Seems everything needed repairs this week. First there was an elderly but sturdy machine at work, which required my second-favorite set of instructions ever: the now-infamous page 36 from the vintage manual I keep in a nearby cupboard.
Raise your hand if you had to stifle a juvenile snicker when you read the title above. Raise both if you were unsuccessful. Very good. You get three points if you’re the first to spot the spelling error, and ten if you can identify the machine in question.
Page 36 also requires a trip to the following diagram, which I would argue makes their assurance that it’s only “7 easy steps” a giant lie. Like the photo above, click if you need more detail, but do so with care lest your brain explode.
Despite my near-uselessness when it comes to anything mechanical, I managed to muddle through and get the mystery machine up and running again — just in time to go home and spend another evening trying to fix my book. Alas, that task doesn’t come with an instruction manual.
Aren’t they pretty? Good thing I don’t use red ink, or these pages would look like they’d been murdered, and that would ruin the tone of the whole book.
Then, of all the luck, I needed repairs, too. Yes, the flu visited again, just a month and a half after it last stopped by. So much for my weekend plans. Instead of going into the mountains to take photos like the one below, which I snapped a few years ago…
…I got to photograph things around home. This is not nearly as exciting — or as pretty.
Unfortunately, alien creatures kept popping into the frame at the last minute. The blobby heads and tails were so big that even Photoshop couldn’t help me fix the results. Too bad. I do hate to leave things unrepaired.
Love the photos.
My revisions looked a lot like yours.
And if you had to pull that machine apart like it shows in the diagram, you need to ask for a raise.
What Kyle said about pinching kitty cheeks. Too dang adorable!!!
Sorry your weekend trip was postponed. I like to think of events like that as something worse would have happened had I gone, so the flu was actually a blessing in disguise. (Is it working? 😉 )
And your revision pages look oh so familar. I think that’s why I don’t use red ink either. I pick a color I like because I’m going to see a lot of it!!!
A copy machine?
These repair pages remind me of when I was in Asia on a tour boat–the handout said: “If in the case of the boat sink, you must flee for your lives.” !
That manual is terrifying! But then, I am hopeless with anything mechanical!
What a beautiful place you live! The technical writer needs Spell Check. Am sorrowed to hear of the illness; hope you feel better soon!
Looks like a machine for developing camera film.
Squeek should be squeAk.
Sorry you’re sick. That’s the worst.
LOVE the last kitty picture.
Ilana, the good thing is that I only had to take off one part of the machine housing. Think I should still request that raise? 😉
Oh, Pam, it would be some consolation except I have that camera I just got this summer, and I’ve been waiting for months for the moment when I could get out and photograph the fall foliage. To have to wait another year is very disappointing. And LOL on choosing a color you like. So true! I choose based on how comfy the pen is, since I’ll be using it so much. Don’t want blisters…
Conda, check your email. 😀
Me too, Alyson! My brother and dad are quite handy. Why didn’t I get those genes, too?
David, I agree about the spell check. But then, the machine has been around since before computers were a household item, and long before they had spell check. And thanks for the good-health wishes. I’m feeling much better, thank you!
Amy, it does, doesn’t it? I hadn’t even noticed. And I’ll tell Echo that you enjoyed his photo. Not that he’ll care, but he’ll love the attention anyway. 😉
LOVE that cat picture!
Hi, Caryn. Sorry I missed your call about going to the mountains until after it was too late…I’d love to see some of the pictures you got!
Incidentally, your machine with demons is a film-strip projector, and I hated those things, even when I was a kid. What can I redeem my 10 points for?!
P.S. Echo sure has pretty eyes!
Hi ,Caryn,
Absolutely love the photograph of the lake? mountains. Is this near where you live. And I thought I lived in the best place on earth. lol.
Also I picked out the squeek. As for reading manuals, I never read them until the last resort. lol
Btw, I’d love to see more photographs. 🙂