A Printer Miracle

Several months ago, I asked in a blog if anyone knew how I could easily make digital copies of all of my old photos and got not suggestions-thanks for the help, readership.

 (thanks for the boy haircuts, mom and dad)

Last year, my computer, Sirius Black, died a sudden and tragic death. He just stopped turning on. This created several problems for me, one of which being that I had to “statly” (that was for you Lisa) get a new computer. So, after the funeral, Zak and I went to Circuit City and bought Neville Longbottom. As I was purchasing, the guy said that it came with a free printer. Okay, great. And home came the printer that went immediately up into the loft and never ever saw the outside of the box.

In the year that passed in between, there have been many times I have needed to print things, but haven’t set up the bad boy. Until the week before Christmas when I needed to print shipping labels for the packages I was sending to Michigan and finally set up the free printer. And lo and behold, it’s not just a printer, it’s also a copier and….drumroll….a scanner! Yes, for an entire year, the ability to scan my old photos into digital copies had been collecting dust in the loft.

 (this was the summer we wore only our bathing suits. ah, the dream. Meghan-how jealous are you that 5 year old Brianne and 4 year old Maren had more hair than you do now?)

And while there might be some lesson here about not wasting free things, or some other such moral, I choose to see it as a printer miracle and hope you enjoyed the photos from the good ole days posted throughout this blog.

 (i think the best part of this photo, other than my awesome face are the knees of the person who took this photo. nice photography, mystery photo taker)

p.s. possible post-mortem blog