Happy Turkey Day?

Hi all, and happy thanksgiving if you celebrate it. My thanksgiving was spent at my grandma's house. It was nothing really special, but the occasion was completely ruined for me. The reason for this was that before I left my house, I replaced the batteries in my camera with some rechargeable ones, just to give it enough power to last through the day. I was almost late, so I quickly put the old batteries into the charger and the new ones in, tested it, and it worked fine. When I got to her house, the camera mysteriously did not work any longer. I figure one of the rechargeables died completely. But that is not the point.

At my Grandma's house, I tend to get very bored. I play multiple games of Kyodai Mahjongg 2006 (best mahjongg game ever) on her old computer and think about extremely deep topics having to do with life, the universe, and human nature. So I was thinking over what I did in the morning before leaving, and I realised that the batteries I had put into the charger were actually primary (nonrechargeable). This can cause many things. At best, nothing would happen. But it was likely that the battery could die, leak, or even explode, causing a fire. I reaserched batteries online (on the same old comp) and read all I could about it, and spent the rest of the day seriously worrying if I would ever see my house again. After getting home at around 11:30 PM, it was thankfully ok. I think the batteries are dead, but I didn't look close enough to see if they were leaking.

One interesting thing that happened while I was worrying about this was that everywhere I looked, I saw signs or "omens" that made me even more nervous. There was the fire in the fireplace, the clock ticking, the burnt-looking wooden duck, and for a reason I will never conceve the topics of conversation at the table seemed to revolve around depression, suisides, death, and fires burning down large areas. wtf... o.O