OD Returns Again

[Old Dwarf]

A pre-Boomer Dwarf struggles with the 21st Century Tech.

As previously mentioned, my Artist Lamp died on me & I was looking for a replacement.
My old lamp was from the 1970's & was an impressive piece of Industrial engineering.
A heavy steel double-jointed support armature holding a sealed brass cylinder holding
2 small florescent light tubes. The Plug looked like a power pack.

So in checking out replacements I found they were well north of $100+ & mainly LED powered.
Frankly odds are I don't have that many painting days left so I was reluctant to put that money
into something of limited use.

Then through the magic of cookies I was on my computer & pictures of Artist Lamps appeared &
one looked good, it had the same dimesons as my old Lamp except the Lamp was an LED. The price
was under $20 & actually had more features than my old Lamp( 10 levels of brightness,3 types
of light-bright, day light, yellow) it was from a company called Temu (never heard of it
but the price was right & I ordered. It shipped the next day for delivery between the 10-15 Nov.
& a few days later I got a notice it cleared Customs (so I have no idea where this thing came from).

So, to the chase, it arrived on the 11th & in a smaller package than I expected so I was a little worried.
What I found was although the dimensions were the same actual size was smaller. The double-jointed
armature was slenderer as the LED lamp was plastic so it didn't need so much support as my
old Lamp, so far so good (I could accept the loss of the coolness factor) but then disaster struck.

It didn't have a regular plug! instead it had a plug that would fit into a UBS Port. Nothing in
the Lamp's description or picture had indicated that it didn't have a standard plug. Thus, I
had no way to use it at my painting station & was screwed.

Then I remembered my deceased Lap Top Computer, several years ago I spilled beer on the keyboard
resulting in the loss of a third of the screen. This past summer we had a 6 minute power outage
which totally scrambled the computer. It would no longer connect to the internet nor let me access
any material I had stored on it. I spent many hours trying to fix things but no dice so I just
unplugged it as a lost cause. But it had USB ports so just maybe?

It worked the Lamp was able to plug into the computer which I then turned on & the Lamp lit up.
I carted the lamp & computer down to my paint station & set it up & good to go. The light covers
my entire paint table & the set up with the computer restores some coolness factor.

OD