Error Log

Turns out I was wrong in my last post: it's been two days since I went head-first into the fence, and I don't look like a beating victim. In fact, so far no one has noticed my injuries at all.

There's no bump on my head, and while there are two long parallel scratches on my forehead, no one has connected the dots and realized that they mark the outline of a fence post. Or even noticed them at all.

I put ice on my head right after I fell, and kept it on for a long time; I guess that worked. Oh, and the red spot on my eye has faded away almost completely.

And while I'm admitting errors, I am embarrassed to say that there's another one. A while ago I did a post about my big monitor dying; it was losing the ability to show the color red. I speculated that the "red gun" was failing.

I was going to pull out the monitor and put a small one in, but something stopped me. There was something puzzling about the whole thing: the red gun problem had actually started happening last winter, but had disappeared when the weather warmed up. That seemed to indicate that the issue was a connection somewhere. Somewhere a piece of metal was expanding or contracting, and making or breaking a contact.

Here’s the embarrassing part: In all of my worrying, researching, and bitching here on LJ, I had never one checked the monitor’s plug. When I did, I discovered that the connecting screws had never been engaged; the connection was lose. I tightened the screws...and the monitor has been perfect ever since.

D’oh!

Error Log

Turns out I was wrong in my last post: it's been two days since I went head-first into the fence, and I don't look like a beating victim. In fact, so far no one has noticed my injuries at all.

There's no bump on my head, and while there are two long parallel scratches on my forehead, no one has connected the dots and realized that they mark the outline of a fence post. Or even noticed them at all.

I put ice on my head right after I fell, and kept it on for a long time; I guess that worked. Oh, and the red spot on my eye has faded away almost completely.

And while I'm admitting errors, I am embarrassed to say that there's another one. A while ago I did a post about my big monitor dying; it was losing the ability to show the color red. I speculated that the "red gun" was failing.

I was going to pull out the monitor and put a small one in, but something stopped me. There was something puzzling about the whole thing: the red gun problem had actually started happening last winter, but had disappeared when the weather warmed up. That seemed to indicate that the issue was a connection somewhere. Somewhere a piece of metal was expanding or contracting, and making or breaking a contact.

Here’s the embarrassing part: In all of my worrying, researching, and bitching here on LJ, I had never one checked the monitor’s plug. When I did, I discovered that the connecting screws had never been engaged; the connection was lose. I tightened the screws...and the monitor has been perfect ever since.

D’oh!