I really have to get all of my planning stuff for the work I want to do on my house finished and put to bed and that means finalising the planning document to take into account the changes resulting from the proposed new ‘syst\u00e8me d’assainissement’ and getting four copies plus the multi-page planning application into the Plazac Mairie before I leave on Wednesday. I thought that I’d have plenty of time to make the changes and run off the four copies today, but I didn’t reckon with Sod’s Law.<\/p>\n
The first thing I found is that when my stupid little Epson SX438W printer is asked to make 4 copies, it prints all of the copies off at the same speed ie snail’s pace, rather than taking it’s time scanning and printing the first copy and then printing subsequent copies quickly from memory. That was frustrating enough, but I was resigned to letting things just take their course and twiddling my thumbs while it did its agonisingly slow job.<\/p>\n
But then it ran out of yellow ink and when I checked my stocks, I found that I’d already used the last one. So that was it. It means that I’ll have to make a special trip to Leclerc tomorrow morning and pay through the nose for some new cartridges and as I’ll then have to resume when I get back from where I had to leave off today, it probably means that I’ll be working right up to the last minute to get the job done.<\/p>\n
The other frustrating thing is that I have a Canon MP530 printer sitting up on my shelf that I haven’t been able to use since I came to France. In the few weeks between moving it from the UK before I moved permanently to France and switching it on when I got here, it developed a ‘cartridge’ fault. The tragedy is that when working, it’s a superb machine that punches out excellent prints and copies at high speed, which is why I’ve hung onto it.<\/p>\n
I tried it out again after the Epson let me down, but to no avail, except that I managed to get ink all over my hands and bits of it. Just in case, I ordered a new print head from China as they are now much less expensive than they were and it’ll be a nice surprise if it’s here by the time I get back and the printer starts working again. But after the day I’ve had today, I won’t be holding my breath \ud83d\ude10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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