help?

[rm]

Just got home.
am comatose with gluten-free pasta, but must run downstairs to borrow ladder from bodega to change lightbulbs. Yay.

ETA: Either all the lightbulbs I was able to find to buy at this hour were already dead or we blew a fuse, which I don't think we did. There are not words for how much I loathe this type of stupid non self-sufficiency. Of course, I should have changed teh fucking lightbulbs before it got to the point I can't see anything to figure anything out.

ETA2: Nothing and no one I admire would be felled by fucking lightbulbs. Of all things. I think there's a grocery still open that might have respectable ones that might work. I go hunt.

ETA3: I just bought bulbs at the supermarket. None of them work either. This is $20 I don't have and I'm confused. It's currently taking every fiber in my being not to flip out.

ETA4: There is actually something wrong. The lightbulbs work in my lamp.

Thank you all who participated in this horrid little moment. I've been climbing ladders in the dark for over an hour.

ETA5: Ahah! At least one set of breakers is mislabelled!

Comments

[splix.livejournal.com]

$20 worth of bum lightbulbs sounds nuts, but you never know. You could try a bulb from another lamp or fixture and see if that works. And save your receipt, because shit, that's a lot of dosh for friggin lightbulbs.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Okay, it's not the bulbs. And it doesn't look like the breakers. And I CAN"T stay home tomorrow to fight this battle.

[splix.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't seem worth staying home to fight a maddening battle over a single lightbulb. Stuff like that drives me insane, too, but in this case, since you can't do anything about it immediately [particularly if it's a wiring issue], take a deep cleansing breath, and maybe you can put a call in to your building manager's tomorrow morning and they can look at it for you.

Bonne chance.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Actually, many lightbulbs because I'm lazy.

But, it turned out to be a breaker, because the damn things are mislabelled.

[splix.livejournal.com]

Well then. Excellent. :)