Thursday - September 10, 2009

Withdrawl Pangs

No wonder I feel out of it. I’ve been without TV for nearly 3 weeks now.

The first week I was packing stuff up, so I had no time or energy for watching anything.

The second week I was unpacking all that stuff, so again, no time or energy.

When we finally moved enough boxes to actually get at the set, and had a chair or two to sit on and watch, we had the TV on for about 5 minutes and it went PLLTrph. Fried. Smell of toasted electronics. That set has worked perfectly for 11 years. It’s a 32” CRT, and it weighs about 125 pounds. I DO NOT want to carry it downstairs and then over to the TV repair shop, but I guess I’ll have to. There is no money in the budget for a new flat screen TV; we’d need a 42” model to equal the viewing size of this one. Sure, with HDTV the picture would be so much better, but a set that size of 1080p quality is still quite expensive ($1700 for the LCD TV LG 47LH90, $1500 for their 42” version, both are top rated sets).

So pretty much no TV. And I haven’t even been given a Time Out or sent to my room!

We do have one ancient scratchy old 19” POS in the bedroom, so I’ve caught a bit of the news from time to time. But in this “moving” shuffle here, the digital adapter got misplaced, so that set only has perhaps a third of it’s possible channels running.

And between work, and trying to find some place to purchase before this tax credit thing expires, I still have no time to watch.

But hey, our place is much cleaner, and we’ve managed to throw away a bunch of crap. So good for us.

Posted by Drew458     on 09/10/2009 at 02:20 PM   
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