On 6/13/2017 8:16 PM, Bald Eagle wrote:
> Stephen <mca### [at] aolcom> wrote:
>
>> It is the American Virgin Islands not Jamaica. ;)
>
> Somehow, I'm not going to cry for him.
>
> The last island I got to go to was Loon Island.
>

Well I live on a large Island myself. An archipelago if you want to be 
pedantic. They have problems different from living on continents.


> Not a word.
> Not a single word, Frog-Licker.

I prefer pharmaceuticals or herb.

And in Doric (NE of Scotland dialect) a loon is a young man. As in Fit 
like m' loon/quine? (How are you my young man/girl?)

>
> ( ͡ᵔ ͜ʖ ͡ᵔ )
>

Ooo! Get you with your ricky ticky Dongers. ;)

>> His battery was not charging either. And he seems to have forgotten that
>> you can use the Web view on your phone.
>
> Hmm.
> Batteries are definitely known to go bad.

They do indeed. But his laptop did not recognise his new power cable as 
being a genuine Dell part. Which smells of a propriety circuit somewhere 
in his machine that is goosed.

> We have boxes upon boxes of dead laptop batteries that are destined for sale to
> someone doing lithium reclamation.
> We had a power outage / one leg of the 3-phase power, and when the transformer
> got repaired, my work laptop wasn't charging - so it must have fried the
> battery.
>

Or the charging circuit.


> https://www.myus.com/vir/
> looks like it's about $15/lb to ship to there.
>
>

But then he would have to strip his laptop and fit it. He did say that 
he was a programmer. With all that implies. ;)

-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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