It was Dark at My house and I tripped over an Arctic end of story!
I saw a kit for a ruby laser in a magazine when I was young, but my mom was smart enough not to buy it for me. Kind of forgot about it till I saw my first laser show. I then started experimenting in homemade light shows using LEDs. Then I saw high power lasers on DX and that they dont ship to the US. Well, tell me I cant have something...