2025
About five months ago, my digital watch went wonky.
The time displayed was about one-hour eight-minutes behind the actual time.
I set about resetting each of the time-zones, but finished it jumped back the hour and eight minutes.
The watch is about five years old, and has the original battery.
So I was thinking I might try to replace the battery, or even the watch.
I took it back to the place I bought it, good old Medved (“med-ved”) Running Store.
Long ago they suggested a jeweler who could replace the battery.
“Why doncha just replace it yourself,” the clerk said. “I have.
Just don’t swim with it. Ya probably won’t get it water-tight.”
They showed me how to get it apart, so last Christmas I did.
Removed the battery, which is about the size of a nickel. Same shape too.
Don’t even know if a new battery will cure its wonkiness, but I’m gonna replace that battery.
Months marched by.
Various appointments, etc. put off getting a new battery.
Also involved was the need to find a battery that would replace the old battery.
That’s hours of research I don’t have.
Yesterday (Friday, April 10, 2009) I decided to Froogle the battery; possibly avoid all the phonecall research.
The battery-number is “2025,” so I crank “2025” into my Froogle. 89 bazilyun hits.
Which do I try first?
I guess I’ll try the cheapest: $1 per battery.
I began filling in the order.
“Can’t complete your order. Doesn’t meet our $25 limit.”
I don’t want 25 batteries; so I try Ace.com; the place we bought our paper-towel holder.
$1.20 for a single battery, with $12.57 shipping & handling.
What are they gonna do? Deliver by helicopter?
With a skirling bagpipe band?
“Wheeze-wheeze; wee-eee-wheeze. Wheeze-wheeze; wheeze-wheeze.........
HONK-BLATT!”
So much for Ace.com.
Try another. Package of six.
Um, I only want one, not six.
So far 15 minutes have been wasted. I don’t have all day to rifle through 89 bazilyun purchase options just to save a buck.
Okay, R-E-I.com; the sports-place I bought my down parka from, although as I recall R-E-I didn’t come up in my Froogle down-parka search.
$2.50 for a battery, with $5.99 shipping & handling.
I’m sure my sister-in-law in northern Delaware will announce a cheaper hit — $2.50 is a bit much — but I don’t have all day to poke around.
Bam-bam. “Submit order.”
The time displayed was about one-hour eight-minutes behind the actual time.
I set about resetting each of the time-zones, but finished it jumped back the hour and eight minutes.
The watch is about five years old, and has the original battery.
So I was thinking I might try to replace the battery, or even the watch.
I took it back to the place I bought it, good old Medved (“med-ved”) Running Store.
Long ago they suggested a jeweler who could replace the battery.
“Why doncha just replace it yourself,” the clerk said. “I have.
Just don’t swim with it. Ya probably won’t get it water-tight.”
They showed me how to get it apart, so last Christmas I did.
Removed the battery, which is about the size of a nickel. Same shape too.
Don’t even know if a new battery will cure its wonkiness, but I’m gonna replace that battery.
Months marched by.
Various appointments, etc. put off getting a new battery.
Also involved was the need to find a battery that would replace the old battery.
That’s hours of research I don’t have.
Yesterday (Friday, April 10, 2009) I decided to Froogle the battery; possibly avoid all the phonecall research.
The battery-number is “2025,” so I crank “2025” into my Froogle. 89 bazilyun hits.
Which do I try first?
I guess I’ll try the cheapest: $1 per battery.
I began filling in the order.
“Can’t complete your order. Doesn’t meet our $25 limit.”
I don’t want 25 batteries; so I try Ace.com; the place we bought our paper-towel holder.
$1.20 for a single battery, with $12.57 shipping & handling.
What are they gonna do? Deliver by helicopter?
With a skirling bagpipe band?
“Wheeze-wheeze; wee-eee-wheeze. Wheeze-wheeze; wheeze-wheeze.........
HONK-BLATT!”
So much for Ace.com.
Try another. Package of six.
Um, I only want one, not six.
So far 15 minutes have been wasted. I don’t have all day to rifle through 89 bazilyun purchase options just to save a buck.
Okay, R-E-I.com; the sports-place I bought my down parka from, although as I recall R-E-I didn’t come up in my Froogle down-parka search.
$2.50 for a battery, with $5.99 shipping & handling.
I’m sure my sister-in-law in northern Delaware will announce a cheaper hit — $2.50 is a bit much — but I don’t have all day to poke around.
Bam-bam. “Submit order.”
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