Friday 01/23/2026
Usual Friday morning walk with Joanne, this time up to Town & Country for coffee and shopping at Trader Joe’s.
Did some more reading. Did some practical things on the computer, and then set to work to print a new set of pictures for my hall gallery. And my trusty printer broke! I printed three pictures that were fine, then the next one came out too blue. I haven’t had a problem with printer color not matching the screen color since, oh, 2000? So I thought to do a nozzle check and what do you know? The yellow ink jet nozzle was producing no color. So of course the print came out too blue.
I ran the nozzle cleaning procedure a couple of times, no help. I tried to run the so-called power cleaning but it didn’t seem to do anything. So my printer is down, at least for color work. It could probably be fixed, if anybody worked on printers. At worst, by replacing the print head with the nozzles. But nobody does work on printers. They are cheap enough that any reasonable repair fee is close to the cost of a new printer.
I bought this printer in 2019, just after moving here (Day 328, 10/26/19). So you could say I’ve had my money’s worth out of it. But damn.
Anyway changed to nicer clothes and went up to the 11th floor for dinner at the Webster Street Grill. That’s a monthly event that Dining Services puts on. They do their best to emulate a fancy restaurant, multiple courses of fancy cuisine and wine. I had been invited by my neighbor Bob, and then he had invited Ian and Joanne to fill out his table. A good group, we chatted happily through the 2 and half hours it takes to serve a 6-course fancy dinner.
Codgerville 