Maybe it's my imagination but it sure looks like there are a couple of very well fed bobcats lurking in Beaglesonia. I bet the small rodent population is quite small this time of year but I don't know what else would make up the bobcat diet. I've never tracked any game but after a snowfall it must be interesting to follow the animal tracks, just to see where they lead. There's not much around here that I've noticed except for rabbits.
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Remember tv repairmen?
Jeez, that's going way back, Uncle Ken, almost as far back as the family doctor who made house calls. Wouldn't that be great if they still did that, with none of the paperwork, co-payments, and waiting in a place where you can catch anything? My memory of the doctor's visits is a little fuzzy but I'll never forget that little black bag they carried, just like Doc Adams in Gunsmoke.
But getting back to the TV repairman, they weren't kidding about getting electrocuted, or at least getting a very serious shock even if the set was unplugged. The capacitors and transformers can hold a lot of juice and it can take a long time for the energy to slowly weaken. But that was part of the beauty of those old TVs; you could actually repair them. It looked like voodoo to a child but it was actually quite simple. Once you removed the back panel you'd find a complete schematic diagram and since everything was out in the open it was pretty easy to troubleshoot any problem and replace bad parts.
Not so simple these days, the parts are a lot smaller and manufacturers don't want us simple folk to be able to fix our own stuff. The technical diagrams and spare parts can be very difficult to acquire; we don't own stuff anymore, we are leasing it but that's another rabbit hole.
I can't think of a solution to the weak audio signal of Mr. Beagles' new DVD player except to suggest that there's another audio input on the TV he should be using. Most DVD players have very limited outputs but the new TVs can have a ton of inputs. Is there a stereo system handy that you can use to boost the line levels? That's what I use from the days of the 20th century when I got carried away with stereo equipment. Got to have a sub-woofer, right? You can find them at Best Buy hidden behind the buggy whips.
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