One of the things you don't want to see when you turn your cell phone on is a flicker of welcome screen followed by total blackness. The battery is just fine.
One of the things you don't want to feel when you send a print job to the laser is finger-singeing heat emanating from the newly printed pages even after a minute or more in the output tray. This is a fuser malfunction.
One of the things you really don't want to discover when you open the layout file for a book that is almost ready to go to press is all your carefully constructed knitting charts re-rendered in Times New Roman gibberish. This is not good at all.
I look forward to posting a bit more, and a different type of, news in the near future.
Noooooooooo!—my cell phone and laser printer are operational at the moment, but I have had the experience of seeing an entire file re-rendered in Times New Roman. I sympathize. I hope it all works out.
Posted by: Janet Szabo | August 02, 2007 at 04:41 AM
hugs!! I hope it all starts behaving!
Posted by: corey | August 02, 2007 at 07:11 AM
OH. Gee. (bad words deleted) I hope you had a big drinkypoo yesterday evening? We are in the midst of changing phone companies and hence, I must give up my beloved 4 year old cell phone. I am already anticipating upsetting things happening. We're doing this partially because my husband's phone sounds like R2D2 (erratic beeping) and won't let us shut it off...we have to remove the battery to achieve silence! Oh, and our air conditioner works again, and the husband's old computer now works--$600 later and after the purchase of a new one. These things happen all at once. I wish it weren't so. Maybe you're right to spend some time on Knit Design instead!? Or some lovely time outside with the dogs?!
Posted by: Joanne | August 02, 2007 at 08:41 AM
Yikes, the charts!
Posted by: Donna Druchunas | August 02, 2007 at 09:05 AM
Repeat after me: "This, too, shall pass." Nothing lasts forever, thank goodness. I'm dealing with computer issues myself... PhotoShop only wants to run sometimes, and my CD/DVD drive intermittantly doesn't work, doesn't even show up in "My Computer."
You will have a day off again, sometime. Till then, drink good tea and breathe deeply.
Posted by: LynnH | August 02, 2007 at 09:36 AM
Oh noooooo! Yikes!
Posted by: Kristi aka Fiber Fool | August 02, 2007 at 02:45 PM
Sounds like a bad day. Hope today brings resolution!
Posted by: Meg | August 03, 2007 at 09:59 AM
Thanks for encouraging comments. Yes, the charts. Yes, confounded Times New Roman (the only thing maybe worse is Courier).
Better now . . . because I re-did the charts as graphics. It could have been worse.
Posted by: Deborah Robson | August 03, 2007 at 03:54 PM