Met one of the people who are going to be moving into our office once we’ve moved into out new location. Of course, we’re not going to move until all the old stuff that’s stored in the new office is moved out, and that’s not going to happen for a while yet. Then the remodeling crew needs to go over the new place, and the electricians, and the networking people. And for all that time this new person doesn’t even have a place to hang her coat. She’s literally using her car as an office… We’ve joked occasionally that we’re not going to move until we’re as busy as it’s possible to be. It’s starting to look less like a joke now.
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\nThe biggest beastly bit of equipment that we’ll need to shift is the poster printer, and it’s been running pretty much non-stop yesterday and today. The worst case scenario that I’m envisioning involves the printer suffering a total mechanical breakdown roughly a day or so after we move. I probably shouldn’t give any bright ideas to the random gremlins that have been tasked with enforcing Murphy’s Law.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, the printer has been a heck of a workhorse. It’s a HP DesignJet 800ps, and it’s been incredibly reliable. We’ve put over a mile of paper through it, along with enough ink to fill more than six two-liter pop bottles. And thanks to the front panel diagnostics, I can see that we’d have 2 bottles of black ink, 2 cyan, 1 each of magenta and yellow, and enough left over to fill a bottle halfway up with a disgusting sludge of the overflow.<\/p>\n
Hm… You know, this is sounding really familiar…<\/p>\n
(One quick archive search later…)<\/p>\n
Ok, I wrote about it in April<\/a> of last year. Pretty much everything I wrote then holds true now, except that we’ve put 3.7 miles of paper through the printer, and we’re well into our second layer of paper covering the football field.<\/p>\n And stadium isn’t spelled “Stadiugm.” Don’t know how I missed that typo…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Met one of the people who are going to be moving into our office once we’ve moved into out new location. Of course, we’re not going to move until all the old stuff that’s stored in the new office is … Continue reading