So I fix printers for a modest living. Some people assume this is some kind of cool high tech job when I say this: It is not. These are printers that Taco Bell and K-Mart use to print out your receipts. And other shitty obselete printers.
My specialty is fixing the print head, which if you don\'t know, is the part that goes back and forth and fires pins onto the ribbon, putting ink on the paper. Any printer that is not a total piece of crap doesn\'t have this anymore.
So anyway they give me like 50 or 200 or howevermany of these things to fix, and there\'s all different kinds. I get to clean them out, replace bent pins, lube \'em up, resolder all the connections, replace busted parts, put them back together and test them. That\'s pretty much my job.
So anyway....
I\'ve been workin on this one batch of a real-pain-in-the-ass kind of printhead for the last week and when you\'re sitting there in the same place for 8 hours every day and these frickin things just don\'t wanna get fixed and you take em apart and put em back together so many times it gets really ANNOYING!!!
drives me to drink
.... So luckily I got a sweet mp3 player like a month ago and this thing has been saving my ass at work, because I can put on chill tunes and it totally relaxes me and makes the time fly by.
Today I was in a wicked pissed mood after trying to fix the same printhead like 15 times in a row, and I needed some music to chill me out. Put on Phish\'s BILLY BREATHES
is this the best album of all time or what? At least Phish\'s best album. For real though, this album is beautiful. It put me in a pretty good mood and made me all nostalgic blah blah blah
My prescription for all of you is threefold: ***** + Headphones + Billy Breathes
rediscover this gem
