Karen and I were sitting watching a little TV last night (DVR’ed episode 2 of AMC’s The Prisoner) when about 10 minutes or so into the episode (and right around 10:00pm) there’s a loud pop! from the TV, the picture goes all sepia tone, and the fan gets really loud. Loud enough to bother the dog. I switch off the TV, thinking that maybe it’s a temporary thing. I wait about a minute or so and turn it back on. No picture, no sound, and the fan is still really loud. And now I can’t turn the TV off. I’m worried that it’s going to burst into flames, since I had no idea what went wrong. I’m trying to reach behind and next to the TV to unplug it, but can’t remember which plug is for the TV (it’s one of those set it and forget it type of things). I finally find the right plug and then can’t get my arm back far enough to unplug it. This is becoming more farcical by the minute.
Now it’s time to find that five extended service contract I got when I bought all this gear 3 1/2 years ago. From Tweeter, which is now out of business. Good thing the contract is honored by a third party. After about 25 minutes of looking, I finally find it (it somwhow made its way into the refiling pile). I call the number, and it’s disconnected. This is not good. I look up the company online and find another number. And somebody answered the phone at 10:30pm! Success! They outsource the repairs to local companies. The repair tech will be coming tomorrow. But any parts will have to be ordered, at a 7-10 business day delay.
It’s relatively rough, since Caroline is such a big Sesame Street fan, and it’s a good distraction for a few minutes if something needs to be done around the house.
Karen posted something about it on her Facebook page (sorry, direct inbound links aren’t allowed), and one of her friends commented “Just put a little bacon on it. Bacon makes EVERYTHING better.” Too bad we didn’t have any bacon.
