Holy shit, it’s November! Less than a week until election day, which means more than a freakin’ year until the ’08 Presidential Election. A friggin’ year of listening to people piss and moan about Hillary or Obama or whomever. Another year of looking at Rudy Nosferatu, or that fucking Mormon mannequin or whatever empty suit the godless (certainly, on the godless among us could be pro-torture, pro-war, and anti-child) Republicans put up. I don’t think I can stand it. I don’t think I can deal with all the “everything sucks, nothing will ever get better, nobody’s pure enough for me to vote for” bullshit for an entire year.

So, by way of personal distraction, I’m highly coveting a bigass HDTV. At first, I was just gonna get a smallish, 32″ inch or so one to play XBOX on in my little cave. But, the old ball and chain seems to be receptive to getting something bigger that we can put in the “family room.” This raises the stakes highly. At 32″, I could get a 720, and just use my fancy-schmancy headphones. But if it goes out into the bigger room, I’m gonna need to get at least a 47″ 1080, and that adds about a grand to the price (plus another $75 for a wall mount). Then, I’ll need to upgrade the DirecTV to get HD, and might as well add the HD DVR to it, which adds another $300 or so (plus $10 a month). Of course, my existing home theater stereo is a bit old, so I need to upgrade that, too, to a 7.1 system. Minimum I can get away with there is in the $400 range. Plus, I’d better get an upconverting DVD player for another $90 or so, and then look at getting the HD DVD player add-on for the XBOX 360 at $179 or so.

Damn, it aint easy being white trash with a jones for electronics.