Nothing starts the day better...

A couple of reports I did yesterday turned out to be not the latest-greatest versions, and so upon receipt of said information this morning, I came out of the starting blocks grumbling under my breath about the dubious ancestry of various report-writing parties and duly appreciative of the MS Word document comparison feature.

After all of yesterday's work (3,300 words plus completing visa paperwork, getting photographed, etc.), I landed squarely on the back side of the power curve, although if I'm lucky, I ought to be able to finish my outstanding 4,000+ source words by the end of the day and - if I am particularly lucky - I'll have them despeckled by the time I go to sleep tonight.

But that won't happen if I sit here and tap my keyboard in LJ, that's for sure!

Cheers...

Grrr...

Epson printer/scanners have been annoyingly designed so that if any one of the six ink cartridges is low on ink, the unit will no longer scan.

While potentially profitable over the short term, my long-term solution is to never, ever buy another Epson printer.

I just learned the hard way, however, that eventually, even ink cartridges that are not low on ink will get that way even if you never use the printing function.

The only other scanner currently available to me is the fairly reliable (but old) Lexmark X6100 unit I bought at an estate sale, but as far as I can tell, no drivers for it exist for Windows 7.

So now, I'm taking some time out of my leisurely (not!) schedule to see if I can install the Windows 2000 version of the X6100 software in my virtual Windows 2000 setup under VMWare.

Wish me luck.

Cheers...

UPDATE: Hey! It works! (With the added plus - I think - of being able to run the original Lexmark "All-In-One" software, which I hadn't been able to do on my Vista system.)