Klowns in my Koffee

Packing for a reunion of my husband's relatives in West Salem, Wisconsin. We made three large pans of brownies to bring along. With the oven on, it was about 90 degrees in the house. If this were a spa, people would be paying big bucks to perspire like this. ("Horses sweat, men perspire, ladies 'glisten' ")

While we are thinking Wisconsin (as opposed to 'Feeling Minnesota', a quirky favorite of Keanu-philes -- best classified as an inept crime drama with comic lines or a comedy with unnecessary killing -- where you can recognize some local landmarks), here's an interesting tidbit from the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay. Thought oil was an expensive commodity at approximately $75 per barrel? Based on cartridge prices, printer ink is about $10,000 per gallon.

The Green Bay campus switched its default email font from Arial to Century Gothic to save printing costs.

The typical household computer user might save up to 31% of printing costs or $20 per year in cash terms.

I'm trying to go a step farther and use the Ecofont Vera Sans font. The Ecofont people have downloadable software that makes little holes in your standard fonts to use less ink without the difference being overly perceivable. Since my first course of action is rarely to buy anything that I don't have to, I downloaded their free Ecofont Vera Sans and installed that in my Fonts folder.

The free download is the last link on the left column: http://www.ecofont.com/en/products/green/printing/sustainable-printing-using-ecofont-software.html

I wouldn't use it for a resume or anything that needed to be "nice" but all my little forms and lists have gone Eco/draft print settings and they are still very usable, just a little less sharp. And that shouldn't be a big deal.

On to Wisconsin!