Long time fans of my series... *snickers*... pffft, yeah, right.      A pony can dream, though, a pony can dream...   Anyway, readers may remember that I did an entry on newfangled light bulbs way back in episode 6.  It's time a legacy sequel!

Y'know what really grinds my gears?  F*ckin' LED light bulbs.  They're so fickle and unreliable.  We have so many that flicker on and off or go dim and then bright again and weird sh*t like that.  And it's definitely the bulb, I guarantee you (not the fixture or the power).  Incandescent was a way more reliable technology.  In all these years, why haven't they figured out LEDs better?

But y'know what's even worse?  LED flashlights.  I've never owned one LED flashlight that isn't a complete piece of fickle trash.  They flicker, they go off randomly, they turn off if you point them up, and back on when you point them down (which would indicate loose batteries, but still, why can't them make that work, then?)  The other day I had an LED flashlight do SOS on me.  I mean literally, it was flashing fast and then slow like Morse f*ckin code!  Then you shake it and it stops!  The F*CK??!!

When I was a teenager, I had a 3-cell incandescent maglight.  Best, most reliable flashlight ever made, I'll tell you.  As an adult, I got a 3-cell LED maglight.  It was a flickering sh*tload of F*CK.  I don't know if it's actually the LED technology, or if they're just cutting corners elsewhere and making flashlights sh*ttier and chintzier these days, but I'm sick to death of it.  I just want a flashlight that turns on and f*ckin WORKS.  Reliably.