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First she pees on my bed.
Now she barfed on my monitor!
After peeing on my bed 3 times in 48 hours, Soba is no longer allowed to roam around my bedroom freely when I’m not there and awake. When I go out, or go to bed, she goes in her cage. I got up today and let her out of the cage so she could eat and drink and be with her brother and me. I stepped out of my room, came back in and noticed a puddle of kitty barf on my computer desk. Aside from the “ew, gross”, I counted myself lucky that it didn’t get on anything important and cleaned it up.
Then I saw the side of the monitor. No big deal, I wiped that up. Then I saw the TOP of the monitor. Now I started to get a little worried, but there didn’t seem to be much… but the power light on the front of the monitor was blinking and the screen was blank. Not a good sign. I turned it off and back on. <blink> <blink> <blink>. (sigh).
I disconnected it and took it apart to asses the damage. Cleaned it up as best I could. Didn’t APPEAR to have gotten all over everything, but it did bridge a couple of contacts. Cleaned it up with Qtips and plugged it in again. No dice. It’s dead, Jim.
R.I.P., my beloved Sun GDM 20e20.
My spare, the GDM 20d10 was also dead.

It’s just not my day with computers.
Lynnaea asked me to get her and Lynessa’s computer up and running so she could play games at the same time Lynessa was playing on Thomas’ computer, but I couldn’t find a mouse to save my life.
Then wanted me to put in her new SCSI and video cards. The SCSI card turned out to be the wrong kind (only had an internal connector. She needs it to hook up my flatbed scanner, so an external connector is needed.) and the video card just wouldn’t work. I plugged it in, switched the BIOS to PCI primary and the best I could get out of it was a pattern of verticle lines about one in 5 boots.

At least there was this spare Nokia monitor sitting around. It’s much smaller than my beloved Sun monitor, but has a beautiful screen.