The weekend came and went as weekend tend to do, and even though I am committed to squeeze all I can out of my weekend I tend to just sit ad let the days creep by and then on Sunday night a I watch the nine o clock news I wish I has done more.
Dianne has been struggling with her case against the bank and credit card insurance companies and needed multiple copies of document she has either prepared or images of pay stubs,invoices and utility bills. The printer We have been using is a little HP we got a number of years ago and has worked like a champ till last Summer when part on the machine just wore out—it actually still printed just fine but the supporting machinery wore out. I purchased a printer, which was just like the printer I use at the office a HP oFFICE jET 5610—his was a floor model so I got a deal and received everything in a giant plastic bag and went home and put the whole mess in the closet and forgot about it for months. Dianne had found a way to coax the old printer to work just enough to meet her needs and I went out and purchased a smaller printer to hook up to my lap top in the front of the house which worked just and since I got the HP 5610 for the desk top which Dianne uses I got me another HP small computer for less then 70.00 which worked great for my needs: printing word documents not so hot on images though. This worked fairly well until a couple of weeks ago when I needed a printer and a copier(scanner) so I finally de-bagged the 5610 and hooked it up and it worked great.
All last week Dianne has been amassing huge amounts of data of which she needs hard copy and has been askig me to make copies at he office to bring home. There was is an issue with my 5610 about it not being able to print Open Office documents.( I have sensed remedied this) I don't have an issue with this except for the time involvements and not doing right. I just want Dianne to have all the supports at home that she needs. Therefore after work on Thursday evening Dianne and I went over to best buy and purchased a new, in the box, HP OJ 6500 series printer ( cabled model I did not see the need for wireless). We got the machine home and tried to hook it up the next day and Of course we did not have the equipment we needed bu we did not know it then—the machine just could not find the printer. Dianne is hammered for time and she needed to focus on the writing so I put the new printer on hold and focused on the my lap top ( which does not have Word and there could not print the OO (Open Office) documents. I eventually drug out my older Toshiba LP and actually got it up and running and able to print the materials Dianne needs.
The rest of the weekend I either cooked, worked on my system or supported Dianne—it was a quiet weekend and a wet cold one but enjoyable all things considered. I just wish we could have got the printer operational.
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