No more giant tv
I have angered the gods.
So, last night Zeus was sitting up there on mount Olympus, when he looked down and realized Ed was enjoying life too much. He thought he had already foiled Ed by striking down his hacked satellite box so that he no longer received a steady stream of boob channels. But what is this? Ed was still happy? The Zeus saw the source of Ed's happiness... it was his FREE GIANT TELEVISION. So Zeus, in a fit of anger, threw down a lightning bolt and doth smote Ed's FREE GIANT TELEVISION. And Ed was sad. Woe upon be to Ed!
Seriously, I am quite upset. I was driving home yesterday and I saw Alan pumping along the road on his bike with a roll of paper towels in a plastic sack. We both arrived at my house at the same time and he said he was sitting his hole when he heard a loud electric surge and a pop and his Internet connection went dead. He thought the house had been hit by lightning.
So I went inside and checked the cable modem. Sure enough the wireless router was dead. It would not even turn on when I plugged it in. The cable modem had lights lit up, however they were blinking moronically and nothing was being transmitted. It was probably fried as well.
That really sucked, but it was not the end of the world. I'll have to call some bright house tech out so he can roam through my house and touch my stuff before he installs a new cable modem. So, no Internet for a couple of days. I would live. As long as I had my giant TV. I wandered into the living room and hit the button to turn it on. The little green light did not turn on. Confused, I hit it again. Nothing. That is when I realized it was dead. I fell to my knee's and shook my fist at the heavens. Whhhyyy?
I liked that TV. It was one of the largest tube televisions mass-produced. It hulked on my living room floor with all its tube goodness. The picture was bright and sharp and I loved it. Tonight I will yank open the back in hopes that perhaps it was simply a fuse or something that blew, however I do not have high hopes. Once a television loses its soul it cannot be brought back to life. It was strange because the television was plugged into a multi-plug that I thought had a surge protector. Nothing else that was plugged into it was damaged.
I ended up just laying in bed last night and reading a book. Life sucks.
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