Re: Replacing batteries - good idea!

From: Eliyahu Rooff (lrooff_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/22/04 

Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:37:50 -0800

"JulieW8" <seemysig@netscape.net> wrote in message
news:41a22ba1.14702571@News.individual.net...
| On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 17:30:37 GMT, Margie
| <nomoremargiesjunk@earthlink.net> gave thanks and said:
|
| >I have a cordless mouse (Logitec) that seems to need new
batteries
| >about once a month. Sometimes I can fix things by moving the
(what's
| >it called?) piece that plugs into the mouse port and hitting the
reset
| >buttons on both the mouse and the "piece" simultaneously. But it
does
| >seem to go through batteries pretty quickly (uses 2 AAAs). Could
it
| >be all that Free Cell? <gg>
|
| I'd say yes but I don't play many games and mine needs new
batteries
| more often than that! I keep a stash the kids don't know about.
|
Have you considered two sets of nicad batteries and a charger? The
savings adds up pretty fast, and you don't find yourself out of
batteries ten minutes after the stores close.

Eliyahu

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