Ah, vegetation day.\u00a0 I try to make that Saturday, but I was too busy yesterday.\u00a0 And now on Sunday I sit around and do as little as possible.\u00a0 That’s a shame because I have a ton of stuff I need to get done.\u00a0 Oh well.<\/p>\n
Right now, as I did rather recently, I am playing a game of Age of Empires.\u00a0 I started this by reading (my text-to-speech program doing the reading for me, actually) about the Roman Civil wars back in the day.<\/p>\n
That day would be the Late Roman Republic period.\u00a0 So of course, I’m “Rome” in this day’s game of A.O.E.<\/p>\n
S.P.Q.R.<\/p>\n
That doesn’t mean “So Please Quit Reading”, so by all means, keep reading.<\/p>\n
When I started the game, I did what I always do and put the CD into my CD\/DVD drive.\u00a0 And goddamnitall, I need to buy a new one!\u00a0 I had been backing up some of my DVDs a while ago, and noticed that some of them wouldn’t work in that drive.\u00a0 I attributed that to those DVDs.\u00a0 Well, now I know it’s the fucking drive.<\/p>\n
I’ve had very bad luck with DVD drives.\u00a0 I should actually replace the one in this computer too because it doesn’t work properly either.\u00a0 I never use it, so I haven’t yet done that.\u00a0 I think I will buy two good drives and be done with it.<\/p>\n
So, I’m only playing A.O.E. right now through an accident of the way I bought my last printer.\u00a0 I used to have this nice all-in-one printer\/scanner.\u00a0 It was great.\u00a0 Great that is until the printer stopped working right.\u00a0 Everything it printed got this horrible crease from the rollers down one side of each page.<\/p>\n
Since printers are cheaper to replace than to fix, I gave that away.\u00a0 I got it back recently, but that’s another story.<\/p>\n
One of the features that printer had was a little “disc cartridge” that could be loaded into the printing area to allow me to print right onto the disc surface.\u00a0 I went out and bought over a hundred of those “printable” CDs and DVDs and thought the days of having to write neatly on backup DVDs were over.<\/p>\n
I printed exactly 2 discs with that device before the thing fucking broke on me.\u00a0 And they weren’t even my discs, they were for a friend.<\/p>\n
ARGH!!!<\/p>\n
That’s the “ARGH!!!” of anger and exasperation, not the celebratory Pirate call.<\/p>\n
So when I shopped for a new printer, I was sure to get one that could print on CDs and DVDs.<\/p>\n
The one I got, also a combo scanner\/printer, does not.\u00a0 I could have sworn it did, but the “Print directly to CDs and DVDs” description on the website had the “LightScribe” logo next to it.\u00a0 I didn’t know it at the time, but etching a monochrome pattern on a disc and printing a proper ink label on a printable disc are different things.<\/p>\n
So my new printer has a built-in CD\/DVD drive.\u00a0 Yay.\u00a0 I thought I’d never use the fucking thing.\u00a0 I don’t keep photos on discs, and I don’t use that LightScribe method to label discs.<\/p>\n
As it turns out, with my primary CD\/DVD drive dying on me just now, my printer is what allows me to view and play CDs and DVDs on my computer.\u00a0 Well, gosh.\u00a0 I think I might attempt to back up those remaining DVDs now!<\/p>\n
After Rome conquers the known world, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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