I'm a little cranky today, on the eve of the Fourth of July. Late last night one of our smoke detectors went off, a piercing alarm that refused to be ignored. I staggered out of bed and went to where we keep batteries.
We had one 9-volt battery left, so I changed the detector I thought was the noisy culprit and went back to bed. About three hours later the alarm went off again. I knew the Lifecycle exercise bike uses a 9-volt battery for its display, so I cannibalized it to change out the battery in the detector I now thought was keeping me awake.
Just in case I was wrong, I pulled the ladder out of the garage and removed the 9-volt battery from the scale we have. I was prepared, but I started at the slightest noise for the rest of the night.
I must have gotten the right one, but if one or two have run out of power, the others can't be too far behind and I don't want to be up in the middle of the night, three-quarters of the way asleep climbing a ladder to replace a battery. My wife Tanya is out getting packets of batteries and we're going to change them all.
I want to sleep straight through tonight. And falling off a ladder probably wouldn't help my sleep pattern.