Saturday 01/10/2026
Just a bunch of unrelated events strung out with periods of reading and naps.
At 9am I went to help Gloria install a printer. Gloria is not very bright for a retired economics professor. We had told her the tech wouldn’t install any more HP printers. They are too complicated and always cause problems.So she bought another HP printer. Then called me instead of calling tech squad. OK, that might have been smart of her. I have to work on my boundary-setting skills.
Anyway the printer installed quite smoothly, I was surprised. However she had not done her shopping carefully. The only way to load paper in this printer, is to drop it into the slanting rear paper feed. It doesn’t have a drawer underneath like many printers. When she figured that out she realized it would never work in the under-counter space she meant to keep it. Then when it was installed, I said, ok, what shall we print? And she picked a 3-page doc and said, print both sides. Um, sorry Gloria, this printer does not have auto-two-side printing. So she screwed up this purchase two ways and means to send the printer back or sell it. And I contributed an hour to a pointless installation.
Next up was a meeting with Jean who needed some coaching in use of iMovie. She is diligently working on learning to use iMovie so she can edit the videos of our lecture events, relieving me of that job. She’s getting there. But it’s amazing how people can use computers for decades and not know things.
Then lunch and at 1pm, I got a visit from a nurse practitioner. This was free perk of the IBM/United Healthcare insurance, an annual wellness check. Turns out I’m well. Lamp, key, flower. Those were the 3 words I had to remember. Making me as sane as El Presidente.
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