Cool and damp. Again. But later it will be beautiful. Yesterday afternoon was still in the low 80sF but it felt great. More please. Oh, and the rest of the day it was partly cloudy and blindingly sunny the rest of the time.
Spent pretty much all day doing pickups and some related stuff, like taking a load of trash to the dumpster, and dropping stuff off at my shop. Then it was home to make dinner and do some of the domestic bliss I’d neglected. Yeah, I didn’t get to the gas station, pharmacy, or grocery store. That’ll be today.
Dinner was lamb roast, steamed brusselsprouts, tube biscuits, and a thrown together apple pie for dessert. One graham cracker pie crust, one can apple pie filling, second crust crumbled on top, bit of cinnamon, and about a stick of melted butter on the bottom and top crusts. 45 minutes later, and it was good.
The pre-made crusts and canned filling are the 80-20 rule made real. 20% of the work, and 80% of the result compared to fresh homemade. Actually more like 90-10 in this case, and it was all long term storage food.
Today I’ll do the grocery and meds run, get gas, and then switch back to my list. I didn’t have time to do any work on my office yesterday, and I want to move that along. I’ll try to do one trip to the shop too, and maybe break down more scrap. There is a certain appeal in the instant cash, even if the amount isn’t large.
Doing what I can with what I’ve got, at least partly. And stacking, that’s important.
nick
Had to get up early to earn money (as contrasted with getting up early yesterday because thumping or yelling woke me) so here I am, commenting even before the time zone cheaters made it. Ahhh… very satisfying.
Story of my life…
I was up really early to drop off W1’s car at the garage for new summer tyres.
It is a beautiful spring day here. Dandelions and wild daffodils in bloom everywhere, pollen count through the roof, eyes itchy, throat scratchy. Red-tailed kites circling over the house, waiting for the first cut of milage and lots of carrion. Paradise.
Catching up now. Good morning, to you too, Chicken Boy!
I bought an HP monochrome laser last year as part of a round of printer replacements at my house, and the build quality of the print mechanism, even on a $400 machine, was junk. I ended up going with a Brother monochrome which I noticed that my county’s elections division now buys to print ballots at polls.
I did buy an HP mult function inkjet because the price was too good to ignore and we mainly use that household device for fax/scan.
Whatever you decide, Berkshire shareholder prices start at NFM on the 22nd, and I’d suggest checking their price on the model you choose before going with Amazon. IIRC, shipping is free for electronics.
The only problem I have with buying from NFM on the discount is the return policy being a very narrow seven days. After that, you will have to file a warranty claim.
At least they are up front about it. “Sell cheap and tell the truth.”
Hopefully, when Amazon really does have to make money on retail instead of subsidizing with AWS, some meaningful large scale competitors will still exist. Brick and mortar retail will have to be relearned regardless at this point.
Chinese or Eastern European.
Before I forget, $400 is usually the printer-only price point where PostScript or an equivalent starts to appear in the firmware and Bonjour support exists in the network interface, which is why I was shopping in that price range.
I suspect my requirements were similar to the Supervisor of Elections office’s.
I know that they stil have Dominion ballot scanning equipment around in my county, at least the on-site processing. The Dems used those friggin’ machines in their primary in my precinct at a minimum.
Yeah, if I were Jasmine Crockett, I’d want an investigation, but that isn’t going to happen regardless of who wins the Senate seat in the end.
I have newish HP and Brother printers, and the suppy subscriptions were not mandatory.
I purchased the printers at NFM and Office Depot, respectively, however, so maybe Big River is the difference.
Yeah, Office Depot is still around, and I see the point of paying a little extra there. They didn’t give me any grief about the HP printer return. Of course, my employer’s badge around my neck may have helped in the store near the campus.
70F this morning. D2 is surprisingly up and moving around. W still not interested in rising or shining. D1 still quiet in her room. I used to like the calm for myself before the rest of the household got moving. Now I don’t seem to care either way. It’s just time to start the day.
I’ll have a coffee and maybe that will improve my day.
n
I bought two sets of ink[generic] for the canon Pixma all in one inkjet I bought at an estate sale for $5, and it seems to be working fine. I need to find someplace to put it now, as W decided the spot where the inkjet used to live will not be used for printers anymore. That is part of the impetus for the office rearrangement.
And I think I’ll swap out my big dell mono laser next to my desk with a much smaller HP laser I grabbed at the bins, just because it will fit better in the space I have for it. It printed the status sheet just fine, only has a couple of thousand prints on it, and probably has more toner than I’ll use.
One thing I dislike about both is that the paper extends outside the foot print of the machine. They are definitely made for intermittent use, to be loaded when needed. The big dell laser is an office machine, a cube with nothing sticking out. I’ll live with it I guess, as I only print a few pages a week.
n
If the used HP laser is a commercial grade printer, check the availability of parts beyond the toner cartridge before making that a permanent swap. In particular, with the big LaserJets, check the availability of the drum new from a reliable source.
In other words, no Amazon vendors.
With the commercial use OfficeJet models, check the availability of the print head new from HP.