So for those of you living in a hole, here in Washington we have over 3 feet of snow. The government has been shut down since Monday. Today is Thursday.
What better time to play Wii with your friends you ask? No better time, I answer. Until you 
vigorously bowl and throw the controller at the TV, smashing it. Said TV is brand new, the most I think I've paid for anything save my car back in the day. And my house, but you get the point.
vigorously bowl and throw the controller at the TV, smashing it. Said TV is brand new, the most I think I've paid for anything save my car back in the day. And my house, but you get the point.Kind friend offers to get the TV for me, and though armed with my credit card and a note, Best Buy will not give him the TV. Le sigh. More snow yesterday. I tried to get out and get to Best Buy. Nothing doing. Sat waiting for the Metro for a half hour. Went home, blinded by snow. 
Ventured back out, found a cabbie charging exorbitant fees. He got me to Best Buy (for $50, mind you). Closed! I called them, they said they were open, but no dice.
Ventured back out, found a cabbie charging exorbitant fees. He got me to Best Buy (for $50, mind you). Closed! I called them, they said they were open, but no dice.So, day 4 snowed in and I am reading a travel guide to the USSR. Le sigh. I want to go to work.
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As a diplomat do you take TV stuff abroad and US govt converts the signals or buy or rent things local? I think Morocco TV was Secam (French)? USA tv technology will be newer and less $$$ in a few years when you return.
http://countrycode.org/tv-standards
Our family also had a little dark secret. On Ruby's 7th birthday she was playing Wii with friends and broke the TV screen. Rather than immediately buy a new TV the parental instinct in me said you can earn the money for a new TV. As the words were coming out of my mouth, my brain which had been rather tied up in restraining my anger calculated that it would take 52 weeks to earn the cash. Hmmm - Oops.
We learned that we could EBay all the working parts and Ruby did all the packaging and EBay stuff. She ended up making a small fortune basically the total cost of a new TV selling the remote, power supply, case, stand, etc.
I love this commercial made from real life events...cut paste...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8DhF3z1Q0s
easy come easy go.. my guess, it would be cost prohibitive to get yo big ass tv to your first assignment. Anyway, everything in that part of the world is LG brand so support would have been a nightmare.
I took the liberty of doing a little research to help the feeble Wii-er.
http://www.teamskyline.com/index.cfm/fusemethod/cdd2_productdisplay/catid/6/category/Football/subcatid/183/sub_category/Gloves%20-%20Football/product_id/CFG4/name/Firm%20Grip%20Spray/
do the snow days postpone your Rabat arrival?
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