Power cords and recliners

Well do I have you wondering about the title of this posting?

I was sitting in a recliner with my computer on my lap I set the computer off to the side and had the foot rest go back under the chair to get up. Well if your power cord gets caught in the metal folding mechanism it is not a good thing.

Yepper you then only have what ever battery life is left in it to run it and that is not a good thing right before the quilt show when you need to update the show web site.

So let’s say the computer got shut off and I then went on a search for a new power cord. Using the other computer in the house that hubby uses my old lap top that I have reformatted so none of the programs etc. that I use are on it. I went on line searching for a replacement.

Well I called Dell the maker of my computer and that power cord was around 50 bucks.  Ouch not happy so decided to do a little more looking. I found the same power cord on line at a computer store I found a replacement for 25 dollars. Yepp that is better but I wondered could I find one even better. So onward the search went. Yep I checked e-bay not much better then what I had found the for some reason I checked Amazon yep the power cord I needed for 10.00.  Now each of these places had shipping but if I placed an order for 50 dollars or something like that I don’t have to pay shipping well that was not really a problem I needed ink cartridges for my HP printer. 

Now I placed my order and waited patiently for it to come (NOT) I saved what battery I had left on the lap top for my update of the guild web site that I needed to do last week. It all worked out and I now have a new cord and am back up and running.

I got a new desk and it is a mess all ready or still

Over the weekend I found a new desk to house all those things that computer require to store and have and deal with. I let my granddaughter have my camera for the weekend so I did not have a real camera to take a picture with but my computer has a camera so I used that it is not the best photo but it will do for now.

Ok here it is in all its messy ness. Add to this my internet went down today late afternoon and I ended up with a tech here to fix it. I cannot complain about timing he was here in like 15 to 20 min from when I called in with the problem.

So after several things I had my modem plug into the wrong side of a filter/splitter and then after that was fixed it seem like something was wrong with the modem so he replaced that too. Now I am up and running and no problem.

Then I was having book marks printed for the quilt show and the print shop copier went down this afternoon fingers crossed he will have it fixed tomorrow morning or I will be making a run to a print shop somewhere else. Life is only fun if you are busy right.

Saturday and Easter

I have had a busy day loading programs on to my new lap top. The bummer part of all this is I have to get all the data files off the old lap top that died and will take a bit.

Have to extract the hard drive out of it and I hope/think that it will be fine then move all the files off the hard drive to either a CD or a flash drive and then import it all into this system.

I am not as sure that I like Window’s 7 it is definitely different compared to XP.

I have trimmed the last 8 quilt blocks of Summer Breeze quilt and hope to get them sewn together tonight. Had sort of thought it would be good to clean up my sewing room things seem to be piling up here. How does that happen? It seems like an area goes from picked up to messy in no time at all.

Love my new scanner/printer/copier/fax

Well the week before Christmas we went shopping and I got a new 4 in one HP Officejet 6500. Well so far it is a love afair that is going well. I can scan a pile of photos in one fell swoop and do not have to lift and feed each one by hand.

I do have to edit them a little bit because it scans the whole screen area but I can live with that part.

Plus the ink in this is pigma ink that was a question I asked before getting it. To do quilt labels on fabric if you have pigma ink it will make things so much more permenant. I was told that this printer has pigma ink. I have not tried a label yet in it and have a couple that I need to do to catch up.

I will probably test this like I did the last time I created labels for the first time. I made a label and then threw it in with blue jeans and washed it several times just to see how it comes out. I will try and put up some photos of this in the different stages so all can see.

New Dishwasher

Well it looks like the rain has stop for a little bit so today we are going to drive to Waterloo and pick up the new dishwasher that was ordered last weekend. Kind of a pain since when we went down to look at them I was in the mode of I want it now. LOL instant gratification I guess.

Oh well just have to learn some patience I guess.

I started yesterday afternoon and did up posters for the Chocolate "An Extravaganza" one of the Library Friends big money makers. We do really well at this it is hosted at the Upper Iowa University's President Home I think that is as big of an attraction as the fact that you get to come and spend the time eating as many chocolate goodies as you can stuff in your month/plate. Talk about and overload.

Yesterday I started a reload on Ray's computer That is the lap top at work I have been fighting with it for the last two weeks. I think it has been the printer that was on the system was a dell 4 in 1 and it was just fine then about 2 weeks ago the scanner/copier/fax part of it quit working. It would still print but the rest of it was a no go.

So Ray and Karla went out and got a new printer 4 in 1 it was a Lexmark not real expensive unit. I suggested a black laser printer but that was a further drive to get it. So this new printer will only default to printing in color mode first you have to at the begining of each copy hit the black button and then copy. So I thought ok I will load the software that goes with this new printer and hopefully change the default. WRONG. The software for the Lexmark took over the printer spool and I could not change any settings on the printer. I did not realize it had taken over the printer spool so I then moved the lap top back to the desk it sits on and rehooked the old printer to it. Now nothing will print on the old Dell printer because the Lexmark has taken over the printer spool and there are like 4 black ink cartrides yet to use up on the Dell. Lets just say that the Dell ink cartrides are not cheap and so goes the saga of the printers.

Lets just say after doing a whole bunch of uninstalls and reinstalls and etc I am reformating the hard drive and starting it over again. This is not a super fast project but it should fix all the problems I HOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

So as I go back and forth checking to see that all the updates are installed then I take it down and rehook the printer and then put the program in that we use to create labels. So wish me lots of luck.