It all started yesterday, when we were driving from Ostrava to FM and my parents, unlike me, remembered that my birthday was the next day. I couldn’t have cared less, because I didn’t want anything for my birthday anyway, but they wouldn’t be talked out of the idea that “I had to get something”.
Almost by force they dragged me into Tesco, because Tesco had big discounts on footwear at the time. While we were still walking across the parking lot, I threatened to throw it in the trash anyway or give it to someone, and said it wouldn’t be the first time, to which mim replied that I was “completely crazy”. I tried on size 43, but my foot wouldn’t sit firmly in it, while 42 was better, and I didn’t want to drag it out, so I took them and my parents paid 149 CZK for them (that was the price discounted from 210 CZK).
For the next day I had a doctor’s appointment scheduled. Unfortunately, from the moment I first opened my eyes I had Vosmrnda next to me in bed, and his purring kept lulling me back to sleep, among other things. I lost all sense of time; it was only mim who put an end to it, waking me at 11:35 to tell me that tit wouldn’t drive me there because he didn’t have time and my sister’s car was broken, so I would either have to go on foot and by train, or ride there with my sister on her scooter.
I would have preferred the train, but by the time I got ready, I wouldn’t have made it. In the end my sister’s car fixed itself (it was nothing serious), so I spent an hour chatting nonsense with mim like every day (there’s nothing else to do around here anyway 🙁 ) and then my sister drove me there. Before that we stopped at a pet supply store in Svibice, but it wasn’t open until 1:30 PM. At the doctor’s there was nobody, neither in the waiting room nor in the office, yet I still waited about 10 minutes before she saw me.
I went into the office expecting to be there for an hour today, but I was out in 20 minutes – usually, even when I don’t want to talk for long, I’m in there more like 30 minutes. From the office I headed to the church, where I spent about half an hour talking with the pastor about Tensing and Martin’s baptism. Meanwhile my sister called to say she was done, so I told her to go home and that I would walk. What is there to do at home anyway, right? 🙁 . In the end I got back home at almost 4 o’clock, and even then we couldn’t celebrate, because my sister and my father were both gone.
My father came back first, my sister not until 7 in the evening. So what did I end up getting as birthday presents? From my sister a pile of pastries, from mom sandals(…), from dad an inkjet printer and 4 liters of Coca Cola, and from my brother nothing. I wanted to print the first thing on the printer, but I ran into a problem with Windows – the installer told me I had an unsupported version of Windows (W8). In the end I found out that Windows was either that fast, or they didn’t even bother to let me know that they had at least managed to install the driver for the printer.
Scanning to the PC doesn’t work yet, which is a bit of a shame, because I would use scanning more than printing – I print 1 page once in a blue moon anyway, and after finding out how long the cartridges last and how much they cost I was horrified that I would have to limit it to half a page :). What I like about this printer is the paper feeder – the one on our previous printer was terrible HP junk, it always pulled in several sheets of paper at once. So far I have printed only one sheet with more paper loaded, so it’s hard to judge, but hopefully it will be better.
Gifts from my father
The first photo I printed – fortunately it turned out well. You can see those stripes; they were probably caused by dried-up cartridges and the lowest possible print quality setting.
Then I also printed 2 photos for mom. Again, on the right photo those unfortunate stripes are clearly visible. This was also printed at the lowest possible quality. Sorry for the glare from the flash.