And now

Now that the costume monkey is off my back, I thought I'd try to GET SOME REAL WORK done. So I went into the trusty "work" file and found two dissertations I've been meaning to read for source material, quotes, etc.

And I'm trying to print them out now.

But my trusty printer, which has NEVER done this before now, is making this HORRIBLE grindy pain just kill me now noise. It's really bad!!

This is punishment from the money gods for buying something. I know it. The printer, which has always been reliable, is moments away from a blood spewing, makes-ebola-look-like-the-sniffles death.

Why did I bother trying to work at all then?

Oh. Wait. As I write this, it suddenly got better. What the hell?

UPDATE YAY! Al from HP Tech Support is the coolest guy in the universe. And nameless guy who passed me on to Al is also way way way cool. I won't say why he's cool-- if he ever read this, he would know. And I don't want to get him in trouble if the HP Spies found this blog. But he rocks the house way way old school.

My printer is all better now. Apparently a sneaky piece of paper had wiggled its way down into a strange place behind the "fuser" where the sensors didn't see that it was there, and it took taking the fuser OUT to find it. Sneaky bastards. Those pieces of paper are evil, evil I tell you!

But now my printer is happy. There were a few moments of spewing-- hot pink and blue and green toner powder did get a little wild there for a few minutes. But Al handled it all with a calm voice, and I dedicate my first new print job to him. (It's the rest of that dissertation I want to read today). Which may or may not happen since I need to leave to go drinking in, oh, 45 minutes. Hee hee. Way to blow an ENTIRE DAY!!!!!