Are All Children This Devious?

Sprout has been bugging me about our "crappy TV" in the family room for some time. Honestly, I can't remember how old it is but I kinda think it's older than she is and she'll be 19 in a few days. When Madge and I were playing the Wii over the holidays we noticed that the images weren't very sharp and Sprout once again chimed in on the crappiness of the TV.

So now that we're the foster family to the PS3, the aforementioned crappiness of the TV becomes really apparent. Dang kids! I think this was their evil plan all along. Bring a cool new toy into the house and show mom just how crappy the TV really is. These kids are evil, I tell you, evil.

Have you ever spent 75 minutes at Wally World with three nineteen year-olds shopping for a flat screen tv? It was very entertaining. Thankfully I had done a little research prior to walking through the door so I was armed with information. Said research consisted of asking one of the dudes at work and polling all the dudes on the bus ride home regarding TVs.

They helped answer such questions as 720p or 1080p? LCD or Plasma? Size? Here's what we ended up with.

It's a 42" LCD 1080p. The picture quality on the display model was very good and it was less expensive than others the same size.

Amazingly, it only weighs 44 pounds. Wow! The old 27" weighs at least 2 tons.

As we were driving home with the new TV I made it clear that it would probably take some time to get the room ready before we can install the TV. We have two large bookcases full of books and "stuff". This all needs to be sorted and purged - this can not be rushed.

Project 365 - January 13th