No more plasma...

...TV that is! Today we had the Geek Squad over to fix our plasma tv. It's been acting up since November and luckily we bought the warranty 5 yrs ago which ran out this month! Anyway, after several attempts of them getting the correct and unbroken parts, the two nice "geeks" came to the door! Let me just say, there was nothing "geek" about them! They were ordinary guys who laughed and enjoyed their job. It took them a little over an hour to take the tv apart to get to the plasma panel. Well, after all the hard work they did, when they opened up the wooden crate and unpacked the new plasma panel, they found it too was cracked. That was the bad news. The good news is because of the time that had gone by since the original service call in Nov, and since this was the 4th attempt to fix it, they decided to give us a store credit for the amount of the original purchase price! Ok, we bought this tv 5 yrs ago and prices have gone WAY down on tv's since so we're pretty much making out like bandits. So, we're off tomorrow to Best Buy to pick up a new tv!