Better

The sun is out today and my spirits are lifted. The area has received a great deal of rain over the last two days. There have been tornado watches, flash flood warnings, etc. I did not go to the Thursday nor Friday night photography club meetings. As I said yesterday, I was thinking of dropping out of the camera club group. I really did not want to do it, but I decided I did not like being stressed. This morning the man who heads up the group called and told me what I missed. He said the group is making a little field trip this afternoon to a cemetery out on FM 423 that is full of bluebonnets. It is wild flower season in Texas. I am going with them. I am glad he called.

 

I did more work this morning on my income tax. I want to go back and double check all of my math. Then I will copy everything onto the final set of forms, write out the check, go some place to make a copy and then stop by the post office. I am feeling much better now. I owe, but at least I know how much, and I am going to have it all done before the deadline.

 

Every morning I check Pricegrabber.com to see if they list any merchants who are selling the Canon MF4690 multi-function laser printer that I want. This morning I saw that two merchants were listed. Neither had the printer in stock. I also found a review of the printer on CNET. It looks like this printer is no longer vaporware. CNET rated the printer fairly high in all categories but said they prefer a model from Dell because it prints faster. Print speed does not matter to me. The Canon was better at scanning, faxing and copying than the Dell. Those functions are important to me. This afternoon I found that Amazon.com has the printer available for pre-order. They offered free shipping if it is ordered today. It said that the printer would not normally be eligible for their free super saver shipping. I placed my order. Amazon.com says they expect to receive the printer on April 22. After I placed my order, the estimated shipping date came back as April 26. Now if Apple would release a new version of iTunes that is certified to be Vista compatible I will be very happy.

 

I read this morning that Microsoft said they have no plans to release a service pack for Vista. Vista is fine just the way it is. Maybe I should send them my list. I also read that another security hole that affects many versions of Windows including Vista has been found. This is the first security flaw to be found in Vista. Microsoft said people using IE 7 under Vista have lesser risk than other versions.