Today hell froze over. It’s been coming for sometime, but it officially froze today. Yep… BRR!!! Got up this morning and headed over to Cracker’s Breakfast Cafe with Claire & Donna. It was good as always, and if you live in Arizona, you gotta try Cracker’s. But that was only chilly. It got downright frozen when the three of us headed to Costco afterwards. The other evening Donna and Claire were home alone and the television picture went black. I remind her daily that it wasn’t my fault since I wasn’t home, so she couldn’t say I did it on purpose. I checked out a couple of websites and called Toshiba, but everyone pretty much said we were SOL.

The next day Claire & I trudged off to CostCo because we already knew we were buying there, and we took inventory. The Vizio 42" 1080P jumped out at me, and I was pretty comfortable with that; the price was also exactly what I expected. My next problem was figuring out how it would fit in my entertainment center. We got this beast when we got married, spent an arm and a leg, and Donna isn’t giving it up. So I deferred to Terrie, the most handy person I have around. See, the problem was that our entertainment center is 37" wide, and all of these new televisions are all too large. I wasn’t about to buy a smaller television, and I knew I was getting 1080P no matter what. Terrie said, "well, why don’t you just cut windows in each side?" This idea was brilliant!


Sunday morning we headed off to CostCo, and I showed Donna the television. She suggested the 37", but it was only a 720P so we grabbed the Vizio Claire and I picked out, got some cables, a power surge and groceries. I came home, moved the old CRT beast out of the cabinet, cleaned stuff off the shelves that could break, and then we called Terrie. She had just gotten home from the cabin and promised she’d be over in a few hours. I ran around and did other work, while we waited.

When she arrived, she dumped her tools in the living room and we got to work. We measured out window holes for the sides of the television, and then got out the drill. We used a jigsaw to cut the holes out, and then a sander to take care of the jagged edges. Afterward, we cracked open the box and fit the television into the center. I clicked it on and it was good. Later we got the sound hooked up, and I popped in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. WOW! What a beauty! Gotta call Cox about an HD box tomorrow now.