Expensive things that broke this last week

1) Car brakes (pads and rotors!)

I'd been hearing/feeling a rubbing sound that did not belong on my car when I would brake for the last week. It turns out that some how just one of the pads on the frong left had worn/came apart, I'm not really sure which, and then proceded to muck up the rotor. Since I took it to the local Mercury dealer(they had awsome pastries to eat while I waited from the Italian Grocery next door!) to get it fixed, they also checked the other one which was just out of spec. I had them change that one also. ~97,000 miles isn't too bad for one set of brakes though.

2) Computer Monitor--(at least I'm hopeing its this and not my graphics card...)

Sunday, after using my computer for about 20 minutes all the color except for Blue went away. Needless to say, this makes it hard to play games. It comes back if I shut off the computer for a bit, then goes Blue Shift on me. The monitor itself is fine (the On Screen Display(aka set up menu)) still has red blue and green showing, so I'm thinking its in the video cable to it, or the decodeing circuitry. Now I've got a new 17" LCD on the way!