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Battery Wars

A month ago, or so, I went to use my label maker, which runs on 8 AA sized batteries. After scrounging up that many; some from the drawer of batteries and some from remotes, I was able to make my labels. I returned all the batteries when I was done.

I know, I know, you are asking why you might think this is even somewhat interesting. It's not, but the following is (at least to me).

During my next trip to the major discount club, I had AA batteries on my list. I picked some up of a widly recognized brand, but as I got close to the checkout, I saw a dispay with the store brand. I could get twice as many batteries for the same price. I thought about it a bit, then figured they were made by one of the same name brand factories, so sure, I would take them.

I had the opportunity to use a couple of the batteries; my cordless mouse gave up the ghost yesterday morning, so I turned to the store brand batteries as they were closer. Much to my surprise, these batteries do not work well in my mouse, the cursor is jerky, slow and sometimes just loses itself. I figured maybe the mouse needed cleaning, nope. So, I replaced the store brand with a well know brand and all the issues cleared up.

That doesn't mean the batteries won't work fine in something else, just doesn't work well in my cordless mouse.

I've done the experiment for you, so now you don't have to.

Fail - in More Ways than One

Chan, over at the Weekend Pundit, had an interesting failure notification on his computer.

And I thought the useless garble of non-English that the failure messages usually comprise of were useless!

Flying Low

Holy Canoly, just took a look at the Top 10 Low Pass Fly By's, and I just gotta wonder how one does that in #2. Not that #1 wasn't amazing, just #2 is more surprising.

On another note, anyone know what the music is they play in the background (music is low key, so turn on the speakers to get sounds of the fly by's for extra afect).

Hat tip to Scott over at AMCGLTD

UPDATE: Just read on the second page of comments that the song is Angel by Massive Attack and can be found on the album Mezzanine.

Wrapping Up the Garden

So when last we left the garden, WS and I had set the collapsable greenhouse over the pepper plants.

 

It immediately turned warm and started raining. It was a nice slow rain so we had gotten 3/4" by the time I got home from work on Tuesday. Since it hadn't rained for quite some time previously, I ended up having to water inside the greenhouse.

 

Really, there isn't anything that can be much more pathetic that!

Thursday, the tropical system blew in and we got 1.5" of rain. Friday, another 2" was added on top of that. We got .5" in 10 minutes; I stood and watched the rain gauge as the indicator rose. And I watched the greenhouse as the wind tried to take it away, fortunately WS had put the stakes in well.

Cold weather is setting in again, and I'll be closing the greenhouse door before night falls. All week the mornings will be down in the 30's (or so they project), so at least the peppers will be protected against the cold.

Elsewhere in the garden, I will be picking any tomatoes that have even a hint of blush and will ripen them indoors. Green beens will be picked, although I don't expect many of them. There are also a couple of pepper plants that are outside the greenhouse, which have some very small peppers started - I'll go ahead and pick those. Everything else is done for the year, so it is almost time to think about putting the garden to bed.

Almost time to think about winter!