Dumb Battery!

To start off this morning’s blog I would like to make a statement: there are no stores in Butte, Montana that have camera accessories. Yesterday I was down outside of Butte videoing the core drillers, and my battery went out on me. I charged it all night before, which was thirteen hours, and the battery decided not to hold a charge. So I had to run back into Butte to look for either a new battery or a charger. My first stop was Wal-Mart which had nothing, then Staples which had nothing, Radio Shack had nothing as well, then Kmart, which didn’t having any to purchase but had a charger from their display camera that they were nice enough to let me charge the battery in the store. I wanted them to lend me the charger, and I was offering to leave some sort of collateral like my cell phone or my driver’s license, but it was a no go. I don’t know why they wouldn’t lend it out, because if I didn’t bring it back, they had my name and everything on my driver’s license, but oh well; at least they let me charge the battery. This morning I’m off to Livingston to video tape the Snooper truck which winds around the bridge and lets the inspectors take a better look at underneath the bridge. So this weekend I’m thinking about heading down to Butte to help out with the eight-man team camp we hold at Tech each year. I hear that it’s pretty fun, and word on the street is that you get paid pretty well also. Last night after work, my parents and I went out and grabbed a campsite at Joe Bonner. My dad is going to bring the camper out today and leave it for a couple of weeks like they did before. My parents really enjoy staying out there for weeks at a time, because when they had the old business, they had no time to leave work. If you haven’t seen the lake in the past week or so, the water is up a ton. I’m thinking from the last time I saw it, which was a two weeks ago, it has risen twenty yards up the beach. Think about how much water it takes to bring a twenty-six mile lake up twenty yards: A LOT!!!!!