The New Monitor

Finally, I actually managed to get someone to help me. It probably didn't hurt that it was the weekend and they're just chock full of employees wherever you go.

Gateway 24" HD Widescreen, baby. It's freakin' ginormous on my desktop. It's taller than my old 19" tube, and it has a bunch of different connection points in back. Picture-in-picture too. I hooked up TiVo to it and have it running when TiVo is on, because I'm too lazy to tilt my head up, apparently.



So, you know it all can't go smoothly, right? Sunday night, around 1 AM, I finally decide to move the 19" from the floor to the "storage area" (also know as The Front Hall). The stairs are wooden, no carpet. I move whatever appear to be in my way, and pick up the 50 pound monster and start for the stairs. Up one, then the second, I slip on a tray I somehow didn't see. I crash forward onto the monitor, which drives a corner into the wall, then backward and down the stairs, monitor landing near me after bouncing off my foot.

I lay there for a few seconds and nobody hears it. Good thing I didn't knock myself out, or somehow crush my ribcage. They wouldn't find me until morning.

I've to a nice long bruise across my chest as well as one on my leg. I seriously thought I broke a toe, but over the next day it felt better enough for me to think otherwise. It still hurts and if I walk for any length of time, I think I start limping slightly.

The front hall wall has a deep triangle of plaster missing.

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