printer etc
Jan. 8th, 2011 09:06 amOne of the things I got for Xmas was a new printer. I already had a printer, sort of. The paper feed is broken to the point that I have to feed it each sheet individually, and it has a bad habit of leaving faint black streaks on the page for no apparent reason. I would have stuck with it anyway (I only print things once in a blue moon) but its only input port is a parallel port, which I'm not even sure there's space for on the body of my current laptop.
So I have a new printer. It's a very nice USB monochrome laserjet that claims to be able to print upwards of twenty pages per minute once it gets going. I can verify that it does take awhile to get going, and also that it draws enough power to make the lights in my room flicker. (Things I am looking forward to in six months: modern electrical wiring.) We ran through some of the initial paperwork for Secret Project Paper last night. It turned out really well. I'm happy to have this printer, even if I don't know how often I'm going to be using it.
This morning I woke up earlier than one ought to wake up on a weekend so that I could cook pancakes for![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
uilos. She's heading off for a weekend of Longwood Gardens and jellyfish with other folk. I would have gone along but I'm in desperate need of a quiet weekend at home. So instead I shall lounge around here for awhile, then stop by the post office, and head off to gaming with Chris-the-repatriated. Tomorrow is almost certainly going to involve not setting foot outside and getting a good day's worth of writing (well, revising) for the first time since November. Unless I decide it's a fine day for Secret Project Gethen.
... although it seems to be snowing pretty seriously out there. Which is appropriate for something called Secret Project Gethen, but I think I'll just put it off til another day.
And I'd thought this was going to be more coherent than it ended up being. I may as well throw in a link to Nix v. Hedden, in which the US Supreme Court ruled on one of the vital issues of the day. (Premonitions of "Pigs is Pigs".)
So I have a new printer. It's a very nice USB monochrome laserjet that claims to be able to print upwards of twenty pages per minute once it gets going. I can verify that it does take awhile to get going, and also that it draws enough power to make the lights in my room flicker. (Things I am looking forward to in six months: modern electrical wiring.) We ran through some of the initial paperwork for Secret Project Paper last night. It turned out really well. I'm happy to have this printer, even if I don't know how often I'm going to be using it.
This morning I woke up earlier than one ought to wake up on a weekend so that I could cook pancakes for
uilos. She's heading off for a weekend of Longwood Gardens and jellyfish with other folk. I would have gone along but I'm in desperate need of a quiet weekend at home. So instead I shall lounge around here for awhile, then stop by the post office, and head off to gaming with Chris-the-repatriated. Tomorrow is almost certainly going to involve not setting foot outside and getting a good day's worth of writing (well, revising) for the first time since November. Unless I decide it's a fine day for Secret Project Gethen.... although it seems to be snowing pretty seriously out there. Which is appropriate for something called Secret Project Gethen, but I think I'll just put it off til another day.
And I'd thought this was going to be more coherent than it ended up being. I may as well throw in a link to Nix v. Hedden, in which the US Supreme Court ruled on one of the vital issues of the day. (Premonitions of "Pigs is Pigs".)