New ID and Dead Pixels
I got my new ID card yesterday, after standing in line for 50 minutes only to get it in 30 seconds afterwards. The interesting thing is that there were only about 10 people in front of me, so I have no idea why it took so long.
I did spot an announcement that caught my interest while there, though. It was addressed to “citizens whose last names start with the letters A-Z and currently reside in Bucharest or Ilfov County”. Excuse me, but what else could a person’s last name start with?
Moving on to something else, my monitor seems to be developing dead pixels and I don’t know why. It certainly didn’t have any when I bought it in February last year, because I checked it thoroughly.
I have started suspecting that there was one a few months ago, but I never checked too carefully because a single dead pixel wouldn’t be covered by the warranty anyway and it seemed to blend in with what was around it and therefore was hard to spot and not a problem. But a couple of weeks ago a black one appeared rather close to the center of the screen, and that one is certainly not hard to spot. That made me look more carefully, and this check revealed a few more.
Actually, the initial check only revealed one more, but I have noticed four others since then, which makes me think that the number is increasing very quickly. I guess I could have it replaced now, unless they’d find a way to claim that I have damaged it and that’s why it’s happening, but that means being without a monitor for a while, and you can’t use a computer without a monitor… I’d much rather figure out what’s going on and stop it from getting even worse, at least until I’ll have another monitor to use before I’ll get a replacement for this one if I’ll send it in, which is very unlikely to happen in the next few months.
