Our faithful Sony HDTV has been less than faithful the last few weeks; it’s started randomly turning itself off. I bought it in 2008, so I guess I can’t complain too much.

We went to Best Buy today and ordered a replacement – a 55-inch Samsung S95B “quantum dot” OLED set, which should be delivered on Friday. It claims to have Dolby Atmos audio; it would be nice if it was good enough to let me retire my old A/V receiver and simplify things. Or maybe I’ll want to add a soundbar and still keep things simple.

I also made a little progress on other fronts – we watched the first half of Benjamin Franklin and I spent a couple of hours doing even more photo merging and cleaning.

We even managed to get a couple of walks in before the rains arrived this afternoon.

Not a bad day, not at all!

Today was – well, I can’t quite call it unproductive, but I didn’t make progress on the things I had planned to do.

What I did was exercise, go to Costco, take a couple of walks, and watch last night’s Late Show and some of today’s House proceedings. What I didn’t do was anything having to do with photos or finances.

We went to the other side of Ross Creek on our afternoon walk – here’s what the backside of our fence looks like (more to the point, the photo shows how much the water would have to rise to get into our yard).

The rain is supposed to resume tomorrow – with luck, we’ll take a couple of walks before it gets ugly again.

Shabbat Shalom!