Time for the Big Screen Give Away Contest...

 If you are a long time reader of this blog you remember how we financed those early days on the internet. I'm talking about those days before all the millions of dollars, before Drum and Tuba Christmas was so profitable and all the ways that the rich people we became make money that ya'll don't even know about. 

So it's time we take a step back in time to those days when you could send in $39,000 and we would enter you in a drawing for a big screen TV. Let's do that now. I'll leave a link to my Venmo at the bottom of this page. Send the money and you are entered. 

I guess my first TV was a service award 12 inch black and white that my dad got from his employer which he gave to me and severed me well until I was a full grown man and them my dad got in on a deal at the savings and loan where if you opened an account you got a 15 inch color portable, remember color portables? He also gave this to me. My dad did not need these TVs because he had one of those Curtis Mathis serious furniture wooden models which took four large sweating men to deliver and had about 4 working parts that the repair man carried on his truck. If the set had operating problems the repair man came to your house and just replaced which ever part was found faulty. With four parts it was not hard.

Later when I had kids and needed an automatic baby sitter I bought one of those little sets like your boss uses to play the safety video on at work with the built in VCR. I think it was color. The kids watched it till the drool pooled in their laps. I was a terrible parent, not because of the drool but because I never gave any of them a TV. 

So apparently TVs got bigger, hey what ever happened to the miniaturization of the future, and no one fixed them anymore and they threw them out like a cigarette during a burn ban on the side of the road and actually I'm doing a public service if I pick them up and give them away. 

A few years ago the kids did give us a TV. You know how it is when your parents are so embarrassing. It was not too big, maybe 24 or 30 inches. I did have to add a sound bar to hear it well because, well, Fender amps and so far I have not needed to give it away or throw it out on the side of the road. I usually watch it one to two hours most nights. I do wonder what I was doing with that time in all those years before when I was unknowingly under TVed.

Enter for a big screen by scanning the thing below. Probably the first one to put in $39,000, which is a significant number because the first math problem my drummer learned to work was 13x3000. She just took to it, IDK.