Back when I acquired the NXT, it ran on 6AA batteries, so I bought a charger and an 8-pack of ~2500 mAh batteries.

The charger had 4 slots, so this allowed me to have 2 always in the charger and 6 in the NXT. When it came time to recharge the batteries, I would just empty the charger and NXT, and put 4 dead ones in the charger. I already had 2 fully-charged at that point, so once the first batch of batteries was finished charging, I had all I needed, with 2 dead ones left over.

It wasn't the fastest swap-out system, since I still had to fully-charge batteries, but it was faster than having to do two runs. However, I've got a shipment coming in the mail! a 12 pack of batteries with a 4-port charger. Sure, I still can't charge 6 at a time, but holy hell! I can have an entire second set of batteries charged up and ready for swapping by the time the first 6 die, since it takes a whole lot longer to drain them than it does to charge them!

As usual, though, there's always a tarnish to the silver lining of the cloud. It turns out, this package won't be arriving until the 8th or 9th—which is right before Mother's day, and then my birthday is immediately after that! So not only do I have a busy weekend trying to handle stuff for my mum, but I'm also releasing an album on my birthday as my gift to the world. (You can find that over on my BandCamp, SoundCloud, SFX.io, Vimeo, and YouTube on or after 5.11.15).

So in less than a week, I have to:

• Send out a package for my mum

• Get my coding setup going since the NXT will have power finally

• Finish things up so my album can go live on my birthday, 5.11.15