Sometimes things just fall into place. I had some spare christmas money and a old, dying-in-the-arse 17 inch CRT monitor practically disintergrating on my desk, and one of my friends knew a guy who was selling his big, fancy monitors for larger, car-dwarfing variants. To what purpose, I don’t know, but me and said friend dived in and took this chance for all it was worth.

I picked up this insidious beast. It’s 22 inches, widescreen, and performs the triple-task of giving me much more screen real-estate, freeing up a heap of room on my desk, and terrifying tribal civilizations.

Next on the to-do list: To see if I can have it hooked up to my PC and Xbox simultaneously, with a way to switch betwen the two. Hey, gotta stimulate that economy somehow, you know, and what better way than glorious excess*?

Unfortunately, this has been the only bright spot of recent times. The bushfires raging throughout Victoria have caused all sorts of chaos and drama, and the occasional incredibly insensitive headline from neo-conservative, rightwing news services.

Thankfully, I’m safe from the turrists, but there has been some drama that, well, I’m not completely willing to talk about on a public blog that nobody reads. I might go into it later.

_{(* glorious excess may or may not mean buying used goods from a crazed technomaniac)}