Gold 4 Cash
Published December 1st, 2011 | 
I’m so broke, I’m getting desperate for cash. Saw this add in the paper for this place that buy gold coins, jewelry, etc. A friend of mine who’s in a similar pickle money-wise told me he gold a few hundred dollars for a piece of gold jewelry. I don’t have a treasure of jewelry or coins laying around, but I did have a class ring. Should be around here somewhere, although I haven’t worn it in twenty years and don’t know exactly where it is. Before the end of the month, I’ll be tearing the place apart looking for it. It ought to be worth something.
My Scanner Problem
Published November 3rd, 2011 | I’ve got a document imaging problem. I have this old scanner. It works, as far as I know. It’s over 12 years old. That’s the problem. Even though it works, It’s useless without an updated driver. Problem is, the company (Canon) stopped supporting the device five years ago so it won’t work with my Windows 7 computer. I’m so broke at the moment, I cannot afford a new scanner. I understand the economics of not supporting older devices (companies want you to keep buying new devices) but in this economy, you’d think they’d want to engender some good will with older customers who are strapped for cash. How difficult is it to update a driver file? It’s frustrating.
Racist Old Woman on the Radio
Published October 29th, 2011 | A rainy Saturday afternoon and I am quite bored. I decided I didn’t want to venture out into the cold, icy rain today, so my Saturday activities are cancelled. Nothing to do today except watch TV and play The Sims 3 Pets. There are worse ways to spend a Saturday I suppose (not many ways, I’d venture, but, hey ….)
Supposed to be nice tomorrow. I guess I’ll hit the gym early and stop by Walmart. I need a printer cartridge (although, I doubt I’ll find one since my local Walmart never seems to stock anything but hp ink cartridges).
Anyway, I was listening to this old woman ranting on the radio this morning. One of those It-was-so-much-better-back-in-my-day rants. The gist of her argument was that things were better because families ate meals together and parents were allowed to beat their children, no one questioned authority and minorities knew their place. Yeah, sounds like paradise to me. Then the show’s host starts talking about communism. I only tuned in to here the local weather (so I could decide whether to venture out or not). What I got was an earful of bullshit. Here’s a rule of thumb: you know you’ve lived too long when you think everyone was better off in the bygone past. Not that everything now is so great, but if you add up everything that is good and bad about now and compare it to say, 1950, I thing 2011 might actually come out slightly ahead, which is not to day 1950 wouldn’t be a nice place to visit once in awhile. Just that we should get real. You can’t go back in time, can you? There’s no recreating the past. 1950’s solutions will not solve 2011 problems and old racist conservatives are scary.
