Having fritzed my laptop the other week and had to rush out and replace it, I've now spotted that my trusty old monitor is on the blink. It's hardly surprising. I bought it in about 2000, as one of the very first flat screen monitors which at the time was very ground-breaking. Since then technology (as ever) has moved on, leaving my monitor trailing along behind, and it had also faded or 'muzzied' over the years so I was having to sit closer and closer to pick out any detail. Of course, that wasn't doing either my back or my eyes much good, so today I decided enough was enough."Let's go to the big branch of Curry's in the Bull Ring," Dave said. "They'll have plenty of choice there."
They might well have, if they still existed. Good grief. We've only been away from Brum for 3 weeks and suddenly everything has changed. That store has vanished without trace, without even a note on the window to tell us where our nearest alternative is, and is in the process of being replaced by yet another teen clothing shop. There are now 953 teen clothing outlets in Birmingham city centre. And nowhere to buy computers.
We drove out to a suburb where we knew there was a Currys and by some miracle that had survived. And I've bought myself a very nice 18.5 inch crystal flat screen that makes reading text a breeze and looking at pictures a pleasure.
But I'm left wondering what's going to break down or give out next...
2 comments:
I'm pretty sure mine's about to go the same way, Fiona. That doesn't bother me too much except when I think of all the programs, macros, files and other stuff which I'll have to transfer. You obviously took that in your stride.
If it's just your monitor you probably won't have to worry - these days you just unplug one monitor and plug another one in, and your pc recognises a new piece of hardware...
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