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My grandma called last night, which is a bit unusual. She did have something important to talk about though.

Namely: their television now has horizontal lines in it that move all over the place and cause a bad distortion to the picture. She needed my help on how to fix it. I suppose she feels that my engineering degree qualifies me to diagnose broken appliances over the telephone.

After twenty minutes of talk, we recognized that whatever the problem was, it wasn’t going to be solved by me talking to her over the phone. I went through the obvious scenarios, but she shot all of my ideas down. I ran out of ideas, and basically told her “good luck”. It’s not as though they can’t afford another television, though I’m guessing it’s probably more of a wiring issue in the house.

In completely unrelated news, last night my wife pinned me down on the couch and blatantly farted on me - completely unprovoked I might add. Of course this means war.

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