no matter what combination of things i try, i can't seem to get the battery in my ibook to register more than 1/3 of a charge. right now it's plugged in and the orange light is glowing --which normally indicates the battery is charging-- but the battery icon doesn't indicate that it is charging, and it's stuck at 1/3 full.
and this is a new battery... i finally broke down and bought it last week (ebay, $50... it's actually used, i think). that said, even this current problem is better than the headache caused by my old battery (which seemed to die when a big red "X" appeared over the battery icon). still, something in the power manager still isn't letting this new battery charge fully.
i've reset the power manager by removing the battery and pushing a super-secret button. i've even installed something called the "battery updater" from the apple site, and still no go. sigh. i guess it's better than what i had before... at least now the battery holds enough charge so that i can unplug the machine and carry it from one room to another without the battery totally draining and having to reset the clock.
last night ray & i took joe out to pop's for his birthday dinner. kind of a spur-of-the-moment thing. joe picked a nice bottle of sangiovese but ray didn't want any, so joe and i were totally smashed by the end of the night. i was drawing pictures of cats on the brown paper tablecloth. we were also having spelling bees, challenging each other to spell hard words on the table. our poor server probably thought we were nuts when she cleaned up our mess. (which is probably bad for joe, since he's a regular there.)
as a professional radio announcer (bahahaha!) i am slightly repulsed & intrigued by the concept of plastic surgery on voiceboxes. my voice is pretty husky right now... i can't imagine what it'll be like when i'm 40 or 50. i'll sound positively mannish!! maybe i should start saving my pennies for this procedure.
on second thought, no. i had a hard enough time deciding to put highlights in my hair. surgery on my larynx might present too much of a mental obstacle to overcome.
i need to get myself to a driving range soon. the weather is so nice and all i want to do is play golf.
Posted by xta at April 27, 2004 03:11 PM | TrackBack