Subj : Various Things (2) To : Daryl Stout From : Barry Martin Date : Thu Mar 02 2023 08:29:00 Hi Daryl! BM> If those old man using the walker and roller skates can do it..... DS> That's the entertainment at the nursing home each night. Cards, checkers and TV get boring after a while. BM> Everyone brings happiness to this room: some by coming, some by BM> leaving! DS> You're not getting rid of me that easily. Here: have a can of beans and put on these roller skates! BM> A few years ago I had left for a doctor's appointment -- was cold and BM> raining when I left. (Don't recall the temperature.) About a mile and BM> the rain is starting to get a little hard; bit further and really hard! BM> Maybe I can go the three more miles to my appointment and by the time BM> I'm done things will be cleared? ...About a minute later changed my BM> mind -- now to figure a flat way back home: want to avoid hills! DS> A fellow ham radio operator went to visit his son in the DS> hospital, and when he came out, it was snowing to beat the band. DS> He had to carefully navigate on the way home...he noted that DS> numerous vehicles were running off the road into the median and DS> into the ditch!! On the way home I saw a couple cars slide into the guard rail: not going fast but just enough to loose traction on the down-sloop and wheeeeee! BM> Right, and from what I've heard some colour printers won't let one BM> print using just black if the colour cartidges are out/missing. I BM> think my printer is one of those; just ordered Yellow and Cyan over the BM> weekend. Don't need either quite yet and was going to wait but saw BM> something which changed my mind: one of my sources was out of stock BM> (really??!! this is not a garage company) and Amazon was '10 left' in BM> one colour and '6 left' in the other. Ayeee!! DS> We have a limited supply...and when we run out, we'll go to the DS> back room, and get another limited supply. :P Sometimes it seems that way! Pre-pandemic is was "in-time delivery" or something like that: have enough in the stock (back room, warehouse, wherever) so not run out; have the shipment deliver juuuuust as running out. BM> If there was some sort of (worthwhile) buy-back for the barely-used BM> printer it might be worth considering. Personally I have a hard time BM> tossing away an otherwise perfectly good piece of hardware. DS> I get a $1 credit (big deal) for each cartridge I take back to DS> Office Depot. When they charge $25 for a black and $35 for a DS> multi-color print cartridge, you can see who's making out like a DS> bandit. A dollar is better than nothing, but still on the chintzy side. CartridgeWorld used to have a punch card: buy 10 (?) cartridges, get the 11th/next one free. ...Hmmm: currently I use the 'free return programme' with Lexmark: fill out an on-line form and they send me a pre-paid UPS label. Bet the postange and UPS charges are built into the price of the cartidge! BM> No problems with the cartridge drying out? DS> Not lately. I can run a test pattern to moisten it back up. DS> Besides, paper and ink are expensive!! My thinking is more frequent printing of something I could use would make better use of the paper and ink. DS> Maybe the air bladders in the cartridges were weak. :P BM> Kegel exercises! DS> Do they have to be naked to do it?? :P Yes: easier to clean any dribble! ¯ BarryMartin3@ ® ¯ @MyMetronet.NET ® .... As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog. --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .