{{purplehorseshoe}} and {{Sophie}} and {{Michael}}
Prayers are currently going out to YHWH, AhuruMazda, Minerva, and all the gods I can think of (and Coyote the Trickster God, just 'cause he likes to keep up on the gossip).
Hey, my friend Steve, who’d been given up on and moved to hospice is now awake and cracking bad jokes with his kids. So ‘medical miracles’ happen…
And since my prayers obviously did it, y’all are in pretty good shape now…
Thomas isn’t doing as well as I thought; he has a broken hip and bleeding on the brain. Michael is in a coma.
Sophie lost her 13 year old son 15 years ago in a “gun accident”. Apparently the kid stole a loaded handgun from his uncle’s dresser drawer - then pointed it point blank at Josh and fired. Killed him instantly. I am praying she does not have to go through the loss of another child.
My thoughts and heart are with you and your husband, HorseShoe. That sounds very scary. Hang in there. We’ll be here if you need us.
Thanks, all. This is no longer the right place for this, however.Follow me over to MPSIMS if you wish. I do very much appreciate the good wishes.
OK, Aunt Flo, you old biddy. You can pack up and go home now. I’m quite tired of you.
Plus also, (((((Horseshoes)))))
I’ve typed out a couple of mostly incoherent rants about my husband, and they’re too long and rambling, so here’s the TL/DR version: Just because there’s money in the checking or savings account, you don’t have to spend it. There’s no extra points for reaching a zero balance every single pay period, dammit. Also? We really don’t need and couldn’t afford a CB radio. Really. :mad:
sends more prayers and thoughts to the horseshoes
I can so get behind this rant, and I choose to not eat meat. Some weekends, I go out on my deck and the neighbor’s under me are smoking something. I hates them! Its even worse when they see me and offer me some of that falling off the bone pork.
I’m behind this rant as well. Whiskers is probably intact and marking his area. Idiot pet owners are idiot pet owners. Did you spray some anti-pee stuff down the inside of the door…where it goes up and down?
I am offering up sympathy…and wondering why he needs a CB radio. I could probably ask around and find a working but unused one if you want.
Goddamn it. Money down the fucking tubes. Just pisses me off.
My sister and brother in law gave me their old printer. An Epson CX9400. The cartridges were low, so I buy a new black ink cartridge for $18.
FUCK FUCK FUCK. Stupid motherfucking piece of shit won’t print unless ALL of the cartridges are operational/non-empty. So I go drop $39 for the 3 color cartridges.
Won’t print black, won’t print red. I go through the head cleaning routine about 5 times. Still won’t print black or red, and now it tells me these goddamned NEW cartridges are running low. How the fuck can they be running low when it hasn’t printed a single fucking thing???
I mention it to my sister. She says “Oh, we forgot to give you the extra cartridges? Here they are!”.
So I have extra cartidges NOW, but I just pissed away $57 on ink and the stupid piece of shit isn’t printing anything and probably isn’t going to be functional. Which means the extra cartridges are fucking worthless to me, but hey, if I’d have had them before I’d be less pissed off because I wouldn’t have wasted over $60 (with the tax) on shit that doesn’t work.
And I really have about 10 pages of shit that I NEED to have printed by next weekend.
FUCK!
If I recall correctly, inkjet printers “clean themselves” by forcing ink, and a LOT of it, through the print head. Problem is, it uses up a great deal of ink (3 or 4 cleanings will go right through a cartridge) and it won’t help if the holes are blocked.
They make cleaners for the print heads; use that instead of the printer’s self-cleaning routine. I think they only have it to use up ink that much faster and make you buy more, not because it helps clean the print head. Printer makers make their profit in the ink, not the printer.
(I went through a lot of ink before I learned that, and it never helped. I went through a couple of printers, too, because I couldn’t get the printer head cleaned. Eventually, I gave up and bought a laser. I’m much happier now.)
Yeah, I’m just kicking myself for dropping $60 I didn’t need to spend on this crap.
Ink Refills. Do your self a favour and get friendly with a local ink refilling business.
