Archive for January 16th, 2008

Replacement Batteries

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

Have you ever been so frustrated trying to find the right battery for your computer that you’re ready to spit?  We had that problem trying to find a battery for a lap top a couple years ago.  Buying them on ebay doesn’t help because the first 3 that came had the same one our old battery had – they wouldn’t hold a charge.  Sure the price was right but the hassle wasn’t and when you add up all those shipping charges, you start wishing you’d spent your money elsewhere.

It might just have been that IBM laptop batteries are hard to find but I think it’s more that it’s hard to find a store that carries alot of those specialty batteries.  Now I know better and next time I need a battery for my electronics I can order from AllBatts.com.  Eventually all batteries go to a better place and I know I’m going to have to find another one for the computer one of these days.  Not to mention the cell phone.  And the cordless phone.

Baby Boom

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

I read an article yesterday that said that 2006 was a bumper year for babies in the US with more than 4.3 million babies born in 2006.  It made me feel warm – right up until I read the reasons why the ‘experts’ decided this had happened.  Apparently ‘experts’ think more babies were born because fewer people are using contraception, have less access to abortions, have a poor education or are in poverty.  It was a tone that made it clear all these things are bad.  Apparently in the ‘experts’ ideal world no one would have a a child unless they got pregnant by accident, chose not to have an abortion, held a PhD and were filthy rich.  Experts are so dumb sometimes.  I think that maybe wanting to have another child might factor into the equation somewhere.  Maybe they did, but just called it ‘not using contraception’.