Craig Berry

My strategy worked; yesterday I staged a raid on Circuit City's post-Christmas-we're-so-desperate sale, and was practically paid to haul away a modest but quite adequate HDTV.  I hadn't realized how bad the old set had gotten until I saw the new one...no wonder I never watched TV, as it was effectively invisible toward the end of the previous set's life.

This morning, I nearly managed to convince myself that calling Time Warner about upgrading to HDTV service would be too much of a hassle, and that said service would probably be too expensive anyway.  I finally decided it was worth a try, especially given how quiet things are at work today.  In ten minutes flat I had an HD set-top box order in place, ready to be picked up this evening (though I probably won't actually pick it up until Friday).  And the price?  Nothing up front, and an extra buck a month on my bill.  Recessions do have their up sides.  They're even throwing in a free HDMI cable for no obvious reason; the website says they don't do that.  I'm certainly not going to object.

One happy result of all this is that movie nights at Tonatemocalli will resume sometime in January.  And this time you'll be able to see the movies as well as hear them. :)