The right tool for the job...

I'm a big believer in that.  On Wednesday, we celebrated Captain Mike's birthday at work.  He turned the ripe old age of 34.  That's only 25 to 31 years younger than the rest of the captain staff.  He does a great job at the helm and also does most of our maintenance.  I trust his intuition on where to look for the whales.

When it came time for lighting the candles on his cake, no one had matches or a lighter - no smokers in this group.  I opened my bag and pulled out a portable line burner... which also doubles as a small torch for sealing waterproof electrical connections (shrinkwrap).  It made short work of lighting those candles...

Maybe a bit of overkill, but it did get the job done. ;-)  That's Mike on the right (with the "What the ****?" expression) and yours truly firing up the torch.