In the something to read dept, I always try to get the local
newspaper.  Even the ads are interesting in a small town paper.  It
really gives you a flavor of what the locals are up to.

Last Summer I forgot the charger for my digital camera battery.  The
same trip where I saw all kings of cool stuff and wanted to use the
"good" camera a lot more than I expected.  I thought it out and saw
that it was a 6.4v (or something like that) battery.  I bought a 9v
alkaline battery and made a rig with paper clips and rubber bands to
connect it to the digital camera battery.  I even hooked up my
multimeter at first to check the current flow.  It worked.  Charged
it up enough to cover the rest of the trip.

Edward

At 06:39 PM 8/23/2009, Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>Something to read. I went on a three-day trip and neglected to bring any
>reading material. I was stuck reading a biography of Jacqueline Kennedy.
>Cripes, that woman was a bore. She said nothing of interest nor did
>anything really interesting. YMMV, of course.
>--
>Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott
>84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
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