So, I have sadly been away for a week roughly, maybe a little more, and it was out of my control.

About 2 weeks ago, a green line appeared across the very top of my laptop.

I looked into it to see if I could fix it myself, but to no avail.

I decided to ignore it, as I was able to make the line "go away" on its own with a restart.

Then it got worse when my displayed turned green and pink, and I couldn't fix it anymore after a reset.

I waited a week until I was able to take it to Geek Squad.

Thankfully, they weren't money hungry and referred me to a smaller computer store not too far from them.

Geek Squad told me it was most likely a hardware issue, and that they didn't want to waste my time and money with a laptop they couldn't do anything too.

The other store actually looked at my computer and more or less told me it was hardware failure.

It's 50/50 on if it's the graphics card shitting out, or the motherboard.

They said it'd probably be easier to replace my laptop than to get it fixed, and sadly, the only place that fixes extreme hardware issues is located in Seattle itself.

However, I did manage to find a workaround for the time being.

When my laptop is hooked into another monitor, the display on the monitor was correct.

So, what he told me to do, was just use my laptop as a power source, and just hook everything to the monitor.

It's not a complete fix, my laptop is still damaged, but I'm hoping that this will work out long enough to squeeze out a little more life from my laptop.

So. for right now, I'm able to use my computer again in this odd new way.

Still not used to all of this new screen real estate with a 27-inch monitor, but I'll probably adjust in a few days.

Finally, after a week of dread, some good luck came my way.

Let's hope I can ride this wave for a while, because I didn't like feeling that down...