The fine folks at Best Buy delivered my TV this evening. I'd been without for so long I almost forgot what it was like to have a TV. On some level, I was probably better off without it.
The thing with my TV is that it's heavy. Most TVs are. But I don't have to list most TVs and carry them around by myself. This one I had to get onto the TV stand. I could've asked one of the neighbors to help me, but I felt a little odd about my first introduction to the neighbors being to ask them for the favor of manual labor. (Yes, I have been here for a week and not met my neighbors yet. What am I supposed to say when I introduce myself? "Why don't you come over some time and sit on my floor"?) Still, I managed to get the thing set up in time to watch Teen Titans and Justice League, which is good.
Two other things caught my eye while I was watching the tube today, though. First, the Jeopardy Championship finals. One of the Double Jeopardy categories was "Blogs." I realize that Jeopardy deals with entertainment and pop culture as often as it does the hard-core academia, but... well... wow. I guess I tend to think of the internet as something exclusively limited to the internet; I don't really view it as having an impact on the rest of the world. This is clearly inaccurate on a lot of levels, and my own life should be enough to show me that, but it's still something I've got to learn again every time.
The second thing I saw was a news report about Mt. St. Helen's. It might blow again, sometime soon, worse than the virtually-non-existant last time. Still nothing for those of us in Seattle to worry about, but interesting nonetheless. No one else seems interested, which isn't much of a surprise. It's really not that exciting. But for me, the whole "nearby disaster" thing is still new. Volcano's, earthquakes... Things are much more stable back on the east coast.