It must be the moon or just that time. You may remember my scanners going down recently. Well, this being the first of the month, I had water bills to generate for delivery to the bank this morning. I started the printing Saturday around 2pm providing lots of time to complete the job which usually takes an hour or so. All was proceeding well until I encountered a paper jam. This was not unusual. It is normally a matter of clearing the jam and proceeding. Sometimes in the past it required a reboot to carry on but nothing more.
Not this time! For some reason known only to itself, the printer wished to consider that it was printing some fantasy version of War and Peace or something. It just kept feeding blank sheet after blank sheet after blank sheet. Being the optimist I try to be, I sat there like that guy Desmond on "Lost" pushing the button and believing that sooner or later the phantom job would end and the printer would reset itself and be available to complete my assignment. Not to be. I pushed that damn button until 10:30pm and gave up.
I tried again in the morning with the same result. I finally called a friend and borrowed his printer to finish the invoicing. The bills made it to the bank by opening time today...I haven't missed yet but this was close.
With any luck I will get a ride to the big city today to purchase a new printer. I probably won't be able to get the one I want but I should be able to get something. Ah life in Paradise ;> )
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