System i Addict

Why do smoke detectors run out of batteries @ 2 or 3 AM vs. say 5 PM? I don’t know who the engineer is that made the smoke detector systems, but in my last 3 places I’ve lived have to loose the backup 9V battery @ 3 AM?

Last night at 3 AM the smoke alarm start going off. Of course Kelly wakes up and says…”I smell smoke”, there was no smoke, maybe she can smell 9V batteries going bad?

Maybe I had just crapped the bed because the stupid smoke alarm was feeling lonely and wanted to wake us up? What ever she was smelling it was not smoke?

The smoke detector in our bedroom in the highest part of the ceiling was going bad. The other problem is that the little RED light that is supposed to tell us the battery is going bad only flashes, and when your tired @ 3 AM you blink allot and you have to really wake up to be able to see it. Bastards!

So off the garage to get the ladder and find a replacement battery.  Now the ladder is on the other side of the garage on the wall on the other side of Kelly’s car. Then you have to try not to drop it on the car and manage it back to the house without taking out anything you might value, like a wall or a light?

We actually had a 9V battery in the house(going to get more today). Really the 9V battery was in Kelly’s car for her Mr. Microphone of something, I know I laughed about it but can’t remember what she said she had a battery in her car for?

I changed it and then could not get back to sleep. All of these smoke detectors are wired into the house electrical and all go off when one goes off so they are loud.

Does anyone else have this problem? Do your smoke detectors only decide not to work at odds hours of the night? Am I psyhco or is this a real problem and what is it about the middle of the might and things that are electric. They all seem to want to act up when you are sleeping?