Can a Smart TV outsmart two college graduates?

John's laptop is paid off

As soon as we made the last payment, we decided it was time to step into this decade and buy ourselves a new smart TV.

You know, we can't go too long without a payment on some item.

John had done some shopping previously and was ready to go pick up the TV on Sunday.

The Packers were playing the Vikings on Sunday night so we knew we had until kick off to get the TV up and running.

John had gone to Best Buy in Delafield, but they did not have the sound bar so he ended up going to the Best Buy in Brookfield adding some time on to his shopping trip, but he did get home a good two hours before game time.

We had already gotten the spot ready on top of our of our old entertainment center for the new TV.

We had lugged the old dinosaur out to the curb in the hopes that someone would pick up the old TV which, by the way, still worked fine.  our hope was that it would

find a new home and give someone else some happy times.
I am happy to report that someone did, in fact, pick up the old TV.

Let me explain our entertainment center.  We purchased it when we moved into this house and once we got it to the basement man cave, we knew it was not ever coming out of there.

The only option we have is to chop it up and burn it in our fireplace, but we don't have an axe and that seems like such a big job.

It also stores so many things in its large drawers and cupboards, so where would I go with all those treasures?

It really is no problem to use it for our new TV.  We just filled the hole with our record player.

We did reminisce about our very first "entertainment center," which was made of three boards set up on cement bricks.  This shelf was with us in our first four homes and we still have the bricks in the garage.

That little entertainment center held our little record player and our 14 inch black and white TV.

Life was simpler then, but I digress.

Anyway, John brought the TV home.  I helped him get it set up and he turned it on.

It worked.

It did outsmart us in a few areas, but John persevered and by the time the Packers took the field, he had all the ins and outs of the smart TV figured out.

And to make the evening perfect, the Packers beat the Vikings in a sweet victory which I know John enjoyed on his new TV.

This is the man cave with the new TV.

I think it looks pretty good down there.

I especially love the knotty pine paneling which just screams my dad.  The basement is full of happy memories of him.  I think he would have loved this new TV.