Take two

Fixture uncovered and switched off to show LED elements. (iPhone photo by BobbaLew.)

—“The wave of the future,” my electrician kept saying. Defined: fluorescent lighting replaced by LED (Light-Emitting Diode).
Apparently older lighting modes, incandescent and fluorescent, will be replaced by LED lighting — per code.
My (our) house is nearly 30 years old. Many of the lighting fixtures we specced are fluorescent. Quite a few are circline: circular fluorescent. That included two bathroom fixtures.
Just recently I replaced the bulb in one of the bathroom fixtures. Within a day-or-two it became as weak as what I replaced.
I called my electrician. He noted fluorescent lighting was doomed. He suspected the ballast was wonky, but it made more sense to switch to an LED fixture.
“I don’t wanna sell you a bill-of-goods,” he said. “But LED is the wave of the future. Pretty soon you won’t be able to buy fluorescent bulbs.”
“How much we talkin’ about?”
“$130.”
“Do it,” I said; “that ain’t much.”
So the bathroom fluorescent circline was swapped for an LED fixture (pictured).
“Wanna try your new light?” the electrician asked.
“What do we have here?” I asked.
“No bulb to replace, no ballast,” the electrician said.
“If it fails, I replace the entire unit,” I said.
“Yep!”
“And it will probably outlast me,” I added.
“I got at least four more circlines. I’m more inclined to let ‘em puke out, but $130 per unit isn’t much.”
I years ago wired this house for a phone in every room. That technology was superseded. I have only two hard-wired phones, and am about to drop my landline.

• RE: “My (our)......” —My wife and I designed the house I’m in. She died seven years ago.