Death is on the way! Nobody gets out of here alive!

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Or something like that. Would you rather have advance warning, or have it be sudden and unexpected.

Myself, I would like to have at least a year's warning. For example, if I was gonna die in a year, and knew that, I could quit my job, which I kinda hate, and spend my retirement money, etc., as well as have plenty of time to say my last good-byes.

Last week, it was my 10 year old dog that died, and I sorta had almost two weeks notice, from Monday when the vet told me her kidneys were failing and the following Saturday when she died. I lost 3 of those days by giving her IV treatment in the attempt to extend her life by a few months. Kinda sucked, but she was kinda old, and I had more time. Compared to when her son died last year. He was fine, as far as I knew, Wednesday night, very sick Thursday morning, and put down on Friday afternoon, and he was only 7. :argh:

Now, it is my nine year old monitor that they tell me is dying. The picture, especially if it, or the table, is bumped, scrunches in temporarily. Tomorrow I will get a new one, hopefully of a similar type because I am not that sure about getting it to work on my computer. Can I just get any monitor and plug it in. When I first got this computer it did not work with this monitor even though both computers were compaqs. The computer store told me to change the configuration on the computer somehow, and I had to tell them 'it's kinda hard to do anything on this computer when I don't have a monitor to see what I am clicking on'.

As a side note, I kind of amazed my roommate back in graduate school when the monitor went out on a school computer. I still could boot it up, type in a batch file and run it and then open a file and print without the use of a monitor. You can do that in DOS with a keyboard. It's alot harder with a mouse in windows afaik.

Anyway, does anybody know what I can expect? How long do I have with my current monitor? Hours? Days? Months? How will the end finally come? With a bang? Or a whimper? Can I configure my new monitor and still use the old one? Can anything be salvaged on the old one? Is there some good way to recycle it? Yeah, I will probably be asking these questions at Radio Shack tomorrow.

Finally :scared: :scared: Hold me. :grouphug: