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Some things happened today, to varying degrees of interest. The fact that I broke my laptop's screen distracted me in a manner sufficient to cause me to forget most of them. I remembered them again, just now, so all is well in the end.

1)I think the Friends of the Library booksale was involved. It's a yearly event that involves a school cafeteria filled with boxes upon boxes of books organized only by broad categories. In short, it's a slew of cheap, used books. Father and I were going to go today, but because it was the first day, there was a considerable line just to get in. It's terribly popular, a lot of it is just random things that aren't worth mentioning, but you can usually find a few gems.

It isn't very good for the overcrowding on my bookshelves, but I love it anyway.

2) Instead we went to Bale, which is spelled incorrectly, but I don't feel like looking up the html code for the accent. Or how to actually spell Bale for that matter. It's a local French/Vietnamese restraurant chain.

I pretended to have gyouza for lunch, but really I just ate almond tofu. It's the stuff they put in almond float, except without all of the fruit to get in your way. Probably horrible for you, but on a warm day like today, it's nice to eat it by slivers.

3) I had just remembered number 3, but I forgot it again.

(Edit: It was about an article on weblogs I saw in the paper today. They had a photograph of some girl that seemed to be there only because she had a weblog; she wasn't mentioned for more than a sentence or two in the article. The funny thing was that I could read the text on her laptop screen just well enough to tell that she had a live journal and that she used the...I think it was the little demon mood theme. I considered trying to locate her weblog, but it seemed like entirely too much trouble.)

4) I didn't mean to break the screen, but most people don't. It's just I had a pen resting on my laptop and I forgot it was there. I had to reach something behind the moniter, closed it slightly, and heard a rather startling cracking sound. My first reaction was to examine the pen.

I checked it over, discovered that it was not broken and linking ink into my speakers, and felt rather relieved. Then I looked at the screen.

The bottom right corner has several lines that take the apperence of shapptered glass. There's some black ink-like splotches and lines that resemble the color test that you used to see on late night television in magenta, cyan, yellow, and lime green. If it wasn't so in the way, I'd think that it was quite fetching.

My moniter had been giving me a bit of trouble as of late, so I really wouldn't mind a new one.

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Laptop monitors are EXPENSIVE >_< They comprise around half the cost of the typical laptop -- my laptop was $2200 new and the screen cost (at the time) ~$1000 to replace.