happy happy joy joy:
It’s been a ‘try-again’ day today. I didn’t have much to do really, just needed to pick up some glossy photo paper, get lunch, and print out the pictures for the cards, but Murphy was on my tail throughout.
At the computer store, they only had two packs of ‘HP Preium Glossy Photo Paper’, I needed four. Rather than take two HP, plus something else, I just took four packs of the best Epson stuff.
As far as fast-food goes in Bucharest, just know this: Burger King would be a godsend. In the interest of time, I elected to take my chances at McDrive. After screwing up my initial order, I had to wait in the parking lot for five minutes while they corrected the mistake.
I get to the office, and the computer doesn’t want to read the Photoshop 7 Install CD. After threatening to disembowel computer, a ‘miracle’ occures and the CD drive decides to cooperate. I start the print queue, and bite into my burger… I nearly choke when I realise the photo paper is in the tray upside down!
Kill print queue, turn the paper over, start print queue, start out on my chicken burger: it’s half-frozen! [appropriate response: check watch… if it isn’t April 1st, *scratch head* and make mental note to mame cook at McDonald’s]
Forty prints down, forty to go. Wonderful, the printer is out of ink. Do we have a spare cartridge around here somewhere? Well whadda ya know… we actually have a real, live (well not live) printer cartridge, can you believe it. Unbox it, remove from packaging, pull that little plastic tag off that covers the nozzles, insert cartridge, resume printing. Wait a minute, what’s this?! Cyan trees? I don’t think so! Remove print cartridge… shake… mumble: “I know it’s full, it just went it in, I know it did, I was here when it happened.” Now look closely… notice that there’s only one metal tab on the bottom, aren’t there suppossed to be three? Ahh yes, that’s right. Look! here are the other two, firmly stuck to the plastic tag you just took off… how quaint.
By some miracle, however, all is not lost. There is in fact a second color cartridge in the supply closet. Nice to see the admin & supply guy is actually phoning in the orders this month.
Ahh yes, the joys of life!
