Where to begin..
Kris Kristofferson died this weekend. In his early days, Kristofferson was a soldier, a military aviator and a tabbed Ranger. Also, a Rhodes scholar, who put all that aside to pursue a musical career.
Western North Carolina is reeling from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. Roads washed away, historic flooding, communications severed, it's an unmitigated disaster. As a hurricane and flood survivor myself, my heart goes out to those people. The one hard lesson to remember from these disasters is that when the wind quits howling, you may be on your own for three days. It's a hard lesson, and many of the folks in the hollers and valleys may be without help for many more than three days. Pray for them.
The Israelis are playing heads-up ball. An Iranian cargo 747 was forced to divert back to Tehran after being told it would not be allowed to land in Beirut. If Hezbollah can't get rockets, Hezbollah can't fire rockets. The Israelis have decapitated the leadership, disrupted communications, and are now attacking the logistics stream. They are preparing the battlespace and doing a masterful job.
Now, having read the morning news, I need to do something about the lighting in this shop. I need to educate myself on something called "lumens". I understand watts and candlepower, but no one measures lights by those terms today.
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Lumens is an imperfect measure of light. The human eye sees yellows and greens best so LEDs can be biased to those colors to create more lumens/Watt. Decent LEDs with frosted covers will have about 100 lumens/Watt and LEDs with clear covers will have 110-to-120 lumens/Watt.
4000K (K is for Kelvin, a temperature scale) is the de facto standard for bulb color. 5000K and higher are "daylight" and are favorable for the best color rendition and for helping people wake up. Some people swear by them for helping with mood swings during cloudy weather when blue light is filtered out by clouds.
Bars tend to use 2700K-to-3200K because it reduces depth perception. Said in plain English, it hides wrinkles and food with wonky color.
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