Printing

The wind is howling as a winter storm approaches, this looks to be the firs real storm of the winter season but until the storm get here(tonight by the weather guys account) the wind is whipping everything outside round the house and doing a number on all trees with any kind of leaves at all. We set the cocks back an our, actually the things like cell phones and computer set themselves back. /we still now have to wonder wound the house and turn all the other time pieces back.

A couple of weeks ago Dianne contracted with an attorney to work on our case with the banks. I knew this would throw Dianne into research mode( at which she is excellent) and would start asking that I start printing documents at work to bring home for her case—and this request because we currently don't have printer up to task which is going to be placed on it, I decided we needed a better printer then what we are using now. Remember last Monday's post talking about the issue with the HP 6510 I picked up last week? This is where the new printer project remained until yesterday. The reason I had waited an entire week do gt this accomplished was that I had managed to get a similar printer we have hooked to my laptop working to the point where we could do some printing but was difficult at best and besides we had this brand new system just starring at us, mocking us. So yesterday we collected all the pieces of the printer: the printer itself, software, receipts and documentation and crammed all into the Styrofoam, plastic wrap and box as best we could and hauled the whole mess back to Best Buy.

Over the years I have brought a lot of stuff back to the vendor for one reason o another and had learned unless one has all these items in place and on hand the “return” can go very poorly and even when one has all the items needed the retailer often fights the 'return' nightly. But pleasantly, we were surprised at how smoothly the exchange went. We even found we could upgrade to this year's model, a wireless model no less, for the same price. We did this exchange later in the day and by the time we had returned home we were exhausted and we decided to veg for the remainder of the night catching up on some recorded television.

This morning we finished setting up thee printer, went to breakfast and came home and finished the project. It took an hour and we had to struggle a bit to get the desk top to recognize the new equipment and we had to settle on a USB connection rather then the wireless but it is now printing away and all are happy. We still plan to get Mark A over someday soon to see if we cannot get the wireless to work just because we can. But now we can print, I don't have to use the office equipment and I have my laptop to myself and all is well.