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Dream Jobs

If you could have any job in the world what would your dream job be? Does it even exist? We all know in the world we live in today success doesn’t always mean being successful at something that already exists. The possibilities are endless when you create your own dream job.

31 Jul 08 | Work |

Catching Up On Printing

How’s everyone doing today?  I’m here as usual, but I’m just getting a very slow start to the online portion of my day.  I’ve spent all morning doing housework, sorting through more clothes I want to take to Goodwill, and then I ended up going through my business records.

I’ve got a folder on my pc full of receipts that need printing, but I’ve avoided it over the last couple months because I didn’t want to deal with the evil printer.  I figure now that I’ve got a new all-in-one it’s time to make sure my business records are in order.  I love being able to do everything on the computer these days, but I’m one of those people who prefers to also have the tried and true hard copy just in case anything happens.  *knock on wood*

I was going to redo my budget this afternoon, but my Grandma called wanting to know if I’ll do something for her.  She’s got boxes and boxes of photos she wants to make copies of.  She tried taking them to a few different stores, but no one will make copies of them because they fall into the school photos category.

What’s ridiculous is the fact that these are all photos of my Grandma and her brothers and sisters when they were school age.  Considering my youngest great aunt is 58, that tells you how old these photos are.  I completely understand the rules against copying school photos that go back as far as when I was a child because you can easily contact the photographer’s studio and I’m sure purchase additional copies.  I think not allowing my Grandma to make a copy of a photo of herself from 60 years ago just because it’s a “school pose” is insane.

I promised my Grandma I’d walk over in a bit to help her go through the boxes of photos.  It’s supposed to get pretty stormy here in a bit anyway, so it’ll give me something to do.  I’m one of those people who unplugs everything when it starts to storm.  I’ve lost too many motherboards to power surges, and this house has been struck by lightning 3 times.  I don’t chance it!

Anyway I’ll probably be around later this evening after the storms pass.  I know it’ll probably get pretty boring sitting here copying all those photos, so I bet I’ll be snooping around blogs and Twitter as usual.

31 Jul 08 | Family & Friends, Photo & Video, Work |

Ended The Day With A New Printer

Wow, what a long day this has been.  After fighting with Hubby’s computer for a few hours I managed to get it working properly again without losing any data.

The short story is that the power randomly blinked on and off 3 times this morning.  Luckily after the first time the computers stayed off until I woke up.  Then I only turned Hubby’s pc on since I was working from it.  I was in the middle of some data entry work when the power flipped again.  It stayed off for a good 15 minutes, and when it came back on the pc wasn’t so lucky.

Windows would load up in safe mode, but that’s as far as I could get.  I tried a system restore with no luck, so I moved on to a Windows repair.  That didn’t work either.  I had absolutely no way to backup the data on the drive without losing the one very important email I had just downloaded a couple hours earlier, so I had to manually install a second copy of Windows on the drive on the same partition (I don’t have enough free space for another partition), replace the files that were screwed, and delete the extra copy of Windows.

After a few hours of messing with it all was well, and I headed off to print the one very important return shipping invoice I’d been freaking out over, but my very cheap and finicky little $20 (0n sale) Deskjet 3520 didn’t want to cooperate at all.  I reinstalled the driver 4 times before I got fed up with it and decided to give it a good boot with my size 8 across the room.  I reached down to pull out the usb cord only to realize it wasn’t connected.  I turned the printer around and found that the internals of the printer port were completely missing!

Well, that explains what that metal crunching sound I heard last time I used it was.  I got the one sheet I needed printed right before I heard the crunching sound, and I haven’t messed with it again.  I’m tired of cheap little deskjet printers that constantly break on me.  I swear I go through about 10 of them a year.

I know I swore I wouldn’t be investing in another inkjet since I’m ready to make the leap to a laser printer, but laser just wasn’t in my budget this week.  Honestly I thought I was going to have to get either a cheap all-in-one or a half way decent plain inkjet, but I got lucky.  I had a Staples coupon for 20% off, and they had one of the all-in-one’s I’ve been checking out on sale for $99.  I grabbed the Canon Pixma MP530.

It might not be the best all-in-one out there, but it’s good enough for me.  The only downside is that it’s lacking media card slots, but I prefer editing my photos in Paint Shop Pro most of the time before printing them out.  Overall I think I’ll be happy with this one.  I’ll give a full review once I’ve had a chance to play with all the features…and of course read that huge manual that tells me how to use everything.  At least I got my shipping label printed!

29 Jul 08 | Computers |

29 Jul 08 | On Location |