Printers

Why is setting up printers, and fixing printers when things go wrong, so difficult?  I think they purposely design them to be totally non-user-friendly.  I made the fatal decision to try to connect my printer to my work laptop.  Something I should really have done a long time ago.  Especially working from home.  But it's an old printer, so this did not prove straight forward (when the instruction manual refers to Windows 7, that is not a good sign that the printer will work with newer technology).  It is a wireless printer, and I couldn't get it to connect to my work laptop.  No matter what I tried.  And because I reset the wireless settings on the printer, now my home laptop doesn't recognize it either.  Having wasted most of the day trying to fix this, I finally gave up and instead ordered myself a new printer from Amazon.  A bit disappointed with myself - I should have been able to at least restore it so that I could print stuff again from my home laptop.  But I couldn't even do that.  A lack of tech savviness is a classic sign of getting old... 

Reading

I haven't read a book in ages.  Not even when I came back to the UK - even though I had packed 2 books.  I feel I need to rectify this.  I need to immerse myself in some good literature.  My attention span and mental health is being ruined by my phone.  At one point I was working through a list of the books that everyone should read in their lifetime.  I need to revisit that.  There are still so many classics I have never read.  But it's not just the classics, there are so many powerful modern stories.  I could easily work through a list of the best books of the 21st century, or a list of Pulitzer Prize (or, the UK equivalent, Booker Prize) winners.  This feels like something that is relatively achievable with just a small change in habits.