mumbolarkey

The windmills that I have been fighting lately have mostly been technical in nature, thanks to my notion that our lives could be greatly enhanced if we found a way to wean ourselves off of cable television and migrate to a less expensive platform of nightly entertainment.  And watch it in grand 55" high def blu ray style over the fireplace, all while enjoying it in a newly hardwood floored, freshly painted, smooth ceilinged, happily area rugged family room.

I willingly engaged in my folly because I thought most certainly that all these things would fit in the budget we had in our minds.  How difficult or expensive could any of this stuff be, really?  I mean, I knew that the traditional housework would be pricey and take some time, but the electronics?  Heck all we need is to get one big TV, pay somebody to mount it and fish the cables, sign up for netflix and we're done, right?

The fact that there are three different types of illumination for a flat panel TV should have been my first clue. The fact that they further splinter down into things like edge lit and full array should have been my second. The fact that there are a gajillion ways to stream Netflix to any television, an easy third. The more I dug, the more mumbo jumbo marketing malarkey I had to decipher, and the more I realized the fast paced technology based world we live in today is strung together by a hope and a prayer.  I hope the next firmware release will fix my problem.  I pray that my outrageously priced Smartboy television with qwerty keyboard doesn't crap out the day after my all too short warranty expires.

The fact is, I now realize, I feel there are just too many unproven options at the moment for me to justifiably invest a large amount of bucks to do what I thought I wanted to do.  Sorry second Best Buy dude who ended up helping me cuz Best Buy guy number one's eyes glazed over when I asked him about the feature differences and cost differential between the D series models of the television I thought I wanted, but thank you for spending an hour with me mapping out a budgety home theater system and helping me understand that the best investment I could make right now is an upgrade our wireless network.   Because, duh, G is so six years ago.

faster data transfer speeds across two different bandwidths and better penetration of concrete and brick walls? repeated the little kiebasa when told what made our freshly installed dual band gigabit N router so different.  but wouldn't that mean mind controlling aliens could pick up on our signals and if they find us shouldn't we really be like shielding our heads and hiding under blankies with our running shoes on just in case they find us so we can run like the wind??

Why yes baby dog, I do believe we should. :)