{"id":3150,"date":"2016-12-22T09:54:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T14:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2016-12-22T09:54:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T14:54:06","slug":"thursday-22-december-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2016\/12\/22\/thursday-22-december-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 22 December 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

09:54 –<\/span> I have this nagging sense that there’s something I should be doing this morning. I finally realized that it feels odd not to be going to the dentist this morning, as I’ve done four times in the last week or so.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Ray is kind of right about cheap flashlights. I just got burned for the first time with cheap flashlights. I’d ordered a three-pack of these<\/a> on December 10th. When they arrived, I installed batteries in them and put one on the marble-top table in the foyer for Barbara to use when she takes Colin out after dinner. The first one failed the second time she used it. She pushed the rubber-dome switch on the tail-cap to turn on the light, and the whole switch just pushed into the body of the flashlight. Then, the other night, she tried a second flashlight. This one failed the first time she pushed the switch. Two out of three immediate failures doesn’t bode well, so I started the return process with Amazon.<\/p>\n

I also ordered a couple of name-brand flashlights to replace them. First, one $30 two-AA Streamlight<\/a>, and one $13 three-AAA Anker<\/a>. We’ll see how those do. Now to pull the new batteries out of the junk flashlights and get them boxed up to return to Amazon. I’m still happy with the $4 single-AA lights I’ve bought several of. Only one of those has failed, and that was my own fault. I was carrying it with a jumble of other stuff, and one of the other items ended up pushing in the lens and destroying the LED circuit board behind it.<\/p>\n

My real problem with Amazon is that when you order something that’s sold by a third-party vendor but fulfilled by Amazon, you have no idea what you’ll actually get. There’s a lot of counterfeit product out there, and Amazon seems not to care whether they ship you genuine product or a counterfeit knock-off. Increasingly, I suspect that’s also true for items that Amazon both sells and ships themselves.<\/p>\n

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09:54 – I have this nagging sense that there’s something I should be doing this morning. I finally realized that it feels odd not to be going to the dentist this morning, as I’ve done four times in the last week or so.<\/p>\n

It turns out that Ray is kind of right about cheap flashlights. I just got burned for the first time with cheap flashlights. I’d ordered a three-pack of these<\/a> on December 10th.<\/p>\n

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