UMTravels

I could have stayed longer in bed…. I ended up in the ferry line almost two and a half hours early (and still was one of the last people off the boat). That even included a meat run to Safeway in Anacortes.

Dropped said meat off in the fridge and headed over to do a hardware call with Susan from Blue Toad Design — and also to drop off a box of 8mm films to be transferred to DVD. Old 40s/50s/60s erotica.

Got there about 3:45 and by 5:15pm actually had ALL the problems fixed — to her amazement and mine. Turns out fixing one problem (getting the Postscript RIP to work), fixed the other problem she was having (output matching screen). And I got multiple glasses of wine as well!

Came back to the church and loaded the van with miscellaneous stuff — unfortunately I couldn’t get the Phaser 7700DX in the car —- got the DX parts, just not the main printer. That’s a two person job I think. Jen at Green Fire Candles is interested in buying it to print all her candle labels — it’s the exact printer she used to use in a law firm she worked at so she’s familiar with how to fix it when it breaks.

And speaking of hardware — getting a new laptop. I’d become totally annoyed at the jumping curser on the touchpad — I use a mouse, and there was no way to turn the damn thing off.  Picked up a laptop from Dwight yesterday in Olympia — and started playing with it in the afternoon before dinner at Josh and Jess’ — and found a button, right on the touch pad — to physically turn it off. SOLD! The fact that it comes with a remote for the DVD player that slides into the PC Card slot is just gravy. Selling my old one to Curtis and taking his current one in trade (though it needs to go to GrafRepair for an overhaul).

But back to today — car is loaded. I’m having a scotch (only one drink left in the bottle), and thinking of taking the 8:30pm ferry back. No real reason to hang out on the island when I could be working on moving all my files off the old laptop and getting it cleaned up and ready for Curtis tomorrow afternoon.

They are also going to be doing construction on SR20 tomorrow during the day — which means delays. Ick. Yep — heading back is looking good. Guess I’ll vacuum a little from the places I moved equipment and hit the road, bags of meat (and salad) in hand.