One of Jeff Foxworthy's many redneck jokes is that you might be a redneck if you've got a working television sitting on top of a non-working television.

The only things saving us from complete and utter redneckery are that the bottom TV still works (barely) and that we don't live in a trailer park. I did take the photograph with the TV tuned to the most redneck thing I could find, dirt-track truck racin'. Heh.

For quite some time, Alan and I have been discussing getting a new flat-screen LCD television so we decided to refrain from buying each other Christmas presents this year in order to have more available funds for the television purchase, and maybe take advantage of some after-Christmas sales. After checking prices, we found substantial bargains at HH Gregg; we were able to buy a larger TV than we thought, able to buy a second smaller LG flat-screen for the bedroom and best of all, the Sharp television we purchased came with a free Blu-Ray DVD player!

We hadn't even thought about upgrading to Blu-Ray. Generally, I prefer to be behind the curve on technology innovations - I'm miserly. But the Blu-Ray was the right price even for my cheap behind and WHOA! does it make a huge difference in picture quality/detail. We qualify for some sort of geek cred, I think, by virtue of the fact that our first Blu-Ray DVDs purchased were: the complete series of Firefly, The Dark Knight and Iron Man.

Seriously, we went out the next day and bought a tv stand. Here is the after pic:

Know the guy in the hat???