out of sheer persistence, i was able to write this blog. my PC monitor is busted. not much of a surprise there. the PC usually crashes (and other PC related problems) in august. this time, its the monitor. i think this is the second time i had PC monitor problems (if i recall correctly, back in august 2004 my old PC monitor broke down). this time, im only seeing less than 1/4 of the screen. so i had to use the resizing options of the monitor to at least see half of it. good thing i can see the lower half because thats the more important part (start menu, taskbar, etc). so now, im blogging, checking my emails and using my PC seeing only the lower half of the PC screen. and its not even the normal size of the lower half. i had to reduce it to the smallest screen size possible to see more the PC screen. and like i said, i can only see the lower half.

how did it happen and when? well, i was updating my media library last night. i left the PC for a while and watched TV. not more than 5 minutes later, when i looked again at the PC screen, it was already reduced to 1/4 of its size and i can only see 1/4 of the normal screen. so it didnt reduce its size, it just didnt show 3/4 of the screen. so i asked, what the crap is happening? i studied the screen and saw that the CPU is ok. its running its operations without any problems. tried to do some clicking here and there and there werent any problems whatsoever (its not slowing down, there werent any weird reactions from the programs i was running). so i figured, it must be the monitor. if it were some sort of malicious program, i thought it would affect the way the PC was controlled but i did not. everything was running ok. so there. and only this morning did i come up with trying to resize the screen so i can see more (because last night i just relied on my familiarity with my PC screen, guessing where to click and which keys to press).

i still have a week to go.