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So, as of you are (rather unfortunately) aware, I wrote a number of songs for Emmanuel back when I was in high school, but after heading off to university I stopped writing any music – mainly because I am pretty… embarrassed at my work =p. To write another song after 6 years has been difficult ‘cuz I am still pretty embarrassed at my own work. But, deciding to write this song – with an obvious purpose of dedicating it to someone – proves to be a good challenge (music-wise, I still suck at writing lyrics), as I would have like to think I have improved over the past 6 years. Anyhow it did take me a lot of courage to sit down, write and record myself, so please don’t mock it, ‘cuz you’ll make me cry and I’ll hate you with a passion for a very long time :@. It is a demo track so I didn’t really bother going back to fix my mistakes (wrong notes on the piano, extremely weak barring on the guitar), and …. nvm the vocals. Maybe you guys can help me arrange and do a good take of this song for presentation purposes 😎

Song here and chords here.

This is what we need!

if you think your latest toys are expensive, check this out:

yea…you don’t need to count the zeros…it’s alot..haa..
here’s english news on this crazy melon
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didn’t even try to think how much each drop of juice will cost haha

that’s the title I saw in the business section of the newspaper today.
and the mutual I thought of wasn’t mutual fund.
hohohoho….

So on the sad note, the Canada Post delivery notice I received was not the contact lenses I’ve been waiting for (for two weeks) but on a happy note it’s a geeky new toy, in the La Crosse Technology BC-900 battery charger.

First impressions:

This thing looks cheap.. but it has lots of information on display so its forgiveable.. and it comes with batteries and a bag.. and some adapters so you can use AA batteries in your C and D cell equipment (didn’t know you could do that!).

Anyhow, last night I plopped in 4 of my oldest NiMH batteries (rated 2300mAH) and set it to Test mode. It fills up the batteries to full, then drains them, then fills them up again and reports the capacity.

If I had placed these batteries into my old charger.. it would have charged until one battery was full then stopped for all of them or done something like that. Little did I know that the four batteries started at pretty varied voltages. I set it to charge at 500mAH (5hrs to fill 2300mAH) and then discharge at 250mAH (10 hrs to empty). Two of the batteries were filled in about 3 hours.. but the other two took another 2-3 hours. (basically empty). They finished at varying voltages, from 1.46v to 1.51v.. and then they started to discharge at 250mAH.

When I woke this morning.. 3 were done.. and as I was writing down their reported capacities.. the 4th (batt#4, the one which hit the highest voltage during the initial charge) finished. The results I got were pretty surprising.. but fairly in line with what the initial charging peak voltages implied.

Two of the batteries (which finished charging with relatively low voltages last night) only reported 1470mAH and 1480mAH as max capacity! Batt#1 reported 1550mAH and batt#4 topped out at about 1880mAH. Talk about a difference! Anyway.. currently all 4 batteries are going through a discharge/charge cycle at 350mAH/700mAH. I’ll report on the capacities tonight, and then set them to “refresh” mode and see if these batteries are too old to increase their capacity again.

Seeing as we know electronics only function until the weakest battery dies.. that would mean I could have been putting 1470mAH batteries into a flash. yikes. And that would be assuming I could even get them fully charged.