Thursday
Us? Buy a house?
So apparntly Chris' sister thinks that we should be able to buy a house. I think we couod get approved but thats different than actually living the numbers that might be run by us. We will see, Wednesday.
Friday
TV, Cable
So we get out early on Friday. Before I leave I place the order for the TV (JVC 27wf35, 27" Flat Tube) from BestBuy.com. It says to wait for 2 emails before picking it up. So I wait for an hour and with out getting the 2nd email I head off away. I know they have them so I was sure there would be no problem. I got there and browsed a bit and then got the TV with no problem. They wheeled it up and it was a BIG box. the guy brought it out and we decided that the box would not be making the ride home. He cut the bottom off of the box like he must have done a thousand times. He picked up the TV and popped it in the back seat with no problems.
I wanted to stop for an S-Video cable (why I just didnt get it at BestBuy I dont know). I thought i would pass by a RadioShack on the way home. Nope, even after takeing a longer way home I still didn't pass one.
i got home, Sarah and the kids (wierd) were not home yet. I cleared some room on the floor and then went to get the TV. Wow, this sucker was heavy. 95 bounds of awkward to carry heavy. I grabbed it and forced it out of the back seat and onto the ground. I moved a couple more feet and thought of giving up. I made it to the bottom of the 5 stairs. I felt the TV up alot before all of a sudden I felt a good grip and lugged it up the stairs.I got it in the house and then dreaded trying to take it to the Living Room. My fingers felt like they were broken...I grabbed my skateboard and put the TV on and rolled it through the house.
I got to work unplugging the VCR,oldTV, PS2 and Stereo. I pulled the DVD player out of the closet and layed out the wires. I Hooked everything up. It has this as far as A/V connections:
Video 1 > (audio)R|L|(video)V|S-Vid
Video 2 > (audio)R|L
Video 3 > (audio)R|L|(video)V
Composit > Where you would connect to cable.
I hooked up the DVD to the VID 1 using the regular Video since I didnt have the s-video calble yet. The PS2 went to the front jacks and I wasnt sure how to put video into the TV from the VCR yet.
With that stuff I hooked it up and man it was beutiful and sounded great. Istill needed to get the VCR hooked up. I thought the key was the s-vid cable that I will get Sat.
Sat
Ikea
We looked around Ikea for TV furniture. They had some decent stuff price wise and look wise. i also noticed that you could get a whole living room set up for @1200. you get couches, chairs, tables and tv stuff for that. we decided to wait and grab a coffee table that we had sitting at my parents for @7 years...
I picked up the S-Video cable and also noticed that you could get Component cables for the Ps2. I guess newer DVDplayers have the Component outputs on them but ours does not.
later that night I was reconnecting everything and decided to give the old cable line a try to see if i could get the reception in better (we do not subscribe to cable). Not only was it better reception but our free cable was back! Again I did not docter the cable up, i just simply plugged it in to better the reception.
Sunday
Easter, all kinds of house advice, tv cabnit
Whew, ok this is getting long....
Easter was nice...kids, family, good, great.
Great shot of G hunting for eggs.
we snagged up the Coffe table. When we got home and everybody went to sleep I unloaded the old entertainment center and moved it out of the way. I put all the media under the table and the stereo next to the tv. The DVD, VCR and PS2 all went on top of the Stereo. I connected every thing up and we were set. Still not satisfied I was able to get the PC connected to the TV and stereo and the new wireless mouse can actually be used from the coffee table. If we had a wireless keyboard and you made the fonts big you could do web surfing on the big tv :o)
Monday
Paying bills
DSL?
I got all Cashers checks that we needed today plus payed a bunch of smaller stuff.
I wish we could switch over to Verizon. For @10 more a month we could get DSL... We owe Verizon some money from long ago so I dont know if switching would cause a problem.
I picked up the Component Cables for the Ps2 and hooked them up. I think it makes a difference. it also frees up the front AV jacks.
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