"The drilling in the wall kept up, but no one seemed to pay it any mind"

Some fairly major alterations are taking place next door. I'd like to say "I wouldn't mind, if only they wouldn't park their bloody vans in front of my house" - but that wouldn't be true. I do, apparently, mind. My head was bad already, and their bloody power tools are driving me to distraction.

In other news - nah, just kidding. If only there were other news. I have broken a complicated light fitting, trying to put a heavy monitor on top of a high cabinet; I don't think that really counts as news.

In other analysis, there may be two kinds of people in the world: those who like to redesign, upgrade, fix & improve, and those who like to start again from scratch. If so, I am definitely in the latter group. This may possibly apply to writing also. Most of the time, I would rather write than edit. These days, it seems that most of the time I edit rather than write, but those are other people's choices, not my own.

It may also apply to life in general, though again I don't really think I have the choice. I'd love to believe in reincarnation or other opportunity to wipe the slate clean, go back to the beginning and start again; alas, I do not. I do keep trying to fix stuff, but I dunno. It never seems to get any better.

Techie question, for the smart-at-heart

So if my monitor has two input sockets, which it does - one being an old-fashioned VGA, and the other something smarter, I dunno what it's called - and I have two computers, which I do: why can't I wire up one computer to one socket and t'other to the other, and use them alternately?

NB, I am not stupid: I am only starting up one computer at a time. But I have physically to disconnect the one that's not powered up, or the monitor does nothing. Which is deeply irritating to me, all this fussing about with pluggings and unpluggings. Grr, I say. Two computers, two cables, two sockets. What's the problem here?