Battery trouble

When I was trying out Munch's Odyssey that I had picked up from the bargain basement on Saturday, the light on my new GameBoy Advance SP went red indicating that the battery needed changing. As this was the first time I'd needed to do this, I wasn't sure what kind of batteries it used - so I closed the device and turned it over. To my shock, there was no battery cover - except the one that needed a special screwdriver to open so I reconed that wasn't going to be it. After a brief check it turned out that GameBoy Advance SP was indeed unlike GameBoy Advance and it didn't take normal batteries but had in fact a rechargeable lithum battery. That could be recharged using the charger that I had left in the box the GameBoy came in, that was too big and what-was-the-point-anyway to fit into the suitcase.

So the charger is back in Finland. Fortunately Chu is flying from Finland tomorrow, so called her, and I called my mom and tried to get some kind of meeting arranged between them to get the charger to Chu so she could get it to me. Of course both parties are on holiday and doing their own things - Chu in Linnanmäki and my family going to Hämeenlinna to see my grandfather in hospital (who got out but had to be readmitted, and the cause for the fever is still unclear)... but I'm just hoping they manage to meet at some point. Plan B is to buy another charger but, really, that would be really annoying.

Note to self: next time you buy a new gadget, read the manual.