Little known fact: Our TV has been kinda broken for almost two years. The screen is dark on one side when you turn it on, and you have to slap it around a bit to get it to clear up. If it’s on a while it kind of “warms up” and the picture shows up more, but then it still randomly goes dark on the left side. We bought it new in 2008 from Costco, it’s a 42″ Vizio flatscreen (so, never do that, everyone). It started doing this when we had only owned it for four years.

Anyway, buying a TV is just not a big priority, which is why we’ve waited so long. But it’s not getting any better and the dark spot will eventually cover the entire screen (it started out small). So I poked around on Craigslist and found a really good 2-year-old Samsung that retailed for $1500 (crazy) which we’re going to get for 1/3 of that. Not paying any sales tax is a nice thing too.

Now we’ll have to get used to a clear picture and not having to smack the TV like the Fonz anymore.