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Here's a story about one of my favorite things. TELEVISION!!!

Above, is a 70's model Zenith console television. I'll tell you more about it, later... Growing up, in the 70's, my father was a television repairman and he could fix ANY TV. If it didn't work, he could make fix it, mostly. Some were just OLD and some were just beyond repair and some were just replaced with better. So, we had extra TV's around the house. A TV in the bathroom? - SURE! A TV in the kitchen? - No Problem. Basically, a TV in every room that could need one...we had extras. So once I finally found a place to inhabit, I started filling it with TELEVISION...There's nothing much better than TV, it fills up your visual and auditory needs with wondrous MUCK! Makes you sleep better, educates you, and can actually embiggen your soul...just believe with me for awhile.

If you've read my AquaPike story, you've seen this picture before. The top TV is a 27" Sony Wega (vega) and the bottom TV is a 27" Sony-1998'ish. The bottom one is for video games and the top one is for Television. I can feed it Tivo or a second security camera Tivo or Video games or the VCR or the switcher box feed. It has a lot of inputs on the back and that is why you pay the MORE money, for the extra inputs. Anyway, I can watch the cable I pay for at the same time as I play a video game...and that's worth a bit more and some popcorn to go with it. With the switcher box I can feed the entire estate with cable goodness. Come with me on a tour of TV MADNESS!!!
Here are two TV's in my boy's room. The left TV is a lame Samsung that shows cable, his choice of channel, and the right TV is not actually a TV. It is just an 80's monitor that he can play the 64 on. Both of these TV's just happened to be given to me in the murky past. CHEEP!
Here is some crappy ***** TV I got at Goodwill for $20. That's sort of high but the TV is stereo and has inputs and outputs on the back. It didn't have a remote, and even with my Logitech Harmony remote, I can't come up with the codes to get into the menu system of this TV, but it gets by, showing my daughter her cable, her choice, and puts out stereo for cable and DVD viewing thru the junk Pioneer amp below it. The amps A speaker setting are blown, but its B speakers still work...and the amp was given to me, so free is GREAT! The speakers were also dumped off here, as well as the old FM receiver. CHEEP is great!
This is a cute little Hitachi with remote I picked up for $10 at the Salvation Army. It is cable ready and stereo with inputs. It sits there in the exercise room/library and never gets turned on even though it has full cable pumped to it.. Poor little Hitachi! BOO Ralph! Get up there and do something with that TV. Exercise! Read! Nevermind, nobody has any time these days.
That's a nice little GE I picked up for $7 at Goodwill. It is old. It has a cable input but only tunes to 13 and lower. NOT CABLE READY. It gets fed throught the switcher box and can receive VCR, DVD, TIVO1 or TIVO2. It sits up in the den and helps me get away from the kids, sometimes. It has a great picture, colorful, crisp, TV and also has a big warped circle of melt on top where somebody's ashtray got a bit too hot for the plastic. COOL! All that for 7 dollars! WOW!!!
Here's a $20 Sony from the 70's, from Goodwill, that hangs above Ralph's bed. (That's me, follow along.) It doesn't ever get used much except maybe weekend mornings. It has flaky buttons to push but can tune the full cable spectrum thru the attached Goldstar VCR. It doesn't actually play VCR tapes anymore but has a remote for setup and channel change and was FREE...what a bargain! It also plays a video camera feed from the downstair babys bedroom that stopped being used as the baby turned into a boy. Ralph just uses a baby monitor now. Ralph should really put that video camera elsewhere. Check out the dust...ICK!
Here's another not really a TV, just a monitor set. It shows a feed from the porch to the den. The den is upstairs and isolated from the goings on of the outside world. That's why its a den, DUH! This set was also dumped off on the estate, just happenstance and all...FREE!
Above is a $5 (church sale) Zenith, NOT CABLE READY but it gets fed through the switcher box and can recieve DVD, VCR, Tivo1, or Tivo2. It sits in the window in the kitchen/dining room. It has a vibrant and colorfule picture. 3 out of 4 diners can see this TV while they eat. Aint that great? Yes! 75% That is great!
Here is the back of that Zenith from the lead picture and the front of a nice little $4 Sylvania from a rummage sale. NOT CABLE READY.Again, both get fed from the switcher box. These are in the shed in the back yard. They are junk. The Sylvania has a large RED smear and the Zenith, which was given to me, I just had to go get it off a vacated house's porch, in the rain, with the help of a friends business truck...where was I? Oh yeah, the Zenith was one of the first televisions to use modular circuit boards.A certain circuit could be replaced and fix the TV. Also, the boards could be interchanged in the product line. Anyway, this particular Zenith Modular Wonderchild takes about 15 minutes to finally show a picture, and then it works fine, eveytime. The boards are pushed onto pegs and the joints don't connect until after awhile. Well, it was FREE! And it works everytime...after awhile.
There she is...Miss Bitchy Zenith. She doesn't have a volume knob anymore and you have to use a pull tab off of a can to change the volume...but she works everytime...15 minutes later.
She sits there in the shed and on dark nights, after the Dairy Queen across the street shuts off their security lights, you can see a picture on her screen while you are in the pool or by the 'campfire'. Dam! Nights in the city are the rockin' best. Have I mentioned that I have the Tivo "Home Media Option" that lets you stream mp3's off of your computer. Well Miss Bitchy Zenith will pump up the jams for much late night debauchery in the yard. CHEEP!
We're nearly done now. Just two more-ish. Here's a junky little set that was dumped off here. NOT CABLE READY. Gets fed from the switcher box and you can sit on the porch and watch whatever anybody else is watching inside. Again, handy for streaming music or kids on the porch or if you break into the yard with a buddy, you can sit on the porch, turn on the TV and watch your buddy dance in the yard on the Tivo2 security camera, every 9 seconds. What better way to waste your criminal time? Seriously, all my crap is junk...don't come around here expecting to find good things to pawn.
Last is this really neat black & white TV in the basement. NOT CABLE READY. But relax, this one was free also. It is plugged into the lighting so when you turn on the basement lights, this little pepper comes on, most of the time. Sometimes the cable comes undone from the back and sometimes the sound is scratchy. Good enough for rock and roll. Don't want to miss anything and this is better than naught.
Well there you go. A glimpse into my TV Empire. It didn't cost much and it really makes life worthwhile...to me. See what you can do with some spare cheep junk and cabling. Run the pulse of the world to any room you have. Maybe, if you try hard enough, you can be just like Ralph! Dream on little starry eyed TV watchers. One day you too may have a TV empire Paradise. Thanx, Ralph!

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