Happiness is a new monitor:

So my monitor at work has been screwed up for a while. The screen has been permanently stuck in the "narrow screen" mode, ie the picture won't display across the whole screen, both sides are cropped. It's annoying, but it's been that way since I started, and I've gotten used to it. It is apparently some sort of problem with the input cable, but other than repeatedly banging on the table, I can't fix it (and repeatedly banging on the table for 40 hours a week is kind of annoying).

Today, however, we got a new problem. The screen would flash very bright white light for about three seconds. I've never seen a monitor do that, but it looked like it was about to blow out to me. I told my boss, and he dug up a monitor for me that's huge and so clear. My headache started going away almost instantaneously. It rocks. The only problem is that I got so used to the narrow screen that I kept checking my margins because I didn't think they could possibly be right.

With my giant new monitor, I can almost forget that my computer has a 150 MB Pentium processor and 40K of RAM. Almost.

Oh, and if anyone knows how to fix my old monitor, please don't tell me.