October

Well, October is here! The nice thing about October is that you can finally do Halloween things without having the slight suspicion that it’s too soon. I’m planning to put up some Halloween/fall decor items later today if morale stays high. We shall see.

Fat Bear Week starts tomorrow, so if you haven’t already, go ahead and get political and educate yourself regarding all the candidates. You can read bios for each bear here. Competition is stiff this year! So many bears are so very fat. I’m not entirely sure who I’m going to vote for yet. Originally, I thought Chunk might be the fattest, but I think 747, Holly, and Grazer are all also strong candidates.

In personal news, life has been very difficult this past week. We’ve been facing unprecedented levels of adversity. If you have any extra thoughts or prayers, send them my way. You see—the television is broken. We have (had) a pretty nice OLED television. I don’t really know much about all the brands or stuff. I had planned on using our cheap Samsung television until it died, which it still hasn’t.

But my husband insisted that we should have the best television we could get, and I always want him to have everything he wants, so I went along with it.

The trouble is, once you get used to a better picture quality, it’s harder to go back to a worse one.

But about a week and a half ago, we were watching a movie, and our television just randomly shut itself off. But it came back on, so we weren’t too concerned. Then a few days later, it shut off and wouldn’t come back on. So we were chatting with Sony, hoping they’d help even though it was technically one month out of warranty, and they asked us to plug it into another outlet.

You see, we knew the other outlet wouldn’t work, because we had other stuff plugged into the same outlet that did work, but we did it anyway, and the TV came back on, which was mystifying, and raised the question of if there is something wrong with our TV or something wrong with our outlet.

But then the TV turned itself off on the new outlet, too. So we moved it to a secret third outlet, which worked until it didn’t. So we chatted with Sony again and they said they wouldn’t help us at all, which was really not very helpful at all.

We kept it working for a while, moving outlets whenever it shut off, but then the remote quit working and the TV keeps getting stuck on the Language menu, rendering it basically useless.

We ordered a replacement part off eBay, because my brother-in-law, who is clever with repairing electronics, said it was probably that part and wouldn’t be too hard to replace. He said there was a cheaper, smaller part we could replace first, but it requires soldering, and that is outside my skill set. I don’t even like to use the hot glue gun.

The new part should arrive by Saturday. I have a feeling it’s gonna be a long week.