Update 05-28-09

Update 05-28-09
I'll be moving again sometime in February 2010.
It isn't going to be very far, but "moving" is "moving" - what a pain in the toliet muscle.

Update 04-09-09

Update 04-09-09
My father was royally urinated (pissed) when UPS delivered a small package yesterday morning. He says that it was just "more garbage to fill up your room" - yet it was originally intended as a birthday present for him. Happy birthday dad.

Update 02-18-09

Update 02-18-09
My stepmother is forcing me to dispose of most of the LEDs in my custody ; though I *AM* attempting to "hide" the vintage, antique, and downright rare ones.

Update 01-23-09

Update 01-23-09
Here are a couple of photographs from in front of my new residence:

Update 01-16-09

Update 01-16-09
I now have full internet access (including FTP), so I can update my website and read/post to the other websites I normally do.

Update 01-11-09

Update 01-11-09
I've made it safely to my destination; although the internet hasn't yet been installed, there's an unsecured wireless connection somewhere nearby that I'm borrowing. My FTP client does not function, so I cannot make updates to my website, but I *CAN* read my email online via webmail.

Update New Year's Eve (12-31-08)

Update New Year's Eve (12-31-08)
This will very likely be the last update I make to this weblog until at least mid-January 2009; I'll publish another update as soon as I'm able to after I arrive at my temporary home in western Washington (or "Warshington" if you prefer) state to let everybody know that I arrived safely if for no other reason.
I'll be "moving out" this evening.

Update New Year's Eve eve (12-30-08)

Update New Year's Eve eve (12-30-08)
The moving plans are being tweaked just slightly...instead of leaving on the morning of 12-30-08 as had been previously planned, we'll be leaving on the evening of New Year's Eve (12-31-08), with an ETA at our temporary new residence expected on 01-06-09.

Update 12-22-08

Update 12-22-08
The moving plans are beginning to come together now...we'll be leaving here on 12-30-08 as previously indicated; we'll then spend several days in a motel in Sacramento, and then leave for the Seattle area on 01-03-09.

Update 12-12-08

Update 12-12-08
My stepmother flew up to western Washington (or "Warshington" if you prefer) yesterday in order to scope out some houses that are potential candidates for us to move into later this month. She is expected to be there until 12-15-08.


A "big old jet airliner" {Steve Miller Band reference here} like my stepmother got on yesterday.

I went through more boxes of my belongings selecting what to keep and what to dispose of; the "Big Fat Meanie" (from SpongeBob SquarePants) {garbage truck} is going to get a lot of my lights and other belongings - out of approximately nine medium U-Haul boxes, I'm keeping only a single medium box (slightly smaller than a U-Haul medium) - so you can see a lot of stuff will end up at the dump real soon...possibly as soon as later today.

Update 12-11-08

Update 12-11-08
The move date has now been "set in stone" if you will, to 12-30-08.

Update 12-09-08

Update 12-09-08
There is a possibility now that we'll be moving to Kent WA. USA - this is only approximately six miles NNE of Federal Way however, and really isn't a major issue here.

Update 12-07-08

Update 12-07-08
Many of my lights and other products are to be put out for a multi-family garage/yard sale today; those that do not sell will be donated to charity. The dreadful "" icon won't begin to appear en masse on my website until ***AFTER*** the move though, when I can inventory (in detail) the remaining products.

Update 12-06-08

Update 12-06-08
The move date has tentatively been set to a narrow range from the morning of 12-27-08 extending through the morning of 01-03-09.

Update 12-01-08

Update The Day my Website Died :-( (12-01-08)
Today is "Beezelmon's Big Day" {obscure Digimon reference here} - my LED website is now officially mainly archival-only; however I will still be testing LEDs (providing beam photographs, Vf and If measurements, intensity measurements, performing spectroscopy and {when possible} beam cross-sectional analyses) -- and evaluating small lasers much as I always have.

Evaluations of flashlights and other products (other than small lasers) are now only being performed if the sender pays for return shipping. "The Smack Test" and "The Immersion Test" will only be performed with explicit written consent (not just implied oral consent) and the sender agrees to the product's return even if one or both tests result in damage to the unit that would prohibit its resale.

The decision to scale back like this *** IS NOT *** mine; my parents (whom I live with primarily for financial reasons) are absolutely, positively, 100% adamant that I dispose of much of my existing test stock and limit new evaluations to only those products for which return shipping is paid.

Update 11-30-08

Update 11-30-08
The move date has been bumped back slightly again; plans are now to be out of this house sometime *BY OR BEFORE* December 31, 2008!!!

I've been asked to start packing right now (as in TODAY!), so I'll be losing the use of my beam cross-sectional analyser (a rather large piece of test equipment I use for characterising the beams of LEDs & flashlights) right away.

Update 11-26-08

Update 11-26-08
Although some packing has begun to take place in the garage already, *SERIOUS* packing is to commence in 10 to 14 days. It is not yet known when I'll lose the use of this computer, or how long it will be before I have internet access at the new location in Washington.

Update 11-20-08

Update 11-20-08
The move date has been bumped back to very early-January 2009.

Update 11-16-08

Update 11-16-08

THE END OF THE LED
MUSEUM IS *VERY* NEAR!!!
My website is to go mainly archival-only in approximately two more weeks.
Although no new flashlights or other products can be submitted for analysis & evaluation (other than those which are "loaners" and the sender pays postage to have them returned), loose 3mm and 5mm LEDs plus small lasers can be tested for my website.

Update 11-14-08

Update 11-14-08
I have been allowed to keep several flashlights and all of my R/C aircraft; the R/C aircraft I'm disposing of is being disposed of voluntarily as it has never flown well - at all actually.