Last night our not-much-older-than-2-years Toshiba CRT TV in the bedroom died. Lots of switching itself off followed by lots of fizzing, flashing and beeping. How were we ever going to survive waking up in the morning without being able to fumble around on the bed for the TV remote, catch up with what’s happening in the world with BBC News 24 whilst munching on marmalade on toast and drinking that first vital cup of coffee of the day? But, we did and it was miserable. Our task for the day was to open up the TV and see if it was a fuse or something else that could be repaired quickly and easily. However, at approximately 3pm this afternoon the TV was pronounced dead.

We checked out some websites of various electrical high street stores to see if we could get a new LCD TV for around the £250 mark. Ordinarily we would have looked harder and longer for something maybe around the £400 mark but it’s unfortunate (perhaps) that both of us have recently spent a lot of money on other technology. I’ve spent £1,000 on an iMac and iPod touch in just 6 weeks and he has spent over £3,000 on recording studio equipment in the past 6 weeks also. That was all completely budgeted for, but of course when good technology goes bad during this time then it’s not ideal.

We had seen a couple of Philips 23/26in LCD’s on a local stores website but they didn’t have any in stock. So, we went for an Acoustic Solutions 26in LCD HD TV, priced at £269.

We quickly set it up this evening but we need to attach the DVD/VCR to it later tonight.

But, it’s not just TV’s that have been dying on me this week. Our several-years-old BT Digital Cordless phone also developed some problems so yesterday we bought a BT Mango Digital Cordless with answering machine as a replacement. I’m just worried about what electrical appliance is going to go wrong next.

Still, this sudden splurge of cash does mean that I shall be prompted to sell my Apple Mac Mini as soon as possible. I hadn’t felt much urgency to sell it on after getting the iMac but now I will erase and install Tiger and then either try to list it in a local ad magazine or online. If you happen to be in the UK and looking for a Mac Mini, 1.25 GHz PowerPC G4, 512MB RAM, 40GB HD then why not get in touch and make me an offer