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terryclothGo buy a printer. Simple. Find one that looks good. Bring it home. Notice that it needs 1.1 GIGABYTES to install its drivers. Curse. Run disk cleanup wizard to compress files.
[two hours pass]
...close disk cleanup wizard at the 30% mark... there's enough space now. Start installing drivers. Halfway through setup, find out that the bulk of the files can be put on a different hard drive, one with plenty of space. Get to the section of the wizard where it tells you to plug in the printer. Find out that modern printer manufacturers consider the cable connecting the printer to the computer to be an 'optional accessory', since I guess you can run it as a fax machine without it, perhaps. Oh, except that it needs to be initialized, so you really can't even do that, not that having a fax machine would help me in any way shape or form.
Drive around looking for a computer store that isn't closed already. Fail. Get back to find the driver install program 'detected that the device was plugged in' and is now trying in vain to initialize it. Kill the process. Find out that the partially-installed drivers don't show up in add/remove programs to be uninstalled so that I can try again later.
So, now my apartment is a disaster area with packaging everywhere and a useless cable-free printer on the floor (it's a fucking USB printer, which means I can only hook it up to my laptop, and there's nowhere to put a printer near my laptop), and I'm going to have to let this fucking tax bullshit carry over into a third day, assuming I can buy a cable (the way things are going, that seems optimistic) and the printer installation works this time.
AND, just to add insult to injury, I can't kick holes in the walls because I don't own the building.
[two hours pass]
...close disk cleanup wizard at the 30% mark... there's enough space now. Start installing drivers. Halfway through setup, find out that the bulk of the files can be put on a different hard drive, one with plenty of space. Get to the section of the wizard where it tells you to plug in the printer. Find out that modern printer manufacturers consider the cable connecting the printer to the computer to be an 'optional accessory', since I guess you can run it as a fax machine without it, perhaps. Oh, except that it needs to be initialized, so you really can't even do that, not that having a fax machine would help me in any way shape or form.
Drive around looking for a computer store that isn't closed already. Fail. Get back to find the driver install program 'detected that the device was plugged in' and is now trying in vain to initialize it. Kill the process. Find out that the partially-installed drivers don't show up in add/remove programs to be uninstalled so that I can try again later.
So, now my apartment is a disaster area with packaging everywhere and a useless cable-free printer on the floor (it's a fucking USB printer, which means I can only hook it up to my laptop, and there's nowhere to put a printer near my laptop), and I'm going to have to let this fucking tax bullshit carry over into a third day, assuming I can buy a cable (the way things are going, that seems optimistic) and the printer installation works this time.
AND, just to add insult to injury, I can't kick holes in the walls because I don't own the building.
