I’m really surprised no one photoshopped in a Mario with the fire flower

Sorry, you are thinking of a tuba and a piano. Easy mistake.

Meanwhile, I got written up for using more than 4 days in a year

I grew up with the calendar as shown here. Like bookends on a shelf. The week “ends”.

My wife’s work insists weeks start on Mondays. This allows them to schedule her differently and not get overtime according to their scheduling.

Mine does the same, but insists the week starts on Saturdays.

I don’t know why the world cannot decide a proper schema for this.

Not that I disagree but, have you seen how low effort all of this has been for them? It wasn’t some sort of complicated pizza code like maga thought Democrats were doing, it was literally just emails like “when is the wildest party on your island?”

I did buy a super expensive dimmable tunable led strip from Yuji LEDs. It was expensive even before the tariff situation, so really bad now probably. But the LED was top notch. I followed a guide someone had posted to reddit to make a SAD lamp, and used ESP Home to make it so it made a sunrise effect starting all the way as far yellow as it went and ending at the brightest point. It is just a strip with 2 different temperature LEDs on it and it combines them with directions from ESPHome (oh I had to get a controller for the ESPHome connection. It’s just a “dumb” strip that you have to control the voltage to change).

Since programming it was rough for me, I had some fun experiences where it would just randomly go from super dim to full bright while I was sleeping and hoping for a gentle wake up from a nap. My half asleep brain really thought someone had opened the curtain to the sunny outside. I started thinking of my project as “sunlight in a can”.

Anyways I happily shipped that expensive project off to my brother who suffers from SAD and he never used it even once.

Oh if it’s Blaze pizza or similar that’s a huge win haha. I go there and load up the toppings too.

I think this is the bulb I bought. I want to redo the lighting in my house and I was considering putting these tiny bulbs in the ceiling. It’s pretty bright though, so I was worried it would be annoying to look up at. You are using it now, does that seem accurate?

I am going to be redoing the lighting in a house I just bought. I went down the rabbit hole of learning about all the options. It’s hard to find but it is possible to find dimmable, tunable LEDs with a high cri and have matter support so I could use them with Home Assistant. I haven’t actually purchased any though so I can’t report my experience.

It shouldn’t be more expensive than takeout. You have to do everything from scratch for it to be cheap though. Flour, yeast, olive oil, canned tomatoes/spices, and a block of mozzarella to shred yourself. Wait for a good sale on the mozzarella.

It’s not super duper cheap but even dominoes is getting expensive these days, and making it yourself should be healthier too.