My Single Mom Life

My new monitor arrived, UPS delivered it around 3:15, and I set about taking down the old one and cleaning up the desk.
I had the old monitor on this desk for years, never moved it.
I had dusted it and around it, but it was a CRT, huge, I couldn't really get behind it all that well, and man, let me tell you, there was some serious dust going on back there.
Holy dust bunnies from hell!

I cleaned the whole area, plugged this one in, turned on the computer and the new monitor and wow, what a difference!
My CRT was a huge monster of a monitor, but it was only 15inches of viewing area.
This is a 17inch, but it's a major difference in viewing area.
My old CRT couldn't handle anything higher than 1024x768, and this one can go way, way up.
I have it set at 1152x864 because the higher ones caused some major eye strain.
I'll have to build up to the higher ones.
But it's already a big difference in how websites look.
On the CRT, my blog KatScan fit exactly in the viewing area, there was no black surrounding it that I could see at all, as a matter of fact, I never knew there was a black border. hahaha

I think I'm in love with this new monitor, really, it's beautiful.
The colors, the size, I have way more room on my desk, it was worth every penny I spent on it.
It's going to take some getting used to though, my eyes are not used to this size and stuff, but I do love it.
I cannot wait to load up the Sims2 on this later tonight, it's going to look freaking amazing!