posted 2006/08/28 at 17:37
With as dark as the sky outside is right now, you'd think it was near the Winter Solstice and not midsummer. The worst part is that we're not even going to get thunderstorms out of this, just a bunch of rain. Over the past few weeks we've been denied several storms when they broke up just before crossing the state line into Ohio; the one time we got thunder, it woke me up early on Thursday and made me go to Japanese class groggy. There's a Murphy's Law in there somewhere, I'm sure.
This upcoming Christmas will mark the ten-year anniversary of me getting my current television. I mention this because the TV is definitely showing wear; I can see the difference in picture quality between my TV up here and the TV I bought for my dance game setup in the garage, which was a $100 el cheapo television that still has a much sharper picture than my bedroom TV has. Making matters worse, the remote for my bedroom television hasn't worked for years because after the house fire the remote got boxed up and the batteries inside leaked and corroded the inside.
The problem I have right now isn't so much a lack of money for a new television as it is me just wondering whether or not I really need a new television. I've written recently about how I just don't have much interest in watching television or playing video games that much anymore, and if those things don't interest me so much, then is it worth me going out and getting a new TV? At the same time, though, it's not like I've completely cut TV and video games out of my life, and it'd be nice to have something nice to watch them on, or at least something better than my current setup. I don't know, I guess first I need to worry about getting the money for a new television before I worry about whether or not to actually buy one.
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