From: dicksilk@gmail.com   
      
   2020/04/03 Friday:  Death of a Blacklight :'(    
      
   So I *had* about two really decent dreams this morning, and was almost at the   
   point of gathering them into conscious memory before waking, when there was   
   this abrupt CRASH in the living room, although I couldn't exactly tell WHERE   
   the noise came from.     
   My first conscious concern was for Mom's health, as she's 90+ years old, and I   
   heard her slightly pitiful cries coming from where I still did not known, and   
   so was instantly alert, if not alarmed, at having heard her sounds following a   
   rough, rumbly    
   crash sound.   
      
   I made it into the living room, to discover that she'd somehow managed to   
   *knock off* my 4' black light from the fireplace mantle to the fireplace   
   (brick) hearth which resulted (of course) in the end of the bulb getting   
   shattered.  Although she sounded    
   penitent over having caused it to break, she seemed a bit peeved when I hopped   
   online and bought a replacement bulb on her dime. :-)   
      
   Meanwhile, there's a story behind that black light lamp and bulb:  Mom   
   originally got it for me on my 14th birthday, so it had been kept from harm   
   and remained functional for roughly 45 years.  I'd been using it to help   
   eliminate possible virus in the    
   living room overnight.  I *showed* Mom how to toggle it off.  She had to've   
   used excessive force to cause it to break.  She's seemed to have a resentment   
   of it for some time.  But tough.  Meanwhile, all the dreams that were present   
   up to that point for    
   last night were instantly evaporated.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)