Was in the market for one, my el cheapo Epson having pooped the bed.

OfficeWorks? Had a nice printer (Brother) non display. Only unit, copied the barcode, take to front desk to order one. Front desk—can’t order one, no stock in warehouse, SMACK!

Good Guys, Hardly Normal, OfficeWorks somewhere else—nice printers bu t color laser, HM the SMACK that going to cost in ink???

Ordered one from Amazon. Cheaper than I wanted—happy to pay $250–300 to get something ready to print whenever I wanted to print. Oh well, see how it goes.

I might buy a laser mono (i.e. B&W) laser printer when I get further into writing a program/database to manage my orchard:, what trees where, what pollinates what: weight of fruit and volume of juice of the main cider apples, batches of cider from the main apples + minor additions (e.g. tart apples to lift a bitter-sweet must, aromatic apples to give some apple character to a cider (same with perry) etc. Just have a sketchy system analysis now—and a decent BASIC compiler can give excellent C, C++ compiled code.

For now tho—bit of color helps visualise what goes where, what pollinates what etc.

Dec–Jan, 5 weeks to plant close to 100 trees/currants. Next year—shitload pinot noir, some chardonnay grape vines. Going to be good. Plantings, walls, mounds etc, earth sheltered house cheap to run, not much warming needed, safe in all conditions.

Hehehehehe I can see Bobo the Clown and Aqua the Chode running a million miles an hour away from where I will live a great life! Little boys and not much brain power there