Give it to me now

Boy this thing is BIG. Dang!

Now I finally feel like I have a new computer. Because it looks different.

I now have a GINORMOUS 19 inch flat panel LCD monitor. Sweet. I remember when I had a 19 inch TV.

Prices of these babies have come down quite a bit. But this is about as big as you can get and still stay in the $200-250 price range. And this one only cost me about $100. I had $100 in free Circuit City gift cards (from some rewards program that I didn't even know I belonged to until they told me I needed to redeem some points) and I get a $50 rebate. All good, all good.

I did have some minor difficulty hooking it up. Both Matthew and the ever-enthusiastic EMO dude at Circuit City said "Dude...all ya gotta do is plug it in. It's easy." Emo dude even told me the cords should be the same on my old monitor, so I won't even have to unplug it from my computer. Not true...but nice try.

Old monitors are hella heavy. So after I drug the behemoth off the desk and plugged in the new one, this peppy little box was bouncing all over the screen that said "no valid input" or some such happy horseshit. GREAT. Thank goddess I have a laptop. I googled that particular phrase and found that alot of people have that problem when hooking up their new LCD monitor on systems previously supporting a CRT monitor. Nobody told me I had to change the resolution settings BEFORE I hooked up the new monitor. (thanks CC Emo dude and Matthew)

So the behemoth has to be drug back up on to the desk and all the cords (which are now endlessly knotted together) rehooked.

But I did it. And that is all the technical and manual labour I will be able to do today. I am done. But I do have a new bright pretty screen.

I will eventually want bigger. And better.

Did you watch that new show "Windfall"? Ahhhh...Dylan, you still look the same. But that is my favourite daydream - winning the lottery. I guess that is everyone's favourite daydream. But in all honesty, I like to think about the things I would buy for other people. And you thought I was selfish.

Maybe I will go buy a ticket soon. I already know my numbers........