Do you see this light? We turned it on Friday evening while we were relaxing on the couch after going out for a fancy dinner at The Deck. Later when we decided to make our way to bed, I walked over to the dimmer to turn the light out just like I'd done every night since we moved into the house. Except this night the light stayed on. I turned it on and off a few times with no change at all. Today is day four. I did a little time lapse photography experiment with this light's mate about a month ago, and it burned out after three days of constant running. This light was on with it then, and is still going this time. That's seven days of constant running if you're scoring at home. Seven days of nonstop operation from a lamp that was likely manufactured by an underage child in China, and then brought to Vietnam as a reject lamp that couldn't be sold in the western market. This has never happened to me before, and I spend a lot of time talking and thinking about lights. The function of a light switch is to complete a circuit. When the light is on, the circuit is completed, when off, it's broken. That is a physical change! It can't just suddenly not work, can it? The dimmer still clicks and acts like it should, the light simply doesn't respond. Maybe it just wants to make sure no one steals the cat food.
or maybe it just really likes The Smiths...
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