Rendevouz TV

Like our car situation, we have recently had to play rotating TVs. Our family room TV went on the fritz back last Summer. It would take many minutes to warm up and one had to tap it on the side several times to get the picture to appear. Well, it never failed we would miss some big Rockies moment while it was warming up. So, we donated it to a needy family after learning of a co-worker who was willing to sell me a decent Hitachi TV, so he claimed.

He was thinning out house inventory in hopes of selling his home so I handed him $25 for our "new" HDTV (Horrible Definition). On the lower channels, the volume had so much interference it was hard to comprehend and the picture quality on most channels was below average. So, we donated it to a local homeless organization just in time for Austin's XBOX game system to develop a problem, which meant we would borrow his 13" color TV from the basement while the XBOX was shipped to McAllen, TX for 3 weeks for repair.

Well, the XBOX made the round trip back to Denver yesterday, so last night we were TV-less for the first time in our bedroom in 21 years of marriage. Absolutely not wanting to risk our marital union, I went out and bought my wife her Valentine's gift today so she could keep on doing her exercise DVD and have something to watch while ironing. (Oh, yeah, I might watch it a tad:). So, a new, SHARP 20" flat screen TV now sits atop our dresser ready to keep our marriage just perfect!

And, as a side note, a neat new website discovered today that notifies you if your purchase price drops in the next 30 days! You sign up for free an email will be sent if the price drops so you can go back to the 'big box' store and get a credit for the difference!

Time to help motivate Teri upstairs to go exercise...

Til next time....