Equipment

Well, this has been the week for using the technical side of my thought process. Picked up a replacement phone this week, my cell was lost (translation:stolen) two weeks ago, finally had time to get by our local (as in the closest distributor to the studio, across the highway) and pick up another one. Oh the joy of reloading all of my contacts names, emails ect!! Our proofing printer decided to go on the fritz (you know, display reads 'error code ###,###,###,##### call service), a quick call to service only to find the hour/hour and half for service will run appx $500 plus parts since we are now out of warrenty. Sounded like time for Plan B, also know as 'research time'. Internet plus google equals tech specs for printer with detailed description of error codes. Repeat search with error description paramenters yields source for parts which arrive in a few days. A short repair time later and printer is back in business. Ten minutes of research, $30 worth of parts, working printer. Not bad. Of course the week wasn't over yet, a Firewire card went out on one of our PCs (course on a PC thats actually a 'ieee 1394' card) so a quick trip to CompUsa for a replacement, pop out the old, pop in the new, power up and our Dual-Terrabyte storage tower is back on the network. A final prep of cameras, CF cards and all of our other gear for tomorrows wedding and I can call it a week. Looking forward to doing one of the things we do best on Sat, documenting the day for a great couple like Brandi and Meko is going to be a blast!