The aura of new stuff

My colleague over the fence, so to speak, is having her monitor replaced. The IT guy is taking away her CRT and putting in a lovely new flat thing. I'm in no way involved in the removal/installation process. But I've very close by and there's this part of me that just wants to stand around and watch. Just to be a part of the shiny newness and the up-to-datedness of the technology. And basically to covet that shiny, new, flat monitor as it sits atop her desk, gleaming in the florescence, transforming the entire workspace into something modern, neat, shiny (did I say shiny already?) and shiny. I can't help but covet shiny new computery things because I am a boy. That means I like shiny new toys, especially ones that are made of plastic and silicone and have lots of slots and places to plug other things in. Toys that I can watch, listen to, interact with, control. Do stuff with. It also means that I like any toys that are better than the ones I have now. My stuff at work is pretty nice; it gets updated every few years. But my home PC still has a 15" monitor and the HD is full to bursting. And while it has some shiny new bits in it that let me do cool things like backup old Hi8 movies to DVD, its outward appearance is not shiny at all. Dull, you might say. And because there are so many people here that have shiny new stuff, and people being given shiny new monitors mere feet from where I sit, I think 'Surely there must be a shiny new 19" flat shiny monitor that I could just, y'know, take and use at home. Or, failing that, a slightly-less-shiny and not-quite-so-new CRT that is bigger (and perhaps slightly shinier) than the one I have at home. I offered the IT guy 20 bucks for it but he just ignores me now.