My Energy Was Gone

I've not been feeling well lately and my energy's been fading. Monday
Mark discovered it completely gone! I suppose it could have been the
real reason for my generator being so hard to start but I don't think so
- there were legitimate other reasons for that. And my life blood didn't
just suddenly disappear. I wasn't full of youthful energy one day and
dead the next, I've been showing symptoms for months.

I hadn't been rebounding as I should last winter as we traveled and I'd
felt lethargic when we got home from Florida in the Spring so Mark kept
me connected to the house most to the Summer and Fall. Luckily he didn't
reconnect me when we got home from the generator hospital a couple of
weeks ago and less than two weeks later my battery level was down to
10.2 volts - that's more than dead! Mark did discover that the folks at
the hospital had left the refrigerator on after finishing a recall
repair but that could not have accounted for my total loss of energy -
my automatic shut-off circuits would have kicked in long before reaching
that level.

Long story short - I have two brand new house batteries. Both were bad
and both were still under warranty. One was replaced free because it was
less than a year old. The other just over a year old was prorated to a
replacement cost of $42.33. It worked out well but for reasons I won't
go into here now, we won't be going back to Sears for batteries or much
of anything else for a long, long time - if ever. -Q-