Picking

[livingdeb]

I don't suppose you would like to hear about how a department decided to start offering a three-hour course to replace a two-hour course and a one-hour course, only the new three-hour course is being offered as a three-hour version of the old two-hour course.

We don't have a mechanism for recognizing that one course has eaten another.

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Today I learned that when my pedometer battery gets low it quits counting steps and shows you a picture of a battery with an X through it. I wonder if that battery picture was there before. It does hang on to the numbers for previous days.

Then I learned what kind of battery it has, one of those lithium button batteries.

Then I learned that several places near where I work don't carry them, but the nearby CVS does. They charge $3.99 for one or $6.99 for two. I held out for a better price.

Then I learned that Target charges $4.29 for two and I bought some. They may be cheaper still at Walmart or HEB or some other place I'd never guess, but then I'd end up paying for gas, too. I'll probably be at HEB in a few days anyway, but I decided to just risk it and have a working pedometer for a few extra days.

I had no problem installing the new battery, although it is fun when the old battery jumps out and when the screw holding the back on jumps out (since those things jumped to someplace easy to see and to reach).

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I listened to the recording of the song I've picked for the recital and learned that the guitar is playing a picking pattern very different from what was shown in the music book. It's probably easier, too, except that now I have to start all over in transcribing the song so I can play it, and I don't get anymore crutches (written music) but have to figure out everything else by listening. Bleh.

Comments

Pedometer dying

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

When my pedometer died, it had lasted about 6 months. And when I bought it and put in the originally-provided battery, it said something about "with normal 10,000 step-per-day use, battery should last a year." They so lied to me! Did they lie to you, too?