No Batteries, No Cords...Well What?

Luckily last night I checked my email before I went to bed, because one of the College of Engineering's Associate Deans wanted me to test a new wireless mic for work this morning.

So I go to bed around midnight.  Fall asleep around 2, I'm guessing.  Wake up at 6 because I feel sick, get ready at 7 and panic a little bit because I get nervous around new equipment, then I freeze my ears off walking up to campus (and almost dying on ice--please shovel your sidewalks if people frequent them).

I get there and much to my surprise, there isn't much testing to be done.  There were no batteries in or around this mic.  I connected the receiver to the camera, but a lot of good it did me.  I have no idea if it works.  So I said, "It looks easy enough to operate," because what else am I supposed to say?  "Call me when you get batteries, because I'm pretty sure you can't figure out how to put them in"?  I mean, I showed him how to hook it up.  What does he really want from me when he doesn't have batteries?

Then the Associate Dean asked me to show him how to download stuff from the camera, because he wants to use it sometime.  Unfortunately, even though he had the camera, he didn't have the cable to go with it.  I made several recommendations based on some equipment he currently had, but all in all, I felt completely useless.  I should've stayed in bed, even though I really couldn't fall back to sleep.  I hope all he really wanted was to learn how to turn the camera on and attach it to a tripod, because I feel like that's all I taught him how to do.

I think 5 bucks should cover my efforts.  Pywsch.

I just wish I knew how to turn headaches and shivers into a viable source of energy that could substitute for a battery.