How I handled the grim Wednesday realities
June 7th, 2007 by Atomictumor
Now that the day has come and passed, I’m fairly confident we can talk about it without fear of retaliation.
Apparently, now, I did something to piss yesterday off. Maybe I ding its car, and didn’t realize it, but it was out to get me with a myriad of little things.
I decided, around 4 PM, to fight back, by going TV shopping. Ah yes, that’ll straighten it out. My plan was to go out and get something to pretty much directly replace the cherished GE 27 incher that has adorned some section of our house since BJ and I got married many moons ago.
As happens when one goes shopping (or, when I go shopping), I quickly decided that a direct replacement is not the wisest choice. I started thinking ‘What would Ghandi do? What would Franklin do? What would Camus do?”
They’d get an LCD. Or at least, thats what they told me.
So I drove, and drove. I went to HH Gregg, where I found an open box “Spectroniq” 32 inch LCD TV for $488, but was a bit leery. I drove on, to Target, where I found a 37 inch one for $688, but kept driving. I went to Walmart, where I found, well, nothing. Then I went to Best Buy and Circuit City, which were a total waste of time.
In between that time, now, I had a lovely dinner with the Cemesto’s gang, and had a moment of clarity, during which I wrote this text message:
“In the bthrm at mello mushrm waitn on
pigpen, Freebird on. Pull my hair back w my
hands, look in the mirror, my mulleted self
lookin back.
Bird u cant change.”
I sent that to the sidebar, in keeping with the mulleted conversations of late, but, it was the grim Wednesday, and it never got posted. Twittr is apparently not working very well for me, several of my texts disappear like that. Need to find a solution to that before Bonnaroo.’
So, anyway, after dinner we drove back to HH Gregg to get the open box TV, after finding some decent reviews of it, but damned if there isn’t somebody sitting in the “buyer’s chair” with that thing in a box behind him.
So, I bought the one at Target. I signed up for their dumb little credit card to get 10 percent off my order, and got the 3 year warranty.
I was feeling pretty good about myself. This TV is way better than I need, and I haven’t completely wasted money in quite a while. While the ghost of GAC wasn’t exactly patting my back, neither did I feel her ghostly fingers trying to choke the life out of me for wasting money. MastaG was confident, however, that she’d approve, while strangling me. He’s one for contradictions, that boy.
So, I get the TV on the buggy, the dude’s bringing it out front, I swing my car around, and…
Damn thing doesn’t fit.
Grim Wednesday has struck again.
So, I drove home, defeated, but it occurred to me coming home that I’ve been getting so angry lately at little things, as I’m sure comes through in my posts. I mean, I’ve always been snarky, and somewhat aggressive, but rarely angry. Thats changed, and I want to get myself back to the way I used to be.
Pigpen had another solution:
“We need to get a smaller TV, Dad.”
June 7th, 2007 at 9:31 am
I have one thing to say…minivan. Not glamorous or fast or even fun to drive, but it’ll haul a TV.
June 7th, 2007 at 9:36 am
Wait, you got a tv that was too big for your car?
Bwaa ha ha ha ha!!!
June 7th, 2007 at 9:36 am
I have one thing to say:
Arrg.
June 7th, 2007 at 9:40 am
Do you need a hand getting the thing home AT? Of course you know that my gas guzzler and I will be happy to lend a hand.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:04 am
“Pigpen had another solution:
“We need to get a smaller TV, Dad.” “
Or a bigger car.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:12 am
See, Jacket, that was my suggestion, and he demurred.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Jon, you suck.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:21 am
Oh well, it appears daco is your option. But hey I drive a truck too.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:40 am
Won’t they revoke your hippie i.d. card for owning that?
June 7th, 2007 at 4:03 pm
Dude, you know lots of people with bigger cars (or SUVs, or trucks). I’d have offered last night, but all of my trucks & SUVs were out at the time.
If it wouldn’t fit in the Mazda, it wouldn’t fit in the Mustang… and the thought doesn’t count for much.
June 7th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
The bad boy is home now. All I needed to do was get rid of the kids, and put the seats down. The kids are at the inlaws, daddy bought a new hat, and is watching the TV. Ohhhh yeah
(well, its not hooked up yet. Actually, its still in the box. Isn’t that lame, that I’m commenting on my own website instead of hooking up my new toy?)
(My new hat rocks too)
June 7th, 2007 at 6:42 pm
pics?
June 7th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
Oh man, its too mighty for pics.
But I do have the TV up right now. Its uncovering a flaw in the mighty ATivo, because the downloaded stuff is compressed, and on this nice ass TV you can tell its compressed.
Hmm.
So, I called Comcast.
June 7th, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Don’t do it!!
June 7th, 2007 at 10:28 pm
Why not? I’ve run out of stuff to download, and I occasionally enjoy watching TV instead of reading books or looking at the ceiling at nighttime.
June 7th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Nickolodean, Disney Channel, Cartoon Network…even PBS kids… Instead of running around and playing your kids will be glued to the damn tv, or else will be mad at you for not letting them watch inane garbage.
June 7th, 2007 at 11:37 pm
I have no problem with them being mad at me.
June 8th, 2007 at 7:07 am
Okay, okay… I was just challenging you to keep the ‘tumor from getting ‘fat’!
June 8th, 2007 at 1:15 pm
Actually, the tumor is pretty fat. Have you looked at the source code? I have so many plugins and esoteric tweaks in there, its starting to look like a herd of rabid monkeys is typing it out…
June 8th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Titch, titch. Your host must love you.
June 8th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
The evil in this world is controled by two things, Government and BIG Business. Not necessarily in that order (sometimes govenment saves us from big business). That being said, we all have one right and that is to exist. I guess that goes for the above two mentioned evil controlers also. Too bad, they will only get bigger.
June 8th, 2007 at 1:29 pm
Yup, and I’m not caching or anything. The servers nice and quick now that people are switching hosts…
June 8th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
ouch!