Fixed

Yipee! I figured it out. I worked on my poem for the workshop and my blog. Not once did I bang my head on my desk. Though, I did think about it.

Instead, I did some thinking on the last little tweak I still need to do on my novel. The novel has given me another challenge. I found a little problem with the last chapter. A minor problem, but one I had to take care of before I sent out the submission again. So I reread the chapter and made notes.

I have a feeling this won’t be the last problem, but I’ve come to not care about that. I’m just going to push on ahead, not matter what’s there. And I’m going to learn something and damn it, I’m going to act like this is the only life I get. I’m going to be happy, damn it. And that is up to me.

Finally, and once I had that better outlook, I looked at my printer again. I stopped calling it names and apologized. After all, it’s helped me for some time and it was with me when I placed in a poetry contest, with me through umpteen versions of my novel, with me right after I started back to writing after that stupid MPGN tripped me up.

I took out the ink cartridges, held my breath and pulled out the printer heads. I’ve done this once before and had the instructions printed and placed—somewhere, but I couldn’t find them. I remembered, though. I figured—it’s not working now, if I make it worse—at least, I tried. This printer has actually lasted longer than my previous two, so I’ve actually been holding my breath, but really felt this was a printer head or ink problem. Besides, I’m just like everyone else, this economy has me being very careful with my money and I sure didn’t want to buy a new printer if I didn’t need to. (I’ve been holding my breath with my keyboard and mouse, too, for the same reason) I think, sometimes, I should get these repair when they break, but that costs so much, too, so I end up buying new. I think that’s where so many people end up.

Anyway, I cleaned the heads, replaced them, then had the printer go through a printer head cleaning again. After that, I had the printer do a printer head alignment. I think that’s what did it, but I really don’t know. I just know it works now. Yeh!

Still, I learned something—I’ll do each of these procedures, next time, before I panic. I guess it’s a little like Ella and the Tie-down Man. Sometimes, you just have to do some thinking and little tweaks.

Today’s going to be better. I’ll make it so.