Saturday was work. We got up early, walked Saby, and then came back to take on the front yard. I trimmed shrubs and Craig mowed. With that done, we decided to get the new television set up in the armoire. We found two young strapping male neighbors to help Craig move the old one out, and then proceeded with getting the new one online.
What should have been easy turned into a three hour hassle. After following all the setup instructions, everything worked except for our existing surround sound. So we called the Costco Concierge service for advice. OMG. After another two hours of trying to follow the help line guy's ridiculous instructions, we ended up with a terrible picture and no surround sound. We came to the conclusion that he had very little knowledge after he told me to set the sound selection to SAP (Spanish?) and left us with a black and white picture from the DVD player. He then handed us over to a Sony technician whose main mission was to try and assess blame onto our existing equipment. He got frustrated and basically told us goodbye. Long story short, Craig rehooked all the cables into the original configuration and I managed to fix the sound and picture by changing options in the television menu. Aaargh. Mission accomplished.
After all that, we decided to just veg out on Sunday. Take a walk, go eat pizza, and come back and watch the Super Bowl.
What should have been easy turned into a three hour hassle. After following all the setup instructions, everything worked except for our existing surround sound. So we called the Costco Concierge service for advice. OMG. After another two hours of trying to follow the help line guy's ridiculous instructions, we ended up with a terrible picture and no surround sound. We came to the conclusion that he had very little knowledge after he told me to set the sound selection to SAP (Spanish?) and left us with a black and white picture from the DVD player. He then handed us over to a Sony technician whose main mission was to try and assess blame onto our existing equipment. He got frustrated and basically told us goodbye. Long story short, Craig rehooked all the cables into the original configuration and I managed to fix the sound and picture by changing options in the television menu. Aaargh. Mission accomplished.
After all that, we decided to just veg out on Sunday. Take a walk, go eat pizza, and come back and watch the Super Bowl.
Oregano's has the best pizza in town. We ordered the Numero Uno with thin crust, ate half, and saved the rest of the pie for a Super Bowl snack.
In addition to great pizza, Oregano's has a funky pizza parlor ambience.
I'm not a big football fan, but the Super Bowl was an exciting game with some funny commercials. Here's one of my favorites!
5 comments:
Don't you just love those technical problems?? Personally, I think I'd rather have bamboo shoots shoved up my fingernails. Well, at least the pizza looked good. Until the next adventure, right?
Great commercial! ne of my favorites was McDonalds with LeBron James & Larry Bird! All the technical stuff with TVs etc is a pain! I try to do it when Alan isn't around because he gets frustrated by it all easily!
I hate when things don't work as they logically should, and you have to adjust your logic to fit. Glad you finally got it all sorted out but it doesn't say much for Sony.
Glad you got it set up before the game. GREAT game for NOLA! That city sure could use some positivity!!!
That WAS a funny commercial!!!
Linda
Isla Chica
Well, it's all figured out now except for the fact that I think two of the surround speakers in the family room aren't working. The wires probably pulled out of the receiver or the speakers somehow got turned off. It'll take all day to figure that one out! But otherwise it's good now. Too bad Michael wasn't still home. The old set would have been moved out in about five minutes and the new one hooked up in ten. He doesn't have the learning curve that we do!
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