Red Sox On Big TV

So my father handed us down a 27” TV that’s even older than my 23” one (bought early in 2000), but still quite nice.  They really needed a bigger one to be able to see it properly across the room, so that was long overdue.  Even in a smaller room, I always wished I’d bought a larger one, but it’s an excellent TV and was only $149, versus the $189 for the premium VCR I bought at the same time.  That was my first VCR and the first color TV that wasn’t used.  The first while I was in the Quincy apartment, I used my 13” black & white TV I was gifted new in 1979, and that also doubled as my first computer monitor, from 1985 to 1988.

He and my stepmother came by Friday with the TV, stand, and a copy of A Meeting At Corvallis, which I suspended rerereading Voyage From Yesteryear to start devouring.  Dunkin Munchkins, too, as a candy alternative.  They had a great visit with the kids, especially with Henry turning on the charm for Kathy.

The next morning, when asked what she wanted to watch, Sadie declared she wanted to watch “the big TV!” She’s been agitating to watch it ever since.  This morning she was even more specific.  She wants to “watch the Red Sox on the big TV!” When Deb explained about the Red Sox not being on again until April, Sadie said that daddy would go buy Red Sox to watch.  She has such faith.

Anyway, I got it all hooked up this morning, moving the old desk the smaller TV was on completely.  Before I even started, I discussed with the kids the fact that the VCR and DVD player would now be on a low shelf, and the importance of not bothering them.  They seemed to be on board with that.  It was a nice cleaning opportunity, too.  The remote still worked, not needing batteries as expected.  It programmed easily and worked fine with our three way arrangement.  Sadie is all excited.

Now we have to figure out what we’re doing with the desk and smaller TV, for which we have an old VCR with a missing remote, so we could potentially record two shows at once.  After I get an antenna and set the smaller TV back up in our bedroom.  Probably Deb will take back her old desk as a desk.  We can either use the small desk as a stand for the TV in the bedroom, or swap it for an actual TV stand of about the same size I have in the office.  Or some other option.

I hope to do some more posts today, if not all here, work on the resume, and continue the organizing project in which the snake-like home office further digests the boar-like external office contents.  Hmmm… I think I may have figured out where to put all the cookbooks as I typed this.  In reorganizing the office, I packed in excess of ten boxes of books, but as I found cookbooks, some of which were already together, I put them in the kitchen where there is no place for them.  Speaking of kitchen design, I’d want a place for cookbooks and a kitchen computer, in addition to multiple sinks, large stove top, dual ovens, massive brightly lit counter, etc.

The whole Red Sox thing was terribly cute.

Posted by on 11/04 at 11:20 AM

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