So Saturday PM, Mrs. A and I went out looking for an HDMI portal (to add connectivity options to the TV from components) and a stand upon which to place the TV. Hit Best Buy on The Rock Road first.
Big mistake. HUGE mistake. HDMI cables and portals way overpriced, by hundreds of percent, as was the furniture (and badly designed, too). And our salesman, once we tracked one down, just drifted away from us in the middle of our conversation, like he had been abducted by aliens or something. I'm afraid I was less than gracious to him when he drifted back into our orbit and tried to resume the conversation.
We had lunch and hied on to Target, across the street, where we did not find an HDMI portal but did find a suitable table with an elevated and reinforced tower that would hold the new HDTV at an appropriate height for viewing in our little living room. Target kindly supplied a stockroom employee to cart the box ("some assembly required" = "son Jason brings the tools over and gets busy") to the car and then home. Assembly and first viewing is likely Sunday evening.
A sad note: nobody wants the Sony carcass, even though it's fixable. So to the trash heap it goes. Of course, since recycling is now only profitable in reverse, we'll have to poop some cash in behind it. We'll pay a load of money to get it hauled away and somebody will gut the thing of all its essential parts and chemical nutrients, pour the gold, silver, mercury and titanium into somebody's pocket and then smoosh the rest along with somebody's 1965 Corvair.
Probably the profit goes to Al Gore.
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