Last night, right before going to bed, I noticed that my 4K monitor seemed to be awake despite my computer being asleep. Upon closer inspection, I realized one of my cats peed on it, pooling right on the button board, causing the permanent awakeness. A lovely token of their anger that I left town for a few days.
I cleaned up the initial mess then and there, but knew it would require more work. Today I took apart the monitor case and cleaned every single part with isopropyl. After several hours disassembling, scouring , and reassembling, I finally have it working like normal, sans piss aroma.
I also just got a new 1440p curved monitor to replace my old crappy 2nd screen, so I got that set up as well. Now I have an even nicer system than before, despite the pretty major annoyance involved.
This makes so much sense.
I made a lemon balm border around one of my garden beds to keep the squirels out (no one told me to, I had no evidence that it would do anything) and the alley cat who lives across the street moved in almost immediately. I had to replant my peppers and tomatoes 3 times because she kept stepping on/eating the seedlings. On the bright side squirels no longer go near that garden bed, wether it’s because of my genius lemon balm border or the guard cat we accidentally made a deal with. She seems to use the bathroom right outside of the garden and likes to sleep under the plants so it works out all around.