Dad and I flew down to Grandma’s house Friday morning to help setup her new HDTV. She is a huge sports fan, and my Dad suggested getting anHD set when he was down there for her 88th birthday in early October. They went to Best Buy and picked out a set and setup a delivery and geek squad installation. The TV arrived earlier this week and was “set up”, then the geeks were to come Friday to get it really setup. Dad and I decided to fly down to make sure everything was right, and to help Grandma get accustomed to the new TV for a few days.
Dad and I had an adventuresome morning on the way to our 5:40am flight from Logan. We had both stayed up too late the night before watching the Sox win game 3 so we were working on less sleep than needed. We drove his car (which is awesome, and fantastic on the highway) up to Boston. We got off on the exit for the airport, and right where it splits, the ramp to the airport was closed… No warnings (that we saw) at all so we ended up going the other way on the mass pike. In the end it worked out well because we had to go to a toll booth where the collector pointed us in the right direction. We made it in plenty of time. We ended up on a plane that was full, half of which were people who were lucky enough to go to one or both of the games.
We got down to Myrtle Beach bright and early. Grandma picked us up and took us to breakfast on the way home. We got to her condo with just enough time as the geek squad was right on time and called maybe 30 minutes after we walked in the door. I’m the first person to doubt these types of services, but these guys were amazing. The real advantage they offer is they know all the settings and they know all the HD sources in the area. They came in and set the entire thing up to work perfectly with her specific HD cable source. They knew all the settings and we would never have gotten half of that done as well as they had. Once they set everything up and left I fine tuned the TV’s video settings to get it perfect. Let’s just say after spending only 2 days there, my TV now looks horrible…
After they left, Dad and I spent 2 days working with Grandma getting her used to the new TV and digital cable. She did amazingly well picking it all up, as I can remember having to adjust to all that myself when we got digital cable and a DVR, now she’s learning it all at once. We got to watch some great college football with her, the breeders cup and some other great HD programs before we had to leave. I was sure to set her up to automatically switch to and tape the world series and the Packers game on Monday night just in case she falls asleep. Dad’s already checked up on her twice, and so far she’s had no problems with the new setup.
We had an eventless flight home and didn’t miss much of game 3 on the way. We watched up to the Sox getting up 6-0 in the bar in the airport, then when we landed it was 6-2 and we caught the rest of the game on the way home. We both wished we had more time to spend with Grandma, and we wish we could have watched the Packers game tonight with her.
