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Posting from my phone, so this will be short.

We got to the beach house late Saturday afternoon.  Small group this year: I think just over 30 total with 10 kids 10 or younger.

I’ve only finished one book here so far, but I read a book on the plane and another in the car on the way from Texas to Louisiana Friday night.  I’ve solved my rubik’s cube a number of times; there’s no shortage of kids willing to scramble it, though a couple have spent some time trying to solve a side.  I’ve also solved the 7-cube once, but I didn’t hand it off to the kids to scramble.

One of the few shells worth keeping that I’ve found so far is even bigger and more perfect than the big one I found last year.  Hopefully there will be a calm day when the shelling is good since it hasn’t been so far.

I have no idea what’s up with my printer now. I haven’t used it since February, but it worked fine then. Now that I need to print financial documents out for applying for a mortgage it’s failing.

My first attempt to print over the network (using an ubuntu machine as a print server) had no response. The printer didn’t get a job and windows had nothing in the queue. I didn’t think to try digging into the samba printer sharing settings. I then reinstalled the printer on windows and printed a test page. The printer got the request, but failed at feeding in a sheet of paper. I messed with it a bit and it sucked in two sheets at once, but the only spot it printed was the windows logo in the corner of the windows printer test page.

Then I figured it was the black ink cartridge, so I pulled it out. When I shook it I could hear sloshing, so I cleaned off the printer head with a damp tissue and got ink all over it. Figuring it was fine I put it back in and tried printing again. It spit out a mostly blank sheet of paper with faint blue outlines where the boxes on the page I was trying to print were, but lower down on the page black lines started showing up. I figured it just needed to be used a bit, so I hit print again. The printer never got the job, and reinstalling didn’t fix it.

At that point I figured the network printer setup was probably a source of major complications if not actual issues, so I plugged it directly into my desktop. It installed and I printed the test page, and this time the black was as dark as it gets, but the windows logo was very faded. I’m not concerned with the color, so I printed the document I was trying to print again. Once again it came out with faint blue borders and some faint but almost legible black text near the bottom of the page. The next print attempt actually worked, though it’s all a bit faint. I can’t explain why the test page came out fine but the next print was still faded, but I can live with somewhat faint so long as it’s all clear.

If I actually used my printer much as a printer I’d be rather tempted to just go out and buy a decent printer with a network port built in for network printing. As it is, I think I’ve used the scanner more than I’ve used the printer part of it, and it’s not like I do much scanning.

I found out today that next Monday is Memorial Day, which is one of the paid holidays we get. Yay for a 3 day weekend. If I’d actually looked it up I’d have noticed, but I’ve been busy lately and didn’t think of it.

Today was graduation at the Air Force Academy, so they had the Thunderbirds out for their yearly air show. Unlike last year, I actually found out when it was and got to watch it from the balcony on the back of our building. It was neat, especially when they flew somewhat low right over us on the way back to the AFA.

Leaving work today (later than I intended, which has been common lately) I saw a rabbit trekking across the parking lot. I’m guessing it’s one of the ones that lives in the landscaping in front of the building, but I’m wondering what would prompt a rabbit to go that far from anything green or all hiding spots besides cars. Perhaps it spotted a bush and decided something along the lines of “that’s green, I’m going to go eat it despite standing next to all these other plants.”