{"id":391,"date":"2016-10-20T23:30:31","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T05:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=391"},"modified":"2020-02-04T23:34:17","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T05:34:17","slug":"printer-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Printer Error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m cleaning up my home computer workstation. This is somewhat like cleaning out a refrigerator: if it hasn\u2019t been done for a long time, it can be pretty repulsive. I\u2019m a junk collector by nature; I save stuff. \u201cThis might come in handy one day.\u201d Or, as my father once muttered about some worn out work boots which he\u2019d long since replaced, but was reluctant to discard, \u201cThem things would\u2019a been like&nbsp;<em>gold<\/em>&nbsp;in the Depression.\u201d&nbsp; It\u2019s hard to throw away good stuff.&nbsp; Hence, it accumulates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It accumulates; it becomes disordered, it collects dust by the cubic yard; it becomes the habitation of devils and every hateful and unclean bird; and in the case of a computer workstation, it develops a Gordian knot of cables and power cords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I rented a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/compactpowerrents.com\/rental-equipment\/skid-steer\/\">Bobcat<\/a>\u00a0down at Home Cheapo and managed to get everything off the desk and the corner cleaned out and the cables untangled and wiped down.\u00a0 Carried the dirt out back and filled in some low spots.\u00a0 Got the walls vacuumed clean and everything shiny.\u00a0 Now it was time to set things back in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it turns out, I\u2019ve had more on that desk and in that corner than I really had room for.&nbsp; Some might say I had more than the Gross Domestic Product of a small Latin American country.&nbsp; In any case, I needed to discard stuff, which isn\u2019t easy.&nbsp; See paragraph [1] above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I decided I don\u2019t need my printer, a hulking mammoth called an \u201call in one\u201d model.&nbsp; I seldom use it, it usually has a bad ink cartridge when I need it, and I wind up using Wonder Wife\u2019s printer via the network.&nbsp; So I got its original packaging from the attic (\u201cSee?&nbsp; I told you it might come in handy one day!\u201d) and boxed it up nicely with a note taped to the outside to remind me of its condition.&nbsp; When I carried it back up, I got to looking at a large collection of computer equipment that I\u2019m saving until needed.&nbsp; I counted seven other printers.&nbsp; Down in my \u201ccloset office\u201d (which is now only a storage closet, but I still refer to it as Fort Cloffice), I have two more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">*Sigh*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m cleaning up my home computer workstation. This is somewhat like cleaning out a refrigerator: if it hasn\u2019t been done for a long time, it can be pretty repulsive. I\u2019m a junk collector by nature; I save stuff. \u201cThis might come in handy one day.\u201d Or, as my father once muttered about some worn out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/?p=391\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Printer Error&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p45dxY-6j","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.barleyservices.biz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}