I don't know if anyone around here is a bit like me, but it seems somehow strange things always happen to me. Take last night for example. For a while, I had been having problems with my screen. You know, the usual "slowly going on the fritz" thing. It seemed pretty stable in an ugly way. So, after having supper, I slowly make my way downstairs to my office when I start hearing a loud screeching electrical sound. Not liking what I hear, I speed up the pace. As I get near the office door, there is a strange smell. You know the one that lets you know "nothing good can come from this"? Well, as I enter the room, I can see the image bouncing wildly across the screen, and it wasn't my screensaver! And with the addition of the mystical blue smoke coming out the back, I really knew for sure something was wrong. Luckily, I was fast enough to turn off the power bar and limit the damage. The computer was spared (pfew!). The entire room (and soon the entire house) smelled of burnt plastic, resin and other fine chemicals. My dad had to take it out and I had to ventilate the entire house by -31 weather! And yes, it was cold...
So now, with great luck, I did find a replacement monitor in a dusty corner of the garage. It's a 20 year old screen (Samsung). No adjustments. Limited to 800x600 32 bit color. It's small (14 inches). But it works...
Anyways, I had to tell this adventure of mine. It was a really weird spectacle. Now, I have to go shopping for something a tad bit bigger. It's more than time I put a decent LCD panel on my desk!
