The sad thing is, the corporations being taxed is a drop in the bucket to them. They are just so incredibly greedy. It's not right for a corporation that underpays employees so the employees have to be on public assistance to pay 0 in taxes. I was ranting to Spicoli about this before. There really is no perfect solution though. So long as corporations are run by greedy sociopaths who bribe all of Congress, they will continue to price gouge like mofos.
Havasu, any other tips on screens? Finding a flat surface that doesn't have animals or clutter is going to be interesting. I had to put all of the cats out of the room to get a safe flat surface in the living room today.
Yesterday I did some mild cleaning. UPS driver arrived with our new TV. She struggles to get it out of the tv, starts to set it down fumbles and drops it. The look on her face was a mix of horror and "oh crap". She said "Did I just... Oh sh**!" I saw that it was a complete accident and she was trying her best to keep the tv upright but there were no handles where a single person could grab. I then said there were handles on the side that 2 people could use to carry. She punched the cardboard in so I could grab one end and we carefully got it up to the door. She apologized for dropping it and I said that if it was broken then amazon would replace it. Fortunately it landed on a corner covered in styrofoam and it was on soft sandy loam.
Got up at 2am and busted my butt cleaning to clear a path to take the old TV off the stand and bring in the new one. Mom hadn't told me her trash bag near her desk was full and she'd been throwing trash on the floor again. I cleaned it all up, filled up 2 contractor bags of trash (water bottles & one use food containers take up a lot of space). I also emptied her little trashcan and put in a new bag. Asked my brother to haul them outside (in the afternoon) because my back is no longer cooperating. He refused.
After a nap I got up and met my friend around 10am to put gas in his car (he hasn't gotten his paycheck yet and needed gas to get to work). I went into Walmart and picked up Mom's rx, some roach traps, a salad for my breakfast, and some other stuff. Got mail, went home and set up the new phone. I had to watch Youtube to figure out how to relink the handsets to the new base. But the base apparently already had 3 handsets linked somehow so I had to just guess what code to put in to remove them. I got it on the 2nd guess. (#131 lets you unregister handsets and #130 lets you register them). Got the phonelines through a surge protector, got the phone itself in a surge protector. Intercom is now working so Mom is happy. At one point I needed to kneel on the bed while she was in it to reach over her. Me: "Hey Mom, can you move your boob out of the way so I don't put my knee on it?" She used to be a double D so there's a lot of extra flesh there to hang down. I hope the new setup works.
I did get my brother to help me carry the TV into the living room and set it down. He left immediately after and refused to help with anything else. I decided to set it up & Mom kept asking if she needed to page my brother to help. But I know he'd just gripe and get in the way and probably fumble something. I had to get a little step thingy that doubles as a laundry basket to be able to reach some stuff on the entertainment center. Unplugged the old TV, set it aside, got new tv out once I figured out how. Misplaced my flashlight, the screws, & several things a few times but found them eventually. I got the tv all set up without help. Sound bar won't fit in front without interfering with the receiver on the TV so I had to set it down lower. Sound on the tv is great. It's a Hisense ULED (Ultra QLED) with Dolby Atmos. Remote response time is fast (unlike my friend's old Roku remote). First thing Mom did was start watching Youtube on it. One snag was getting the coaxial cable off the old tv. It was stuck on there. Even my brother, who begrudgingly came back in when Mom called, couldn't get it loose. I had to use pliers to get it loose. Getting it on the new one was a pain because its on the opposite side so the cord had to reach farther and I had to tug to get more slack and the thing didn't want to line up and kept cross-threading. Finally got it though. No damage to it that we can see. Mom is excited. I'll have to help her find her Youtube login info so she can set up a profile on the tv.