I bought myself a new monitor, a Viewsonic VP171B. Its sorta crap, its sorta not. My current monitor is an old 17″ CTX CRT monitor. I’ve had it since 1996, its making funny noises these days and the gamma / brightness level is totally down. I’m using the computer a lot more lately, so I figured this is as good of a time as any to charge it on the new card. I’ll pay it off before any interest ever occurs on it.

One nifty feature is that, like many LCD monitors out there… it rotates and spins. So now I’ll have more vertical space to read blogs. Sweet!

Semi-wasted money? $310.65 + $14.30 (s&h) + $25.18 (tax) = $350.13

Here’s some upcoming plan of mine for this blog.

• Part 3 to Credit Card 101, maybe Part 4 too. I think I’ll go over student credit card, what to expect when you apply, pros and cons of student cards, etc.
• An article on FICO scores. What factors in it, how it affects us youngins, why we should even care about it.
• Another part to the lovely “Stop Buying Crap”
• I have an upcoming vacation to Hawaii, so I might write about that too.