timothy's Journal: Glad tidings! LED flashlights at CostCo

Laptop's dying hard drive led me to CostCo for an external drive as a file-rescue device; now the laptop is again working, but probably on its last legs, so I'm not trusting it as a place to keep any new data.

But that doesn't matter right now.

What I'm happy about isn't finding that the first drive I bought (Western Digital Passport) didn't work with either my Toshiba (dying) laptop or my Asus (working) netbook and that I had to go return it. It's that while doing the usual dazed stroll through CostCo, and fruitlessly seeking a decent LED table lamp, I found that their current two-pack of LED flashlights (for a few years now, they've had at least one pair of LED flashlights on offer whenever I've looked) contains what look like pretty nice ones:

- textured reflector
- 3xAAA power (I'd prefer AA, but Hey)
- adjustable focus
- claimed output of 160 lumens

The pair is $20. That's awesome :)