Whee. I can feel myself rejoicing already....

For me, this isn't much of a problem; I'm salaried anyway, so no overtime. For many of my friends, well, it could really suck.

Note that this is Ivins - you're getting politics with your news (or maybe, more accurately, news with your politics).

Printers. Argh.

So, on Tuesday last week, I tried to print stuff for Gencon. The first document printed, the rest (including text from notepad) did not. Instead, they came out of the printer as gobbledygook control symbols.

Grrrr, says I. So I reboot the computer, power the printer off and on, reload the driver, etc., etc. Some before I leave, some after I get back. Net result: it still prints gobbledygook, even after trying the black-and-white printing only (it's a color printer).

I debated the effort involved in rehabilitating it, and decided that it was time to get something newer. To which end, I now have an Epson Stylus C84; amusingly, since all I want to do most days is print basic black and white stuff, this thing is theoretically capable of printing very nice quality photo prints. I'll test it on that later for my amusement, but it wasn't really the point. I'd have to print a lot more pages than I do for it to have made sense to get black and white.

Also picked up a digicam for Scott. His present one (he's using my old Ricoh) only focuses when on maximum zoom or, on rare occasions, when it feels like it at other settings. The one I got him is not one I'd use, but it's quite functional and nice for what he uses a camera for - about on a par with the Ricoh, with a few less options but more "modes" which I think will do better. It'll even use the same batteries - and though it won't use the same media, it'll use my compactflash media, which I can give him one of. I didn't even use 512 of my 1.25 gig of media on that trip. Scott, by contrast, took three pictures - though I think he'd have likely taken a few more if his camera were not a nuisance. ;)

*flop* Ah, the end of a vacation.

Tomorrow morning, I go to work for the first time in over a week. But only for two days. That should be enough time to catch up on email and voice mail, I hope.

Tonight's scene on Ephemera was good.

Scott liked his new camera.

I like my new printer.

I've ghosted out most of an idea for a Deliria character and am finding areas that are a bit unclear, even with examples. Must start taking notes on those that are coherent, but not at this hour.

We're all unpacked, if the pile of stuff summarily dumped out of the suitcases so I could put them away, counts for that.

G'night. :)