I thought I’d have to auction it off on ebay as a broken printer, or just chuck it and auction off the spare cartridges, but I tried the answer I’d gotten on www.FixYa.com and the printer is once again printing.  Whoo-hoo!

I just need to point out that the legendary Grillete on the Mattweid reached a new pinnacle with an entire pig on the grill.  And I need to point out that after a week of horrible rains we were blessed by surprisingly balmy weather that got hot on Sunday at my aunt’s birthday party.

You know you’re not seeing enough sun if your sunburn after-care lotion expired 22 months ago.

Where am I going next?  I am going here:

I can’t figure out why they don’t at least design one non-blinking non-rainbow-colored button for people to use.  I know there’s no way I’m using that on our company site!

I got to observe something today that made me chuckle.  In the Basel train station, most platforms empty up onto an overpass via stairs and sometimes escalators.  When a train arrives, the stairs and escalators are chronically jammed and people move slowly.  On my way home today it was no different, except that two young girls had the bright idea to use the down escalator.  Obviously, they walked more, but managed to overtake most of us because the escalator was in energy saving mode: it moves slowly until somebody boards at the top.  After the girls, an African followed suit and obviously understood the mechanism: he hurried up and got to the top just as the girls did.  The next guy, a suit and tie and cell phone edition, was too important to run.  You could see it coming: the girls got to the top, the escalator accelerated, and Mr. Imeladdanmafone was suddenly moving down instead of up.  Next to him, the smiling crowd continued to poke its way up the regular way.  I didn’t see whether he got off at the top or the bottom – I thought it’d be poor form to just stand at the top of the stairs and stare.

The Internet Crash.