On Sun, 17 May 2009 12:06:18 -0500, Vic Smith
wrote:

Very nice. You're a good son for your dad.
Last Christmas one of my sons bought me this flat widescreen I'm
using. So I've got a perfectly good 21" CRT sitting on the table
behind me.
Alongside the brand new 19" CRT I had picked up on sale as a spare.
Total waste of his money. Devalues my spare too.
He should have given me the cash or kept it for himself.
Either one of us could have put it to better use at Cabelas.
I'm using it just so I don't hurt his feelings.
Sort of hoping it burns out so I can put the CRT back.
I kept paperwork stacked up on the CRT - bills to pay and the like.
Had room for 4 stacks, by priority.
You can't put anything on the flat screen, so now everything is all
messed up. Could lead to bankruptcy.
Got an automotive GPS unit still sitting in it's box for a birthday
gift in January. I kinda doubt I'll ever use it.
It has buttons to push and a screen to look at. And it talks at you.
Quite a distraction when driving a car, don't you think?
Probably harder to turn off then telling the wife to shut up.
Tried to sell it back to the wife and kids, but they don't want it.
Seems everybody already knows how to get where they're going.
Went to a daughter's graduation at U of I in Champagne yesterday.
I asked everybody if we should take the GPS in that box over there.
Anybody want to operate it?
They said, "You know how to get there?"
I said, yep, Lila e-mailed me directions. Exit I57 at 345A, right
on Lincoln to Green, right on Green to 6th, left on 6th to Armory,
enter parking lot E3.
That's what we did. I admit I had that on a piece of paper.
Won't remember tomorrow.
Tom mentioned color TV. I didn't get my first one until 1982.
Somebody gave it to me, because the color didn't work.
It just showed B&W, and the tuner was touchy.
I took it to a local shop - hard to believe you used to be able to
get stuff fixed - and the guy had it ready for me the next day.
Tuner fixed and he replaced the "color chip" for 40 bucks.
Very nice, had it for years.
Never went back to B&W. Got modern.
But there's modern, and then there's "bleeding edge."
A man's got to know the difference.

--Vic

You're channeling Andy Rooney.