>>>>In our kitchen we have recessed indoor floodlights in the ceiling - they are florescents that look identical (we use them).
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>>>I'm talking like the spots or halogens, in wee rings set into the ceiling. Imagine them with twisty fluorescents dangling from them :-)
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>>They now make the CFLs (the twisty ones) encased in more standard packages. We have a lot of floodlight-style lights in our house and as they burn out, we're replacing them with floodlight-style CFLs.
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>>Tamar
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>I'll look out for them. But then again, I suppose they don't dim, which is how I like my lights.

I think they require a special dimmer. I've once seen a ceilingful of neons being dimmed by a single slider - but it was a conference room with projector hanging above, and a proper kind of dimmer.

I tried with a regular dimmer but it blinked at unhealthy rate - just turned it off after a second. That's actually one of the two remaining hotbulbs in the house. Still waiting for me to replace that dimmer with a regular switch. Which I probably won't do until there's a power outage - replacing the switch requires a power off, no way while my computer needs power ;).