Tim's Travel, Pinball, and Beer Blog
The BEATLES “Birthday” song (youtube.com)
Saturday, actually. But today I left my usual volunteer session at the Historical Society to go to my usual beer session at the Darlene Lounge, and walked into this:
Tomorrow we’re having dinner with John Scalzi. Yeah, John Scalzi – Wikipedia. This is an extremely odd timeline.
Bucket list trip coming in September. I’ll keep this updated. Sydney, Ayres Rock, Cairns (glass bottom boat, William. Somehow I don’t see me snorkeling), Melbourne.
No, not the batteries. The whole smoke detector. Yes, all of them.
They’ve got a useful life span of about ten years. Smoke Detector Life Expectancy – Consumer Reports. And unless your house is less than ten years old, you’ve never replaced them.
And you’re supposed to test them once a week. You do test them once a week, right? Yeah; me, either. I replaced six and two of them were completely inoperable.
And they’re inexpensive. The new ones have a ten year battery! Cheap 9-volt batteries are about $2 each; I got six First Alert alarms with ten year battery backup for $62.
Replace your smoke alarms, and save money. And maybe someone’s life.