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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Love the big brown truck of happiness...

I expect a package today, and I love that. Whether it's a new order of cigars, a kewl shooty toy, or a box of ammo from Bulkammo.com to review.... the squeaky brakes on the BBT of happiness are a joy to my ears.

This time it should be a brandy new flashlight, to replace my last carry flashlight. My old Nu-flare survived months of daily carry, and frequent loans to mechanically inclined high teenagers.... but it didn't survive the US Postal Service.

On a recent vacation off the mainland, I had concerns the TSA would find my small flashlight too shiny to bear parting with, and would steal it at airport security. So, I mailed it to my destination, along with a few other things to fill the small priority mail box.

The box arrived a few days after we did, but..... it had been opened and badly repackaged with tape and rubber bands. Missing, the only two things of any real value. My flashlight, and a piece of jewelry I had created as a gift to our host.

I had misjudged the danger of theft. The TSA (both coming and going) could not have cared less what was in the carry on luggage. I could have had a small nuclear device for all the attention they paid to the bags. The Post Office, on the other hand.....

In any case, I needed a new flashlight, so one was ordered from Amazon.com. Time to try something new to me... so I ordered an offering from Feneix. The PD30R2, with 235 retina burning lumens and just enough neat features to meet my requirements.

Look for a review on Carteach0 :-)

1 comment:

Bryn, North Wales, UK said...: Ok, I'm annoyed again.... You can get this in the USA for US$58.00... In Britain the price goes up to £48.00 sterling (c.US$80.00).

I could import it, but the UK customs taxes would wipe out the savings...

Every time I se something like this, my loathing & hatred of Big Gov/Big Taxes goes up another notch.; August 3, 2011 at 12:32 PM

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"