Stupid Human tricks

["Bob La Londe" <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Last week I tried to get my invoicing done on Thursday so I could go fishing
on Friday.  No such luck.  I spent the whole afternoon tackling a takeover.
Programming and testing was no big deal, and the add-ons the customer
purchased made it worth while.

Friday I headed into the office bright and early thinking I would crank them
out and get it going.  First thing I did was load up a bunch of envelopes in
the ol' high (relatively) speed inkjet and set it to print them while I
finished invoicing.  It trashed more envelopes than it printed.  Oh, well.
Sent the envelope job to the older printer on the network, and it printed
them ok.  2-3 at a time between paper jams.  Grrrrrr.....

Thinking to save my self a bunch of time in the future I headed over to the
office supply store to buy a new printer.  I bought a nice fast laser
printer.  Spent a half an hour getting it loaded on the network so all the
computers could use it, and ran a test page from each machine.  Cool.  I
loaded a stack of window envelopes in the tray and sent a print job to run
off a hundred envelopes....  oops.  Not a good idea.  It melted the window
in a dozen envelopes before I could get it shut off.  LOL.

Spent the rest of the day printing my envelopes in the old inkjet at slower
than crud speeds and unjammed it every few envelopes.  I think it actually
felt sorry for me, because by the end it was running 30-40 envelopes between
jams.

Oh, well.  You gotta love this planned obsolescence.





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