Thank you, Margie and Norm!
Kathy called me mid-day today to check on something about the house. As she was ending the call, she said, "Oh, remind me later to tell you about what I won." I thought, they probably had a drawing at work and she won movie tickets or something. That's cool.
Over dinner, she told me that she checked her email between meetings. Now, for some reason, her company has a problem with spam. A lot of it gets through to individual employee emails. So, when she saw a message that read, "You have won a 42-inch plasma TV," her finger was ready on the delete key. I mean, if that doesn't sound like spam, I don't know what does. Then she saw "we left you voicemail..." in the body and thought, "Spammers don't leave voicemail!"
Kathy checked her phone messages and yes, someone left her voicemail about the TV. It turns out that she won this TV from a drawing she entered at a business conference last month. Go figure!
Coincidentally, just two months ago, my 26-inch TV that we keep in the studio broke. It was housed in a 5 x 5 ½ x 2-foot entertainment center that I've been moving from home to home since the mid-80s. That entertainment center was the limiting factor when we tried to replace the broken TV. That's because it is sized for old equipment, not fancy pants new stuff. And by fancy-pants, I don't just mean modern-sized TVs, but also DVDs and CDs. Yep, this entertainment center was made for LP records, video tapes, and 26-inch CRTs. Modern 26-inch TVs are made to different dimensions now (they are wider, for example) and so if I wanted to replace the TV, I had to get a smaller one. It was a mess.
So after telling me about the TV she just won, Kathy said, "I assumed that you wouldn't want the new plasma TV downstairs because it would be too big."
Uh...I might have stared at her open-mouthed. My mind wandered to Captain Jack Sparrow in high-definition. Inspector Abberline in 42 inches. J.M. Barrie in eye-searing, oversaturated color.
"We'll get rid of the entertainment center!" I exclaimed.
Forget the frugal approach of two months ago. We won a TV! We'll find out more details later, but for now, thank you, Margie and Norm! Woo-hoo!
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