Vick = Dick, printer problem
So I read that they indited Mike Vick yesterday in connection with the dog fighting ring that he both hosted and supposedly participated in. I hope they throw the book at him. The stories of torture that was inflicted on these poor dogs are horrific. In my opinion, a human being that can do these sort of things to an innocent animal are only a hair away from being serial killers. It is just beyond my imagination how you could do this to dogs. I hope the NFL commissioner suspends/bans his ass asap. It’s not like good ole Mike doesn’t have a track record of shady shit. The Ron Mexico ordeal, the water bottle with a hidden marijuana compartment and him flipping off fans should be enough to characterize this guy as having the groundwork in place for being a dirt bag. I’d be thrilled if he got banned from the NFL for life and did hard time in the federal prison system where he could be dowsed with water and then shocked so he could become more aggressive. F’in idiot.
Our neighbors HP 3800dn printer broke. There was a little tiny piece of plastic that is used to lock the cartridges in place that somehow broke/fell out. My neighbor asked me for advice and I told him to find a local HP service center and let them take a look at it. Replacing a little thing like that shouldn’t cost much. So he took it to a shop and got back an outrageous quote of $400 to fix it.
He contacted me on what to do. The shop he took it to said he could buy a HP 2600N for about the same money and that it was a comparable printer. Well I immediately called bullshit on that. The 2600n prints 50% slower, has much smaller paper trays and doesn’t have automatic duplexing like the 3800DN. This red flagged this place as not knowing what the hell they were talking about. I told my neighbor to sit tight and let me look up a few things on the internet.
When I was repairing printers back in the early to mid 90’s, the only way you could get parts was to be an authorized service center. I figured this was still the case. However upon digging around I found that HP will sell you basically anything now. Hey it’s extra money for them, they don’t give a damn if you can figure out how to install it or not. It took me awhile, but I eventually found the exact part needed to fix it, it comes with an instruction manual to guide you through it as well. I ordered the kit with next day shipping for 50 bucks.
If I would have dug a little deeper, I would have found out that this issue is actually well documented and in fact HP covers repair of this part FREE under warranty until 2010. Oh well I already ordered the stuff , I could use the challenge to dust off my printer repair skills anyway. The point is, this place was going to totally rip off my neighbor and if my neighbor didn’t ask me, he never would have known it. It seems everyone wants to rip you off anymore. It’s so hard to know if someone is giving you a straight answer whether it is the mechanic at the garage or the doctor at a clinic…
If you have an HP 3000, 3600 or 3800 printer where a cartrdige will not seat correctly, this is probably your issue. The part number for the kit to fix it is Q5982-67925, FYI
I talked to my Dad today to confirm the dates we are driving out west. He recently sold his luxurious model home that was located in a development in favor of an adobe place in the middle of nowhere with lots of open land. He was just bored in the development and didn’t like the stigma of living in one. Well now he has put himself in a situation 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Instead of having nothing to do most days, he has a list miles long to keep him busy. There is more for him to do than at the old house back in Gouglersville.
I mean I guess it is all well and good to want to be busy but hell he is 60 now. By the time I am 60 I want less to do, not more. In talking to him it sounded like he acknowledged in some ways he may have bitten off a little more than he can chew and in some ways he misses the sterile, “boring” days where he could just relax and not feel guilty about it. He said he is restricting himself to only doing stuff around the property two or three days a week so he can still enjoy himself.
He is looking forward to our arrival, although he stressed that we shouldn’t feel like that we just need to hang there the entire time, which we didn’t plan to do anyway. Unless I wanted to tend the land for a week, it could get rather boring. Dad’s revelation that this house has no air conditioning also will make us happy to explore the surrounding areas. 🙂 His stories of trying to sleep in a room that is 85 to 90 degrees just didn’t sound all that pleasant, but that’s Dad for ya.