Monthly Archives: June 2021
How About You?
After looking at the Rainy Days weather radar app, Jan and I were able to spend about 30 minutes with our coffee out of the patio between rain showers. Being very overcast and cooler than normal, it was really nice.
I had to order a new printer for today and this is the one I chose.
HP OfficeJet Pro 6978 All-in-One Wireless Printer
It was only $119 and even better it uses three different separate color cartridges, magenta, cyan, and yellow, not just one color cartridge with all three colors in it. This means that if you print with a lot of red, you don’t have to replace the entire color cartridge, just that one color.
But the reason I had to get a new printer is not that it wasn’t printing, but that it wasn’t scanning right. No matter whether I used the flatbed or the document feeder, it cut off the top and left side of the scan.
Yeah, I might have been able to tear into it and figure out what was wrong, but it was 3-1/2 years old and the cartridges were getting scarce and more expensive.
So I ordered it on Amazon today and it will be here tomorrow. Neat!
I mentioned the other day that Microsoft is releasing Windows 11 sometime in the fall. Well, the word now is October. And it will be a free update.
But the next question is, will your PC be capable of running Win11?
Well, to check if your PC can run Windows 11, download the “PC Health Check” app and then install it. Then when you run it, just click on the blue ‘Check Now’ and in a few seconds, you’re know.
In my case, it looks like I’m good to go.
How about you?
Thought For The Day:
Some of you old-timers will get this.
Without Photos, It Never Happened . . .
In yesterday’s blog I mentioned one of my former co-workers, Sharon Hosea, and the fact that she used to live in our subdivision. In fact, our daughter Brandi and her roommate’s daughter, Candy, were good friends, so good in fact, that they both were brought home by the police early one morning.
I think Brandi was about 12-13 at the time, and she decided to sneak out one night, and meeting up with Candy, they ended up at the community pool a couple of blocks away, and then climbed over the fence enclosure and went for a midnight swim.
But Brandi, having an ear infection, didn’t go all the way in. But that didn’t stop the po-po from hauling them both home, dropping off Candy first, since she lived closer.
So Sharon put in a call to us, telling us to expect a delivery. And it wasn’t FedEx.
I think initially we grounded Brandi for about 8 years, until she was 21, but later reduced that to a month or so for good behavior. Or more likely so that we didn’t have to listen to her moaning and complaining anymore.
I will say however that Brandi was never again brought home by the police.
I do want to mention that for the last 20 years or so Sharon has owned a highly-rated pet-sitting service in the Clear Lake area here in Texas.
Called Clear Lake Pets, they offer both in-house and boarding services. Knowing Sharon, your pets will be in good hands.
For lunch this afternoon, it was once again to Denny’s for Ultimate Omelets, our first time since we got back from our trip.
And it was really good to find Staci, our long-time regular server back at work.
Finally, one of our readers complained about my recent blogs about our visits to Twin Peaks. The phrase he used was –
“Without photos, it never happened.”
And he wasn’t really interested in the photos of our food.
I replied that it seemed kind of strange to be posting photos of Twin Peak’s girls when they were wearing masks.
This is Izzy, who has family in Bogota, Colombia where I used to live. So we had fun talking about places in the area. But with the mask, it just loses something.
Now this is Lauren Bell, our favorite server from a few years back.
She was there for a couple of years while she was going to school, but when we got back from our RV travels one year, we found that she had graduated college and left to get married.
But now with the masks coming off, I promise I will be more diligent about getting photos whenever Jan makes me take her there.
Thought For The Day:
“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.” – Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180)
