OMG, I am insane. I seem to have trouble distinguishing between "can I pick it up?" and "can I carry it any distance?" In short, I have a new TV, but it may be hours before I have the strength back to put the old one down and the new one up.

I blame/credit George Pelecanos for the fact that I will never buy anything those salesmen want me to buy. So I don't have HDTV cables or some shit, but then, I don't have an HDTV cable box, either. I'll deal with that the next time I feel like dealing with the cable company.

Dude, I may have to dump my metric buttload of tarnished silver jewelry into the chemistry soup above.

I have to go to krav now. One of the senior instructors returned and they gave him one of my classes. I managed to wheedle him into taking the one I like the least, but now I have to assist him. Picture me assisting an ex-mentor. I can think of nothing else but his high standards for me and how I failed the black belt test.

I do not expect to enjoy the next hour, but I will still leave myself open to not hating it.

Jesse, if you go to the TW store with your old box, they'll give you an HD box with all the cables you'll need.

I tried the aluminum foil/baking soda cleaning method, and it didn't work at all. All I got was what was probably toxic aluminum smoke. I'll probably get Alzheimer's now. It didn't noticeably clean the silver. Did I do it wrong?

Zen, if you want to come to Brooklyn and pick it up, it's yours.

ooo! Tom, how big is it? Physical dimensions, I mean.

Jesse, if you go to the TW store with your old box, they'll give you an HD box with all the cables you'll need.

Oh, good. That was pretty much what I figured, but I figured worst case scenario, I'd have to go back to PC Richard.

According to the manual, it's 26¼" x 23¾" x 20¾" and weighs 93 lbs.

Well, it looks like Dean decided he prefers the senoritas and the tequila. I'm very sorry, Mexico, but we don't need the stress at work just now. Mother Nature, if you want to send a few Cat 2s or milder towards Carolina or something, I promise to buck up and do the job.

weighs 93 lbs.

Dag! Even if I could have gotten that up the stairs, I'm pretty sure I would have needed to buy a new TV stand.

Even if I could have gotten that up the stairs, I'm pretty sure I would have needed to buy a new TV stand.

Yeah, one of the things that finally pushed us over the edge to a flat screen (aside from, you know, WANT) was the horrible prospect of getting another CRT the size we'd have wanted up to the second floor.