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mal_akh who some time ago advised me to buy something for myself and enjoy it:
I am very happy with the fancy bronze athame I mentioned purchasing. 115 (er.. something) and two months' wait was worth it. It fits so much better with the faery work than any other blade, including the copper-and-bone one (it was fairly inexpensive, and feels it). I lament that no one makes sharp-edged anything except steel, but in this case it almost doesn't seem to need it. The candlelight gleams perfectly off it as it sits on my bedside altar.
I have also just purchased (for real and for true) a 17" LCD monitor, which is something I've been lusting after in a muted sense since we got Mac G4's at work *mumblefrotz* months/year(s) ago which had pretty 17" LCDs, and more strongly since getting a row-full (10) of newish Dell's early-mid last year which all came with 15" LCDs. Factoring into this is that for about a year (? or so) my CRT monitor has had first the green, then the red "electron gun"s turn intermittent, producing at first a sometimes pink tone, and now a sometimes cyan tone, over the whole thing.
Not both at once, and not constantly - it can be either just fine, as it is now; flickering with some scan lines tinted and others not; or completely tinted over the whole screen. It tends to be fine most of the time, flicker for up to 30 seconds, be tinted for up to a minute, then return to fine, do not pass go, do not collect $200, but lather rinse repeat at intervals varying between 10 minutes and an hour. Pretty annoying. I figure I've worn it out through the *mumblefrotz* hours of use over the 4-ish years I've had it, but then, some of our older 15" CRTs have lasted longer. *shrug*
Anyway. LCD panel. Coming soon to this location. Finally I will be able to put some (physical) desktop crap in the space that is now being taken up by 14"-deep worth of picture tube. And maybe my dad will tease me less about how much electricity I use in this room between the computer and the Christmas lights. ^_~
mal_akh who some time ago advised me to buy something for myself and enjoy it:I am very happy with the fancy bronze athame I mentioned purchasing. 115 (er.. something) and two months' wait was worth it. It fits so much better with the faery work than any other blade, including the copper-and-bone one (it was fairly inexpensive, and feels it). I lament that no one makes sharp-edged anything except steel, but in this case it almost doesn't seem to need it. The candlelight gleams perfectly off it as it sits on my bedside altar.
I have also just purchased (for real and for true) a 17" LCD monitor, which is something I've been lusting after in a muted sense since we got Mac G4's at work *mumblefrotz* months/year(s) ago which had pretty 17" LCDs, and more strongly since getting a row-full (10) of newish Dell's early-mid last year which all came with 15" LCDs. Factoring into this is that for about a year (? or so) my CRT monitor has had first the green, then the red "electron gun"s turn intermittent, producing at first a sometimes pink tone, and now a sometimes cyan tone, over the whole thing.
Not both at once, and not constantly - it can be either just fine, as it is now; flickering with some scan lines tinted and others not; or completely tinted over the whole screen. It tends to be fine most of the time, flicker for up to 30 seconds, be tinted for up to a minute, then return to fine, do not pass go, do not collect $200, but lather rinse repeat at intervals varying between 10 minutes and an hour. Pretty annoying. I figure I've worn it out through the *mumblefrotz* hours of use over the 4-ish years I've had it, but then, some of our older 15" CRTs have lasted longer. *shrug*
Anyway. LCD panel. Coming soon to this location. Finally I will be able to put some (physical) desktop crap in the space that is now being taken up by 14"-deep worth of picture tube. And maybe my dad will tease me less about how much electricity I use in this room between the computer and the Christmas lights. ^_~