One year since I joined this sub and just want to say thank you!

I joined this sub in December last year and had no idea I’d end up spending so much time here. There are a lot of great people around, very helpful, and their passion is contagious. I learned a lot of stuff and ended up with a hobby. Because of you guys, I ended up buying 21 flashlights in the past 12 months, 10 ended up as gifts for close people who had none, and it seems that they do use them now. One was stolen by my wife, of course. The rest are still in my collection, and I also received some gifts from Wurkkos and Sofirn that are amazing!

The flashlights, from left to right, are in the order I got them. the first 3 are from 2014-2015 and the rest are from past 12 months.

And by "hobby" I don't just mean buying flashlights, I got fascinated by all the details like lumens, candella, color temp, CRI, DUV, wavelengths, the use of chemical elements like gallium and indium and how the electrons pass through multiple sub-microscopic layers (and no dome) to finally end up as a perfect <2700k high CRI rosy beam so I can drool on my white wall.

Looking forward to keep learning new and interesting things around here next year as well… and buy more flashlights.

Thank you for being such a great community, and Merry Christmas to everyone here!