Et tu, monitor?

While re-scanning a buttload of pics, there was a power surge, and the monitor turned off, while most everything in the house stayed on. Turned the monitor back on, and the PC view is about half as bright as it was originally, to the point of being almost unusable in some applications. Interestingly enough, the TV input works just fine. Switched monitor cables and that's not it. So it's either the video card or, most likely, the PC-input on my several-year-old monitor.

Which is good, because I needed another reason to be pissed off today. So I'm still working on the slideshow for Tuesday, and will have to make six DVDs for that, and I'll be squinting the whole time....

Mar-ty! Mar-ty! Mar-ty!

The channel on which I tried to record the Chefs/Bolts game today stopped transmitting. I think it was just trying to protect me. I did tune in occasionally between trips to Kinko's, got to hear the crowd chanting for its prematurely-fired coach, and that made me smile. Olbermann named the Chargers GM and president today's worst people in the NFL, and spot on; it's the worst disintegration of a professional sports franchise that I've ever seen that didn't involve a plane crash. Yes, the season is only one-quarter done, but if this Chargers team can't hang in with the Kansas City Chiefs? Get a roll of stamps and mail it in.

Well, there's the 2008 draft to look forward to....