Day of the Five Lost Havens, 43rd of Midsommar, 526 M.E. (Castor): Greetings from the most boring person on the internet. All I ever talk about here anymore is the weather, my walks, the weather during my walks, or some random, old-man memory.  

Castor is a sitting day, so today we'll instead talk about lamps. I bought a new lamp yesterday (woo-hoo!) because for some reason, not one, not two, but three lamps in my house all stopped working within the course of about the past two months. First, the rotary switch on the floor lamp I used to have in the study stopped working. At first, I had to try about five or six times before it finally clicked on, and then a dozen or so tries, and then finally it just wouldn't switch on at all anymore. Of course, I checked the bulb, the circuit breaker, the outlet, etc., but it seems like the lamp just gave up the ghost. 

I replaced the floor lamp with a table lamp from another room and placed it on a tall end table, but it wasn't long before that lamp also stopped reliably switching on and off, too. I replaced it with a third lamp that I fortunately just had sitting around for some reason (over time, one accumulates a lot of lamps) and so far so good, but wouldn't you know it, a third lamp, the one in the den, stopped working. To get it to light, I had to slowly turn the key about half of the way and stop before it clicked to the next position. Fine, but then it was about a quarter of the way, and then an eighth, and the "on" portion of the rotation just kept getting smaller and smaller until I couldn't find it anymore. 

I was just about out of spare lamps, so I finally sprang and bought a new one yesterday. It's a nifty modern little feller, with two USB ports built into its base for charging all the electronic devices that Georgia Power tells me use up 20% of my kilowatt hours. I made sure it had a pull-chain switch, because apparently rotary switches are having a tough time in this house. In all my many years, I can recall dozens, scores probably, of light bulbs dying, but I don't recall a lamp switch ever stop working before. And now three this year. 

Meanwhile, here's a fun fact: with the SpaceX IPO, Elon Musk's net worth is now further from Jeff Bezos' than Bezos' net worth is from that of the average American household. It's not that I believe trillionaires shouldn't exist, but I think that much wealth in one single hand is a symptom of the problem with our 21st Century economy (i.e., late-stage capitalism).

The Stable Genius' name is finally off of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts!