anything over an hour's drive is out of the question with my parents and the putnam restore and the one i usually go to are both 45 minutes from my house. the next closest one is in Worcester, MA, which is pretty much a solid hour from me. The next time i go to the restore I'll be going to my regular restore but after that, i'll try and check out the Massachusetts restore.
BTW, i realized I have over 50 F20T12 lamps. O_O and i only need three lamps to light the two F20T12 fixtures i have lol. 30 out of the >50 lamps are warm white though. I guess it's really not too bad of a color... I prefer cool white or 3500K/white lamps though... i have a mix of cool white and 3500K/white F20s but no daylight F20T12s.
As for F40T12s, I don't have nearly that many lamps as i do for F20T12 and I'll have a slew of F40 fixtures. Those fixtures will all come with lamps plus whatever lamps are in storage too. But i sure have a ton of F20s i just realized today! Time to start concentrating on the F40 tubes lol. If you think about it though, the F20 lamps are twice as easy to store though, as they're half the size.
Today, my mom and I went around looking at yard sales. I never really see anything lighting related but today i saw a partial case of full mercury Philips lamps I was like "oh boy we have to get these!" Then i pull out a lamp and see "econo-watt" and "34W" and was like "eh, nevermind". There were like 15+ lamps and the case was only 7 bucks but i didn't buy it if they were thin etched lamps i may have took the bait but they were bold etched. i want to save room for the full-wattage lamps instead of the 34W lamps.
EDIT/ UPDATE: I have 55 F20T12s in total and 22 F40T12s in total. I have one F15T12 and four F14T12s. Then I have four F13T5s. That's all for linear fluorescent.