lisaviolet's diary

Tuesday, March 01, 2016

mrs. crankypants
08:12 PM - 03/01/2016

The topic: Switched Brian’s life insurance company
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Finally got everything squared away. Farmer's wasn't doing squat with the money and we want to make sure there's enough to pay off the house should anything (God forbid) happen to Brian.

It was the type of insurance that money accrues and we get interest on it, but the interest was pretty sad. There's a much better deal with the new company. But if Brian dies, that money is lost, the only thing I'll get is the actual life insurance. So, Brian can't die. And in ten years (I think that's it), he can pull all of that money out. Cool.

Farmer's automatically took payment from our bank account. The new company is doing the same. I was checking our bank account yesterday and holy crap! They took the payment out FOUR TIMES! Luckily, there was money in there to cover that, but I called our agent and he checked it out today. We should get our money back in ten days. Ten days. The reason I had all of that money in the bank was to pay the overdraft from a couple of months ago when we needed it for the mortgage payment. Now, we'll be getting hit with interest since there isn't enough in there to pay it off in full.

Brian's gonna mention this to the agent (he'll be seeing him later this week). We'll need to be reimbursed for that. It wasn't our bad, it was their's.

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Brian needs more stamps and I've got one I want for myself ("Please hand stamp" for the cards I make and send in the mail.)

But I'm having problems getting the print heads to properly clean. And one of my problems is with the black. All colors print out great in the nozzle check (there are eight colors in my printer), but when it comes to the checkerboard black on black thing, it's not doing the complete checkerboard, many of the solid black spaces aren't being colored in. And I'm pretty sure this is the reason that I'm not getting the stamp negative black area solid enough. If too much light shines through, it borks the stamp. I did three sheets of test negatives the other day and wasn't happy with the result. Back to the printer, doing what I could to get the nozzles working the way they should.

Since there are admonishments to not run more than two cleaning cycles in a row (because of waste ink, which isn't a problem since all waste ink is fed through tubes to containers outside of the printer, not the print pad at the bottom of the printer), I've decided to just print stuff out.

I'm in the process of printing out all of the PDF instructions for my SVG files.

What a blast. So much fun. And what really sucks is I've found I'm reprinting the files I've already printed.

sigh.

But with any luck, doing this will help fix that checkerboard thing and I'll be able to print decent negatives and not waste the polymer for the stamps.

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March 2016