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[annathepiper]

Ah, there's nothing quite so bracing as a loud, high-pitched whine coming from your test machine's monitor! The damned thing's degrading fast--I've had issues with it for days now with color loss, the sort of thing you see when a monitor needs to be Degaussed, but that isn't helping. And it'd been making softer noises before, things that usually went away when I implemented the Han Solo Repair Method--giving it a good whack. But as of this morning it's started making louder noises that don't go away even with a whack. So I've had to put in a ticket to the Help Desk system to ask for a new monitor. Let's hope they can get me one that doesn't suck.

Meanwhile, the weekend was pretty good. Went out on Saturday afternoon to take the bus to Woodinville and run a couple of errands--getting kitty litter bags, looking for necessities to buy at Target, and most importantly (or at least, most fun!), picking up the DVD set of the first season of Lois and Clark. I had a coupon to spend at Barnes & Noble, so with that on top of my B&N member discount and an added 10% off the set to begin with, I got about twenty bucks knocked off the price. Woot! A nicely packaged set in general, with lots of pretty pictures of Dean Cain and Teri Hatcher all over the fold-out bits on the inside. I am resolved to work my way in sequence through the entire box, aside from the episodes I've already watched on my tape and "The Green, Green Glow of Home" (which we watched on Saturday night, since it was one of my favorites from the season). risu jumped in on the episode watching as well, as we watched episode #2 last night, "Strange Visitor From Another Planet".

Overall, my original opinion of the show is still holding firm: cheesy but fun cheesy, and god-DAMN I'd forgotten how pretty Dean Cain was. And he still looks way better flying as Clark than he does as Supes. ;)

Meanwhile, we knocked out watching the latest episode of Lost on Saturday night as well. And yesterday, we Jammed for the first time in two and a half years, and that was very satisfying. I also picked up a couple of books at the U-Village Barnes and Noble--Altered Carbon which is now out in paperback, since cafiorello had recommended that before, and Suspense and Sensibility, which seems to be the second in a series of mysteries using Jane Austen's characters from Pride and Prejudice as the protagonists. That sounds like cheesy fun goodness, too.

Friday evening miles: 2.4
Saturday miles: 1.2
Monday morning miles: 2.1
Miles out of Hobbiton: 826.2
Miles out of Rivendell: 368.2
Miles to Lothlórien: 95.8

Comments

[solarbird]

I recommend a small application of shotgun to the monitor. Works every time.

[annathepiper]

Don't you solve a lot of your problems with a small application of shotgun? Oh wait, that's HAMMERS.

[solarbird]

Yeah, but the hammers are my thing. You should have your own trick.

[annathepiper]

How about 'reasoned conversation'? I mean, we wouldn't want anybody to think I'm a VIOLENT LESBIAN or anything!

[solarbird]

You think you can talk to a broken monitor and convince it to get better? Or is this some sort of "Please meet my rifle Reasoned Conversation. When it talks, YOU SHOULD LISTEN."

[annathepiper]

Come to think of it, 'Rifle of Reasoned Conversation' does have a nice ring....

[solarbird]

(yay she's not going to hurt me!)

[annathepiper]

Not in the slightest. You can OUTRUN ME.

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

I just dropped off a monitor a little worse than that (beating on it only worked part of the time) at Goodwill Sunday.

Of course, this isn't your mcahine... :-)

[annathepiper]

I wouldn't have dropped this monitor off at Goodwill anyway even if it were mine. I mean, yeah, that's a nice donation to give to somebody, a monitor that shrieks at high-pitched frequencies at random intervals. ;)

Now, dropped it off the top of the building, that's another question entirely.