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alexandraerin) wrote2011-08-20 02:34 am
alexandraerin) wrote2011-08-20 02:34 am
So, just posting this real quick before I crash...
...or else I'll do the thing where, having thought about doing it the night before it'll never occur to me to actually do it come morning.
I got this intense stabby-stabby pain in the front of my head this evening, as I was entering what would have been the home stretch on Tales of MU. I just needed to edit together the answers portion of the class discussion, basically, and sew it up with a bit of new information. < 1000 words of new work, no big deal at the pace I was going.
Then... pain. There are only two times my head's hurt like that. The most recent time it was in a very different spot, because it was when I had an infected tooth. The time before that it was more like this... front of my head, just above and between my eyes.
In that case, it was because my glasses had broken and I'd gone back to a previous pair. Like, twice. So I was wearing a five or six year old prescription. I wasn't really relishing the thought of needing new glasses. I'm okay with having to get my eyes checked some time early next to be safe, but things are tight right now. This felt like a "bad eyes" headache, and that scared me, which of course stressed me, which made it all worse.
It was only after I'd been off the computer for a while that I had the space to put two and two together. I'd been working all afternoon in the office and then, when it started to get late and I felt like I was on a roll and I didn't want to be distracted when the rest of the household started coming home, I retreated upstairs to my private sanctum where my old computer tower is plugged into my TV.
And that's when the pain started.
A-ha... it would kind of suck if I had to give up my little set-up here. I like the privacy and comfort of my own space, but the attic is not an all-weather year-round working environment like the downstairs office. Of course, I'd only have to give it up until I could buy a new monitor, but that would have to wait for the same reason the glasses do. More so, because it's not essential.
But even if it meant giving up my Airless Garret™ Writer's Loft for a while, the TV being the culprit would be better than my glasses, because two working eyes are far more necessary than two working desktop computer stations.
And once I got to thinking about the timing, it occurred to me that I've never had problems with the TV-as-monitor before. And after watching my very lovely but not too bright kitty idly pulling on some cords for a while, it occurred to me to check the connection on the back of the TV.
Bingo.
I didn't fix it right away because I wanted to see what it actually looked like. Once my head had calmed down a bit and I turned the computer back on, I'm surprised I didn't notice before. But I was very focused on the words on the screen, not the screen.
The color balance was weird and the screen was kind of flickering in a really annoying almost-too-fast-to-see way. I'm wondering if this is why it was making the weird buzzing noise the other day... I don't sit up close to this screen for casual computer use, recording, or even for most writing (I like to write laying back), but for editing I have to be in close, for practical and psychological reasons.
I plugged the VGA cord back in all the way and screwed the screws in better (I don't have a lot of grip in my fingers so I don't usually get them in very well) and it's back to normal. I've still got a slight ache in my head, but it's more dull than throbbing. I think it's starting to come back, though that might just be me thinking about it... either way I'm going to go rest my eyes along with the rest of me.
I got this intense stabby-stabby pain in the front of my head this evening, as I was entering what would have been the home stretch on Tales of MU. I just needed to edit together the answers portion of the class discussion, basically, and sew it up with a bit of new information. < 1000 words of new work, no big deal at the pace I was going.
Then... pain. There are only two times my head's hurt like that. The most recent time it was in a very different spot, because it was when I had an infected tooth. The time before that it was more like this... front of my head, just above and between my eyes.
In that case, it was because my glasses had broken and I'd gone back to a previous pair. Like, twice. So I was wearing a five or six year old prescription. I wasn't really relishing the thought of needing new glasses. I'm okay with having to get my eyes checked some time early next to be safe, but things are tight right now. This felt like a "bad eyes" headache, and that scared me, which of course stressed me, which made it all worse.
It was only after I'd been off the computer for a while that I had the space to put two and two together. I'd been working all afternoon in the office and then, when it started to get late and I felt like I was on a roll and I didn't want to be distracted when the rest of the household started coming home, I retreated upstairs to my private sanctum where my old computer tower is plugged into my TV.
And that's when the pain started.
A-ha... it would kind of suck if I had to give up my little set-up here. I like the privacy and comfort of my own space, but the attic is not an all-weather year-round working environment like the downstairs office. Of course, I'd only have to give it up until I could buy a new monitor, but that would have to wait for the same reason the glasses do. More so, because it's not essential.
But even if it meant giving up my Airless Garret™ Writer's Loft for a while, the TV being the culprit would be better than my glasses, because two working eyes are far more necessary than two working desktop computer stations.
And once I got to thinking about the timing, it occurred to me that I've never had problems with the TV-as-monitor before. And after watching my very lovely but not too bright kitty idly pulling on some cords for a while, it occurred to me to check the connection on the back of the TV.
Bingo.
I didn't fix it right away because I wanted to see what it actually looked like. Once my head had calmed down a bit and I turned the computer back on, I'm surprised I didn't notice before. But I was very focused on the words on the screen, not the screen.
The color balance was weird and the screen was kind of flickering in a really annoying almost-too-fast-to-see way. I'm wondering if this is why it was making the weird buzzing noise the other day... I don't sit up close to this screen for casual computer use, recording, or even for most writing (I like to write laying back), but for editing I have to be in close, for practical and psychological reasons.
I plugged the VGA cord back in all the way and screwed the screws in better (I don't have a lot of grip in my fingers so I don't usually get them in very well) and it's back to normal. I've still got a slight ache in my head, but it's more dull than throbbing. I think it's starting to come back, though that might just be me thinking about it... either way I'm going to go rest my eyes along with the rest of me.