Doing our part to help the retail sector this holiday season...

We pulled the plug on commercial television early in the first Clinton administration.  This was before marriage and kids, and it wasn’t because we had any particular moral or aesthetic objection; we just decided the money we were spending on the cable subscription could be put to much better use.  

So far the children are growing up without any serious psychological scars.

We’ve always kept a television set, though, tucked away in cellar with the old living room furniture, which we use regularly for watching movies and the occasional TV show on DVD.  (Huge Big Bang Theory fans.  Huge.  And that whole Netflix on demand thing through the Wii?  Brilliant.)

And a while back we got to thinking that it was time upgrade the old set.  Current sale prices convinced us to make said upgrade the Christmas “family gift.”

So yesterday we loaded everyone into the truck and drove to Augusta to do some comparison shopping, and we came home with a new 55” LED HDTV, which is an vast improvement over the old set in about four hundred sixty-seven ways.  

Getting the thing up and running - between the wall-mounting device, the new Blu-ray player, the A/V receiver and surround sound, the Wii, the Interweb – was kind of an event.  You know something is complicated when Himself has to spend two hours on the phone with tech support; that was last night, and he’s still at it down there, but I think he’s almost done.  

It’s a school night but we might have to watch a movie anyway…