I gotta tell you...the cheapest solution can also be the best.
I use cheapo (pawn shop or thrift store) swing-arm lamps with 100-watt-(incandescent)-equivalent LED bulbs, and my bench is almost as bright as day.
Big bummer. I was in Mojave at a conference at the airport just down the road from his shop in about 2011, but the party I was with was in too big a hurry to get going.
Always figured I'd get to meet him after I moved out West, looks like I waited a little too long.
I learned a whole lot from him over the years anyway though.
They don't make 'em like that anymore...
Lately, shoppers in my neighborhood seem to be hoarding eggs like they did with TP during the last existential crisis, and I have to wonder if they believe eggs keep equally well.
Larvae of anything, living or dead, has never conjured up the idea of "food" in my unashamedly Western mind...but if I got hungry enough, you just never know.
Favorites of mine include cherry pie, Laphroaig single malts, air-cooled Porsches, Indian food, and fit 5'3" brunettes with blue eyes...not necessarily in that order.
USPS is working pretty well for me lately.
Maybe all those complaints I made to supervisors and supervisors of supervisors and big muckety mucks actually had some effect in my region.
Nah. Just random chance.