My wife and I opted for a special present to ourselves. We updated our
home theater. We already had a nice surround sound system with Polk
speakers in all five spots, a Pioneer Elite surround sound receiver,
and a nice Velodyne subwoofer. Our television was a Mitsubish rear
projection unit, but it died. So for Christmas, we replaced it with a
Pioneer 61 inch flat panel plasma. I mounted it on the wall and routed
all the wires through the wall. Looks great. I upgraded our satellite
service to HD. Direct TV installed the new satellite antenna that pulls
in signals from four satellites and hooked up the mpeg4 receiver. The
high definition picture is awesome. REALLY AWESOME!! I'm watching my
Bears beat the packers now. It comes in with surround sound audio
(crowd noise behind you) and a picture that is pretty incredible, even
to a photo guy. Good buy.
Paul
On Dec 25, 2005, at 6:55 PM, Paul Ewins wrote:
Well after three years of buying each other power tools, this year my
girlfriend and I bought kitchen appliances. She got a bread maker and
I got
a brand new Sunbeam MixMaster. It looks a lot like the 40 year old one
lurking in one of the cupboards except it is bright red and it doesn't
drip
oil into the mixing bowl when it has warmed up.
The biggest winner was the cat, who got a 300 sq foot cat run to play
in.
He's a big old ginger (ex) tom who tends to get in fights and he's been
stuck inside for the last three months to territorial disputes. The
last few
weekends have involved much drilling, cutting and welding and numerous
cuts
from the galvanized mesh. He seems very happy with it.
Paul Ewins
Melbourne, Australia
