We bought the TV, a Toshiba 37HL67, and then came home. The drive home was nice and we listened to some NPR shows the better-half captured and put on his MP3 player.
The TV rode home in the back of the truck so it had to come up to room temperature before we could do anything with it and during that wait time the better-half ran over to the cable company to get a HD box. Wouldn’t you know the customer service rep didn’t activate the system and we had to call back again and again until we finally got a very helpful live person?
Of course we set up the TV and all the components, found out the cable remote was broken (some of the buttons work not one bit, but the old remote works just fine, thankfully) and then the power went out. No warning brown-outs just slammed into darkness. I called the power company only to be told that my call was important but I might have to wait 6 hours to talk to someone. I hung up and ranted that my call was in a queue that was 6 hours long. I tried again later when their system wasn’t taxed and found out a circuit breaker at the substation blew out. Luckily the power was back on within an hour or so.
To cap it all off, the generator wouldn’t start so the better-half took a hammer to it and then hooked it up to the truck’s battery. It finally turned over and we were able to do the ever favorite toilet flush. Isn’t it funny as soon as the power goes out, I have to use the bathroom? (For those of you who don’t rely on a well for water: when the power goes out, so does the well and that means only one flush per toilet until the power comes back on.)
The TV is beautiful. And, now that we have HD, we can watch the HD yule log:
