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erroneously-named DuraLast brand
Wednesday, March 23 2011
The Honda Civic's battery started acting flaky yesterday and completely died during the day down at the Hurley Mountain Inn while Gretchen was carpooling with a colleague to the prison in Napanoch and I'd had to drive down there and give her a jump. The battery then worked after being driven around a few miles, but today it was dead again, and no amount of charging (or recharging with distilled water; its fluid levels seemed a tad low) would make it work again. Mind you, I'd just bought this battery a few months ago. Usually I buy the mid-priced battery, but this time I'd bought the absolutely cheapest one. To make matters worse, I couldn't find the receipt, so I may have to end up eating the price of that craptacular battery.
That experience had begun to affect the reputation of the auto parts dealer I'd bought the battery from: AutoZone and their erroneously-named DuraLast brand (more like TempraFail). So today when I drove into town to get a replacement, I went to Advance Auto Parts and bought whatever their mid-priced car battery happens to be.
Meanwhile snow had been falling most of the day. At first it only stuck to tree branches and the grass, but by this evening accumulations were developing on asphalt and paving stones. It was looking bleak out there by this evening. What made it especially creepy was that it was 7:00pm and full daylight, yet there was snow on the ground. That shouldn't be happening when the days are as long as they are now.
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