packrat vs. new computer woes
7 Feb 2003 07:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cimoreneso now it becomes clear why mom hasn't installed the spiffy new printer on the spiffy new computer, other than the fact that she wouldn't have been able to. the software for the printer, and, indeed, all the software less than six years old, belonging to the updates from the dinosaur computer and all the paraphernalia associated with her own laptop, have been missing at least since christmas, and more likely for six months or so. i am not sure if dad was even aware of this, because if he was i'd expect him to say not 'mom wants you to install the printer' but 'mom wants you to install the printer, but she doesn't know where the cd or the instruction book are.' so yeah. am not impressed with the familial powers of organization just now.
she insists that the cds are in a specific container, which she cannot name or completely describe. i do not remember it, but she says that i insisted we buy it and implies that i am probably the one who lost it. she thinks it is black, and maintains staunchly that it is rectangular although she cannot remember if it is the size of one or more cds, what it is made of, if it says anything on it, or whether it closes with a zipper.
unfortunately for us i store things in my mind under labels ('zippered cd case,' 'binder-like cd case, two cds wide,') and not under, uh, vague... color and shape things ('black rectangular objects') or family-member associations ('cim's idea to buy, and she insisted even though it cost x amount of money').
EDIT: since the light of my life cogently pointed out that one may download printer drivers from the internet, i lugged the printer into this room, cleared a space for it, and discovered that it was missing the cable. ask me if i have a usb cable. go on, ask me.
she insists that the cds are in a specific container, which she cannot name or completely describe. i do not remember it, but she says that i insisted we buy it and implies that i am probably the one who lost it. she thinks it is black, and maintains staunchly that it is rectangular although she cannot remember if it is the size of one or more cds, what it is made of, if it says anything on it, or whether it closes with a zipper.
unfortunately for us i store things in my mind under labels ('zippered cd case,' 'binder-like cd case, two cds wide,') and not under, uh, vague... color and shape things ('black rectangular objects') or family-member associations ('cim's idea to buy, and she insisted even though it cost x amount of money').
EDIT: since the light of my life cogently pointed out that one may download printer drivers from the internet, i lugged the printer into this room, cleared a space for it, and discovered that it was missing the cable. ask me if i have a usb cable. go on, ask me.
