Television 101

There's an old TV out in the garage. Late 70's or early eighties. Right in there between the '64 MGB GT and the 1970 Duster. It's got the Carver speakers. I think it's a Toshiba but I could be wrong. Point is it's a keeper. It's those Carver speakers.

The MGB GT is something I got from one of the neighbours a few years ago. It's a restoration project waiting to happen. Interesting car. Sort of a station wagon/ hatch back type of thing. Very pleasing asthetically too. Looks good. Sounds good. Black leather seating with red piping. Smells good. Too bad the undercarriage is rotted out from under it.

Not too long ago the main TV here at Falling Downs went for a shit. One minute we're watching it, and all is well. Next minute all the people are green and there are wee horizontal lightening bolts going through them. Time for a new TV.

The Duster is a replica of one I had back in the day. The restoration has actually been started. They were a wicked quick car in the day. Quickest for the money, that's for sure. The original motor and tranny are sitting over by the wall. Most of the motor. I've got the heads in the basement, where I'm doing a bit of port work with the dremel tool I got a couple years ago.

Didn't do a whole lot of TV shopping but got back here with one of those flat panel jobs. Pretty big. Took forever to figure out what buttons to push to make it work. Had it on for about fifteen minutes. Doesn't matter how big the screen is, when there's nothing on, there's nothing on.

We get five or six hundred channels on the satellite service at Falling Downs. But there's nothing on. Tried to watch a bit a few minutes ago. There's a Sabres/Devils game on. Couple of mainstream news shows. The O'Reilly Factor. Had to turn it off.

Before I turned it off I saw an advert for one of those tablet things. You know the ones. Looks a bit like an etch-a-sketch from back in the day. You can watch TV on them now. But they're all hi-techy and pretty pricey. Showed folks wandering around, watching TV while holding this thing out in front of them.

Aren't they going to be disappointed when they realize there's nothing on!