Decked out in leather and sunglasses? Uh huh … that’s a cool cat, alright!
Last minute gift ideas
Optics Planets continues to have a great deals on a huge selection of gift ideas. Every time I visit the site I find a new product that I hadn’t notice before, and I think about the possibilities of it as a gift or as a cool item for myself. Yeah sometimes I’m like that when I’m buying gifts- one for you, one for me. Do you do that?
Right now I’m looking at their line of prescription sunglasses. My brother loves his Rx sunglasses- wears them everywhere, so maybe getting him a pair would be a good gift idea? Of course I’d need to know exactly what his eye wear prescription is first.
Hmmm ok, well I know he attends a lot of baseball and football games in the Windy city of Chicago. Perhaps a pair of binoculars then. Actually I just got a great idea. He’s got a deck on the back of the house. It’s not very well light because he likes it dark. In fact it’s so dark you can see the stars because you don’t have the light around you obscuring your vision of the night sky. I wonder if he’d like a telescope so that he could look at the stars (and knowing him his neighbors)?
I’m going to have to think on this for another day or two, then I’ll go back and visit Optics Planets, and pick out something for my brother. It’s great that I’ll probably end up getting free shipping too since they offer UPS delivery free on orders over $29.95.
The value of a good flashlight
We have the occasional power outage in our area and there’s been times when we’ve been caught without a flashlight or perhaps the batteries or light has worn out in the one or two that we have around the house. This is a big pain in the butt if the power outage happens in the evening.
There’s nothing wrong with candles, other than the possible fire hazard they impose, but you just can’t see well enough in the dark without having several candles blazing can you?
I recently discovered a site that sells several different types of flashlights. The company sells streamlight flashlights, plus many other brands such as Pelican, and Streamlight. They have Pelican LED flashlights, hands free headlamps, pocket, gun mount lights, and flash light accessories. These flashlight could be used for fun- ie camping and outdoor activities like hunting and camping, emergency situations such as when the power goes out at home, or by police and emergency services such as EMS and firefighters. The possible uses are endless.
I think it would be pretty cool to have a headlamp flashlight. We are always doing renovations around here and it would be nice to have a hands free light focused into a dark area that you happen to be working in. I think a headlamp flashlight would work perfectly in that type of situation. It would also be good if you were walking around outside in an unlit area, or perhaps even reading in bed. Hey why not?
Opticsplanet.com offers discount pricing, plus FREE UPS on order over $29.95. They also sell a whole line of products ranging from binoculars, microscopes, sunglasses to even MP3 players. I know that I’m going to look over the types of flashlights that they have in stock. We only have two flashlights in the house right now and think a three story house should probably have at least one flashlight for every floor if not more.