Madison

The day began with a visit from the air conditioning specialist. He changed filters and made sure the system is ready to rock and roll when the weather turns hot. He followed closely on the heels of the dish washer repair person the evening before.

The core purpose to the Madison trip was to replace an HP PSC 2110 AiO printer. The final death blow was not the printer functionality but rather the scanner and an empty cartridge. With the scanner dead, the printer locked up in an infinite loop on its inability to align its cartridges.

For lunch we ate wonderful sandwiches at Bruegger's. I enjoyed a Thai chicken sandwich with hot peanut sauce.

The next stop was the iMac store for a new printer and an AirPort unit to hook the printer to an old "lamp stand" iMac. The kids settled right in and played games.

The gang at the Apple store in the West Towne mall.

After we returned to Terra, I used a machete to punch through the brambles on my old "silver" running trail. Silver was in the worst shape of any of the trails, much as I expected. Silver is basically passable for a bush runner, but not much else. Then I headed down white to teal. White is open, horses and deer have kept the white connector open.

Teal was in moderately good shape, in need of a weed whacking. A few downed branches, nothing to heavy. Except at the south end. A tree was cut partially in half maybe twenty meters up, and now the upper trunk hangs half attached to the lower trunk high in the air. A real "widow maker" for anyone trying to cut the tree down. Then there are some low catenary tree trunks. A total mess on that final uphill on southbound teal. Runnable, yes. Horse ridable, no. Barb and I will have to look at options for bringing teal up and out of the valley.

In the evening I set up the new HP AiO and the AirPort unit. Had to release a MAC at the provider and reassign to the MAC, not to difficult but unexpected.