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Flashlight Enthusiast
I have a number of surefire clones, 95% Malkoffs and some-other-brands mixed in, but mostly Surefire 6P or clones. That is as bulletproof of a combination as you can get. There is nothing to fail on that light. Most of them don't get used. They will be just as fine in 20 years as they are today. If someone doesn't blow them up reversing the cell in it and not all are susceptible to it. I regularly use Malkoff M61L I got in 2009. I expect I will still be using it when it hits 10 years old.
Malkoff M60L in a Surefire 6P has special significance to me, like a bottle of well-aged red wine. It was the EDC light I had on me when the crazy ex filed a false protective order against me one cold November night in 2010 and I was kicked out on the dark streets with nothing more than a wallet, spare clothing and that light, given only 10 minutes to pack up. So I keep it as a special memory. Perhaps I will let it go one day, I decided. Then I will gift it to someone, to someone who genuinely needs one. A symbol of pain will be transformed into a symbol of light.
but lights are not what this post is about. It's about a number of disconnected things that fit together in a loose pattern. It's about life. Lights are an integral part of my life but they don't encompass it.
I am turning forty-three in a month. *sigh* I really need to lose significant weight like 70 to 100 lbs off. Get serious about the gym again. High blood pressure and high intra-ocular pressure as well. I've aged. My son is turning 10 soon. Ten years of parenting.
The last 10 years have been difficult. I had a nasty divorce (is there any other kind) that lasted for 6 years - a custody fight that was a mix of Idiocracy and Stalingrad. Getting married is the single most dangerous thing a man can do today, if it fails. Kind of a dumb idea really but the kids make it worth it. There is nothing better in life than having kids. My single biggest regret is not having kids at the age of 23 instead of 33. Then by the time you are 40, instead of changing diapers, you have kids that are adults.
I like kids but don't like marriage. If I had to do it again, I would have adopted. Yeah, single man. Other people are happy, seemingly, on the outside. Not my fate. A person has a fate attached to them, in middle east they call it kismet that you cannot override.
Don't listen to anyone.
Don't listen to society and common sense and peer pressure. They are all wrong. There is never a good time to have kids, so the sooner the better. Better to get divorced at 30 instead of 40 or 50.
I wonder if my lights will end up at some Saturday morning yard sale for $5 each. God has a sense of humor. They are so reliable they will definitely outlive us.
I wonder if any of them will be still around 100 years from now.
Malkoff M60L in a Surefire 6P has special significance to me, like a bottle of well-aged red wine. It was the EDC light I had on me when the crazy ex filed a false protective order against me one cold November night in 2010 and I was kicked out on the dark streets with nothing more than a wallet, spare clothing and that light, given only 10 minutes to pack up. So I keep it as a special memory. Perhaps I will let it go one day, I decided. Then I will gift it to someone, to someone who genuinely needs one. A symbol of pain will be transformed into a symbol of light.
but lights are not what this post is about. It's about a number of disconnected things that fit together in a loose pattern. It's about life. Lights are an integral part of my life but they don't encompass it.
I am turning forty-three in a month. *sigh* I really need to lose significant weight like 70 to 100 lbs off. Get serious about the gym again. High blood pressure and high intra-ocular pressure as well. I've aged. My son is turning 10 soon. Ten years of parenting.
The last 10 years have been difficult. I had a nasty divorce (is there any other kind) that lasted for 6 years - a custody fight that was a mix of Idiocracy and Stalingrad. Getting married is the single most dangerous thing a man can do today, if it fails. Kind of a dumb idea really but the kids make it worth it. There is nothing better in life than having kids. My single biggest regret is not having kids at the age of 23 instead of 33. Then by the time you are 40, instead of changing diapers, you have kids that are adults.
I like kids but don't like marriage. If I had to do it again, I would have adopted. Yeah, single man. Other people are happy, seemingly, on the outside. Not my fate. A person has a fate attached to them, in middle east they call it kismet that you cannot override.
Don't listen to anyone.
Don't listen to society and common sense and peer pressure. They are all wrong. There is never a good time to have kids, so the sooner the better. Better to get divorced at 30 instead of 40 or 50.
I wonder if my lights will end up at some Saturday morning yard sale for $5 each. God has a sense of humor. They are so reliable they will definitely outlive us.
I wonder if any of them will be still around 100 years from now.