Yeah, 5 days after I got one of those cheap LED strip lights from ikea I started getting these dull headaches right behind my eyes. I figured it was allergies or something. Switched back to my old desk lamp and it was like night and day. It's wild how much those invisible flickers mess with you, nobody really talks about it either. Glad you figured yours out too, that stuff can drive you crazy.

My buddy Kyle up in Clarksville had a fiberglass rod snap on him mid-pull in a crawlspace under this old Victorian house off West Main. The broken end got jammed in the flex conduit and he had to cut out like four feet of pipe to get it free, cost him half a day and a new roll of cable. He went out that same evening and grabbed a carbon composite rod from the hardware store on Jefferson and hasn't touched fiberglass since. Says the extra cost was worth not having to deal with that mess again.

45 minutes per present? That's actually insane. I'm over here thinking 10 minutes was a lot. Did you use like a ruler and a bone folder or something? I can't imagine spending that long just for someone to rip it open in two seconds.