No staying power.

So, problems on the laptop front tonight.

Tigana / Lower Corte’s battery has been going more and more quickly. I originally wrote that there wasn’t much life left in it, but then Merrystar looked over and corrected me - she said she’d been working for an hour and a half and running the usb optical mouse and wireless card. So I sit corrected.

However, my laptop’s a different story.

Al-Rassan’s battery’s been all but dead since I got her. In and of itself, that’s not a problem; I don’t take my laptop outside the house, so I just use the power cord. But now the cord’s getting flaky, so I have to balance Al-Rassan and hope that I don’t let the orange power light go out.

So.

Why can’t things just work and keep working?