More Frogs! - by John

If you read the last post, you will know that we had some frogs in our house. This is not really so bad, compared to snakes, or scorpions, or water buffalo, but still, it's not something we are used to.

Today, we needed to to print out some documents on our new (not really, it's quite used) printer that we bought from church friends last week. For some reason, the printer kept jamming and wouldn't print out right at all. How dissapointing for us, we thought this should be a pretty reliable unit. Charlene called me at the office to ask me if I could take a look and see what was going on, so I came up to the house. After examining the outsides of the printer, I tried to print something and sure enough, the paper jammed. Hmmm, only one thing to do, take the back off the printer and find out whats going on. I clicked on the little plastic cover release thing, and the first thing I saw was a roll of paper, all scrunched up around the roller. "Better get rid of that" I thought. So I happily stuck my hand inside the printer, only to encounter something rather organic. YICKES! a frog had gotten into the printer somehow! Oh man, they didn't teach us anything about THIS in engineering school. I figured the frog must be dead, and one of its dead feet was caught under a roller, so I gingerly started to pull on it, when it decided that it wasn't dead at all ("I'm not dead yet!") and started jumping around the inside of the printer, under the paper tray, back out again, and with me groping around the printer trying to catch it. Eventually, it jumped out and into the kitchen, where Baby (the maid) got it outside with the help of a broom.

We tried printing again, and the first few pages were kind of slimy! I've heard of debugging a printer driver, but to send a frog in to do the job is kind of unexpected. I wonder if this is part of Hewlett Packards customer support service. Printer's working pretty good now, though.