Sunday, July 18, 2021

Right Where I Need To Be


 


It seems like I can find so many things to worry about some which are important to others less important. My today worry is just how important it is to charge the battery to my power chair on a regular basis. I know I've had this complete before but I just think it's really strange just how many people really don't know how batteries work – – and I am one of them! I hear so many different things about what one should do with their new batteries. The thing that sort of freaks me out the most is the ongoing argument that one if it's a new battery you must discharge the battery all the way down to zero before charging again (or near zero) because if you don't and charge the battery when it conceivably does not need to be charged then you definitely impact the life of the battery or cause the battery to “learn” something that will greatly influence how the battery performs. I mean I've been hearing this stuff ever since the 70s when I was doing my battery stuff right after college. I still can't get a definite answer.


So last night before I went to bed I checked the voltage meter or whatever it's called on my chair to see how much power I had in the batteries in it read 90%. I had really intended to just coast through the day and not really go anywhere so I thought yes I should be okay with 90%. I was even thinking that would also be the case with Mark Anthony should we have breakfast – – and we did have breakfast today. We talked a lot and I really talked up my power chair a lot and since my wound care specialist has been working with me my butt was feeling pretty good so we decide to zoom a little bit after breakfast. He carries is electric scooter in the trunk of his car all the time. So we got the scooter out and off we went through the park and then around different parts of our neighborhood. I really wasn't paying much attention to the battery level it's quite small the meter is anyway. However I started getting a little nervous when I realized that we'd been on the road quite some time and we're quite a ways away from the apartment complex. I recognize this because I was at a distance like a book back and see whether complex actually was and where we were! It was then when I realized that the charge indicator had gone down from green to yellow of course everyone knows that yellow is “caution” in anything and so it was today I was hanging in there about 35% which is really not very much at all – – well that's not true but it sure seems that way – – and I did not necessarily panic but I grew concerned. I did not panic because worst-case scenario I disengage the wheels and Mark Anthony could push me all the way back to the apartment complex we need be. So, it felt like we cut the trip short and started heading back to the complex. There was a time when my eyes would include to the voltage meter but I chose not to even look at the meter has a winter neighborhoods and looked at interesting houses especially properties for sale. I think I surprised Mark Anthony when he saw my interest in some of these properties. There were a couple of really nice on slab properties I'm sure cost a fortune. He asked if I be interested in such a thing and I said sure.. I have to admit it become a weird going back to living in the house especially having to deal with stress is a keeping up a yard and all the other things seem to Dianne is having to go through these days. But if I had the financial capability not only for home health services that is will is like maintenance yard maintenance stuff I would love to have another house and everything that goes with it. Though when I did get home I looked at this place that you know this really isn't half bad either improbably as much as I hate being part of his senior housing project is probably right Where I need to be…

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