It pours- or it was sure pouring here last night at Chez Og. A horrible pelting rainstorm turned into sleet and snow late in the evening. Normally, I’d be inside unconcerned about this, but not so last night, as I was OUTSIDE IN IT with a DEAD BATTERY IN THE TRUCK.<\/p>\n
Nephew got out of a warm bed and came to give me a jump, redeeming himself for a lot of past sins. Then I came home and tested electrical systems till I was blue, and finally put a charger on the truck. Turns out the battery won’t hold a charge, I think maybe I lost a plate or had a dead cell. Got a solid 12 volts but no amperage to speak of, certainly not enough to start the Exploder. So i think to myself, the battery can’t be but a year or two old, I need to get that replaced. I pull the receipt from the side of the battery, and discover the battery is in fact five years old, out of warranty.<\/p>\n
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a bananna.<\/p>\n
So I go BACK out in the freezing pelting sleet to Wally World to grab myself a batry, then swap out the deader. At eleven I finaly have the new batry buttoned into the sploder and take it for a test drive.<\/p>\n
It’s unusual as hell for a batry to die off so quickly, and so suddenly, but I’ll just assume it was waiting for the most miserable weather moment.<\/p>\n
Ah, well. I’ll have my cables in the back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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