RE Lil who collects stuff? Not me! Yea, right How about 50/75 printers, fax machines and copiers. OOPs, I gave my junk-pile self away. That is how I make money.
Lou, I thought of you at work on Friday. I received a skid with 10 HP Color laserjet 4500 & 4550. Then I received a skid of Lexmark x63's, but no one wants those...
Lexmark x63's are revenue machines for Lexmark meaning the machines were sold not to do what you want to do with them but something so you would buy more ink from Lexmark. Machine sales are a companies foot in the door for where the real money is made, the supplies.
HP CLJ-4500 and CLJ-4550 are usually good 4 pass (actually prints 1 color at a time to a transfer belt until black and the other 3 complete the image) color printers. They had several revisions to boards while being made and some revisions have to be paired with like revisions to other boards. That makes swaping parts and stocking parts difficult.
I have 3 origional HP color Laser printers (no value except for an ocassional part sale) and 1 CLJ-4500 which has to be repaired. It is worth more for parts than a whole working printer "IF" I could attract enough buyers for the various parts. Usually everyone wants the same part and what is left over sells slowly.
It's a lot more work but you might get more money parting out those CLJ-4500/4550. Each major component on HP printers has the actual part number somewhere. If you want to see what things are sort of worth go to www.printerworks.com for retail prices. Wholesale prices are about 10% less. The site is also helpful to get a part number, identify, or get the manufactures name for a part.
I can understand not spending as much time on the internet. Yet, when things are "rough" its nice to talk to acquaintances in the BB's and gaming, for those that do that. Yes its not 100% real and to face the real items will get you further faster. But the net can be so comforting...sigh
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Yes, it is nice to chat with friends with similar interests.
It is also ironic/paradoxical that the thing that helps one to improve the R also causes problems. I guess it is like medications. Take a pill for acid reflux and then you have something else that needs another pill.
I don't know what I would do without the internet. I am not a hermit but it is difficult to find good friends interested in the same things. I know there are lots of people with R problems but not many people IRL talk or actually do much to improve the situation.
Until we have similar problems. Two of my not so close girl friends have had problems with their H's. Who do they come to now? Me. Like I am the guru of bad marriages or something. OK. not funny, but I agree, similar interests bring otherwise just aquaintances, closer together. I like coming here too, especially on a night I want to talk, or sometimes just read what's going on in everyone else's lives. Nice to know you're there...
Each experience in life has formed me, become part of me, made me stronger.
On 7/7/05 I got feeling so up-tight that I had to tell BB and say the root of the problem was going without sex for 6 weeks. BB has an air about her that shows she has no interest in sex but said if I was feeling that needy I should have done it with her weeks ago. The last time she indicated sex was a possability she did not want to do anything different and if she would have gotten a UTI, it would have been my fault.
This time she and/or I convinced her the shower for both of us had to happen before sex. I also took my blood pressure before and after sex. It dropped 9 points after a little nookie so sex is good for me.
The encounter was no way near ML because BB wannted to do it quickly as suggested in one book,and she was tight eventhough we used lots of lube. I decided to do it BB ways, quick, and wished it had lasted much longer. We did spend a few minuets in bed cuddling and kissing, then got up and rinsed off and BB did pee some.
The main point of th details is not to report on the sex but to say 24/48 hours later BB did not have a UTI. So next time we will do the wash and hopefully can spend more time doing it (the longer time you have IC, the more likely a UTI might happen) and the results will still be the same=No UTI. I am trying to make it safe for BB to have IC with me and will be adding to the time and positions we use (missionary).
7/8/05 BB asked me to set up the coffee pot and I forgot. 7/9/05 AM I got a sarcastic remark from BB for forgetting to set up the coffee pot for AM coffee. I said I would do it but BB did it and was sarcastic, so I made myself a cup of tea and said if she was going to be a martyr over the coffe making I could do without the coffee just like I do without orange juice, another rant she was on for several months many years ago.
I made ham and egg English muffins and tried to act like the coffee set up was not that unsettling. I was acting as if things were going to improve. I kept drinking my tea, and later did have a cup of coffee.
To put the coffee pot set up in context, About 2 years ago I forgot to do the night before set-up and in the AM BB came screaming to me saying "you SOB" for not taking care of the coffe pot the night before. I don't treat her that way and I won't take it from her.
BTW, the set up is to put 8 cups of water and 2 scoops of coffee in the coffee maker. I think it takes less than 35 seconds to do. BB wants it done the nght before, not in the morning. It is one of her things I try to do to keep her happy.
I wonder why some simple things evoke so much emotional tension.
BB was visiting with a friend and she was telling her friend to keep her money seperate from her H's money/checking account, which is OK with me but it also rubs me the wrong way when the phrase, "Never let a man tell you what you can or can not spend your own money on", comes up often along with "men are controlling pigs" type of statements. So I asked her if she knows of any men that treat their wife decent. No answer.
BB called me from her cell phonr to flirt on 7/7/05. Were were both in the house but on different floors. What I have a difficult time with is the flirting one day and "men are controlling pigs" the next day. I see lots of other posts here that are similar so I guess it is like so many people say, the dance is 1 step foward, one step back.
More old printers to the dumpster. New tires on BB's car (they expired according to the news,7 years old) one of the old ones was bad and the other 3 were OK but they are one less thing to fight about. BB wanted new tires last week but it took me longer to find the ones I thought were right for her 3K miles a year driving. All of her tire rot out and I am not about to buy 60,000 mile tires to have the sidewalls sun rot at 20,000 miles.
I have lots of work to do around the house. Did I mention it is 99 degrees. Cool drinks, shade when I can, and sit in front of the fan while posting.
Lou- I can really empathize with you on the "blaming woman" syndrome. I've gotten lectures on how to fold towels, how to hang towels, how to clean numerous things, how to parent, how to deal with my ex-wife, how to leave her alone, how to attend to her, how to make her coffee, how to make her salad, etc. And, of course, how when I do these things wrong, it ruins her day, stresses her out, confirms her viewpoint that men are incompetent, etc.
Just a bro', patting you on the back. You can tell I'm feeling a bit on the end of my rope these days.
How about 50/75 printers, fax machines and copiers. OOPs, I gave my junk-pile self away. That is how I make money.
But that's part of why I like you.