In case I go silent . . .

[Ronn! Blankenship]

When I woke up the computer this morning, the 
monitor made a number of popping sounds somewhat 
similar in sharpness and volume to the sound a 
cap pistol makes.  (I had hit a key in passing 
and gone into another room before the noise 
started, and at first I thought that it was 
coming from outside, maybe the neighbor breaking 
up some limbs for disposal.)  When I watched the 
screen I noticed that every time the sound 
occurred, the image dimmed and shrank like the 
picture on an old TV when you turned it 
off.  Eventually after I turned off the monitor 
for a few minutes and turned it back on it seemed 
to work properly, and it has been doing so for 
the better part of a couple of hours now.  I'm 
guessing that the problem may have been that it 
was so warm yesterday afternoon and last night 
that I left a couple of windows open and this 
morning the humidity is very high — I later found 
some places on the wall which felt cool and damp 
to the touch — so I'm hoping that the problem is 
related to that, but I thought I'd let some folks 
know in case it turns out to be something more 
serious, because if the monitor fails completely 
now I don't know when I'll be able to replace it . . .


-- Ronn!  :)