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winter_elf ([personal profile] winter_elf) wrote2009-01-09 12:43 am
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I'm an Energy Black Hole?!?

That's the ONLY way to explain the last week.

And Thank God for AAA! My car decided to not start when I stopped for the evening - on the way home from being out - grocery run. Came out with cold stuff (but no ice-cream luckily) at 11:15pm to find out, geeee... I wasn't going anywhere! ARGH!!! No warning! Now, my car does eat batteries, like every 15 to 18 months, 20 if I'm lucky, time for a new one, but I ALWAYS know it's coming - my car will do the 'must I?' slow winding start, you know the slow grind then catch and you're good. I'll get that "warning" for like 3/4 days, and then - battery death.

This was, out of the blue, I'm not even going to give you clicky/clicky noises battery death! I had to wait about 30 min for AAA, but they came promptly and on time, yay! He got it started fast, we chatted for a few minutes, I get in the car, turn on the lights, ... die. Yea. Again, I was lucky the AAA driver was doing his paperwork and hadn't started up to go, so I didn't have to chase him down the parking lot at the grocery store at midnight. He was like, yea, that's dead alright. *sigh* He jumped it again, kept the battery jumper on past me turning on lights and putting in gear, then I was off. I made it home, but the lights went through some 'brown out' phases, so yea, that battery is TOAST. It's not holding any charge, at all.

So, tomorrow morning, it's call AAA again for a jump to get it going to get to my mechanic.

And that's not all!!!

- my home computer started giving me a 'low battery' warning when I turned it one. I found out I had to replace the 'watch type' cell battery on the mother board. After instructions, I managed that one.
- my kitties electric water fountain died. (they are now moping) No idea what happened there, was cleaning it, brought it back up to plug it in, it like started for a brief second, then nothing.
- my cell phone decided, when calling AAA, that it was going to go from, 'I'm cool' 2 bars to 'charge me now woman!' 1 bar. My cell is good on full charge for like 4/5 days on 24 hours, but seems that once it hits 2 bars, that's it, I need to charge right away. I was worried that the AAA driver was going to call (like the said he would for additional directions) and I'd have no cell phone power. This is like a curse. This is the 2nd time I've had to use AAA, and the 2nd time my cell decided it wasn't going to play nice. And yea, it was my car battery last time too, which decided to die at work in the parking garage. Wasn't THAT a thrill! hmmm... last time was suddenish too. I think my car is getting sneaky!

*eyes laptop worriedly* This is like the curse of anything electronic!

[identity profile] sgamadison.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Argh! I *hate* days like that. And yes, I've had whole *months* where it seemed like the universe was conspiring to smite me. July of this past year comes to mind. :-) Hope your troubles remain small ones and resolve soon!
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[identity profile] winter-elf.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
well, battery has been replaced, so I hope that's the end to my battery related problems!

[identity profile] hbruton.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 04:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Sounds like you've picked up a gremlin:)
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[identity profile] winter-elf.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
I would believe that!
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[identity profile] winter-elf.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 05:54 pm (UTC)(link)
yea.

[identity profile] lordgloria.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 07:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Obviously, you suck. ^_^ (Sorry -- too good to let pass!)

[identity profile] doll-paparazzi.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 07:59 pm (UTC)(link)
That's sort of odd. In the past, AAA has replaced batteries for me completely. You probably could have just gotten two birds with one stone. Did you know that? I know you always go to that one guy, but what's up with your car always eating through batteries? Maybe getting a new sort of battery would be a good idea?
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[identity profile] winter-elf.livejournal.com 2009-01-09 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
well, I asked for a jump, not a new battery. And I was talking to the AAA driver about it, and he was telling me that they do that and that they could (he didn't have any with him).

It's just my car, and I've tried all sorts of batteries with '5 year' life and all, and it just doesn't matter. It's just a thing my car does. Cheap or expensive, 2 years is tops.

If I didn't have a normal mechanic or someone I trusted, then yea, getting it replaced by AAA would be easy. However, I have a normal guy, and my car gets looked over when he does work on it for other upcoming stuff, so that's good.

[identity profile] april-art.livejournal.com 2009-01-10 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
wow. Pain in the butt having to go through car batteries like that! Mostly creepy since you don't know when it's going to just die on you... Of course it will usually be at a very inconvenient moment! bleh.

I carry around an extra, charged phone batter since I'm paranoid about mine running out when I need it (and I rarely use my phone!). Heheh... I wonder if I'd start carrying an extra car battery if I had your car? Yeah, no... O___o