How to Kill a Monitor

My son was bored last night. And so he wandered out to my office to chat. I don’t particularly recall what we talked about but something on my monitor snagged his attention. Usually it’s because I’m playing Mahjong Safari at www.pogo.com. Except last night I was mostly reading information at various websites. He kept looking as he talked and finally asked what was wrong with my color.

Not sure what he meant, because it looked A-OK to me, I said nothing. He said, well how come it looks red?

I finally realized he meant the area around the browser window.

I’ve never been able to figure out how to use the buttons on the monitor I’ve had for several years now. It was ‘used’ when I got it so there was no manual to consult. And, given that it was much larger any I’d previously owned, I didn’t really care. It worked, why mess with it?
Unfortunately, the longer I looked at the screen, the more I realized he was right. The black area did have a red tint to it.

And it started to bug me.

It was still bugging me this morning so I thought, no time like the present to fix it. I wanted the black to be black.

There are tiny little buttons on the front of this monitor, rather than the things that roll just under the edge (which is what every other monitor I’ve ever seen has had).

It took awhile but I finally located the contrast option. One button made the option disappear. One brought up an entire menu. But a third, a plus sign, caused a little line to start moving.
Pay dirt! I held the button down and colors started to change. A lot.

All of a sudden everything on my screen disappeared.

Well, that wasn’t cool. But no problem. If the plus sign made it disappear, the minus sign would bring it all back.

Not.

The minus sign just made the option window close, same as the button next to it. Could there be a short of some kind between the two? Probably.

Oops.

What to do, what to do? A computer is pretty useless without a working monitor. I can’t read emails, I can write emails, I can’t compose blogs, I can’t surf the net, I can’t do any research, and I can’t play any games....if the screen is a blank!

My only option, much to my son’s disgust, was to filch his until I can get borrow one from a friend this afternoon. Boy is he ticked off at me right now! But hey, he has a Game Boy, a Playstation2 and Dish Network to occupy him for a few hours.

I don’t watch but about three hours of television a week. In fact, I haven’t watched anything since Friday night. Well, I did catch the last few minutes of a movie my daughter was watching yesterday... But until Burn Notice comes on tonight, I’m not interested.

Neither am I interested in video games. I good with card games, I’m good with Mahjong, but the speed and action involved in video games makes me want to head for the hills! I have zero desire to play them. Although I did like Tetris and Phoenix years ago. Phoenix had the coolest sound effects!

Now where was I?

Oh, I swiped my son’s monitor.

And you know what? He was right! The color on my monitor was pretty funky. I’m like, “Wow!” The sky and the water on my desktop wallpaper are really blue now!

The only problem is, the right colors are on everything now.

Is anyone familiar with this one kind of hard candy? It’s rectangular and clear. And the most beautiful shade of dark orange I’ve ever seen. Tastes really good, too! I think Brach’s makes it.
Anyway, that’s the color I thought was at the top of my website. I also thought the bold words were gold.

They were not!

I felt kind of like someone snuck butter beans on my dinner plate while looking at it. I’m not sure what the orange really was, but the bold words looked like they were written in...okay, that description is too crude. How about that one crayon in the box that no one ever uses because it’s too ugly for words?

Yuck.

So I’ve redecorated. Hope you like the new colors. Green is such a crisp and clean color. That’s probably why I like lime sherbet so well...it even tastes crisp and clean.

Now I guess I’m off to do some housework. My blog looks so nice and fresh I want to spread it around!