Well, looks like November has thus far been a record-breaker for me writing journals. Usually I'm a three-journal-a-year kind of person, and here I've outdone that in one single month.

Well, on to the subject of the journal. I'm not one who has a lot of money to throw around, thus I almost never get to crow about spending any of it (plus I'm one of those folk where the expenditure of $10 makes my wallet sting and $20 makes it cry out in agony, this thanks to my usual monetary situation). despite this, I dug deep and finally, after six years and change, purchased myself a modern wide-screen monitor.

In this case, specifically an Acer P205h, this 20" widescreen thing of a monitor. It BARELY fits in the tiny area I use for my computing. Nonetheless, she's a thing of beauty, replacing my former 17" 4:3 aspect ratio monitor.

The scary thing is that the monitor and ALL its' attendant gear, including foam, box, cabling (multiple types), driver disk, and manual weigh, combined, less than my 17" monitor did WITHOUT its' stand and associated gear. How the tech does march onward, yes indeed.

Maybe sometime soon I can think of a few other purchases for this slowly-shaping-up rig. ^_^

Well, that's it for now. Not terribly significant, but like I mentioned, ANY expenditure over the $20 range is for me a notable occasion.