Stupid Human tricks

Bob La Londe · 2005-07-11T13:22:10+00:00

Last week I tried to get my invoicing done on Thursday so I could go fishingon Friday. No such luck. I spent the whole afternoon tackling a takeover.Programming and testing was no big deal, and the add-ons the customerpurchased made it worth while.Friday I headed into the office bright and early thinking I would crank themout and get it going. First thing I did was load up a bunch of envelopes inthe ol' high (relatively) speed inkjet and set it to print them while Ifinished invoicing. It trashed more envelopes than it printed. Oh, well.Sent the envelope job to the older printer on the network, and it printedthem 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 theoffice supply store to buy a new printer. I bought a nice fast laserprinter. Spent a half an hour getting it loaded on the network so all thecomputers could use it, and ran a test page from each machine. Cool. Iloaded a stack of window envelopes in the tray and sent a print job to runoff a hundred envelopes.... oops. Not a good idea. It melted the windowin 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 slowerthan crud speeds and unjammed it every few envelopes. I think it actuallyfelt sorry for me, because by the end it was running 30-40 envelopes betweenjams.Oh, well. You gotta love this planned obsolescence.