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The Laptop Lunge

My laptop, or Mr Samuel Samsung as he is known (Sammy to his friends), is apparently getting on a bit.

A lifetime of being left plugged in and never properly drained and recharged has led to an ever diminishing battery capacity.

It has now reached the point where my laptop has a battery life, from fully charged, of just over seven seconds.

This has led to the invention of a sport known as The Laptop Lunge. In this, competitors (for a competition it indeed is) have to unplug the laptop in the living room, then run, trailing power cables, a mouse and, frequently a dangling mobile phone, up the corridor into the bedroom and leap to plug it in again, before the battery dies.

If you have to reboot after plugging in, you lose.

If you have to buy a new mouse or, worse, mobile phone after the game you lose.

And if you get to the plug in time and with all your peripherals intact, you still lose, because you've got a knackered laptop battery.

Well, I didn't say it was a good sport, did I?

ps to Pellet. Yes, it's already ordered. Thanks for the tip.

posted by Peter The Great @ 6:04 PM