jackshoegazer | Fucking Hell.

I had a long and frustrating and not-very-profitable day at work. Ethan went to his mother's house. Jacquelyn is at the opera with brdgt. I arrive home to a dark and empty house. I turn to my trusty friend the internet and poof, my monitor flashes black a few times and goes out. Now, instead of at least getting some writing done while ignoring the persistent growl of my belly, I will now spend my evening on Jacquelyn's laptop chatting with a Dell representative from India, trying to figure out what's wrong. I want to scream and punch a deity in the face. It doesn't matter which one. Probably not Shiva Nataraja, that's my favorite.

EDIT1:
I'm going to call it now - the video card is fucked. Now I will wait and wait to see if my Indian Helper comes to the same conclusion.

EDIT2:
I am either totally right or half-right. It is either the DVI cable or the DVI portion of the video card. It seems to work when I switch to the VGA cable. (My God, VGA is so blurry after one gets used to the awesomeness that is digital!)

EDIT3:
Dell won't send me a new cable until they know it is definitely the issue - which means, I have to buy or borrow a DVI cable to test my computer to see if it's the cable or the card. Anyone got an extra DVI cable laying around?