James noticed in the Friday Fry's ad...I mean newspaper...that Fry's had a color laser jet printer on sale for $200, so when we finished some other errands, we drove out there. Fry's is behind Gwinnett Mall, and since school starts on Monday and this weekend is "tax free" on certain clothes and back to school material, the place was a zoo. Luckily we were able to skirt most of it.

Fry's was a zoo, too, but they have enough checkout counters that this isn't a problem. We found out they did have a printer left and secured it before having lunch—Saturday is Italian wedding soup day and they did indeed have bread bowls today, too (the last time we went they were out).

When we had arrived at the store, it looked like storm clouds were beginning to build up and it was very still and hot. On the way out, the clouds didn't look like they had changed much, but the wind had picked up. We stopped briefly at JoAnn and Hobby Lobby, and then got on the freeway toward home. It was then we noticed as we headed west that the sky was darkening by the minute—and there we were with a big cardboard printer box in the back of the truck. As we approached I-75 North it was quite black in the direction we had intended to head, so I suggested we take the next exit and try to "go around it."

We managed pretty well and actually did circle the back side of the storm, but the time finally came when we were about three miles from home and had to turn back into the storm area to get to the house and on came the rain. However, the box kept its integrity in the ten minutes of wetness and several hours later we printed out a nice color laser copy.

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