Tom, Pamenter has often said that every person who owns a personal computer becomes a system adminstrator, whether the person wants to or not. (He also says that system administration is a lot easier with a Mac.) We bought a small color printer so that we could print some digital pictures. Unpacking and setting up the physical printer was a snap, about five minutes of work. The software was another story. The need for new software was brought about by the plug-and-play USB connection that gave a hieroglyphic error message. Finding the right drivers on the HP site was the major challenge. A search for my specific model number turned up nothing. The search results kept bringing me back to a site where I could buy another printer of the same type I already have. At the end, I did find the software, a version 6.0 of something that showed version 7.2 while it was running, and we now have a working printer.

We saw our biopolar friend recently. The police visited her again. There were reports from her neighbors that she was making too much noise during the night. She says that her windows were closed and that they were all wrong. When she visits people, she stays a long time and leaves hosts looking like they'd been dodging highway traffic.

It was nice to find a little Patriots bib in the laundry, left here during a visit from Cassandra.