The monitor on the laptop completely died yesterday. *sob* *rip out hair* This means that I am going to have some really funky computer access for a while. I won’t really have access to my address book (knew I should have printed that sucker out…) so unless you have made it into my cell phone (I’m bad about adding people to my cell phone) I don’t have any way of contacting you for a little bit. Hm. I can however access my email via the web (yay for figuring that little bit out) so if you want to talk to me within the next week, two weeks, god knows how long it will take to have the monitor replaced… send me an email and I will have contact data! Yay.
This could also be an excellent time for me to say, hey! If you want me to be able to contact you in the general future, send me an email. Give me your name, rank, and serial number (or your phone number and email address and real address and such) and I will add you to my address book the next time I can run Outlook. Which shouldn’t take too long. This is an excellent time for people to get on my Christmas card list. 🙂 This is also an excellent time for people to get into my address book because that is how I am going to be announcing the party in May. (Oh, we ARE going to have the house finished by May and there will be a big party.) I’m not going to post many details about it here because that will feel like I am rubbing it the noses of people who are not eligible for attendance and I don’t want to do that.
Send email…
The monitor on the laptop completely died yesterday.
Wow. It seems to be going around.
The laptop should be able to drive a standard SVGA monitor of the type you find free on the sidewalk (or on Craigslist or in friends’ closets).
Dead dead or just dead black? When mine died it turned out to be the cold cathode fluorescent light tube across the top edge of the screen. A replacement cost about $18, including shipping, from DigiKey. Putting it in took a few hours.
My partner is a computer person. He told me to get what I needed off of the hard drive for the next few days and I’m an idiot and I didn’t print my address book. Nothing is lost, I just can’t access it for a few days.
As far as dead goes- I can’t tell you how or why. I’m not slick enough. When the EE says it’s dead, I smile and nod and ask when he can fix it. He says a few days. I wait. 🙂
The clues I had that it wasn’t completely dead included a slow fade to deep purple and that if you held the screen in sunlight you could, at some angles, make out the GUI.
I’m not slick enough
rrrright.
*gasp* That was dirty!