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Well, you've read the notes, the notes had occasional wonderful words, and now it is time for you to post until the wonderful cows come home.

[bk]

And the word of the day is: POTENT!

[George]

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[Freddie]

Happy birthday, dear Jeanne!

[elmore3003]

Good morning, all!

[elmore3003]

I slept very well, which was good, since my day was hell.

[elmore3003]

I like the A & T publisher very much, but we had a telephonic discussion yesterday morning that led to a day of angst and anguish. I had been keeping notes on discrepancies between text and audio, which was fine. In some cases, he changed a word and I liked his choice better. In other cases, I had found spots where the narrator had begun a phrase, stopped and then began again, and these need fixing. Anyway, it turns out that the publisher would like a marked up printout of the text wutg everything noted. I wish I'd been told this a week ago, because I am now back to square one. That's neither here nor there; I just needed to print out a copy of the book.

[elmore3003]

So, I began the printing, and around page 80, due to my carelessness about finishing the printing and getting the cats and myself dinner, I ended up with a paper jam. The printer stopped and the next three hours of hell began.

[elmore3003]

I have this new HP laserjet M234 printer, which Jen set up for me, and I knew nada, zilch, nothing about takoing care of it. And of course, everyone I knew who could help me out - and I called them all! - was away for the long weekend. I went to the HP booklets, all of which had print too light to read; I went to Google; I made more phone calls.

[elmore3003]

INTERLUDE
While I was looking through my address book for possible computer / printer-savvy friends, I ran across the name of our DR vixmom! I had meant toearlier to check on her, so I did. She says she's been knocked flat by the pneumonia but she will return.

INTERLUDE OVER!

[elmore3003]

Now, I'm pretty printer savvy from my many sessions with Staples printers, so using a Google "HP M234 printer paper jam" search, I finally found charts from HP on procedure, and I took the printer apart. I got half of the jamed paper out from the back of the printer, leaving behind a jamed and torn off half a page. After several further examinations, I found the toner cartridge, removed it, and pulled out the paper. I put everything back together, tried to print something as a test and the printer would not work; it was now offline. What the fat hell did that mean?

[elmore3003]

So, I spent more time getting the printer online. I was ready to kill. When I thought it might be back online, I wentr back to hte computer, and the screen was black. No matter what I did, it would neither turn on or light up.

[elmore3003]

I then debated becomng an alcoholic and not giving a damn about anything.

[elmore3003]

Then, I decided, maybe thecomputer had become unplugged while I was jerking anmd dragging the printer around the table? So, I got on my hands and knees painfully and very slowly and crawled as far as I could under the computer printer table. The last time the computer had become unplugged, Jen came down and helped me out, only Jen and Ann are away until Tuesday. I couldn't find a problem or the correctplug, the pain was killing me, so I got up and called my friend Chris Coluzzi, who happened to be home and promised to come over this morning and help me out.

[elmore3003]

I cleaned up the cats' dishes, gave them fresh water, and lay down to watch TV and not get up until this morning. At one point I looked at the computer screen - it was around 6:00 - and the computer screen was lit up! I got off the bed, went to the computer, and tried to make that test printing. The printer was offline. I then wrestled again with the printer, pulled the plig out of the printer, waited 30-40 secondsa, plugged it back, and I was online. I m,ade the test print and that worked. I resumed printing the copy of A & T.

[elmore3003]

I had around 120 pages left to print, and things were humming along until we got to page 180 or so. The print grew fainter and the last pages had a bald spoint in the middlew of the text. I was running out of toner. I paused the printer, pulled the toner cartridge and beat it on the table top. When we went back to printing, I got enough toner loosened to print more pages. The print grew faint around page 200, with only six pages to go.

[elmore3003]

I went tro Amazon and looked at HP toner cartridges: $61.00. I ordered one, hoping I was buying the correct one. I pulled the dying toner cartridge, shook it, beat it againt the table, and got enough toner to finish my printing. And that was my shitty day.

[elmore3003]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happiest of Birthday Wishes for our DR Jeanne !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Freddie]

I like the A & T publisher very much, but we had a telephonic discussion yesterday morning that led to a day of angst and anguish. I had been keeping notes on discrepancies between text and audio, which was fine. In some cases, he changed a word and I liked his choice better. In other cases, I had found spots where the narrator had begun a phrase, stopped and then began again, and these need fixing. Anyway, it turns out that the publisher would like a marked up printout of the text wutg everything noted. I wish I'd been told this a week ago, because I am now back to square one. That's neither here nor there; I just needed to print out a copy of the book.

Even with all the printing the draft tsouris - This is all sounding very promising!  This is the same publisher as Paul Ford's book and Stephen Cole's recent book, isn't it? 

Everything seems to point to success, and a reason to look forward to what the future holds!

[Freddie]

Sending major health vibes to vixmom!

[Freddie]

Again, to Iris - if you're reading and just not posting, just check in even briefly to tell us how you're doing.  There are people who really care about you here!

[ChasSmith]

Good morning, all.

[ChasSmith]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DR JEANNE!!!!!

[ChasSmith]

Reading about DR Elmore's day has completely worn me out. I think I shall have to take it easy today.

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[John G.]

Reading about DR Elmore's day has completely worn me out. I think I shall have to take it easy today.

I agree. But I have to head for the hills this morning.

[John G.]

Happy birthday, Jeanne! Hope it’s a great one.

[John G.]

I haven’t heard of audio readers changing words before.

[John G.]

Weird dreams of running a convenience store that was part of a Succession-like war. It was stressful.

[John G.]

Onward!