THE N64!

So yesterday I was on my second of two days off…most people would call it the weekend! I just happened to have Saturday and Sunday off! ;-) Kimberly was at work and I was home alone. I ran a few errands and later that afternoon, before Kimberly’s return home, I was condensing some of our things because we have too much stuff and we need to get rid of some of it. I got rid of some books and movies and a few random things, and after that I decided to fix the reception on our TV. You see…our TV has the cable, PS2, N64, VCR, and DVD player attached to it, so the signal from the cable was a little weak on the TV and we were not getting a clear reception.

My wonderful thinking self decided…well, we don’t use the VCR much anyway so I will eliminate it from the equation. I disconnected the N64 from the VCR and the VCR from the cable. Then I connected the N64 to the Cable and the TV. It worked BEAUTIFULLY! I was very happy with myself! All was going well and then I had to push the TV back into position…those of you who know the 27” TV I got one Thanksgiving Holiday Shopping Season.....a big huge heavy beast….and that is when it happened…SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS…the TV went blank! “What the heck?” I was pissed! I pulled the TV back out and there it was….the flipping connection between the TV and the N64 was broken! The TV somehow snapped it right off…O. F. F. off! I was ripped.

The N64 was broken! Kimberly was going to kill me! It was her system and she loved it! I didn’t panic. I got my “Man” cap on and decided to improvise. I had several cable cords I was not using so I Frankensteined the N64 cable with one of the unused cords. It took sometime to pry off pieces, strip others, and connect wires with tape, but I managed. It looked horrific, but it worked…sort of. The connection was not the greatest, but it worked.

So Kimberly comes home from work and I was a bit hesitant to tell her…but I did. She said that as long as it wasn’t the N64 itself then just replace it. So I didn’t freak out for a good reason! I didn’t have to hack-up my other cable, but oh well; cables are going to be ancient history soon anyway! :-)