Adventures in money saving!

I have a laser printer which I use to print all my schoolwork. I refill the toner cartage to save money, and as a result the print drum has some streaks on it. You don't notice it when I print B&W text, but grayscale photos (that cheap lasers are never very good at to begin with) can't be seen very well.

This isn't usually a problem, but for one of my classes we need a photo of ourselves on the cover page, and you couldn't make out the photo. I could have just given up and printed it on my inkjet but I tried moving it to the side of the page with less streaks with a small amount of success before realizing that I just needed to adjust the image brightness and contrast before printing it to make it visible on the laser printer.

With just a moment of fiddleing I saved myself from having to print a more costly page.

Project

I made a butterfly puzzle.

It has 6 parts. If your butterfly does not have all of these parts (Right wing, Left wing, Body, Proboscis, Blue pieces, and Yellow pieces) Then you did not get a complete butterfly kit.
Please note that the cutouts from the brown wings are not needed and may be missing (as shown) but all of the yellow and blue pieces are needed.

The first step is to punch out the inner brown shapes on the wing and replace them with the yellow and blue shapes. Peaces should snap in with relative ease, if they don't they may go in a different spot. If any pieces are loose use some tape on the back of the wing.

With all the pieces securely inserted into the wing it is time to insert the wings into the body as shown below.

Then, simply insert the proboscis/eye piece as shown below.

Now you are done Enjoy!

Erin's wedding

Here is a quick post of a few photos from my friend Erin's wedding. Click the photos to see bigger and check back soon for more.

Crap that scared the shit out of me as a child.

In decreasing order of scary ass shit.
Rock-a-Doodle
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
ET

I had completely blocked out all memory of Rock-a-Doodle until I saw it in the new to netflix section.
First of all Memphis is a hell-hole, my grandparents on my dad's side lived there and the only good thing I remember about it is that they had a neighbor with trains. He has Alzheimers now. I really am not too saddened by the floods and devastation there. I really hated that place. Anyways this may be part of why I was scared shitless, I believe I watched at my grandparents house.

To finish later I lost interest.

Bees think I am tasty!

Quickie

Moar pictures

More photos, these are of my almond tree.