Tag Archives: Desk Clutter

Ink

I’ve been thinking I needed printer ink for the last several weeks, since my printer is reporting that several of the cartridges are getting quite low. I had intended to order some tonight, and nearly did until I opened my filing cabinet and found refills for every single ink cartridge I have.

Well, at least I found the cartridges before I ordered new ones…

Note – I use a business-level printer that does duplexing and provides an insane amount of paper storage capacity (and it’s got a wireless connection built in to boot) – why do I use something with that much power? Home-use printers seem to fall a bit short in the areas of networking and duplexing, thus I went to business models. This is an HP OfficeJet Pro K550dwtn (actually, it’s a K550dtwn), and thus far has served me quite well. It helps that I keep my need for ink down by forcing all printouts to only use black ink and to use the “Fast/Economical Printing” setting (which is essentially draft printing). There is no visually appreciable difference between draft printing and normal printing speeds, except that draft printing uses a lot less ink.

Introverts

This sounds a lot like me (not shockingly – I have a Meyers-Briggs type of ISTJ, and, in fact, scored 0 in the “E” (extravert) category last time I took that particular test).

Site Updates

The observant visitors to this site will note two changes: first, my contact information is available on the main page.  Second, there’s a new “profiles” option in the site navigation bar.  Clicking on that option will give you a nice little list of all the profiles I have around the web.  The profile idea is somewhat stolen from Zach Hale, one of my co-workers in the iSchool IT department.  The icon set that contains the down arrow next to that menu is also (sort of) stolen from him, but is really stolen from its creators – it’s called HoHoHo!.

Raspberry!

Okay, I’m on a raspberry theme lately – raspberries in sparkling apple cider (sometimes frozen raspberries in sparking apple cider), and I recently had one of my favorite candies – raspberry sticks! I also ocassionally have raspberry mochas.

Except that now, I want more raspberry sticks.

And the word “raspberry” looks nothing like it sounds.

That is all.

Billiards

I’ve been spending a lot of time at Kendrick’s Billiards & Patio Cafe while up here in Bellingham. Amanda and I have visited three times this week, either by ourselves or with various other people, to play and enjoy their food and drink. I’m finding myself becoming somewhat addicted to the game, which may (not?) be a bad thing.

Olympia badly needs a good billiards place that’s open to all ages on the west side or downtown…