I got a new tv recently from Gonzalo. It is great because it works and it works all the time.
The one I had before, I bought in Portland from someone off of Craigslist for $30. It didn't work very well. That tv very well could have been in fine condition before I took posession of it however. I put it in the back of my truck near the cab and took off. The tv did about 4 somersaults before it smashed up against the tailgate. Then I had the tv ride in the cab the rest of the way. When I got home, I plugged it in and it worked. That doesn't really mean that it got broken during shipping though either. The tv would sometimes work for hours with no problem. Sometimes it would work for 2 minutes before shutting off. If you left it alone, it would eventually turn back on at some point. That could be 1 minute or 3 days. To make it work, you could beat the tv and it would sometimes come back on. Sometimes it wouldn't come back on.
I have a car too, but I'll get to that later.
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That is a sweet tv, I'm sure you will miss it. I can understand why it took you so long to get a new one, because old crappy tvs are so expensive these days. Do you have Comcast or Directv? Any HD reception out there or do you just have to go down to FoxSportsNet to watch the games? By the way I will be in Seattle to watch as the Mighty Huskies trounce the pathetic BYU Cougars in 2008. It will be the Dawgs first of two wins over crappy Cougars that year. I will be making the trip with some friends from here; 2 BYU fans and one other Husky and hopefully my family. I realize this is quite a bit of advance notice, but mark your calendars.
The best thing about that TV was the fact that you couldn't turn it off after it started freaking out. So when Meg and I finally gave up on trying to watch Entourage (following the 8th time it freaked out) it neatly came back on while I was trying to sleep. Super! Then it quickly turned itself back off, so that I couldn't. The second time it came back on I finally got to it and turned it off. That POS had "Masser" written all over it. You should have tried to build a contraption that would beat on it constantly as a means of "fixing" it.
Here's the latest on George for everyone not on the email list.
You don't need to lie to us Masser, we all know that anything that enters the bed of your truck never again leaves the bed of your truck!
OK, here is my ideal NBA draft scenario:
1) Suckland, afraid of passing on Jordan for a second time, selects Kevin Durrant #1.
2) Seattle, who loves to spend 1st round picks on centers, takes Greg Oden. At least this center is good.
3) Seattle trades Ridnour to Atlanta for the #11 pick, then trades down a few spots, and selects Rodney Stuckey from Eastern.
4) Paul Allen decides to build an arena in Seattle and donate it to the city, and the Sonics stay forever!
5) A herd of elephants escape from the zoo, and poop all over the streets of Portland.
Number 5 amended:
5) A herd of elephants escape from the zoo, and poop all over the streets of Portland....Thus forever changing it's nickname from the Rose-city to Poopland, the Poop-city.
... and from "Trailblazers" to "Streets-of-poop-balzers"
Adrian: If you ever run into that tv situation again may I make a suggestion. TVs run on electricity, in order to work they are usually plugged into an outlet in the wall, which is connected to wires that run electricity, usually from a power pole to a substation. Therefore, if you need to make the tv stop working you can simply figure out whichever substation powers that outlet and hire some terrorists to blow it up. That should get you a good nights sleep. Also, I was reading your and KC's comments about Poopland, OR and started laughing right as someone walked into my offices, my eyes were watering and I'm sure they could tell I was working hard. So, thanks for that. The Streets of poop-blazers' mascot could be that piece of poop from Southpark.
I can't wait for the posting about your car. When you drive by people do they say..."Come on Barbie let's go party?"
Ha. Mr. Hanky.
Good one Meg. If they don't do that they certainly should.
Megan, don't worry, they already say that - well - the DJs on the morning radio show call it the Barbie car. It is sort of famous on the island.
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