$4.50

$4.50 is what Shawana and I were planning on spending Saturday when we went to Circuit City, and that was only to get a replacement ground cable for her subwoofer system in the back of her truck. We ended up with a new home theater system. A really big system based on a Hitachi 65" projection TV. The package also includes infinity speakers all around an Onkyo receiver and a sweet 12" velodyne subwoofer. The crazy thing is all these components have to fit in our apartment's living room. We plan to get a house someday, so that's the justification for the whomper sized tv. Its really exciting to be one of those customers. We were in the store for 3 hours, contemplating the purchase, the size of the tv, newer model or the older model. Its all an experience when making a purchase of this magnitude. We know our salesman's name, Brett, purely because we talked or more like listened to him talk non-stop for hours. He was helpful enough, but that still doesn't lift my hatred for electronics salesmen.
The TV doesn't get delivered until Monday evening, but we took home all the audio components and set them up. We took apart and discarded Shawana's old particle board entertainment center to make way for the tv. Which lead into the problem w/ dvd storage. We both have alot of movies, not an insane amount, but we could run a blockbuster branch out of the living room. With all this gear I can see our neighbors becoming haters. The problem w/ apartment living is coexisting w/ others, so we can't really flex the system to its potential. At least not yet anyway.
Of course to add stress to all this our beautiful cats, Shelby and Elise enter the picture. There is new fabric everywhere for our kittens to mess with. The rest of the evening was chasing and swearing at the cats. Its not their fault for being curious but damn them if we have to get new speaker grills by June.
What scares me is that the delivery guys have to deliver a 324 pound tv to our second story apartment, and I don't look forward to the day when we move out of this apartment and have to take the behemoth with us.