Where Does Handwriting Fit?

  My own handwriting is extremely variable.  Being a lefty, i've never received good instruction, though countless classroom hours were devoted to my penmanship.  Any good skills i have came from my study of calligraphy (First lesson:  "You're lefthanded?  Here's the book; you can translate what I tell the others." )

Life on the Computer Farm: Upgrading Again

The Library Table, Home to "Duckpond"

  This is  not a good setup.  The table is magnificent in its way, but

Life on the Computer Farm: Those Printers

First we had the HP.
  Actually we still have, i believe, the same HP.  It's clunky and boring, while being too complicated to understand; replacing the ink cartridge is worth a week's groceries, it only does b&w, but it gets the job done.
  i've seen what looks like the same model in banks.

  Then we got a Dell.  It was worth more than we paid for it - free, for all MyGuy thought of it as junk.  It scanned.   It faxed.  It did COLOR.  i could use lots of different weights & sizes of papers & cardstocks, as long as they were no more than 11" wide.  You had to manually turn the pages over to print on the back, but that wasn't too hard.



  For my birthday last year, MyGuy got me the Epson.  It is a Really Super Fantastic Printer, though, as usual, he didn't listen to all i wanted.  (but how often will i really need to print or even scan a 12x12?)  It scans.  It faxes.  It does COLOR.  It  even prints ON CDs.  i don't even know all it does yet, it's so complicated.

  Right now it's annoying me.
  That boring HP printer will keep printing to the cartridge's last breath.  We get some pretty interesting, pale, stripey pages, but if we can put up with what we get, the HP printer will keep printing everything we ask it to.
  Not so the Really Super Fantastic Epson.
  It has six ink cartridges.  Cyan, Yellow, Lt. Cyan, Black, Magenta, Lt. Magenta.
  At the moment, the Magenta is nearly full; the Lt. Magenta and Yellow are at half.  Cyan, Lt. Cyan, and Black look very low to me, but i think i could print more with them.
  Epson has made an executive decision that the print quality would not be good enough, therefore i may not print anything.
  Not only that, i may not SCAN anything, until i replace the Cyan, Lt. Cyan, and Black cartridges.  Nor may i receive faxes, even if i do not wish to print the fax but rather store it in my computer.
  Presumably i could send faxes, if i the document was already in the computer.  But i've never wanted to fax a document like that, only paper ones.  Which would need to be scanned.

  Did i say this printer is annoying me?  That's an understatement.

Life with Two Browsers

  Well, Chrome is here.
  As Boom assured me, it is simply another web browser.
  i was happy with Firefox, and i still use it for many things, but there is one important difference.
  i did need Chrome, because for whatever obscure, probably fixable if there were inclination, reason, Firefox does not recognize my Google profile.  This makes it impossible to comment on blogs and do other neat stuff with Firefox, but that's why i have Chrome.
  And at least until i figure out how to turn off that annoying Spellcheck, i have Firefox for composing blog entries.

Life on the Computer Farm - Chrome?

  Well, MyGuy's been cultivating the Farm again.
  It's an ongoing process, really, but only sometimes does it affect me.
  He tells me i now have updated Firefox.  i can see that, though i really don't see any improvements from it.  i do see changes to adjust to - all sorts of things that i used to be able to just FIND, i now need to go to a single drop-down menu for.  That took awhile to figure out, but i did it on my own.
  Then there's other things i've used before, can't remember just now at this horridly early hour, that i haven't found at all yet.
 But i'll adjust.  And Boom tells me that, if i'd prefer the info and links to the "real estate" i now have (and still can't see that i have), that can be arranged.  That's good to know. i'll give it awhile, though.  Getting used to new stuff takes time for bodies that don't catch on quickly.
  Max seems to have had no trouble adjusting to the updated Firefox.

  But MyGuy also says i have Chrome, which theoretically will help this blog work better.  And i can't find that at all.  i looked under All Programs, which has two alphabetical lists, and neither Google nor Chrome is there.  When i told MyGuy i wasn't finding Chrome, that was his first suggestion - already done.

  So Chrome lives somewhere on the Farm.  Maybe on Duckpond.  In a few weeks with a bit more cultivation i ought to be able to use it.