so i got antsy over the weekend and somewhere in there moved all my furniture around.. so the bed instead of sticking out from the wall is now aligned to it, and a bamboo shelving unit is in the closet, giving me a delicious patch of open space that i really like and think i was craving for.
anyway, what with all the rearranging, i noticed my tv was looking smaller than usual. the last time i'd watched a movie (the island -- which has Scarlett Johanson and not Leonardo Di Caprio; that one's the Beach) - anyway, as I was saying.. the entire movie i was squinting! everyone was so small and it was hard to tell what i was looking at in the master shots (sci-fi kinda stuff.) and that was when my bed was sticking out so i was even closer to the telly.
so with the furniture move i decided i'd get myself a bigger tv. nothing extravagant, just something big enough to watch a movie and not have to squint.
seems everywhere now has the widescreen flat tvs. and the tube ones which are bigger run over $100 to $200 or more. i was expecting maybe $40-$50, something like that. (who knows where i got that idea.) so i figured if i'd have to pay $200 for a decent tv i might as well get one that would fit well on my dresser (flatscreen). so i got a 26" one and watched a movie to test it out and it was still too small! the widescreen version would warp the pic slightly (i'm tooooo picky for that) and the fullscreen was losing 3 inches on each side and a big chunk top and bottom too - basically only a mild, disappointing improvement over my old tv. hmpht.
so tonight i returned the darn thing. guess i'll have to keep poking around til i find a good one. wish me luck.
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