Today our TV died. We knew it was going. For a couple of months now, when you first turned it on, the picture was very elongated vertically. Then within a few minutes it straightened out. Today there was just a flat horizontal line, no picture.
When Mark came over tonight he and Paul took the TV from the bedroom (19 inches vs. the downstairs 27") and put it in the family room. Paul searched around in the cellar and found Mark's old TV from his bedroom. Mark remembered that he got it in 1986, when he was 12. I asked him how he remembered the year and he said he remembered watching the 1986 World Series on it when Bill Buckner lost the game by letting the ball go through his legs.
Anyhow, we put that one in our bedroom. It doesn't have a remote. When you fall asleep watching TV you have to wake up and turn the TV off. Yikes.
P.S. Update - Saturday November 14th - Yesterday Paul took our TV to The TV Doctor in town. They called today to say it could be fixed for $95. My uncle bought this TV for my mother in 1993. It was an $850 27 inch Mitsubishi. She had it for six years and gave it to us when it didn't work anymore. Paul had it fixed in 1999 for $106. It has been problem free until now, and now it can also be fixed! You can't beat that!
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