While going through my annual sorting of papers for preparation for income taxes, SWMBO comes in and says the TV in the bedroom doesn't turn on. Of course, I'm not allowed to finish up totaling up a column of numbers, so I go to the bedroom. The TV switch does nothing, but the remote briefly shows the channel and then shuts down. OK...
Take the TV down off of the dresser and take the back off. Inside is 22 years of dust, dirt, and cat hairs. Any wonder why it doesn't work? Off to the garage where I have the air compressor, and I give it a good shot of air. Still nothing works. I check the input AC line, and it is good. The switch is buried and I really don't want to get into it...I declare the TV dead.
Fortunately, we have another TV stashed out in the attached garage that we replaced a few years ago. At the time, it was flakey, but when I finally hooked up its replacement, I found a faulty cable. So...thinking that this TV was good, I hook it up. It shows up nice and wavy along the vertical, and does its thing to find all of the cable channels. Great! Only that none of the channels display: everything was streaky black stuff. TV #2 is dead.
SWMBO finds a nice 19" tube TV on Wal-Mart website for $124, which is good enough for me. I go to the SuperWM and all they have are flat panels, and expensive at that. Ugh. Off I go to Best Buy, and they only have 2 tube TV's: both the same model and less than $200. One is a floor model (that's OK by me), but they are too deep for the dresser in the bedroom. I find a 22" flat panel for $250 and buy it.
Just yesterday, I told SWMBO to buy the 2nd freezer, now that the bills have all been paid. She jokes with the salesman: "Does this come with a free TV?"
Crap.
Take the TV down off of the dresser and take the back off. Inside is 22 years of dust, dirt, and cat hairs. Any wonder why it doesn't work? Off to the garage where I have the air compressor, and I give it a good shot of air. Still nothing works. I check the input AC line, and it is good. The switch is buried and I really don't want to get into it...I declare the TV dead.
Fortunately, we have another TV stashed out in the attached garage that we replaced a few years ago. At the time, it was flakey, but when I finally hooked up its replacement, I found a faulty cable. So...thinking that this TV was good, I hook it up. It shows up nice and wavy along the vertical, and does its thing to find all of the cable channels. Great! Only that none of the channels display: everything was streaky black stuff. TV #2 is dead.
SWMBO finds a nice 19" tube TV on Wal-Mart website for $124, which is good enough for me. I go to the SuperWM and all they have are flat panels, and expensive at that. Ugh. Off I go to Best Buy, and they only have 2 tube TV's: both the same model and less than $200. One is a floor model (that's OK by me), but they are too deep for the dresser in the bedroom. I find a 22" flat panel for $250 and buy it.
Just yesterday, I told SWMBO to buy the 2nd freezer, now that the bills have all been paid. She jokes with the salesman: "Does this come with a free TV?"
Crap.
