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not strongly greenish in color.
Wednesday, April 19 2017
I've been scanning my old handwritten diaries since early April, starting with the very first page of the first one and going up from there. Today I finished the scanning of that first volume (covering April 5 to June 21 1983) on the same day that the 500 megabyte CF card in the HP OfficeJet J6480 multipurpose scanner/printer ran out of spare capacity. All the scans had been ending up on that card and I'd been simply copying what I wanted from it over the network (the printer has networking capability). I never actually use the printing function of the printer, though I do a fair amount of scanning. So you can imagine how irritating it is that every time the printer starts up, it insists on calibrating, which is not something I think it can successfully complete (the ink is probably dried up or hemorrhaging). I can cancel the calibration, eventually, though even canceling takes at least 30 seconds to do. From what I've read, though, I'm actually lucky that the printer is willing to do anything at all without a perfectly-working ink situation. Supposedly most multipurpose printers refuse to do anything unless all their ink reserves are above a certain threshold, including all the colors (even for people who never print in color). This is, of course, just part of a massive swindle designed to get us to buy overpriced printer ink (even if we don't use it and all that happens to it is gradual evaporation). I imagine such swindles will only get more maddening given the sort of consumer protections the current administration believes in. In the eyes of Donald J. Trump, a truly "great" America is one where a few people in a few corporations can extract money from all Americans with the sort of impunity that comes when the only alternative is fleeing to North Korea.
In the bathtub tonight, I noticed that the water I was soaking in was, for the first time, not strongly greenish in color. It seems the water guy's deacidification technology is working. It's nice to have evidence that his services weren't just another swindle.
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