Seriously. I refill my own with black ink and pay for the shop to do the refills with colour because they are way more finicky and messy. The colour refils are about half the price of new, and well for a big bottle of black ink, and a syringe I spent about 12 dollars and I had I don’t know 6 or 10 refills from one bottle. I use a cartridge about 5-8 times before it just doesn’t take ink properly and makes a mess… some people get more than a dozen uses, I am sure with care and cleaning I could to. (I go through times where I use two cartridges a week, then months where I don’t change the cartridge at all, that probably affects longevity.)
As a bonus there are less of those cartridges floating around in landfills too.
Honestly, if I don’t get this fucking thing working, I’m looking at buying a new printer. My old one was a piece of shit with overly expensive cartridges that motherfucking expired and didn’t work anymore after a certain period of time, and I’m not wasting another dime on this one if I can’t get it going.
Been looking at printers on-line at Best Buy and Walmart. Looks like I can get one for $49 or $69 and it even includes the cartridges. Looking at what those cost too just to make sure I don’t buy anything where they’re fucking $30 apiece for the black ink alone. The ones at that price are wireless capable and one of them is airprint capable if I want to print from my iPad (no idea why I would, but what the hey).
Hell, that’d be about, or less, than I spent trying to get this ‘gift’ working.
Just for your information the cartridges that come with a printer aren’t as full as the ones you purchase later. Maybe buy a new one, but stock up on DYI ink.
Caveat emptor, Chimera. Unless I’ve been misinformed, the cartridges that come with brand-new printers have a very limited amount of ink in them. Think 10%* of the ink that you’ll find in a new full-priced cartridge. The idea is to rope you in with the hardware and sit back and collect profits on the replacement cartridges.
I’ve also heard that there’s new, anti-refilling technology being built into some cartridges; a chip on the cartridge counts how many pages have been printed, then bricks it. I’m not sure if the chip can be hacked to allow the user to reset the counter.
*That figure is one I just pulled out of my ass. I’m sure someone will be along with the correct figure if we just wait for a bit.
Yeah, I’ve been looking at what the cartridges cost.
Seriously, look into a laser printer. When you compare the per-page costs of an ink jet versus a laser, the laser is way, way cheaper. I bought a Samsung all-in-one color laser for under $400 about 4 years ago, and it hasn’t treated me wrong. Granted, the toner costs about twice what ink does, but you get about 10 times the page count, I think. And you don’t get a clogged print head even if you don’t use it that often.
$400 is way out of my price range.
Apparently, we “need” a CB because we are traveling tomorrow. Through the wilds of… Interstate 10 to New Orleans. With four cell phones. And I may kill him before we get out of the driveway. Operation Overlord went off with less hassle than trying to pack this stupid truck. (Seriously. I have a plan. A behind-schedule plan, since I had two migraines this week, but it’s a perfectly reasonable plan, in which people, dog, and immediate needs and comforts are inside the truck, while non-immediate stuff is on the hitch. If my sweetie wants to help, he can get the fuck out of my way. He already “helped” enough by buying a CB and antenna when he was just supposed to get an oil change. And he wanted to help some more by buying another tarp tonight… Which we might need, to wrap the body before disposing of it in a convenient bayou along the way.)
Lacunae, you might want to look into getting an eight-track tape player instead. Or maybe a jumpsuit with wide lapels.
In other words, there may be less annoying ways for your hubby to get his 70s rocks off. 
All of a sudden I am getting Obama email spammage, like 8-10 emails a day from variously Michelle, BArak and names I don’t recognize but are probably named political flackeys for them.
Dudes, just because I am a registered republican it does not mean I am willing to fucking give ANYBODY money. Fucking shit, they begged something like 100 fucking MILLION DOLLARS for their campaigning. What the fuck are they doing with the money they need to keep begging more, wiping their asses with it instead of toilet paper?
Why do you have to sleep with your bedroom door closed, strange male housemates? Hell, we took the bedroom door off the hinges and put in a curtain [tiny tiny house and a wheelchair. Doors suck.]
i didn’t know anybody still used CBs … all the trick drivers I have seen are yacking on cell phones.
It’s a guy thing. I have a feeling Overlord was planned by WAAFs, WAVES and WRENS. :dubious:
Friends are willing to help, real friends help hide bodies …