Lava Lamp Stories: It began. Again.

Back in the day of GenX meets internet, I avidly blogged, as it was a way to express myself in words, and writing has always been near and dear to me -- but I've never been "a writer." This blog here, along with an old one at LiveJournal, hold a lot of my life's musings. There were others, also -- for specific types of writing (yes, I mean smut), or special interests such as vintage camper restoration.

Last year, as an act of healing, following my father's death I set aside $1000 and gave myself free rein to waste it on whatever I wanted. And I decided I wanted lava lamps. Yes, lava lamps. 

I'd collected around the year Y2k, when I had a dot com job, and lots of money and time on my hands. During that phase, I picked up a few vintage ones (Mediterranean, Crestworth lantern, Enchantress, etc.) and a handful of modern ones, at the time. The Aladdin and Saturn were on my bucket list. After moving to Oregon, tho, I decided to divest myself of all of them aside from my silver/blue/green Giant, and the original I bought in college, a Lava Lite Century Series Model 100; which was made in the US then. 

So back into the fray, 25 years later. As you'd think, the true vintage ones that were hard to find were even harder to find, and more expensive when you did. Over the next couple of months, I picked up another Giant, an awesome Aladdin, a plasma, and over a dozen modern lamps (some a few years old but unique color/base options. 

Wikipedia lava lamp history. 

Most from Schylling, the company that now owns the US lava lamp trademark. Once called Lava-Simplex-Scribe Internationale and later Lava World International, and more, until Schylling bought them in 2016. While once made in the US, in 2003 the owner at the time decided to move production to China. And from my vantage point, quality control and quality in general has suffered. Whatchagonnado? 

If you like domestic lamps, you pretty much have to get into the business of fixing them, also, as they often come cloudy, bad movement, etc. 

So those stories will start appearing here soon. Because I want to write. No one will give a damn or read it, but perhaps there is value in that.