The Television is Back

In late 2004, just before I left the company I was working for as an electronics salesman I got a really good deal on a 52" HD DLP television. (It was almost as inexpensive as you can buy the same TV new, now.) It's been a pretty good TV with some occasional problems such as the remote not working even with fresh batteries, or it just going out on you for a little while and you having to reset it by unplugging and basically, like a computer, rebooting it. Well about a month to five weeks ago it just went out. We called it in for repair and they had to take the "console" out and send it back to the factory. Fortunatly the manufacture repaired the console for free - I guess they had had a lot of trouble with this series - but I still had to pay the labor and postage to get it out, sent to the factory and put back in. Less money than a new TV though not a pleasure to pay. Anyway, it's back. Guess what. . . I didn't miss it. I probably won't watch it more than an hour or two in the next month. I think that is good.

Today's photo is O L D. I don't remember exactly, but I'll bet I took it in the 1970s. It was originally taken on slide film. I had scanned it in before but I was dissapointed in the results so I finally sent it and about 40 or so other old slides in, mine and my dad's, and had them professionally scanned. My opinion? Money well spent. I've got a hundred or so more to get in to them. Anyway, if I remember correctly these were taken within a mile or two of where I live now, but when I took them It seemed like I was driving way out in the country. The land I was on then is probably houses now and you'd be lucky to see much of a sunset without lifting 20 or so feet off the ground. I think taking pictures is a lot more fun and better for me than watching TV. Hope you enjoy.

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