Monday, January 7, 2008 | by nathan

At Least We’ll Have Something To Hang Ourselves With

This is what it looks like in the home of two geeks who live - together - in love but also occasionally buried under a large mound of various electronics.

This was taken over the weekend. The first weekend of every year we have a conversation about whether or not to buy a flat-panel LCD television to hang on the wall in our living room. We like having people over for movies, and at present our living room is not the most efficient use of space. Every time we have this conversation, however, we go to outlandish lengths to figure out how and where we’d put up such a television, how big we’d need, what kind, how much money we can spend, and whether or not prices will continue to go down.

And every time, we don’t do it. It’s always deeply frustrating because it adds up to almost an entire day wasted. In this case we put the current television - a thin, 43" projection television - atop the fireplace mantel just to see how it’d look, then pulled out the TV stand and started eliminating wires. We got it down to less than half of what is shown here, but still. This is ridiculous.

And we didn’t buy the TV. We couldn’t settle on one, and, as usual, we freaked out about the expense and chickened out, BECAUSE THAT’S WHAT WE’VE DONE EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THE 3 JANUARIES WE’VE LIVED HERE.