I just printed out a test page from a Laserwriter 4/600 Jen and I found at a thrift store in Laurel for the kingly sum of $6.90. It is absolutely flawless- there’s no marks on the case, the test page looks clean and crisp, the count on the engine is 12,486. It has 2MB of RAM and prints at 600dpi; the connection is a DIN-9 Mac serial cable, which is the only drawback. I’ll put it in over at Jen’s house so she can print with it and chuck her inherited DeskWriter from Henry, the Amazing Freaky Upstairs Neighbor. I am psyched.

We had a really great weekend together; Saturday we woke and went to get breakfast, then busied ourselves cleaning up the backyard and taking a load of old building debris to the dump. After that we rolled to Sam’s Club and stocked up on food and supplies for the next few weeks, so we both have enough pierogies to feed the Chinese army for a week. Saturday night we met Dave and Joan in Elicott City for dinner (actually, we met Joan; Dave was about 45 minutes late.) Jen read the travelogue Dave wrote about their travels to Europe and I made conversation with Joan. It was great to see him again, although he was in a sort of subdued mode. I kind of wish it had been just the three of us- Dave, Jen and myself again.