Just some additional trivial stuff…

I decided that hubby cannot piggyback on my homemade cards anymore.  It’s not that I want to be mean to him…I have other ways of achieving that.  It’s just that when I think about it, his folks only have 3 grandkids, 1 son and a daughter-in-law.  Whereas other people get boatloads of cards from their kids and dozens of grandkids and possibly great-grandkids, my in-laws only have the 5 of us.  Then of course not everyone gives a card all the time.  Someone almost always forgets to make or buy one.  So what’s giving them separate ones?  That way they have one more.  It’s not much but it’s 25% more than before, LOL.  Also, that’s not really fair to me either.  I make the cards, I write the message inside and DH gets to sign too…not happening anymore.  He buys his own.

Okay, the other thing…my desktop has 2 monitors.  One is my old 19″ LCD and then I got a 19″ widescreen LCD.  Now, my old one’s native resolution is 1280×1024, which is what I’m using.  The new one’s native resolution is 1440×900.  I must have killed a few millions of brain cells at one point because I forgot that my PC came with adapters to connect analog (VGA) monitors to the video card that has 2 digital (DVI) sockets.  I used one for my old monitor.  When I got the new one, of course it came with a VGA cable and I totally forgot that I still had one of those adapters left.  So I went and bought a DVI cable.  Well, for some reason with using the DVI cable, the resolution can only go up to 1280×720.  If I tried to get it up to 1440×900 I get a garbled screen.  So I thought, well, that was a bummer…and a rip-off.  I wanted 1440×900, and besides with it being on 1280×720, everything looked wider than they really were, and so the images weren’t that clear.  I thought that really sucked considering it’s a digital connection, not analog.  So one day it finally dawned on me (and I felt like slamming my head against the wall) that I wasted money on the DVI cable.  Today I dug out the other adapter that I forgot I had, and used the VGA cable that came with the monitor.  Guess what, 1440×900…the wallpaper never looked so good.  So I guess I’ll just keep using the analog connections with the digital adapters.  That seems to work perfectly anyway.

Well, tomorrow is another horrible Sunday.  I wish it would rain some more south of us so that we don’t get all that dust on the dirt roads.  Today was an exceptionally hot day.  Strange thing for me to say, it’s not as hot and humid as it can get back home.  But for here, yeah, today was terrible.  Time to stick to slacks and sleeveless tops.

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