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January 07, 2006
Ways I Could Have Spent the Last Hour
I just spent the last 72 minutes installing a printer. Does that seem reasonable? It's not like I got a new printer, scurried around to find the box cutter, unwrapped the precious piece of technology, fiddled around with all the cords, and installed the software.
Oh no.
That 72 minutes was soley devoted to installing the software. Granted, I didn't have the CD (it was missing from every reasonable place to look) and had to resort to the Dell website, but still. Locating and downloading the appropriate driver to my computer took about 7 minutes. The remaining (quick math, please) 65 minutes was all unzipping the files and executing the relevant executable file.
I kept thinking it would be over in a second, so I just sat there, staring off into space. I briefly considered going to bed and just leaving the computer to fend for itself, but then I remembered it wasn't plugged in and in all probability would run out of batteries, crash into darkness, and lose my important documents (which I thoughtfully failed to save before embarking on this bitter, bitter journey) if left unattended.
So I waited.
And waited.
And waited some more.
Lo and behold, an hour later the printer was up and running, and even printed my 1 page document. Oh precious, precious document, do you know what I went through to have you in physical form tonight? Dell All-In-One 924, I shake my fist at you!
Now I'm off to bed, but not before recounting a list of *better* ways I could have spent the last hour:
-- flying from D.C. to New York City
-- watching half of Finding Neverland, which has been sitting on the shelf for two weeks
-- blogging about the joys of Virginia Tech having finally kicked Marcus Vick to the curb
-- getting some sleep so I'm not dozing during tomorrow's showing of Fat Pig
-- sending email to Mr. Bad Apologies, reminding him that he has a blog and should use it occasionally
