“The RoseBouquet”

My HP printer has been on the fritz for months now. On Friday a friend sold me a slightly used Canon PIXMA MP500. I spent some time on Sunday getting the drivers downloaded and set up, and for a while it appeared it wasn’t going to go “moo” or “baa” for me. Finally I found the key file and where to enter it into my CUPS system. I asked it to do a test print for me, and voila, it came to life!

This machine does faxes, scans, and some other tricks I still have to learn, but I’m most pleased that it has a slot for me to stick the memory card from my camera and presto, my photos show up on my computer and then I can doctor them so they are fit to show in public.

Last week I made some steps forward with the old computers at the office, and a few steps back, but I think I know now that I need to get some bargains on more RAM memory. If I can do that this week, I’ll really be taking some giant steps forward.

Yesterday I stayed home (to take it easy and recover, of course), but I took time to watch some more training videos with SBI, and discovered how to turn my aloe-vera-and-handy-herbs.com site into a blog and an RSS feed. Now that will help bring in traffic! I’m also going to work on some contact forms, now that I know how the email system works there.

I realize this blog/ezine is basically to be inspirational, but a recent experience reminded me that a basic primer to avoid scams is needed even here among my RoseBouquet of good friends, so that’s my Ruthe’s Roses article today.