My TV Asplode

I was sitting and considering what I might want to write about when my wife walked in:

"We're not busy tomorrow, right?"

"Yeah?"

"You like shopping for electronics, right?"

<suspicious look? "Yeah?"

"I think the TV is dying"

Apparently the TV made a pop-ping noise and went black, then came back with a very washed out picture.  When we turned it off, the 'lamp' light blinked for a quite a while, and attempting to turn it back on just didn't work at all.  So it looks like we'll be making a trip to Best Buy and/or Target tomorrow to see what our options are.  I can't be too mad, the television is close to 20 years old at this point.  I'm a little sad though, since we can't really justify spending what it would take to buy a new one at the same size.  It was originally my parents' upstairs television but they gave it to me when I bought a house since they didn't really use it anymore.

On the bright side, there ought to be some good Labor Day sales going on, so maybe we can find a decent deal there.  We've talked about a second TV for the bedroom, so we might buy a smaller one for now, then move it to the bedroom and get a larger unit come year-end.  Also, this means we can finally get a TV with modern inputs, like HDMI.  Maybe we can look into Chromecast now too.

Quiet Day

I've been trying to think of something at all interesting to write about and I'm not coming up with much of anything, so I will begin writing things and see how it goes.  Today was devoted primarily to a half-birthday party for some good friends' 6-month old daughter, and dinner with my parents.

A half-birthday party is not a thing I would have ever thought of, but apparently it's become a thing?  Obviously the baby's not going to remember it, so it's mostly just an excuse for a party.  This one was our standard circle of friends getting together, but this time there was cake.  The baby was the center of attention, but really that's pretty normal in any case.  She's remarkably adorable.

Once we got home from all of this, we intended to relax a bit.  Instead, in the process of taking out the trash, a glass spaghetti sauce jar was dropped and shattered.  Tiny glass pieces scattered all over.  Thankfully it was empty and had been rinsed out.  But still, picking up glass, sweeping, vacuuming, and mopping the floor took quite a while.  Hopefully we got it all.

Apart from that, I was able to log into FFXIV for a bit.  I advanced the story slightly and am now 36 in my primary class (bard).  Mostly I worked on filling today's supply orders since they're good for a nice chunk of crafting experience.