuesday is out sick today. All this is making me wonder whether it was worth it.
Yesterday the energy audit guy came through my place (in my absence, ugh; I hate having people tromping around my apartment when I'm not there). He swapped out the CFLs in the living room light fixture for LEDs, which is fine, but he also swapped out the regular bulbs in the floor lamp. This is a five-bulb gooseneck floor lamp I got from a yard sale a couple of years ago, and it's a finicky beast, and now two of the five bulbs won't turn on. I don't know if I can swap those two back to regular light bulbs and leave the LEDs in the other three, or if that will blow up the universe. I know that generally you shouldn't mix CFLs with regular bulbs, but I don't know about LEDs, and I also don't know how the lamp is wired. It has a three-way switch; one click turns on two bulbs (although at the moment it does nothing), two clicks turns off the first two and turns on the other three, and three clicks turns on the first two again so they're all on. If it's got the two dead bulbs on one circuit and the three live ones on another, I should be able to swap them out without blowing up the universe, right?
Yesterday the energy audit guy came through my place (in my absence, ugh; I hate having people tromping around my apartment when I'm not there). He swapped out the CFLs in the living room light fixture for LEDs, which is fine, but he also swapped out the regular bulbs in the floor lamp. This is a five-bulb gooseneck floor lamp I got from a yard sale a couple of years ago, and it's a finicky beast, and now two of the five bulbs won't turn on. I don't know if I can swap those two back to regular light bulbs and leave the LEDs in the other three, or if that will blow up the universe. I know that generally you shouldn't mix CFLs with regular bulbs, but I don't know about LEDs, and I also don't know how the lamp is wired. It has a three-way switch; one click turns on two bulbs (although at the moment it does nothing), two clicks turns off the first two and turns on the other three, and three clicks turns on the first two again so they're all on. If it's got the two dead bulbs on one circuit and the three live ones on another, I should be able to swap them out without blowing up the universe, right?
