downgrading

I'd like to take this moment to notify everyone of my old, black, 17-inch monitor's sudden retirement. He's been acting up these last few days and I was hoping he'd at least make it 'til the newer breed of LCDs got here. He had other ideas though so yesterday, his eyes rolled up at me and inadvertently corrupted the lower half of the monitor screen.

I then spent that supposedly relaxing afternoon wrestling with the video card settings. After a few clicks in the little unadulterated visible space left and a couple of reboots, I closed up shop and left for choir exasperated. I pulled out his power cord this morning and officially gave up.

His much older white (now off-yellow), 15-inch, not-flat-screen cousin took up his stead here in front of me and, although slightly blurry, is holding up pretty well.

With this, I'd like to apologize. To all of you readers (which is an over-dramatization since there's probably just a couple of you), I apologize for the insufferably tiny font.

That being said, let this be a hint for change. Larger monitors and higher resolutions are an experience in themselves, especially if you're the type to regret watching a movie on tv instead of in theaters.

Then again, this tiny, albino monitor of mine, sitting beside the gleaming, black CPU and peripherals, has a strange charm about him. Subtly steampunk, I think I'll replace my infra-red mouse with an Atari joystick next. Rapidfire, woot!