Day 1143

I woke up at 7:30, but didn't get up until 8:30.  I spent that hour playing with the cat and drifting in and out of sleep.  It was great.  After that it was pet stuff, breakfast, and surfing.

John and Melissa had gone out in the morning.  They knocked on the door when they got back.  We talked for a little while and then we went to Best Buy.  We took our car and they took the van.  The van only has two seats.  We bought them coffee when we got there.  Then we picked up the TV.

When we got home we unpacked the new TV and tested it.  It worked fine with no interaction with the DirecTV receiver.  Then John helped me take the old TV off the wall and put it in the study for Lee.  I spent quite awhile after that pulling wire.  I removed two AV sets from the wall.  I thought we didn't need them anymore.  Then I pulled another HDMI cable.  That allowed me to remove the HDMI switch that I had been using.  Then I cleaned everything up.

Everyone else was having lunch while I was doing all of that.  It was about 2 when I was done, so I called a lunch break for myself.  When I was finished John and I hung the new TV.  Melissa connected the cables.  Then it was Ellen's turn to reprogram the remote.

While she was doing that I went out to the garage and got down the old TV's box.  I removed the stand from it and took it to the garbage.  I cut up the box so it would fit in the recycle.  Then I broke up all of the Styrofoam so it would fit in the garbage. Then I did the same thing for the box the new TV came in.  When I was finished there was just a little room left in both cans.

Isaac had come down to 290 this afternoon to go to Goodwill.  So we met him, his girlfriend, and her brother at the Cajun place about 5.  I just got done with the garbage in time.  The Cajun place has lots of vegetarian options.  We had a good meal.  I think John and Melissa were really glad to see him.

We were back home about 6:30.  We were all looking for things on the internet.  John and I looked for windmills (his current passion).  Ellen was looking for more info on programming the remote.  Melissa was looking for flowers.  We were talking about various subjects at the same time.  They left a little after 9.

Ellen mentioned that the TV sound (for off air and internet) doesn't play through the receiver.  I said of course, one of the wires I'd removed used to supply the receiver with TV sound.  This bugged me, so I decided to take the TV off the wall and pull an optical cable through the wall.  Ellen helped with the TV.  The cable pulling went pretty smoothly except for some trouble with the string I used to pull the cable.

We put the TV back up and everything worked as expected.  The only problem right now is that Ellen can't get the new TV to program the on air channels.  It only sees two channels.  The other TV sees a lot.  There's no mention at all of the on air input in the user manual.  She's going to try the website.