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A coworker recommended a company to me a while back, knowing my love of flashlights. Hold on, let’s start here: one of my favorite paintings at the Buffalo AKG Museum. Nice, huh? I like the suggested motion in the dog’s figure and in the leash. I always linger on this one when I get to where it hangs in the museum. Now, where was I? Oh yeah, flashlights. (Yes, the painting is relevant. Bear with me.) The flashlight company is called OLight, and my coworker likes to tell me–rather mischievously–when they’re running sales. Whenever he says this, my response isDown the rabbit hole….

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So one of my bosses asked me if I could cut a buffalo out of a piece of wood with a jigsaw. I said, “I dunno, I can give it a shot!” I then gave a bit of caution, because I’m not very experienced with the jigsaw. It’s not a tool I use in my daily life very often; the most I’ve used a jigsaw for is cutting plexiglass (and it’s not great at that stuff, or at least I haven’t figured out my technique, but that’s a topic for another time). I had to warn my boss that thereDown the rabbit hole….

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Let’s talk about flashlights! I’ve written before–wow, that post is more than ten years old–about flashlights that I use regularly at work and such. And all of those flashlights from that post are still around, except, sadly, the one with the laser pointer on it; that one died a while back. But my love of flashlights lives on! Every day at work I have a flashlight on my person, and of course I am never happy to own just one daily work-horse flashlight. I now have four such flashlights, and I rotate through them all. Here’s the current lineup: Cool, eh? HereDown the rabbit hole….