2025-05-06
Fixed my first dead car battery by using the truck to jump start it since the boat battery charger was too slow; we first ran off to Olympia to Lowe's to buy plants like tomatoes, peppers; watched: David Spade | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #580
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Timestamps generally in Pacific Standard Time (PST) or Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) unless otherwise noted. Welcome to my Oatmeal Daily which is generally posted & syndicated to different websites daily by me, Oatmeal Joey Arnold, feel free to mirror, edit, clip, reupload my content. For more information, see some of the links on this page or you can try to Google search or look me up using keywords like Oatmeal Joey Arnold @ joeyarnoldvn and other keywords. Try using different combinations of words in search engines for better results. Went to bed around 12:30 AM. Up for a sec around 6 AM, weird dream of interacting with my FGHS high school classmates at an outdoors event almost like Wood Stock or something like a concert but I heard no music and walked around, the end of the dream or all I can remember as I forget the details of who I interacted with, who said what, who did what, back to sleep. Woke up around 7:10 AM, hand and feet exercises. My left hand and left leg in particular needed it. I mention some of this sometimes over the years. Now it is 07:30 AM. Breakfast: 10:00 AM. Weeded, rake, put tarp on against the fence in the back yard along the fence close to behind the book shed and along Neil Fence where the tomatoes normally are towards the compost pile towards the potatoes and gate and tree. Lunch: 12:38 PM. Battery at about 8 volts in the car, drained as the AC was on today since mom wanted it on and since I was trying to reset the TPMS past few days turning the battery on and off without turning on the engine. So, we took the truck to Lowe's Home Improvement in or near Olympia at 5610 Corporate Lane SE, Lacey, WA 98503. Sunny day, it was good to practice driving the larger truck. I was trying to be as careful as possible as I develop driving habits. Drove behind mostly an RV. Also a jeep similar to the one we got. Picked a parking space that would be easy to get out of by driving just forward instead of backing up. We asked when we got inside where the garden section was, oh at the other end of the store. We got a 5-gallon bucket without the lid for around $5 after mom figured out the $2 was for just the lid. We could not find the plants, just saw flowers and a few other things, they pointed us to the outside part of the store. I walked back to the truck for a tray, asked an older man if he needed help putting dressers or shelves into his truck bed, was it stuck, no just tight he said. Mom got 2 tomato plants, a pepper plant, and then maybe cucumber or something. Drove home past a few slow vehicles. Sped up to like 80 a few times to pass people. But we stayed in separate lanes. Back here around 03:20 PM. Roughly 60 miles round trip, there and back. In the evening, was researching how to jump start the car. I asked Grok, I googled, I watched a few videos, probably starting around 04:00 PM. I was outside trying things out around like 06:00 PM. There are two batteries in the car, I tried different combinations as I was not sure exactly where the cables connect to, I came in a few times to look at videos. I made videos and watched videos on TikTok a few times. Rambo Revenge. Discord. That was earlier. The battery was around 10 volts or less. The numbers were around 8.8 V, then 8.4 V. But the numbers went up and down a few times. Not sure if it was working or not. It went down to 7 V. Later went down to 6.4 V at the lowest. It was confusing as it gave me a few different numbers at different times depending on if I put my foot on the brake pedal to fully start the car or without. Perhaps it could have eventually charged up the battery in a few hours as the charger is mostly for like boat batteries. Around 08:30 PM, brought the truck over, had to find the hood button and finally found it. Odd as I knew where it was some days ago. Hooked the truck to the car to jump the car, it took around ten to twenty minutes perhaps in total, it jumped to about 10 V in minutes or more it seems. At the end, it was around 13.6 V. Not sure what the max is. The charger was not working so well. Perhaps it would take a few hours to charge it or the charger might be broken or the extension cord might be broken. Car battery went down to 6.4 V as I kept on turning on the car to see if the charger was working. But the charger might be slow, not working, or maybe it was the extension cord. I brought over the truck, connected jumper cables to the truck and car to jump the car in around ten to twenty minutes. Within minutes, the car battery was up to 10 V. At the end, it was at 13.6 V. But what is the battery limit? The car dashboard says 18 V as the max but my car might have two batteries and not sure what the max might be for the actual batteries in my car. Dinner: 09:08 PM. Food log: Breakfast: coffee, apple, 10:00 AM. Lunch: egg sandwich, 12:38 PM. Nuts. Dinner: rice on beans soup was amazing, 09:08 PM. Tea.