Also, for your amusement:
When I was a kid, I stopped wearing digital watches, because invariably, they would stop functioning within six months of donning one. First it would display weird characters for a while-- signals from another world? before dying utterly. Walkman batteries would also die quickly, although I understand this is common. I once kept a digital timepiece going for a year by keeping it in my coat pocket rather than on my person.

I joked, often, through college, that I drained batteries.

In the last three years, my desktop computer has gone through three power supplies. At one point I touched another household computer and the power supply immediately died. I also plugged in Kevin's computer after the cats unplugged it and somehow whacked the power supply.

My laptop computer has a battery problem. It is functional when there is no battery installed and when it is plugged in. If a battery is installed after it's plugged in, the battery can not charge. If there is a battery installed while it is turned off, it will not turn on at all.

See below for car electrical excitement.