Of printers and inks and stars and dogs

So I took the magenta cartridges to Cartridge World and showed the nice young man my pink prints and my greenish black prints and the empty cartridge and (Oops, wrong one) the new cartridge and he said it's the print head. This is good, the reason why I invested in this particular printer was because it had a removable print head which could be fixed when something went wrong (like losing it's marbles as the old one did). what's more it transpired, I could, myself, alone at home, remove this printhead and bring it in to be 'cleaned'. GRRREAT!
So I did that and today I collected it and came home all eager to put it back and put all the ink cartridges back and get to work.
Well, I don't know what he meant by 'cleaning'. Not, obviously, removing ink from it, since, as it came out from its sealed plastic bag, so did a lot of black ink. How fortunate then that my previous experiences with printer parts should have led me to prepare kitchen roll and plastic bags.
Ok. I eventually remembered how it should go back in and it did.
Got out the bag of cartridges and found that they'd run into each other. Particularly the black into the yellow. Stupid me. Should have realised they neded to be stored upside down. Got out the new cartridges (I always replace as soon as I run out because there are few things that make me more furious than not being able to do stuff because I forgot to replace things)
But I can't find the magenta. There should be a bag with one dead and one new magenta cartridge. I've put it somewhere. Probably somewhere quite sensible. (This is one of the few things that makes me even more furious than the other thing)
Oh well, while I was turning the house upside down and shaking it to see if any magenta ink fell out, I found some earrings I had planned to cannibalise (last week) so that would have been good if I'd found them last week.
Bugger it. I'm going to watch LOTR
I enjoyed that.
Later, I thought it would be fun to take a picture of Orion* but first the dog unexpectedly nearly broke my neck. (this, it turns out is another thing that makes me even more furious than the earlier thing....it's being a slightly frustrating day) . He's feeling a bit sorry for himself now as he's been well and truly berated by an indignant person sitting at the bottom of the steps in the garden in the wet frosty grass.
I'm going to bed. It will possibly be safer and less exasperating there than anywhere else. And I can get my feet warm again.
*I notice today that you can only see Orion after dark, I mean on the screen. Well in real life too, of course. So that's very umm, realistic right? I think my monitor needs cleaning.
Update: It's working. The printer I mean. Yay!