Unforeseen Recent Vacances
Unforeseen Recent Vacances
Wed Aug 25 14:01:41 2004
To: Pictsies
Avast ye Pictsies (also posted to GoM boards)
I have been unfortunately vacant lately, and not entirely by choice, i'm not
spurning y'all, really.
The week before last (?) i was obligated to attend a familial function which
lasted close to a week, with little advance warning. (no deaths, just they
felt i was too misanthropic and reclusive i suppose).
Returning fron that early last week i had about a day before my computer
decided to become possessed and make unholy banshee wailing sounds. This led
to close to another week of downtime in part due to laziness and in part due
to finding lots of other tasks to accomplish.
Then college term started on Monday, after the first day of which i finally
got all my ducks in a row as it were and replaced fans and such in the
computer. However at that point it appeared that my monitor died.
This led to comprehensive testings of different agp/pci video cards and such
as a sanity check, installing/destalling the old fans again as sanity checks
as well. And finally (a few minutes ago) scavanging a not-really-spare
monitor as a final check.
Thus the situation in which i am writing this note, on a rather temporary
setup. I am not sure when i shall be able to resolve all of this, but do not
take my in-and-outness as a sign of disinterest.
Truth, Justice, Freedom, Reasonably Priced Love, and a Hardboiled Egg!
-Hikedha'ya Acherontia, Mothra's Mimsy
(non-noted update: i am now borrowing/keeping a spare monitor from a friend. Though it is only 15" and it is convex. I feel like i'm a damn borg from first contact or something, after close to 3 years with my beautimous 17" flat viewsonic box. Fortunately at least it goes up to my required 1280x1024 resolution, but still, it's all so ickle.....)