Plasma TV Blog

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About two days ago I bought my first ever plasma screen. A whopping 52inch Panasonic. Now, one would think that this would be a joyous occasion for me but it turned out to be a bit of a debacle. The credit card processing information somehow got mixed up and I was greeted by some police just yesterday who claimed I had used a stolen credit card. This of course was just a big mistake but I was in the police station for literally 4 hours whilst they tried to figure out how this error had occurred.

In the end it turned out to be a simple computer glitch at the credit card processing company. It turns out that someone else’s credit card information was entered into the system purely because they had the same name as me. Apparently, this kind of error occurs quite often, but eventually the rightful card is billed. Needless to say I was very unimpressed by the whole situation and the credit card company decided to offer me double points on my purchase as a way of saying sorry.

I was just kicking back, aboard my boat The Diversion, when the boat line went off. A lovely young lady, Doris Treelaine, had come down to interview me for an article she was doing about local wineries. I had plumb forgotten she was coming. The Diversion was a mess – pillows,comforters,duvet covers and blankets lay strewn about the place; tell-tale signs of the previous night’s madness. I hastily went about clearing them awy.

After running a comb through my matted hair, I stuck both my feet over the stern and gave them a wash. I couldn’t for the life of me locate my shoes, and I didn’t want Ms. Treelaine to suffer any more on account of my disheveled appearance than absolutely necessary. After a brief check in my pocket mirror I agreed to put the matter to rest. A man should be concerned with his appearance only insofar as it affects his ability as a seaman or host.

Ms. Treelaine had interviewed my business partner Robert J. Shore some hours before at the Wild Bore Club, a local society haunt. Shore, she informed me, arrived at the interview with his niece Clara, the zoologist. Clara kept interrupting and after twenty minutes of this Ms. Treelaine asked to speak to Mr. Shore privately. At this point, far from politely acquiescing to Ms. Treelaine’s request for privacy, Clara challenged Ms. Treelaine to a fist fight.

Looking none the lesser with her shiner, Ms. Treelaine accepted my apologies and a case of my 2001 Tuscany red. Shore was really more of a silent partner in the operation anyway, I reassured her. Plus, writing about a fight with Clara would certainly up her street cred in publishing circles. I was sure she had shaken Luck’s hand after all. She seemed pleased.

Haven’t been able to catch decent sleep as of late as I had an insomniac past couple of days, but my plasma TV has been there with me lulling me to sleep with late night infomercials for tomato slicers and pyramid schemes, and I guess there’s been some sort of subliminal message implanted in my brain while I slept cause now I’m toying with the idea of possibly embarking on a small business venture. I don’t think I’m being serious about the whole thing but I find myself trying to think up clever new business schemes when my brain goes into idle mode. Also been reading some small business articles and inventor’s biographies like Alba Edison’s and John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich.

I probably won’t be venturing into the exciting world of small businesses just yet, and probably once I start sleeping normally again and away from late night infomercials I’ll forget the whole thing, for a while at least (hey, never say never right?), but at least I have the knowledge that I too can dream and that knowledge is power. Plus now there is an extra, lone, magazine in my bathroom that is not about sports or a plasma TV catalog, although I should probably donate it to my public library because the next time I read will probably be in 2017 and by then the articles will be grossly outdated and besides, those lazy librarians need some cataloguing to do.

I am so tired of not having any money that I have decided to buy stocks in order to increase my cash flow. This has all come about because I desperately want to buy a 50 inch plasma TV. Almost all of my friends now own plasma screens, but I am too busy spending or should I say wasting my money on booze. I have a buddy who has recently started working for stock broking company and he has made thousands of dollars in only a few weeks on the stock market. He told me he’d be happy to offer me some free advice on what stocks I should buy. I think it sounds like a pretty good idea. Not only will I be able to purchase a new Sony plasma but I may actually save some money for my future.

It’s funny how as you get older, the more you start to think about your financial future and spending less on partying and more on tangible items. This year I will turn 30 and while all of my friends are successful and working for big multinational companies, I am still seeing a negative balance in my bank account. You might say that buying plasma screens shouldn’t be on the list of high priority purchases, but I think if I owned one, I would be less likely to go out every weekend and spend money at a club. Probably, I wouldn’t leave my sofa. I would just be watching loads of sports and the new season on 24 on it.