Old and new

[hildy89]

So both my teams won this week. Bama blew out the Vols and the Skins held on for dear life against the Cardinals. We always used to have close games with them when they were still in the division. Next week is the juggernaut New England. Do not want!

I swung by the local library to return Connie Willis' "D.A" (short, unsubstantial, and disappointing) and discovered they've started a regular Graphic Novels section. They've had a comics/manga section in the Young Adult section with your Naruto and Spiderman and Xmen. The new section is small enough it's still shelved with the new books, but I brought home Will Eisner's "Best of Spirit" collection and I saw Fables and Meltzer JLA and the Complete Peanuts. I'm not sure what prompted this change, but we must encourage it, especially I see more DC represented.

Dinner with confettiofstars chatting about everything and anything as usual. I now am the proud owner of a Ra-Heru-akhety statue. He's guarding my desktop. Maybe he can give me guidance over the monitor.

Yes, I'm having desktop issues again, the same ones I had before. For some reason, the monitor cable keeps coming loose. I can be working on perfectly and it'll be sitting for awhile and suddenly poof, no monitor. I've restarted it twice now. I'm going to hunt the Dell site and see if they sell a monitor cable. Or would they be a simple Best Buy visit? (It's a flat screen if that helps/hurts.) I really don't want to replace the monitor again.

Comments

[marag.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I just read the Best of Spirit and *loved* it, much to my own surprise. I generally don't care for the older comics, except as a source of crack. But the Spirit really is as fabulous as everyone told me!

[jennawaterford.livejournal.com]

A monitor cable is a very standard piece of equipment and every one of them I've ever had has been made to screw into place so they don't just fall out (usually there are little twisty things built into the plug end that screw into the jack rather than actual separate screws). Either way, you shouldn't need to go through Dell to get a replacement if yours is defective.

D.A. was a bit of a let-down, though if I'd read it in a magazine, I would have felt differently (a very cute short story; meh for a standalone hardback).