I came home yesterday and the garage door wouldn't close. It's an electric door and this is not the first time (recently!) that it has refused to close. So the garage door stayed up all night and now the repair guy is here fixing it.
Our house is 40-some years old so it's not surprising that things don't always work. Besides the garage door at the end of the day, I had been trying to schedule a dryer vent cleaning and a handyman to do a looong list of fix-it issues. I think once the handyman comes he'll be here for days.
Sometimes it's just a chore to get things working again. But sometimes it's an exciting upgrade. A couple months ago we decided to get a new television. Ours was a 200-pound old-style TV - the guys who installed our new flat screen were not happy about having to take the old one away. The new TV is awesome, though I haven't learned how to work it yet! My husband mostly knows how, though sometimes we get lost in the maze of streaming.
I grew up with three television channels. And the stations all shut down, maybe around midnight, the Star Spangled Banner played, and then you had a test signal until sometime in the morning.
Another item for the to-do list: learning to work the TV (and joining the 21st century).
I well remember the TV stations signing off. TVs, like cars, and phones, are getting more and more complicated. You need an electronics degree to figure them out. That or a 10 year old.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct! We used to call our (adult) son to help us with mysterious electronics. Now, though, he is the father of a 7-month-old, so we try not to bother him! We're on our own as far as modern technology.
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