Happy National Flashlight Day

I suppose an appropriate celebration will be to shine them upward tonight.

http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/december.htm

Party time!!! :drunk:

Happy flashlight day to you 2

The winter solstice is great anyway, I can dig out my Jethro Tull albums

Owen

Im wearing My headlamp OUT tonight! Wooo hooo!!!!!!

Wow, the flashlight was invented by the Lionel train guy! I'm sure you guys knew that, but it's news to me!

Finally I have a favorite holiday...

Happy National Flashlight Day!!!! (Dec 21)

HAPPY NATIONAL FLASHLIGHT DAY
http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/December/flashlightday.htm

Re: Happy National Flashlight Day!!!! (Dec 21)

Sorry Z. If I had known, I would have sent you a card. Are we getting holiday pay today?

mark

Whoops, did a search before I posted my thread but Ras' didn't show. Thanks mods for combining.

I added a graphic re: "National Flashlight Day" to my website just before going to bed last night- same thing I did on 12-21-05.
Since it's composed of multiple parts enclosed in a table and will not display properly on CPF, let me go grab a screen dump and post that here...BBS...



The animation is gone but this should give you a general idea of what I added to my website.

Lights are going out for a walk tonight! Hope my neighboors don't mind my HID, Happy holidays to all

AlexGT

Yeah, it's a flashaholic holiday alright. Tonight's the light!

Just a gentle reminder to everyone that while it is 'National Flashlight Day' in the United States (by Presidential decree), it is also, on a practical level, 'World Flashlight Day (Northern Hemisphere.)

While other countries might celebrate a day for flashlights other than today...like in the Southern Hemisphere...practically speaking today is the most obvious one to celebrate our hobby and the invention of flashlights, regardless of where you live.

So I ask you to recognize that darkness recognizes no national boundaries, and to include as many others of our ilk as possible.

And also, remember that June 21-22, 2007 will be 'World Flashlight Day' in the Southern Hemisphere. We don't want to forget all of our southern neighbors, do we? Besides, that way we get two flashlight celebrations each year...sweet.



BTW, my thought was that we could all shine our lights northward tonight, to help out our fellow flashaholics who suffer (or enjoy, I guess) 24 hours a day of darkness. Another kind of 'Northern Lights', if you will. And next summer, we'll even things out by shining them all southward.

That means I'll have to create another graphic to display on my website on 06-21-07 and 06-22-07.

My girlfriend lit some candles at dinner today, to celebrate Yule... I put some lights in candle mode on the dinnertable for flashlight day... we had a well lit dinner, celebrating the flashlight and the return of the light. We're going to do it again next year

Well I'm going to celebrate by "leaving a light on for ya" from sunset to sunrise, all 14hrs and 31 mins.

Not only do we get 14+ hrs of quality dark here in VA,
http://stardate.org/nightsky/riseset/
It is also a new moon today!
http://stardate.org/nightsky/moon/
and seriously overcast to boot. It should be seriously pitch black tonight.

I wonder how rare that is?

Now if only I could get my neigbors to turn off those damn streetlight.

I was thinking about the new moon and short day all week. The only problem with the cloud cover is that it might keep the skyglow from town visible. I think a clear sky might actually be darker with a new moon since starlight is less than the light pollution.

gallagho said:

Happy flashlight day to you 2

The winter solstice is great anyway, I can dig out my Jethro Tull albums

Owen

Click to expand...

happy winter solstice

the sun set at 2:39pm here today

National Flashlight Day

http://holidayinsights.com/moreholidays/December/flashlightday.htm

:candle:

Ryan