I’m posting this is so DirtCrashr can be again reminded of Hawaii. 😉
This is the second year this plant has been on the patio, but the first pink flowers started to open this week. Click on the image to enlarge.
September 2010
Goodbye Old Faithful Printer
After nearly twenty years, my old Hewlett Packard 4L Laserjet printer finally bought the farm. The venerable old printer started misfeeding the paper last night causing jams and errors. I tried troubleshooting it for a while but it stubbornly refused to cooperate. So I disconnected it from the network and loaded it up to go to the HAZMAT recycle center on Friday. I have a bunch of other HAZMAT items boxed up so the timing is right.
Image: HP 4L – Click to enlarge
Even before showing signs of failure, it started getting hard to find toner cartridges for the old printer. Fortunately, one on-line source came through a couple of years ago when I ordered a couple of toner cartridges. I used one up and the last one we had started to exhibit signs of going out of toner.
The last time I installed the printer on the new laptop, I had a difficult time locating an on-line source for a proper printer driver. I guess the signs were all there that the time has come for a new printer.
We will be in the market for a new printer when the new house in Arizona is complete. In California, we’re going to scout out and buy a cheapie printer to use until we finally get the house on the market.
Spiffy Google Gadget
Jim Geraghty at NRO’s Campaign Spot forwards this interesting Election Year Dynamic Trend Map from Google:
This shows states senate race trending at the present time. The redder a state is the better for Republican candidates, the bluer states go to Democrats and yellow is a toss-up as of today.
You can change the mode to senate, house or governor races. You can also change the source of polling (limited to a few liberal sources).
As Geraghty says, “If your map just keeps getting redder and redder, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s broken.”
Gazania
I took a photo of a pretty gazania in the patio garden this morning. Click on the image to enlarge.
First Plumeria
Dozens of plumerias in the neighborhood have had flowers for weeks, but for some reason, my plumerias are usually late. However, they are reliable and produce flowers every year. Click on the image to enlarge.
Mountain of Debt
I am quite certain that this is not exactly what President Ronald Reagan meant when he spoke about “The Shining City on a Hill.”
From President Reagan’s Farewell Speech to the Nation:
I’ve spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don’t know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace, a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity, and if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That’s how I saw it, and see it still.
How do you think the Democrats and Obama see their “City?” My guess is they see it as depicted above.
Hat tip to The Patriot Post for the cartoon.