D.O.P.-T. (yesterday)

[weofodthignen]

It's been a bad weekend technology-wise. I woke up on Friday night to find my monitor non-functional. Black screen no matter what I did, although I could hear normal noises from my computer (Skype whooshing, etc. Not mysterious beeps and whines.) I managed to get the laptop working in the kitchen and have it claw its way online via dial-up basically just in time to put it away and go to work. On Saturday morning the green light on the monitor had gone to the normal sleepy amber so I moved the mouse and it came to life! Yay! On the other hand, when she got up the housemate found her server was semi-b0rked. We decided - after I'd brought 2 astoundingly dusty old monitors up from the basement and arrayed them artistically in her dog's favorite chewy-chewing spot in the dining room - that she would acquire me a new screen, if only as a backup, and price up bits to build herself a new server. So she headed to Fry's while I went to bed late after some time attempting to make up for lost time by working simultaneously on my laptop in the kitchen and my desktop in my bedroom. I also had her e-mail my go-to computer guy from her cellphone, although I had a feeling this was his week for being up a mountain.