Oh, give me amps, lots of amps...
Yesterday I needed to use battery charger to get the car started. Later I needed to get a jump-start to leave work. If I had been pondering putting things off, that ended any such notions. After a bit of highway driving to hopefully get things charged up for one more start, I went to K-Mart and bought a Diehard battery, which they carry now that they and Sears have merged. The curious bit is that the new battery is labeled as "Maintenance Free" but has filler caps for the cells, or at least it looks like it does.
I pondered changing the battery in the parking lot, but it started raining as I got to the car. There was enough of a charge on the old battery to start one more time and I went home and changed the battery in the shelter of the garage. Naturally, it wasn't raining then. The batteries swapped, I took the old one back to K-Mart and got my 'core charge' (an inducement to keep lead and such out of where it shouldn't be) refunded.
That and a bit of grocery shopping took up a significant chunk of time and I didn't do much else last night. I expect to have a more normal night tonight. And it was nice to get in the car this morning and have the dash lights be bright (the old battery must have been borderline for some time, the brightness of the dash lights surprised me) and have no trouble at all getting the car started.