decay # 32 ~ sometimes life is not ...
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 09:45AM 
Cherry pits and fuzzy fruit salad • click to embiggen ... a bowl of cherries. While it's certainly true that I did eat a bowl of cherries yesterday, life (computer-wise) was anything but a bowl of cherries. Sometimes life is just the pits.
A very long story, short - I spent the entire day wrestling with the installation of the Epson 7800 software. There actually was a point at mid-afternoon that I seriously began to contemplate a return to film and the wet darkroom. That was right about the time that I discovered that the print driver /software for my Epson 2200 had somehow been modified to something I did not recognize. That was after: a) 3 phone calls to Epson support re: the Epson 7800, b) 1 phone call to Apple support after Epson support informed me that I would have to re-install my system software in order for the Epson to work, and c) a trip to Plattsburgh for a USB cable because their was a known issue with the 7800 and firewire.
At that point the Epson 7800 still wasn't working - some kind of "communication" error - and to discover that my Epson 2200 software had morphed into something unusable ... well, you can pretty much guess what I was feeling at that point. And, not to mention that it didn't help at all that my playoff beard is at the stage where it's getting kind of itchy.
So, 1 more call to Epson support wherein I was informed that I had to download an older driver for the 2200, do an uninstall on the previous (now changed) version, install the new (old) version and pray. Then it was on to yet another uninstall of the 7800 stuff and 5th reinstall of the new driver and, once again, pray some more. There were, of course, about 10,000 computer shutdown / restarts along the way and 1 system software update thrown in for good measure.
Long about 5:00PM - I started this adventure at 9:00AM - my prayers were answered - both printers were up and running and everything was working just as it was suppose to work. Only the computer gods/gremlins know why, after repeatedly repeating the same steps over and over and over again, the damn things finally decided to work.
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Reader Comments (4)
Sounds so familiar. You do it by the book until it decides it's ready to go! Hopefully it'll work a day or two from now.
I'm not surprised at all by this Mark. It seems to be par for the course these days.
Playoff beard huh? I know you're talking hockey but I am a huge basketball fan and I'm letting my one stray chin hair grow for the duration of the NBA playoffs! Go Cavaliers! I don't "get" hockey. Why do the refs let them pulverize each other to bloody bits while they stand there and watch. Is it sport or WWF wrestling?
Mary:
You should give hockey another chance. Go see it live first - even can am event and college games can be fast and exciting. They knock into each other alot, but the fighting ain't what it used to be.
I was not a fan until i met gravitas, and now I am hooked.
The Wife:
You're probably right that I should see a hockey game live to get a true sense of it. This is honestly the only major sport that I don't feel "literate" in. Don't mind bloody aggression (the NBA playoffs are certainly rife with it) in sport but I could never tell, from what little hockey I've watched, what was real and what was theater. It always seemed to go too far to be taken seriously and I'm glad to hear they've reigned it in a bit. They are some of the most powerful and graceful athletes on the planet that is for sure.
Go Penguins?! ;-)