It’s Your Fault I’m Ghetto Rich

I mentioned how I went ahead and bought a 22″ widescreen monitor during my evening class yesterday, but there’s a bit of a back story to that. See, its a bit of a running joke that my youngest brother and I like to one-up each other with our home computer setups. Last week youngest bro got a 20.1″ LCD monitor delivered. And yeah, it’s a beauty. I was jealous and he’s been giving me crap all week about it. I kidded him that I was going to buy two of the same monitor and have dual screens to one-up him. I wasn’t planning on it of course. But in the middle of class last night he decides to send me a link to the monitor I ended up getting.

Not only that, but he kept pressuring me to buy it, in the middle of my grad school class. I was reluctant at first… but he kept whispering in my ear, “Do it… do it… do it…” kind of like that Judas Priest song. Since I’m a sucker for subliminal suggestions I went for it. Here’s our IM conversation about the subject today:

Brother: i heard someone bought a 22″ lcd screen while they were drunk

Mojo: I heard that person’s brother was egging him on instead of being responsible and trying to talk some sense into him

Brother: i heard his brother really wanted to be able to play with it when his brother wasn’t there
i don’t blame him for egging him on

Mojo: Meh, I don’t either… especially since the brother will be able to play with dual screens, 22″ and 19″

Brother: his brother hates him for that

Mojo: He shouldn’t, since he was solely responsible for prematurely ending the reign of his superior computer setup

Just for the record, I wasn’t drunk. When I’m drunk I’d be more likely to pee in a planter outside of the police station than get a 22″ monitor on an impulse buy.

Most of our IM conversations are at least mildly entertaining, like this one where I was right about something and youngest bro couldn’t admit he was wrong.