Batteries not included
I hate batteries, especially the ones that go in laptop computers.
Perhaps that is why I'm writing this on a desktop computer
networked (with wires) to another one, and a whole household of
wireless products that I avoid.
Batteries don't necessarily hate me, however, just my partner. Until she recently purchased an extravagant new Vaio, we had identical dueling laptops - or maybe that's duelling ... I grew up in America and have lived in the UK for 20 years, so now my spelling is totally screwed up. Now, I'm writing this blog in Safari, and I think the spellchecker is set to US English, and I haven't figured out how to change it yet. (Maybe, I'll go back to Firefox, which is definitely in UK English.)
Anyway ... there were a couple of times when I loaned my battery to my partner to work on a train or plane. When I used it, it lasted for nearly two hours, but when she returned it, 20 minutes was about as much as it would go. This seems to happen to everything she uses that requires a battery: laptops, cameras, phones. I don't know how she does it. She even bought another (identical) laptop for the use of one of her student assistants. Her battery went bad, and then we loaned her my new one. Kaput! So I bought another one, that was DOA (in both our machines). I returned it and the sent another. That one worked, but wouldn't recharge. Now they claim it isn't compatible, and they can't find one that is.
Now, I've ordered one from another supplier, and I expect it to arrive later this week. Fingers crossed. In the meantime, I'm on my reliable desktop (connected to a UPS which seems to self-destruct every 4-5 years), but I also have a second laptop that I don't allow my partner to touch. It's temperamental, but when the battery works - and it sometimes doesn't work at all, even on a full charge - it gets well over 3 hours on a charge.
I recently picked up a (new) Garmin Forerunner ... for my running, oddly ... and an Ipod (s/h from Ebay). Two more rechargeable batteries. Oh no!
On a positive note, the batteries (nonrechargeable) in my Korg tuner are still working - those are the (4 AA) originals, folks, purchased in 1983. I suspect they won't last much longer, but maybe I'll get even more than 27 years from a new pair of Duracels
... maybe that's Doorrasells, or Durables as the spellchecker would have me believe.
Batteries don't necessarily hate me, however, just my partner. Until she recently purchased an extravagant new Vaio, we had identical dueling laptops - or maybe that's duelling ... I grew up in America and have lived in the UK for 20 years, so now my spelling is totally screwed up. Now, I'm writing this blog in Safari, and I think the spellchecker is set to US English, and I haven't figured out how to change it yet. (Maybe, I'll go back to Firefox, which is definitely in UK English.)
Anyway ... there were a couple of times when I loaned my battery to my partner to work on a train or plane. When I used it, it lasted for nearly two hours, but when she returned it, 20 minutes was about as much as it would go. This seems to happen to everything she uses that requires a battery: laptops, cameras, phones. I don't know how she does it. She even bought another (identical) laptop for the use of one of her student assistants. Her battery went bad, and then we loaned her my new one. Kaput! So I bought another one, that was DOA (in both our machines). I returned it and the sent another. That one worked, but wouldn't recharge. Now they claim it isn't compatible, and they can't find one that is.
Now, I've ordered one from another supplier, and I expect it to arrive later this week. Fingers crossed. In the meantime, I'm on my reliable desktop (connected to a UPS which seems to self-destruct every 4-5 years), but I also have a second laptop that I don't allow my partner to touch. It's temperamental, but when the battery works - and it sometimes doesn't work at all, even on a full charge - it gets well over 3 hours on a charge.
I recently picked up a (new) Garmin Forerunner ... for my running, oddly ... and an Ipod (s/h from Ebay). Two more rechargeable batteries. Oh no!
On a positive note, the batteries (nonrechargeable) in my Korg tuner are still working - those are the (4 AA) originals, folks, purchased in 1983. I suspect they won't last much longer, but maybe I'll get even more than 27 years from a new pair of Duracels
... maybe that's Doorrasells, or Durables as the spellchecker would have me believe.
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