Muscle and Blood

Luck.

Some people got it.

And some don’t.

Let us harken back to the famed TV post from a few years back (you don’t have to READ, just harken, you know??).

Now let us take a small passage from said missive:

Trash has two TVs in his room. One is dodgy and never hooked up. The OTHER TV is MY televison. A lovely Samsung that I’d bought around 1999 or so. It lives in his room because I’ve barely got room to BREATHE in here, nevermind room for a 27 inch idiot-box (read: puter takes precedence over TV). We havebeen trying to get Trash to giveup custody of said TV in order to let it flourish in the living room. Sure, it’s MY television, but Trash is loathe to give up guardianship because he’s got his Nintendo hooked up to same. And he can get channel 2. And channel 50. And channel 11. With almost perfect clarity thanks to a fancy pair of rabbit ears.

 

Now when I said ‘One is dodgy’ I was going by hearsay. I simply took it at face value that the other TV was indeed busted and dodgy.

So there was me once again trolling through the Room of Death (read: Trash’s room) in a feeble attempt to once again make it livable. Indeed, this room still looks like a whirricane, two tornadoes, and an earthquake measuring at least 11.6 on the richter scale have hit it. And I’ve been working on it bit by bit for weeks, nay MONTHS.

I gazed at the old dodgy TV as I was picking up bits and pieces here and there and thought to myself, hey!! Maybe it WILL work with fancy rabbit ears!!

Turned it round I did, and plugged in the antenna and voila!! Television!! With near PERFECT clarity, except for channel 11 which just seems to be problematic no matter what TV I’m using. I’m thinking mass conspiracy, to be honest. ‘This is what you get for watching Three and a Half men, Babs–squiggly lines!! Take THAT!!’

I informed Trash of my discovery and he was quite shocked. And then the little bastard was angling to put the TV in Ma’s room (which he has taken over in her absence and also because his room resembles Fresh Kills at the mo, as noted previously). I sort of agreed with this to a point; after all, the DVD player is in that room. Frankly it’s kind of shite watching epic movies on a 13 inch TV. Then again, if this TV went into the living room I could turn it round slightly and, instead of just HEARING the TV while I was goofing about on the puter, I could actually turn my head and SEE it. Huzzah!!

This TV is older though, and only has one hookup. For either cable or a fancy pair of rabbit ears. Not one plug for the DVD wires.

I win!! TV in the living room!!

I AM VICTORIOUS!!

I asked Trash to make the switch, but anyone who recalls the famed Air Conditioner Episodes of last year knows exactly what would have happened. To wit: I would have been tapping the OLD old TV with a golf club until October 20, 2057. Or so.

I moved it myself, and may or may not have ruined my back in the process. Or gotten a hernia. But who cares!! Clear TV once again!!

I sat there and watched Jaws (Yes, it was the first time I’ve seen it and yes I know I’m a bit behind the times, and NO, I won’t be going to the beach anytime soon. Ahem). And Friends. And a special about String Theory that was completely over my–and 98.9% of the populaces–head. With clarity!!

{Oh, and not that I have any sort of clue about this stuff, but if I’m gobbled up by a black hole next week I am going to be SO pissed off. There’s a reason I try NOT to watch specials about outer space, people. I’m paranoid as it is!! And I got sucked into the String Theory show, ok?? There was nothing else on. Sheesh}

Anyhoo. I sat there all weekend basking in the glory that was Perfectly Clear Television. Then, yesterday, I decided channel 13 needed a bit of tweaking. I turned the dial on the rabbit ears. Meh–still not good. Turn it again. STILL no good. Once more and SNAP!!

I broke the knob of the fucking rabbit ears.

Lucky for me, though, the knob that doesn’t fit on the oven properly TOTALLY works on the rabbit ears.

And channel 13, for anyone wondering, comes in perfectly clear at 475 degrees.

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