Mobiles and stuff..

Cold, so cold. The heating is on but I’m finding it so hard to warm up. It has been snowing again today but nothing really bad. It did settle for a while but it was a bit warm (not warm as in you feel the warmth, but warm enough for the snow to melt). My skin suffers during this season, I get terribly dry skin on the tops of my hands and it cracks leaving it red raw, sore and I get small cuts there too. It’s like I just closed my right hand into a fist (not going to punch anyone, promise) and the skin broke on one of my knuckles and now it’s bleeding. I have been using nivea cream and it does make the skin a little better but not for long, it’s a pain and an inconvieniance having to reapply it. I have ordered some moisturiser and gloves set, maybe if I wear the gloves everynight with the cream it’ll help. I dunno, but will try anything.

Onto other news my contract ends with Virgin Mobile pretty soon and I’m moving to Orange. I have been looking over provider sites for the past few days and I am naturally indecisive, so this was a hard decision! I have been paying £20 for 150 texts and 150 minutes, sometimes changing it to £25 for 300 minutes and 300 texts but I almost always end up going over my limit and anyway it’s just turning out expensive. I’m more of a texter than a caller and 200 minutes + unlimited texts each month for £19 sounds great! I picked out the Samsung Soul u900 phone, it’s pink, it looks sweet!

Tags: life, technology, weather

Printer Problems

My printer is driving me simple. I mean seriously. When I bought a Kodak ESP 5 a few weeks ago for £80, I thought I was getting a good bargain but it has turned into a huge disappointment and looks like it was a waste of money. First impressions were great. I managed to calibrate the printer. All ok. But then I try to print and the printer decides to throw a huge hissy fit. Everything is installed ok but it keeps saying the paper edge cannot be recognised and spits the paper back out. It’s the right paper, I’ve tried both photo paper and ‘regular’ normal paper but the printer is having none of it. If it’s not saying the paper edge cannot be recognised then it moans that the paper is jammed when it isn’t. Then it goes into a frenzy of ’sucking up’ the paper from the tray and destroying it as it flies back out.

It has successfully printed a few sheets of paper but 99% of the time I get bloody error messages and yesterday it drove me so crazy I switched it off, ran to my room and cried. I can’t say I was in a good emotional state yesterday anyway but this really did press all my wrong buttons.

I have contacted Kodak support but they have been as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the same rope. Useless! I have made sure the paper is in the tray correctly. I have taken out the printerhead, all the ink etc and tried again. I replied to say I was still having trouble and they send me a message back saying “you claim that there is nothing wrong in the functionality of the All In One Printer and that is seen as a positive”. *sigh*

I haven’t touched the printer today. It just makes me so mad just thinking about it.

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Creative Zen

Got my Creative Zen through the post today, was a bit surprised by the size! I mean, my old Creative Zen which died the other week is a brick compared to this one hehe It’s a lot more portable, smaller and is easier to navigate once you get used to the controls. You no longer have the touchpad thingy which you need to “slide” your finger up or down to adjust the sound which is an added bonus. That slider thingy drove me crazy in the last model. Occasionally, I forgot to put the lock on and put the Zen in my jeans, next thing the music is blasting in my ear as the slider thingy rubbed against my leg. The display is great, as is the sound. The menu set up looks *a bit* different but not hugely. It’s pretty easy to get used to. So far, so good. I like it a lot!

Tags: music, technology