I owe my computer.

See, just over a month ago, I made a bet with my computer that my hard drive would be the first thing to go on my computer. Technically, it was the oldest component on it – out of the entire thing, I bought that drive in 2006, a Samsung 120 GB hard drive – and looked a little rickety to me when I looked at it. There has been a noise coming from my computer for the last little bit that I could not quite identify. I assumed it was the hard drive, but apparently it was not. On Boxing Day, I sought out and purchased a new 1 TB SATA hard drive for a very good deal – more than half the purchase price off. It’s given me good service since then.

Apparently I was wrong.

Today, my monitor started behaving irregularly. It is an LCD monitor that I bought in 2008. And now, almost precisely two years later from the manufacture date listed on the sticker, it is a monitor-shaped paperweight, due to the backlight failing.

Prognisis? Replacement needed.

Damn you, you electronic POS. You won.