The Fifty

What a weekend! This kicks ass.

I take that back. Not all the weekend was cool, just Sunday. Saturday was kind of crappy. First, the Vols lost to freakin' Vanderbilt. What is that all about? Furthermore, that loss took us out of bowl eligibility and puts the last nail in the coffin for our hopes to have a winning season. IF, and i mean IF, we beat Kentucky this weekend we will still have a five and six record. BLAH! I don't want to talk about the Vols anymore.

So, other than the Vols, Saturday was also crappy because I had to work. I went in at around 1:30 pm and left at around 11:30 pm. Crappy, crappy, crappy all around.

Saturday night picked up a bit with a visit to one of our favorite bars in town with a bunch of friends here. It was pretty cool.

Sunday was absolutely awesome, well it ended up that way after what seemed like was going to be a bad day. We woke up relatively early to get a start on the final move-out phase from the apartment - vacuuming. We went over, swept up, picked up about five or six trash bags and locked the door for the final time. Sigh. It was a good apartment for the time I lived there, and I'll always remember it as a cool place in a city I didn't much care for at the time. However, it was time to go. In the almost three years I lived there it has slowly degraded in terms of neighbors and whatnot. It was definitely time to get out while the getting was good.

After the final move out we headed to a nearby sub shop for some tasty sandwiches before picking up my work buddy who drives a big ol' Expedition. We needed a big car for the afternoon plan. I've been saving up money for the last couple of buying periods of my company's stock plan (no, not 401k, I'm not that dumb). We were headed to Best Buy for a TV purchase. Since we've moved into the house, the den is a lot bigger, and our nineteen inch TV just wasn't cutting it. I've been studying up for months and debating on what type of TV to get. I had decided on the 34 inch Sony VEGA flat screen CRT based HDTV.

My plan was foiled.

That morning I'd called my golf partner from work to tell him I wasn't going to be able to play because we had so much to do with the apartment, and I planned on getting a TV that afternoon. He is planning on getting one too. We talked. I started to sway in my decision. A voice in my head said bigger is better. Shutup!

We got to Best Buy and looked around and got some pretty good advice from a sales guy. One of last year's models of a 42 inch LCD projection TV was on sale, way on sale. We asked if they had it in stock and decided that was the one we were going to splurge on. I had enough money saved up to get a TV and an entertainment center (as in furniture to put the TV in). They didn't have it in stock. Now we just weren't going to get as nice of an entertainment center. Off to compare prices.

We got to Costco and looked around a bit, but they didn't have very many TVs we were interested in and no 34 inch Sony CRTs. We headed to Circuit City.

At Circuit City we found our long lost buddy 42 inch LCD projection TV at Best Buy for guess how much - the same as it was at Best Buy. Wow. So here I am with A and my work friend looking at these TVs. D (work friend) and I started talking about wheter or not it was more important to have the absolute best quality picture I could afford (as in the 34 inch) or to go with great picture and bigger size. The pros to the 34 inch were that it had unbelievable picture. The cons were that it was bulky in the back, weighed nearly 200 pounds, and it was relatively small in screen size. The other side was the LCD 42 incher. The pros there were the big screen size, great picture, and small overall size at less than 70 pounds. In the end we decided on the LCD. Sweet! I'm going to get a 42 inch LCD Sony Wega Projection HDTV. Wait, where's A? D didn't know either. We went to find her to tell her and get her final opinion.

We found her in utter shock, mouth wide open, amazed. She was looking at some type of display of which the back was turned towards us. We walk around to where she was standing and just stood there, speechless. At least five minutes.

There it was.

A monster 50 inch LCD Projection Sony Grand Wega television. The motherload. On sale.

There goes the entertainment center.

Every time I walk in the den now I laugh out loud and hoop and holler. I watched Man U beat the crap out of Charlton on this huge bastard, then I'm watching Monday Night Football right now. We watched The Fast And The Furious last night and then Gone In Sixty Seconds after that. It is heavenly. There goes a couple of weeks of house projects, there goes Thanksgiving Day, There goes Saturdays during college football, and there definitely goes the entire 2006 MLB season. I shake just thinking about my first Braves game.

I have to go now, I'm watching TV. I know, it's pathetic, but it's fun.