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It's officially back to work time for me, and for what it's worth, I can honestly say I was able to make it through with a perfectly ordinary day. I keep telling my co-workers some version of how it's a "a top of the bell curve kind of day" when this happens, mostly in the hopes I'll find someone who catches the reference and thinks its funny. That's technically two separate goals, which is the excuse I give myself for still scoring zero out of zero for chuckles up to now.
I got the new ribbons in for my typewriter today, and after having put them on, taken them off, flipped them around, put them back on again, and then watched a couple of youtube videos before trying to fiddle with my ribbon feed, I still seem to be making no headway in the "make my typewriter wheels spin my ribbon" department. There's still a couple of simple things I can try, and then I'm down to pulling the ribbons back off, trying to look at my mechanisms again, and watching more youtube videos to puzzle out what's up with my device.
The whole "almost working" thing it has going on is driving me up a wall. It's just this one thing, if I can just figure it out, I won't need to send it in.
The estate sale lady I bought this from actually has a strict policy of never coercing anyone to buy anything, I 100% got excited here and failed to do my due diligence before purchasing the device, so this one's on me.
Well, I may figure it out yet, and hey, plan B of send it in can still be a-go, even if it will almost certainly require some calling around and potentially even talking to people to figure out what my options really are.
There's also plan C: acquire a screwdriver and go mad, but I just don't think I'm brave enough to do that, yet.
I got a little bit of writing done today in my car, and have, really less than an hour before I go to bed (It's really hard for me not to try and stretch that if I'm not careful), and I need to decide what to do after I finish up this entry. I think I may have some time to work on my art? Or maybe just read. Both are nice ways to polish off the night.
I got the new ribbons in for my typewriter today, and after having put them on, taken them off, flipped them around, put them back on again, and then watched a couple of youtube videos before trying to fiddle with my ribbon feed, I still seem to be making no headway in the "make my typewriter wheels spin my ribbon" department. There's still a couple of simple things I can try, and then I'm down to pulling the ribbons back off, trying to look at my mechanisms again, and watching more youtube videos to puzzle out what's up with my device.
The whole "almost working" thing it has going on is driving me up a wall. It's just this one thing, if I can just figure it out, I won't need to send it in.
The estate sale lady I bought this from actually has a strict policy of never coercing anyone to buy anything, I 100% got excited here and failed to do my due diligence before purchasing the device, so this one's on me.
Well, I may figure it out yet, and hey, plan B of send it in can still be a-go, even if it will almost certainly require some calling around and potentially even talking to people to figure out what my options really are.
There's also plan C: acquire a screwdriver and go mad, but I just don't think I'm brave enough to do that, yet.
I got a little bit of writing done today in my car, and have, really less than an hour before I go to bed (It's really hard for me not to try and stretch that if I'm not careful), and I need to decide what to do after I finish up this entry. I think I may have some time to work on my art? Or maybe just read. Both are nice ways to polish off the night.
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