For impulse buys, Kole Imports is basically unbeatable. They have thousands of cheap items that you can easily mark up 3x or 4x.

Nice! My hero always forgets people's names.

Seems like a lot of money for a maybe.

Actually had the same problem as grant52 with my parents and tech. We switched to just printing out star charts and using a cheap laser pointer. The simple stuff really does work better sometimes.

Oh man, that's a heart-stopper for sure! I've had a redirect slip on a pine before and it's not a fun feeling. For something like that, I've really come to trust a simple running bowline on the redirect side, backed up with a half hitch. It just seems to bite and hold better under side load when you're sending a heavy piece.