Things that happened today: Pre-packing for the European Textile Forum (as in "making heaps of things that need to come along, and have to be packed into boxes or directly into the car in the next few days"); cuddling the cat (that's a daily must), work on the NESAT conference presentation; emails regarding the in-prep or running projects, and a tiny little bit of new website work stuff was snuck in as well.

I've also been packing things and printing out stuff - instruction sheets to go with spindles, and distaffs, and distaff kits. And I have realised that it's time to get a new printer... because the old one is acting up even more than usually.

Usually, it must be said, it's only doing small annoying things. Though it has recently refused to re-calibrate decently, and that is definitely a bad thing, especially for printouts sent to customers (which should look nice and clean)... Unfortunately there is no way to properly or manually re-calibrate the thing; there may have been, we dimly remember some possibility to calibrate a printer, but that was years and about 3 Windows issues ago. Yes, the printer is at least 15 years old.

The really sad thing is that it's still working nicely apart from the calibration issue, so if that could be fixed... but it looks like it can't.

So. Add "get informed about current printer options" to the list of things to deal with. Though that will definitely not happen until after the summer break and then some. There's never a good time for things like this to happen, but right at the moment, it's really not something I can squeeze in on top of the other things that need to happen and have an actual deadline... Ideally, the outcome of the "get informed" then will be a new printer that's decently eco-friendly, does not cost an arm and a leg, and will last a long while. And if any of you have a hint in that general direction, please let me know!