The TV in the basement playroom had seen
better days. It was purchased in 1984, and had a convoluted electronic tuning
system made for pre-cable type watching. The tuner has been drifting and
requiring too much care to get it to work, and since the kids use it mainly, it
wasn’t worth keeping or fixing. So, yesterday I bought a 32” TV for the family
room, and the exchanges had to be made.
The problem started with the fact that the
new TV weighed 121 pounds in the box, and even out of the box the weight was
112 lbs. So, the guy at Costco helped me get it on to a cart, and another guy helped
me get it in my car. My wife and I moved it to the garage, and then very slowly
we made our way into the house and into the family room. Since I don’t have a
stereo VCR, the only plugs I needed to do were a VCR regular plug and the
electrical plug. Still, we had to stop, almost in mid-air to get the plugs
plugged. This was a scream.
After that deal was done, I had to move the
TV from the family room downstairs to replace the old one. Since this was a few
lbs.lighter, I slowly moved it to the stairs and this morning got it
downstairs. Next (later) I will move the old one upstairs and to the garage
where my wife has assured me that we’ll sell this marvelous piece of equipment
in our soon-to-be garage sale. Everything is hooked up and working again.
As I finished this morning with the second
TV, the moving truck arrived with our inherited stuff from my wife’s cousin’s
estate. This was a delivery of 6 items. It was sent as “shipped” rather then
“moved”, as we found out yesterday at customs as we had to prove that it was an
inheritance so that there would be no duty or taxes. “Shipped” as you can
figure means no moving men, just a big truck (18-wheeler) with a driver. No
ramps,no lowering bed. Just a guy looking for a loading dock. Thankfully the
driver was a nice guy who helped me with the load. As “shipped”’ everything was
boxed, labeled, put on a palate and strapped. We had to undo all this and
carefully lower each box to the ground and put them in the garage to be dealt
with over the weekend.
So after moving TV’s and furniture, I was
bruised and immediately returned to work.
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