Archive for November 2009

Printer problems

I can’t actually remember when I last used the printer for anything but scans and copies.  Tried to print labels for Christmas cards yesterday, no printer.  Reinstalled the drivers and software, still nothing.  Checked all the connections, nothing.
So I installed WordPerfect and the printer software on the laptop this morning.  It works fine…. I guess [...]

Buying for me for any gift occasion

is extremely simple:  I don’t generally want clothes or jewelry…. but anything to make my tech-life easier or better or even “prettier” is always a hit.  Failing that, I LOVE things to make cooking easier, better, faster, or more fun.  So I’m a “sure thing” as it were….
Husband on the other hand…. *sigh*.  He has [...]

ViewSonic 1080P monitors

(of which I own two – sorry, may seem excessive, but I simply can’t work on only one screen any more….) might actually mean that some of the games I quit playing because they were so hard to see on my old CRTs might get dug out and loaded this winter.
Not that I’ll stop playing [...]

The Thanksgiving-to-Christmas dog days

- it’s a really short period of time this year, only 4 weeks….  I don’t like it when that happens, and always wish the government would PICK a date during the early part of November and designate it as Thanksgiving.  No reason for it to be Thursday….  How about the 10th?  I like that one,  [...]

Didn’t make the pie yesterday -

and today of course I wish I had!  Oh well…. such is life while cooking for Thanksgiving.  The stuffing is made, the pie is baking, husband will do the fruit salad shortly, turkey will get stuffed and in the oven around 2:30.  Lunch is nibbles, veggies and dips, crackers.  Mashed potatoes, broth, and gravy happen [...]