Appearances Can Be Deceiving

 And we have a holiday!!!  And I get to go labor!!!  With food provided by the great orange home improvement retailer I work for!!!  As if to celebrate, our temps warmed up a little overnight, but just a tad.  When I left work yesterday our outside temp was 78 (F) which was just a few degrees short of the projected high.  That's fine.  There is no precipitation in our long range forecast and there is not supposed to be a lot of variation in our daily temps.

So, I have a Hewlett Packard ink jet printer (as well as the new, snazzy color laser printer) that has also been having problem.  I get a print head error as soon as it is turned on.  One of the techs at Hewlett Packard decided the problem was with the ink cartridges, so sent me new ones for free since it's still under warranty.  I installed them yesterday and got... a print head error.  I'm thinking the problem might be with the printer itself, rather than the print heads.  I will contact Hewlett Packard tomorrow.  As I said, it still is under warranty, but what does that warranty cover?  Your guess is as good as mine.

And I did work yesterday.  My long shift.  I sold just enough product to hit my sales goal for the week, but missed everything else.  One of the three women with hajibs came back and bought the vinyl she'd wanted on Saturday.  She brought her husband and her son and evidently tied the vinyl to the roof of their car.  It was inexpensive vinyl, I hope she's happy with it.

Howie has begun to bark.  Not a lot, maybe once every few days.  Usually he barks at odd things, like a puppy cookie lying on the floor.   Yesterday, he was sitting on the futon and barked at me for some unknown reason, so, I took his picture.  That seemed to satisfy him.

And the intrigue regarding the Orange Anus continues.  I saw this morning that scheduled interactions between Orangie and others where the press corps is present have been canceled for today.  That means no public appearances.  I think Keith Olbermann says it best.  Oh, and am I the only one who thinks that the hat this supposed Orangie is wearing looks odd?

A Better Selfie

 We had another night of good sleeping weather.  The outside temp when I crawled out of bed this morning was 61 (F).  Today's high, if the forecasters are correct, should be in the mid 80s (F) with the chance of rain being minimal. We have the same forecast for Sunday, though our chance of rain increases by a very small percentage.  Cooler temps and rain are in the forecast for this coming week. 

I got in a very nice workout yesterday afternoon; I was pleased with that.  The big aquarium got a decent cleaning.  And I spent some time chatting an Hewlett Packard tech regarding my color jet printer.  That's right, I had (have) 2 printers, one for documents, etc. and the other for pics.  Of course, they both broke at the same time.  The ink jet error concerned the printer heads.  The tech and I managed to get it to print a few copies I scanned, but the error persisted, so he's sending me 2 new printer heads.  That's nice, but I honestly think it's the printer itself which is the problem.

As for the trials and tribulations I've been having with the color laser printer I bought from Xerox, things have finally begun to look up.  Someone named Aira has taken over my case and has kicked the resolution into high gear.  The broken printer needs to be out on the porch for UPS to pick up on Monday.  Also happening on Monday:  the replacement printer will be arriving by 7 PM.  I'm scheduled to work on Monday, so I'll be taking off.  Believe me, I have no problem with that.

Howie and I went for a walk yesterday, and when we got back I tried the selfie thing again.  He's getting better.

Of course, Orangie was on TV yesterday... again.  This is an everyday necessity for him.  His ego needs feeding.  And he's almost always sitting down at his desk, though I do believe he did stand up in order to show the camera a glossy 8 x 10 photograph of himself and his blow bro Vlad.  He told America that he was going to autograph the pic and send it back to Vlad.  Dear Lord, this is so pathetic.

There are also more questions about his health.  Yesterday, for the first time I can remember, he didn't look he'd he'd smeared orange shit on his face, in fact he looked rather pale and frail.  People also noticed that he was using makeup to cover some serious bruising on his hands.  So, is he deathly ill?  One person noted that the answer will be in how frequently he golfs.  He is still frequently being driven around in golf carts, but he no long walks.  When he does walk, it's from the cart to the ball his caddied has conveniently dropped 10 or so feet away.  Personally?  I think it just a short matter of time, and then chaos will ensue as the Republican party falls apart.

 

Not a Good Day for America

 We're starting out a bit warm here in Central Pa with our outside temp sitting at 75 (F).  Mugginess abounds.  I haven't checked what the dewpoint is, but I'm betting it's fairly high.  Will we have rain this afternoon?  I work, so I don't really care.  

I will also be working 4 days next week.  That's unusual, so someone must be on vacation.  I don't mind.  Extra hours mean a little extra money and after yesterday I'm going to need a little extra.

And yesterday?  Things began well but then pivoted sharply into "well, that sucks" territory.  It all started with the loaf of bread I was baking.  I use olive oil instead of butter and usually I measure in the required 2 tablespoons.  Yesterday I just poured in what I thought should be 2 tablespoons.  I was wrong, so I ended up so I ended up with a bread cake, rather than a loaf of bread.

Then I tried to print something off.  My laser printer, which is probably abut 3 books old, sat there doing nothing.  My print screen said it was ready, however, my system said it was offline, and when I checked the printer settings in HP Smart, it said it was sleeping.  Well, nothing I did seemed to wake it up.  I then tried printing to my color laser jet and got a print head failure.  I contacted Hewlett Packard and the tech told me my laser printer was gone.  Unfortunately, my ticket was for the laser printer, not the color laser jet and I would need to begin the process again.  Since I'm going to need a new printer, I went to the Staples website and ordered one.  Ten minutes later I get an email from Staples telling me the printer I ordered is unavailable and that they will be crediting my account.  Someone else might have gotten frustrated.  Not me.  flexibility in the face of adversity has always been the key.  I'd had enough of Hewlett Packard, so I went to the Xerox website, checked out their laser printers, looked at some online reviews, and made my purchase:  a color laser printer.  Because it was my first time purchasing from Xerox I got a 15% off, which made this printer less expensive than the one I had tried to buy from Staples.  Here's the new printer:

And, as you might expect, I spent a bit of time yesterday watching the Orange Anus getting steamrolled by his blo bro Vlad.  By the way, that was a reporter on Fox who said Orangie was steamrolled.  Here's Brian Tayler Cohen on what Fox had to initially say.

I don't know about you, but I was embarrassed as hell watching Orangie standing there on the red carpet, as giddy as some school getting to meet K-Pop, waiting for Vlad to arrive.  I hope that I wasn't the only one to see Vlad give Orangie the double thumbs up as he hurried towards him.  Vlad played Trump like a two bit whore.  Vlad sang the golden oldies that Orangie cherishes, like the 2020 election was stolen, or that mail in voting is crooked.  Later on in the evening Sean Hanity threw him some powder puff questions.  He didn't ask him why Karoline Leavitt and Witkoff, and everyone else on Team Orangie, walked into that press conference looking ashen faced; this was universally reported.  Something was off.  Witkoff left the room before Putin began speaking.  Even Orangie looked soggy jowled.  And, of course, there are those videos of his slow, lumbering climb up into Air Force One after his treasonous meeting with Putin was over.  This was not a good day for America.