When all else fails...

So my Wii remotes (also called wiimotes) stopped working yesterday. I had just gotten home from tutoring and thought I'd get my 30 minutes or so of Wii Fit in before I made dinner. I turned everything on and it booted up and then nothing. No action on the screen and a flashing blue light on my controller. So I tried another controller. Nothing. I went back and forth between the two uselessly. So I turn the system off for a minute and back on. Still no dice. I try unplugging the sensor bar and plugging it back in. Nope. At the end of my technical expertise I said 'fuck it' I'm hungry and went and made chop suey while researching the problem. After dinner and a read through of how to fix out-of-sync remotes I tried again. Still nothing. Eventually I got fed up and went to bed. After dinner this evening I try again to fix the remotes to no avail. I switched batteries around and turned stuff off and held in the "sync" button on the console while trying to connect the remotes till I was blue in the face. Still nothing. So I trudged back upstairs and reread a few of the pages I looked at yesterday and learned an important lesson in repair work. It's important to read the directions completely and carefully. I was only doing half the fix. Back in the basement I followed all the steps and away I went. Now I'm too tired to play my Wii, but I could if I wanted to.