since then, i have just been running the single, very large monitor. i do web development, and have to make graphics and retouch photos and develop web site layouts, and i need to be able to know what the picture looks like at all times. most regular lcd monitors must be viewed from just a certain angle and just such a distance in order to see the picture properly. people looking over your shoulder may see something completely different from what you intend. in my line of work, that is just unacceptable.

unfortunately, nobody in the rest of the world seems to see things my way. they see a big, old monitor, and stick their nose in the air, and tell me i need something newer, "better". even after i explain to them as thoroughly as possible, they don't seem to get it. and now that my desk is right at the front of the office, and every single person who walks in can see my monitor, they all feel compelled to comment on how ugly my monitor is.

it's starting to give me a complex.

apparently it's starting to give my monitor a complex as well, because i've started noticing the picture separating at the corners into their RGB components. it's very slight, and only at the bottom for now, but i can see it, and i know that this monitor will be on its way out likely within the next year or two. i'll be forced to get a new monitor then, and i guess i ought to just bite the bullet and see about getting one now, so that when this one goes i won't be left without one altogether.

at least then i'll be able to run dual monitors again, for however long the crt holds out.