I got a new monitor last night. Am pretty happy about it. My old monitor was a little more than 10 years old and for the last month or so had been sputtering in and out of life. It was really blinky and blippy. And just last week it started turning off and then I'ld be forced to turn it back on manually. It finally died a couple days ago, though. I was in a skype call and it turned off and started clicking, so I gave it a couple wacks and tried to turn it back on to no avail. I stood up and realized there was smoke coming out of the top and it was flipping it's electrical shit. So I unplugged it and set it aside.
Tried to fix it over the course of the next couple days, but it was no good. Eventually, being poor, I called my dad and got his old one as a replacement. I knew he'ld have one cause the man hordes everything electric he ever buys, so lucky me, I guess. It's pretty spiffy.

The old one was fat, and heavy, with a tiny screen that was always blurry and had terrible visuals. This new one is a flat screen. It's thin, and light, and has a big screen and it's amazing. The resolution is great and it's so god damn sharp, I can actually SEE what I'm doing. I feel better doing art on this one, for some reason. Like, I can see the pixels in what I'm drawing and it feels like it's givign me slightly better control. Also my typical canvas size is free to double with this things size. Mmm. Feels pretty good.