My computer screen has slowly been going out for months now. Office Depot thought it was probably the video card, but I’ve discovered that it must be the monitor because it works fine when I hook it up to a seperate monitor. However, this other monitor is on its last leg too, so I need to finally get this laptop in the mail to Office Depot for repairs.

So, with that said, I’ll be bidding farewell this week to the blog (and yours, unfortunately) for a little while. I made some extra Christmas cash (even though it was cancelled out by the cell phone issue) and now it’s time to get the computer off to the shop. I was praying that the monitor would wait until November 1st before it totally died so that I could get a few last paid posts done. That’s exactly what happened, she waited until last night to finally give out on me.

I’ll be posting today some, maybe a bit tomorrow, but then I’ll be gone for a few weeks. A blog break isn’t all bad– since some extra time with my family would be super awesome. I’ll post a final (not really “final”) goodbye right before I put this bad boy in the box.

Also, if anyone knows the answer to this question, I’d be grateful:

When the monitor goes out, do they replace it normally? Or is it so expensive that they normally just replace the entire computer? I just want to get all of my pictures off of this before I send it to Office Depot if there is any chance they won’t be sending it back. Anyone know?