Several today...
-At my school they were relamping the 100w HPS gym lights (Eww, indoor HPS...VERY 80s looking!) and I watched...taught them what an ignitor is and how they tend to die with dead/cycling/missing lamps. They were sticking in (PlusRite I think) lamps. The new ones are brighter and oranger. We'll see what the startup is like...still blue mercury color or no, just straight orange?
-They also got some new Sylvania F40/Daylight Full Spectrum lamps judging by the case...which I think would be better than the typical (Boring IMO) cool white.
-And at home today I changed a F40 ballast. It was a 1996 (H 96 so I assume August '98) MagneTek that was in a Lithiona wraparound in my garage that has always been tempermental about starting in cold or at all...turns out it was never grounded for one thing (granted, I admittedly didn't ground it's replacement either...a Radionic LPF one that came out of a similar light I had as a growlight for awhile...which I also decommissoned today so I decided to stick it's guts (Ballast and sockets as one unit) in the light in the garage. The old ballast isn't TOTALLY dead...it lights the cathodes and buzzes so I may have to try some other tests. It was running a pair of 1999 Philips "HomeLight" triphosphor 4100K post-EPACT lamps that aren't Alto. Kinda purplish color, cooler and more purplish than CWX. I stuck in a '91-'94 Era ACE F40CW and a later (and close to EOL) ACE SP41, both GE-made.