Animals on the Underground

Cute!

Animals on the (London) Underground is pretty nifty :)

Has anyone got a spare F1817A power adapter?

Grr. Remember the AC power adapter for my Pocket PC that I had been complaining about a while ago because of a loose electrical connection?

I think it's finally snapped today; when I wiggle the plug in the box, something inside the box wiggles as well, rather than being firm, so I can't get it to make contact.

This is rather annoying, since I suppose it means I have to get hold of a new one stat. However, a quick Google for sites in Germany didn't bring up anything promising (except about a dozen places with similar URLs which all redirected to the same shop—at least, the first couple did and I assume the others do as well; looks like a Google link farm or somehting).

At any rate, I emailed the shop and they say they don't carry that item any more. OK, given, that Pocket PC (HP Jornada 548) is several years old, but that's still a bit annoying for me. And searching eBay for "F1817A" didn't produce anything, either, even when I said "search in all countries".

I don't suppose one of you would happen to have a spare F1817A adapter lying around? Preferably for 220/230 V, 60 Hz? Or know where to get hold of such an item?

Edit: Searching for "Jornada" on eBay in the "PDA accessories" category is more promising. There's one person who's selling an original HP adapter since his PDA got stolen, and a bunch of shops selling travel AC adapters which are probably not original HP but are billed as being "for" HP Jornada. So all may not be lost at this point.

Random thought: support and the priesthood

This evening was stake priesthood conference, and afterwards, there were several ordinations, and I started thinking about how this was a little like support (which I've obviously been doing for too long).

The offices of deacon, teacher, and priest correspond to I1, I2, and "I3": preparatory stages where you have certain limited privileges and powers and have to prove yourself and practise.

Then, when you've shown you can handle those privileges responsibly, and when you've prepared yourself, you get supporthelp/get ordained an elder. At that point, you've got essentially all privs (except supportclose)/you have as much priesthood authority as any man on earth.

High Priests would be a bit like cat admins, then: they differ from supporthelps not so much in their privs (again ignoring supportclose) as in their duties: they have leading and presiding roles.