It seems that I'm in need of quite a bit of equipment...

1. my Sony Multiscan 200GS monitor is dying. The brightest white on the screen is probably 75% dimmer than it should be. The tube is dying. I'm thinking flat-panel LCD as a replacement. Perhaps a Samsung 17". I'll want to make sure whatever I get can take both analog and digital inputs so that it can work with...
2. a new Mac. I'll wait until the August announcements, but my 4 year old beige G3 300 is showing its age. Both the internal CD-ROM drive and my external SCSI CD-RW only read discs half the time. I've had various lock-ups lately. It's done a decent job at keeping up with OS X, but I'm thinking a new box with Jaguar will have to be bought by September.
3. A film scanner. Since most of what I shoot is APS, I need something that can read APS film. (duh) Unfortunately, my other format I'm starting to explore is 120. Now, you can buy scanners that do APS and 35mm or scanners that do 35mm and 120, but I haven't seen anything that does all 3. Film scanning is costing me $10/roll for APS, and as I mentioned in my Photography post, I must have shot 50 rolls so far this year. I could have bought an entry level scanner for that much. It shows that my old adage still applies: "Straight jackets are like tuxedos -- If you need to rent more than 3 times, you might as well buy."

Hopefully I'll get something more permanent on the work front to help pay for any or all of the above...