Looking forward to the "day"...
Feb. 16th, 2002 07:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe solid rack time I logged two "nights" ago was repeated again yesterday (making it two nights in a row that I've gotten something like 7 hours of sleep at a time). Not surprisingly, what I call "the 5 o'clock yawns" - the nearly irresistible compulsion to doze that grabs you at about that time of the morning - have stopped (they'd plagued me since I started working the night shift last Saturday midnight).
I've got another 40 segments of text to work on, but that should not take very long. I want to go visit Lee, but in calls over the past couple of days, she's sounded less than enthusiastic to see me; certainly unenthusiastic to come down to Pearland (then again, I can see where the prospect can be easily considered an invitation to a terminal case of boredom).
I did some shopping yesterday (I'd run out of dog food), so it wouldn't make sense to make more purchases today (there's an Auchan "hypermarket" not far from her soon-to-be-vacant apartment), though it wouldn't hurt to visit. [Love that "hypermarket," by the way; obviously, it's a translation of the French "hypermarché," but it does grate on this native American's ears.]
One thing I've observed over the past couple of days as a result of my Canon BJC-80 having run out of ink: refill kits seem to have disappeared from the market (at least locally). Here, I'm talking about small vials of black and color ink - and accessories - that you can use to refill printer ink cartridges that are normally hideously expensive (discussed previously in my post The imp's ire strikes back! of just about a year ago). CompUSA didn't have any in stock. K-Mart had none; nor did Wal-Mart.
The only viable explanation I can think of off the top of my head is that people may have experienced significant problems using them (I've used them with success with Galina's Epson color printer and my Canon BJC-80, and without limited-to-no success with my old Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 650 and the H-P Color Copier at the store). If I do go visit Lee, I'll stop by Auchan to browse (their wine and cheese selection is impressive) and will check to see if they sell any such kits. Failing that, I seem to recall that Sam's Club stocks some pretty impressive kits of this sort.
In any event, I shall have to make sure that Lee and I spend some time together "tomorrow" afternoon - actually, it is tomorrow! - when I won't be under pressure to get to bed "early" so as to be fresh for another midnight shift, since my work day on Monday will start at noon.
Time to start getting ready to quit the MSR for the day.
Cheers...
I've got another 40 segments of text to work on, but that should not take very long. I want to go visit Lee, but in calls over the past couple of days, she's sounded less than enthusiastic to see me; certainly unenthusiastic to come down to Pearland (then again, I can see where the prospect can be easily considered an invitation to a terminal case of boredom).
I did some shopping yesterday (I'd run out of dog food), so it wouldn't make sense to make more purchases today (there's an Auchan "hypermarket" not far from her soon-to-be-vacant apartment), though it wouldn't hurt to visit. [Love that "hypermarket," by the way; obviously, it's a translation of the French "hypermarché," but it does grate on this native American's ears.]
One thing I've observed over the past couple of days as a result of my Canon BJC-80 having run out of ink: refill kits seem to have disappeared from the market (at least locally). Here, I'm talking about small vials of black and color ink - and accessories - that you can use to refill printer ink cartridges that are normally hideously expensive (discussed previously in my post The imp's ire strikes back! of just about a year ago). CompUSA didn't have any in stock. K-Mart had none; nor did Wal-Mart.
The only viable explanation I can think of off the top of my head is that people may have experienced significant problems using them (I've used them with success with Galina's Epson color printer and my Canon BJC-80, and without limited-to-no success with my old Hewlett-Packard Deskjet 650 and the H-P Color Copier at the store). If I do go visit Lee, I'll stop by Auchan to browse (their wine and cheese selection is impressive) and will check to see if they sell any such kits. Failing that, I seem to recall that Sam's Club stocks some pretty impressive kits of this sort.
In any event, I shall have to make sure that Lee and I spend some time together "tomorrow" afternoon - actually, it is tomorrow! - when I won't be under pressure to get to bed "early" so as to be fresh for another midnight shift, since my work day on Monday will start at noon.
Time to start getting ready to quit the MSR for the day.
Cheers...
